While we’re used to seeing humans interact with puppies, cats, and farm animals, this strange friendship between a diver and a fish has everyone baffled. And, as if that wasn’t strange enough, these two odd mates have been sharing this particular bond for almost 25 years, according to daily cuteness.
It all began many years ago when Japanese diver Hiroyuki Arakawa was sent to oversee the construction of a ‘torii’ — a Shinto holy shrine. But this torii, which rests beneath the surface of Tateyama Bay in Japan, was unlike any other.
Hiroyuki had to dive periodically to verify the site’s condition because of its spiritual significance. And after doing so for so long, the guy came to know all of the aquatic species that used to reside there. Particularly a wrasse fish named Yoriko, with whom the diver has a wonderful connection.
Even if it sounds quite bizarre, Hiroyuki and Yoriko are getting along incredibly well and they can’t get the chance to see each other again. And no matter how unbelievable a friendship between a human being and a fish sounds, apparently science even has an explanation for this. It turns out that fishes could actually recognize human faces.
“Scientists presented the fish with two images of human faces and trained them to choose one by spitting their jets at that picture,” Dr. Cait Newport from Oxford University told CNN. “The researchers decided to make things a little harder.
They took the pictures and made them black and white and evened out the head shapes. You’d think that would throw the fish for a loop. But no, they were able to pick the familiar face with a 86% accuracy.”
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