Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, a fish with self-recognition in photographs (IMAGE)

Osaka Metropolitan University

Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, a fish with self-recognition in photographs

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Researchers have discovered that some social fish have the social awareness required to recognize themselves and other fish they know, by their faces, in pictures, a first for non-human animals.

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