"Study Reveals Big Cats' Remarkable Ability to Distinguish Human Voices"
A study has found that big cats, including tigers and cheetahs, can distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar human voices, indicating that even solitary animals possess social cognition. The research, which involved various exotic cat species in captive settings, revealed that the cats responded more attentively and intensely to familiar human voices compared to unfamiliar ones, regardless of whether they were hand-reared or mother-reared. The findings suggest that the ability to recognize individual human voices is not solely a result of domestication, but rather regular exposure to humans, and could also apply to wild cats if they were regularly exposed to human voices.