Individual recognition: it is good to be different.

By E. Tibbetts, J. Dale. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2007

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Social behaviour in sharks and rays: analysis, patterns and implications for conservation (2012, background): “2005) and those required to support repeated individual interaction such as social recognition and familiarity (Barber and Wright 2001; Tibbetts and Dale 2007; Ward et al. 2007).”
Numerical competence in animals, with an insight from ants (2011, background): “…to memorize and recognize many mates by facial features in chimpanzees (Parr & de- Waal, 1999), monkeys (Pokorny & deWaal, 2009) and paper wasps (Tibbetts & Dale, 2007); huge data storage in food cashing birds and mammals (Clayton & Dickinson, 1998; Shettleworth, 1998), extraordinary spatial…”
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals (2016, background): “…of unique and distinct cues from a sender, the association of these with the specifi c identity of that individual sender and the expression of a distinct pattern of behaviour towards the sender (Beecher 1989 ; Gheusi et al. 1994 ; Tibbetts and Dale 2007 ; see also Steiger and Mueller 2008 ).”
Cerebral and behavioural assymetries in animal social recognition (2012, background): “Besides aggressive competition and maintenance of dominance ranks, IR seems to be necessary in many other social contexts, such as monogamous pairing and parent/offspring interactions (Tibbetts and Dale 2007), which are widespread behaviours in animals.”