Endangered black panther spotted at national park in central Thailand

A Thai tourist wrote about her encounter with an endangered black panther at a national park in Phetchaburi province in central Thailand on social media yesterday. The woman videoed the black panther rolling around on its back like a domestic house cat in the rare sighting.

The woman was driving through Kaeng Krachan National Park when she spotted a black animal in the road…

“We saw a black shadow drinking water in the middle of the road so we slowed down the car to get a proper look… and discovered it was a black panther… I got goosebumps… I was so shocked.”

Park rangers told her she was very lucky indeed because sightings of the elusive black panther are extremely rare. It is estimated that there are only 200 black panthers – or Indochinese leopards – left in the wild in Thailand.

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