Social Wasps Recognize Each Others' Faces (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Social Wasps Recognize Each Others' Faces (1 of 6)

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Female Poliste fuscatus paper wasps have unique faces that are used for individual recognition. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 2, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.J. Sheehan and E.A. Tibbetts at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., was titled, “Specialized Face Learning Is Associated with Individual Recognition in Paper Wasps.”

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