The internet ca n’t resist a brain - bending illusion . Some of the most popular unity to go viral characteristic content that can be understand two ways : The infamousdressignited a web - broad disceptation over whether it was black and drear or white and amber , and the " yanny or laurel " audio clip mess up with mass ’s ears or else of their eyes . The latest illusion the internet ca n’t agree on is a video recording of someone petting a raven — or is it a rabbit ? Watch the cartridge holder below and decide for yourself .
Paige Davis , the curator of bird training at the World Bird Sanctuary , share this telecasting of a white - necked raven more than two years ago . A biological psychological medicine researcher named Dan Quintana late found the clipping onImgur’sTwitter account andtweetedit with the caption : " Rabbits love life getting stroke on their nose . "
" By first directing the watcher ’s tending to the nose , I was trying to trouble looker from the ear / beak , one of the clean giveaways that this was a video of a raven , " Quintana wrote in ablog post .
With its head tilted back , it ’s easy to mistake the raven ’s beak for bunny ears and the top of its head for a olfactory organ . But a few details — like its translucentnictitating membranethat closes across the eye horizontally — point that it ’s really a shuttle .
This video is a literal - life version of one of the most famous illustrated illusions of all meter . Like the raven vs. rabbit clip , thisdrawing , sketch by American psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1899 , depict either a duck’s egg facing left or a bunny facing right field . There is no " right " way to view this fantasy : Jastrow cast it to see how dissipated viewers could switch from one sensing to the other .
Even though we make out which animal the subject area of this latest illusion really is , it still works with Jastrow ’s trial : follow the clip again and see if you may wedge your mind to go back and onward between see a bird and a rabbit . After that use , here are some moreoptical illusionsto crack your brain .
