Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers

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Sea bream can recognise individual people, an ingenious experiment using divers with brightly coloured flippers has shown. It sheds new light on the...

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People are all the same. Because fish can recognize different people. Researchers found this out during dives in Corsica: "It was as if they were studying us and not the other way around."

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Scientists perplexed to see wild fish recognise and follow specific divers

Fish may use visual cues to identify specific humans even when faces are covered

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Wild fish can recognize individual divers

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental rewards. Intriguingly these wild fish appeared to recognize the specific diver who had previously carried food, choosing to follow only them while ignoring other divers. To find out if that was true, a team conducted a series of experiments while weari…

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Study author, Maëlan Tomasek, with a “volunteer” in the experiment conducted in the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: Maëlan Tomasek European researchers have made the startling claim that fish can recognise individual divers. In a peer reviewed paper published today in Biology Letters, the research team from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) in Germany conducted a series of experiments while wearing a range of diving gear, finding t…

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Experiments show wild fish can recognize individual divers

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental rewards. Intriguingly, these wild fish appeared to recognize the specific diver who had previously carried food, choosing to follow only them while ignoring other divers.