Japanese Diver Keeps Visiting His Best Friend Fish For Over 25 Years

While we’re used to seeing people usually bonding with dogs or felines or farm animals, this incredibly strange friendship between a scuba diver and a fish puzzles everyone. And, as if it isn’t unusual enough, these 2 uncommon buddies have shared this unique friendship for over 25 years.
It started several years earlier, when the Japanese diver Hiroyuki Arakawa was designated to manage a ‘torii’– a sacred shrine to the Shinto religion. However this had not been like any other ‘torii’ as it stands beneath the surface area of Tateyama Bay in Japan. In light of its spiritual importance, Hiroyuki needed to dive frequently in order to check for maintenance problems. Since he kept doing it for many years, the man ended up knowing the marine animals that live there. Particularly a wrasse fish the diver has named "Yoriko" with whom he shares a close friendship.
Even though it sounds quite peculiar, Hiroyuki and Yoriko are getting along exceptionally well. And despite how incredible a friendship between a person and fish, apparently scientific research even has a description for this. It seems that fish might in fact recognize human faces.
”Researchers offered the fish two pictures of human faces and encouraged them to pick one by spitting their jets at that photo,” Dr. Cait Newport from Oxford University. “The researchers determined to make points a little clearer. They took the pictures and made black and white prints. You‘d assume that would throw the fish for a loop. But no, they had the ability to pick the familiar face with 86% accuracy.”