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Penguins: Colony mates recognise each other’s faces and vocal calls
African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) Betty’s Bay, Western Cape, South Africa Kumar Sriskandan / Alamy
Some penguins match the vocal calls of fellow penguins to their faces or different features of their bodily look, making them the primary birds apart from crows recognized to have this double-sense recognition means.
South African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) – which have distinctive, individualised noticed markings on their chests – might have advanced this voice-plus-image recognition means with the intention to enhance communication of their rocky and windswept coastal setting, says Luigi Baciadonna on the College of Turin, in Italy.
“Think about a big [penguin] colony …