Is it a bunny? or a bird?
That is the question being asked all over the internet recently! The video appears to show a bird with its beak pointed upwards, with a person stroking its head. However, looking at the video at a slightly different angle, and it looks like the ‘beak’ is bunny ears!
It’s sort freaky and will definitely mess with your eyes and brain! It’s quite the optical illusion!
Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose pic.twitter.com/aYOZGAY6kP
— Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) August 18, 2019
Dan Quintana, a senior researcher in biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo in Norway, posted the video to Twitter Sunday, alongside the caption: “Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose.”
Quintana states that he thought the video is clear that it is in fact a bird, however — many people are disagreeing.
“I made the rabbit comment to prime readers into thinking it was actually a rabbit, to give it a fighting chance at least,” Quintana said. “When you only see the beak in your peripheral vision, it really seems like they’re ears. Without this misleading cue, I thought most people would have seen a bird.”
