Some people who have prosopagnosia are able to tell animal faces apart. This tells us that different areas of the brain are used for different classes of faces. A typical person has no problems with human faces, but if he does not know animals well, he may find telling animals of one group apart to be quite a challenge.
Recently, evidence has been presented that shows that some animals can tell people apart by sight as opposed to by smell. One particular animal that has been studied is the crow. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106826971
Go to the NPR article and test yourself. Can you tell the crows apart?
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