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There are few creatures as gorgeous as the black leopard but in Africa they are so rare as to be the stuff of legend. In this extract from his new book, British wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas shares his gorgeous photographs of the cat and reveals how he took the breathtaking shots.
The night is black. Clouds blot out the stars and the air is thick with the promise of rain. The drone of crickets is occasionally punctuated by the eerie alarm call of a rock hyrax.
I turn off my headlamp, plunging everything into total darkness. A move in the wrong direction and I would tumble down a sheer rock face into a jumble of boulders and knotted vegetation. I take a step forward and there’s a muffled click and a flash of light as the motion sensor detects me and triggers my camera.
