According to National Geographic, biologist Nick Pilford captured the female leopard on a camera trap set up in the Liosaba Conservancy, Kenya, after he received a tip-off that a "panther" had been spotted there numerous times.
And the trap paid off as he managed to snap a photo of the rarest of the big cats.
"Almost everyone has a story about seeing one, it's such a mythical thing," Pilfold said.