You may not have come across the term “zero-shot learning” before unless you’re interested in AI research, but, like all humans, you excel at it.
People typically find it easy to use past experiences to help them identify never-before-seen objects.
Someone who has never set eyes on a flamingo, for instance, would likely have no trouble identifying one, as long as they’d previously heard a description of it (“pink, with long, sticklike legs”) and had seen other birds.