Wolves Howl In Different 'Dialects,' Machine Learning Finds (vice.com)

Posted by yaelk on Monday February 8, 2016 @01:22PM from the the-boy-who-cried-wolf dept.

derekmead writes: Differentiating wolf howls with human ears can prove tricky, so researchers have turned to computer algorithms to suss out if different wolf species howl differently. They think that understanding wolf howls could help improve wolf conservation and management programs. In a study published in the journal Behavioural Processes, a group of international researchers describe using machine learning for the first time to analyze 2,000 wolf howls gathered from both wild and domesticated wolves and their subspecies from around the world.

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Suss out? by aNonnyMouseCowered · 2016-02-08 13:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

WTF I had to look up this one in the mighty wikipedia (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suss). Would be nice if you used plainer words or this one of those weird British attempts to balkanize the English language?