Can Leos Identify Faces?

[Haligren]

A few days after getting Tiamat I was playing with her in my lap, when suddenly she looked right up at my face. Her eyes got very wide and she started moving slowly. She was staring into my eyes and I laughed thinking of what she must be thinking; "OMG!! This animal is HUGE!!!"

From then on, I've wondered if she was really looking at my face and KNEW what it was she was looking at. Surely, all animals must know where eyes and mouth and nose are on their own face and members of their own kind, but do they know where and what they are on the faces of other creatures?

 

[thekooliest]

I think they can. The definitely register me, and the rest of my family as 'different people'.

 

[bubblez825]

same here all my leos were afraid of my mom but not of me till they got used to her and still freak when around my dad n little bro

 

[Riyo]

My female, Solis, does that stare thing. It's hilarious! It reminds me of this: O.O

I don't know about face recognition..they probably know what eyes and such are, but I've noticed they seem to be more familiar with me by scent. I can handle all my geckos and they are very calm and laid back with me but if I hand them to my roommate or to my mom, they get nervous until passed back to me. This has happened many times consistently, not just once. Who knows?

 

[Snowy & Petra de Gecko]

Probably

I am still amaized that Gold Fish have no memory. Or that the memory is very limited.

Cause everytime, I walk into the Kitchen where the fish tanks are they all get excited.

Now I have not asked other family members about it so I do not know if they see the same thing.

So I assume that a Leo will get use to certain people and will recognize them too.

 

[Haligren]

Ha, Tiamat seems to do the same thing. She's gotten very used to me - most likely my scent - and gets nervous when I try to hand her to someone else. But when they hand her back to me, she's cool again.

I figured they identify by scent more than sight, of course. So I suppose, unlike us, they rely on visual information as a secondary source rather than primary.

 

[voretaq7]

I am still amaized that Gold Fish have no memory. Or that the memory is very limited.

There was a Mythbusters ep on this a while back - training goldfish to swim through hoops. Turns out they're smarter than most people think.

I've also got a koi (essentially an overgrown goldfish) that I trained (bribed with food) into carrying rocks & dropping them on top of a decoration, but I regret every minute of that exercise when I have to listen to rocks being thrown around in hopes of getting more food


(Moral of the story: Never underestimate the associative powers of an animal presented with FOOD! :main_laugh

 

[Lady_Kiya]

I tried putting Ares on my moms shoulder the other day and he wouldn't let go of my hand. He had a death grip that he was not going to ease up on. Lol

 

[Wreptile]

My first female that I had gotten about 4-5 years ago, always does that when I walk over to her cage.
I look through the screen, she wakes up, looks up at me with twinkling eyes.
Lol. Now it sounds like I'm starting a fairytale.

 

[gothra]

I'm not sure if they recognise my face, but I think they're more familiar with my voice and scent. There were a few times when I took my geckos to the vet; they don't like the vet handling them, and will try to get off his hand and run back towards me (not to other directions). I guess they know I'm a safe place to go. That makes me feel really good.