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Paper wasps recognise and remember faces

While wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of human brains, they have a similar ability to recognise faces, according to research from the University of Michigan.

Wasps have highly variable facial markings and wasps are able to recognize other papers wasps by the variations in their facial markings. The wasps will act aggressively towards other wasps who they don’t recognise.

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