08-06-2016 02:45 via theguardian.com

Smart fish can recognise human faces, scientists find

Oxford University study could shed light human brain function and whether facial recognition is an innate or learned abilityA tropical fish can tell one human face from another despite lacking a brain section that homo sapiens and other “smart” animals use for this task, scientists said Tuesday.
The astonishing ability was demonstrated in experiments with eight archerfish, a tropical species best known for spitting pressurised water jets to shoot prey out of the air.Continue reading.
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