Fish Recognize Individuals by Their Distinct Faces

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Photo: Gagliano (PLOSone), via Wikimedia Comons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.5 license.A school of fish might look like a sea of identical faces to human eyes. However, new research suggests fish have no problem discriminating the facial patterns of other fish.Read my latest for National Geographic's Weird & Wild News: Fish Can Recognize Faces, A Surprisingly Human Skill.

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