Tiger Songs Could Identify Individuals In The Wild
Tiger catlovers/Flickr CC by SA 2.0 Can you identify a tiger just by listening to its roar? The non-profit Prusten Project thinks so. “We started noticing that, when we walked by these tigers, we could recognize with our ears how different they sounded from one to another,” founder of the project Courtney Dunn told New Scientist. “If we could hear it with just our human ears, what could a software program see?” As it turns out, it can see quite a lot. Using recordings taken from captive tigers in zoos and sanctuaries around the United States, the researchers were able to easily differentiate between individual tigers, which roared (or vocalized) for different lengths of time, and at different frequencies. The researchers were even able to tell whether a tiger was male or female by...