TIL that honeybees can recognize human faces. Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But studies of paper wasps and honeybees have shown that some small-brained insects can manage this feat, too.

https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-wasps-seem-recognize-faces-more-sum-their-parts

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