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Fish can be trained to recognize human faces. The fish were already trained to recognize images on a computer screen suspended over the tank. Cait Newport of Queensland and Oxford universities and her colleagues said.

It must be a different brain function than people and other animals use.

Fish don't have the brain structure called the Neocortex that people and domestic animals use to recognize faces. But the team at the University of Queensland in Australia managed to train fish to tell one human face from another.

The fish were up to 89 percent accurate in telling apart human faces on a computer screen, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports.

There is evidence from a range of studies that some non-primate mammals can discriminate human faces. Species which have been tested include sheep, dogs, cows and horses.

They used archerfish, which spit streams of water to knock down insects and other goodies to eat. This means they need to have good vision to start with.

 This species known for knocking down aerial prey with jets of water, relies heavily on vision to detect small prey against a visually complex background and demonstrates impressive visual cognitive abilities the team wrote.

So they trained the fish, rewarding them with food pellets when they got it right. The fish became very good at recognizing the different faces.