When is a bobcat not a bobcat?

[Still Waters]

Two UBC Okanagan biologists, who have publicly solicited images of wild cats for their research, have answered that question.

Their recently published study explains how hard it can be when it comes to wildlife classification—even experts have difficulty agreeing on whether a cat in a picture is a bobcat or a lynx.

While it's generally easy to collect many images of animals, some species are difficult to tell apart, making species classification challenging.

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-cats-bobcat.html