Facial Recognition Skills – What Happens When Dolphins Look in the Mirror?
Facial recognition skills. You can’t live without them. But what about dolphins and other large fish? Can they live without facial recognition skills? Do dolphins know the benefits of face recognition?
If you’ve ever gone swimming with dolphins, you realize that something special happens when the dolphin looks eye to eye at you. The two of you connect. Often, dolphins will allow people – or other animals like dogs – to swim with them, and they’ll subject themselves to be trained to perform as well.
Dolphins Use Facial Recognition Skills to Recognize Their Trainers
Dolphin trainers often tell stories about people that dolphins recognize – and do or don’t like, explaining how the dolphin’s behavior changes as a result of who is in their presence.
A dolphin may splash water at someone it doesn’t like and act stubborn, refusing to perform learned tricks for that person. A dolphin may also splash water at someone it likes, as a way of saying, “Come on, let’s play.”
Similarly, when a human ends up eye-to-eye with a whale, there’s a special connection moment that often changes a person’s life. Fishermen say that whales remember faces, too.
And that connection when eyes meet – that moment of facial recognition – sets the foundation for your relationship with the mammal.
Are Dophins Self Aware?
Face recognition researchers have designed unique experiments to see what happens when dolphins see themselves in the mirror. These experiments test the facial recognition skills of dolphins and answer the question, “Do dolphins recognize their own face?” If they do, they are more intelligent than what humans believe.
What do you think? Does a dolphin have facial recognition skills? Would a dolphin have enough self-awareness to recognize itself in a mirror?
It turns out that yes, dolphins have facial recognition skills and can recognize themselves.
When a dolphin swims up to the window that has now been replaced with a mirror, the dolphin takes the time to look at himself. He’ll flip upside down and see what he looks like upside down. He’ll smile in the mirror, open his mouth wide, and get really close to the mirror, too.
If a trainer puts an “x” of masking tape on his face, he will turn his body just to see what the “x” looks like.
If dolphins have the ability to see themselves in the mirror and recognize themselves, they also have the ability to recognize humans.
How Facial Recognition Works
Facial recognition skills are possible because of the brain’s ability to categorize faces by interpreting patterns. With humans, your ability to identify faces depends on how much training you have received. Without training, your skills will only progress to that of a sixth grader.
With face recognition training, you can progress to the point where you can identify someone with only a glance. You can morph faces and know what someone would look like if younger or older. You can see faces in high resolution and see the beauty in them. Facial characteristics pop out at you in three dimensions and they are very obvious.
Upgrading your facial recognition skills can improve your personal and business relationships, too, since comments such as “You look great!” are replaced with very specific details on why a person does look great. Your new comments testify to the fact that you really care enough about the person you’re commenting, because you spent the time to notice.
It’s all good.
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