Study reveals bees can identify human faces.

According to a recent study, honeybees, despite having only 0.01% of the neurons found in humans, can recognize and remember individual human faces. While humans rely heavily on facial recognition in daily life, bees can learn to identify faces in photographs and retain this memory for at least two days.

Researchers have discovered that honeybees utilize a method called configural processing, similar to humans, to recognize faces by assembling features such as eyes, ears, nose, and mouth into a recognizable pattern. This finding suggests that bees can indeed recognize human faces.