00:00Could you tell this fish from this one?
00:05Or these two from one another?
00:06Likely not.
00:07But new research suggests they might be able to tell us apart.
00:10Experts say that while we often reserve that kind of familiarity with dogs and cats that live in our homes,
00:15wild fish can also tell us apart.
00:17Researchers trained wild-sattled sea bream and black sea bream
00:20to follow experimenters who provided food to them for 12 days.
00:23After that, the trainer was joined by another researcher,
00:26who dressed either identically or different for each trial.
00:29The researchers found that when dressed the same, the fish would follow both of them,
00:32with one of the species slightly preferring the trainer.
00:34However, when they dressed differently, the fish overwhelmingly followed the one dressed as the trainer.
00:39With the researchers saying about it,
00:41they are just using simple mechanisms that they use every day in their lives,
00:44and they adapt it to recognize humans.
00:46The researchers say that because they are wild animals,
00:48they likely had no prior experience with humans,
00:51showcasing their innate color and pattern recognition abilities.
00:59they are wild animals,
01:00the beautiful Romans
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