Black panther caught on camera in Odisha after 26 years
Odisha's forest department has confirmed the presence of the first black panther in the state via camera footage in Sundargarh district, 26 years after first reports of spotting. The cameras also caught the black panther's mother, a leopard. A melanistic (black genetic variant) tiger was first spotted in Similipal in 1993, however, the first pictorial evidence was found in 2007.