“…In contrast, in pumas and cheetahs, in which the vocal pads are lacking and the larynx is not descended (Hast, 1989;Peters & Hast, 1994;Weissengruber et al, 2002Weissengruber et al, , 2008 the distant calls are tonal and highfrequency. In the puma, the distant calls are high-frequency meows (Allen et al, 2016;Macarrão et al, 2012;Peters, 2011;Potter, 2005); in the cheetah, the distant calls are high-frequency chirps (Chelysheva et al, 2023;Ruiz-Miranda et al, 1998;Smirnova et al, 2016;Volodina, 2000). For all age categories of cheetahs, a common context for the production of their long-distance chirps is loss of contact with conspecifics and advertising own location to resume spatial proximity or to establish a novel contact (Chelysheva et al, 2023;Ruiz-Miranda et al, 1998;Smirnova et al, 2016;Volodina, 2000).…”