Leopards Each Have Their Own Unique Roar, Study Finds [Video]

Each leopard can be identified by their own unique roar, the first large-scale study of its kind has found.

Using a combination of camera traps and recordings, the research team was able to identify the vocalizations of individual leopards with 93.1 percent accuracy, a press release from University of Exeter said.

“Discovering that leopards have unique roars is an important but fundamentally quite basic finding that shows how little we know about leopards, and large carnivores in general,” said Jonathan Growcott, lead author of the study and a University of Exeter Ph.D. student, in the press release. “We hope it will allow leopards to become the focus of more acoustically complex science such as population density studies and open the door to more work on how large carnivores use vocalizations as a tool.”

Leopards are listed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as “vulnerable” to extinction, mostly due to habitat …