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In contrast, most current bioacoustic species classification exploits the power of deep learners and more cutting-edge audio representations. A significant reason for avoiding deep learning in vocal identity classification is the tiny sample size in the collections of labeled individual vocalizations. As is well known, deep learners require large datasets to avoid overfitting. One way to handle small datasets with deep learning methods is to use transfer learning. In this work, we evaluate the performance of three pretrained CNNs (VGG16, ResNet50, and AlexNet) on a small, publicly available lion roar dataset containing approximately 150 samples taken from five male lions. Each of these networks is retrained on eight representations of the samples: MFCCs, spectrogram, and Mel spectrogram, along with several new ones, such as VGGish and stockwell, and those based on the recently proposed LM spectrogram. The performance of these networks, both individually and in ensembles, is analyzed and corroborated using the Equal Error Rate and shown to surpass previous classification attempts on this dataset; the best single network achieved over 95% accuracy and the best ensembles over 98% accuracy. The contributions this study makes to the field of individual vocal classification include demonstrating that it is valuable and possible, with caution, to use transfer learning with single pretrained CNNs on the small datasets available for this problem domain. We also make a contribution to bioacoustics generally by offering a comparison of the performance of many state-of-the-art audio representations, including for the first time the LM spectrogram and stockwell representations. 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