Facial recognition technology can identify lemurs

Facial recognition technology used to identify criminals can also identify lemurs with a near perfect level of accuracy. The system, called LemurFaceID, is a facial recognition system that works by identifying individual lemurs based on photographs of them. The system can facilitate the long-term research of known individual lemurs, which could help with understanding how lemurs evolve and how to best conserve them. The LemurFaceID system scored 98.7 per cent accuracy after 100 trials of using the system. Amateur photographers took photos of the lemurs in Ranomafana National Park (RNP), a rainforest in southeastern Madagascar.