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Black Leopard

Laikipia, Kenya

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Afrotheres

Superorder · Afrotheria

89 total species Open in Evolution

Afrotheria is a superorder of African mammals that includes elephants, tenrecs and their close relatives, and diverged around ~79.8 Ma ago. Its history begins while the modern continents were becoming recognisable, though the Atlantic was still opening and Gondwanan fragments were continuing to separate.

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Kenya

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Kenya links savannah, rift valley, montane forest, and arid northern country, and is one of the archive’s strongest wildlife cores for mammals, birds, and landscape-scale ecological scenes.

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John Haskew

Wildlife Photographer And Cinematographer

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He is an award winning wildlife cinematographer and photographer and has filmed on natural history productions for BBC, Netflix, Apple, Disney and National Geographic, including Planet Earth 3 and Our Planet 2.

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