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Penguins: Colony mates recognise each other’s faces and vocal calls
African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) in Betty’s Bay, Western Cape, South Africa Kumar Sriskandan / Alamy
Some penguins match the vocal calls of fellow penguins to their faces or different elements of their bodily look, making them the primary birds apart from crows recognized to have this double-sense recognition skill.
African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) – which have distinctive, individualised noticed markings on their chests and that are present in southern Africa – could have developed this voice-plus-image recognition skill so as to enhance communication of their rocky and windswept coastal setting, says Luigi Baciadonna on the College of …