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Fish can recognise human faces, study finds

Reuters: Science - Posted: July 20th, 2016, 7:44am UTC

Scientists have shown for the first time how a species of tropical fish can distinguish between human faces. The archerfish used in experiments could demonstrate the ability to a high degree of accuracy; despite lacking the crucial neocortex part of the brain which other animals use for sophisticated visual recognition.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=9G0Jo3hATA0:jo3nR5CzNUc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=9G0Jo3hATA0:jo3nR5CzNUc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=9G0Jo3hATA0:jo3nR5CzNUc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=9G0Jo3hATA0:jo3nR5CzNUc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=9G0Jo3hATA0:jo3nR5CzNUc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/9G0Jo3hATA0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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