(1010 WINS) -- Remember the viral debate in 2015 over whether a dress was blue or gold?
Then, he discovered the source of the bird-or-bunny illusion video: Paige Davis of World Bird Sanctuary of St. Louis!
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“As you can see the translucent nictitating membrane sweep across the eye horizontally (rabbits don’t have membranes like this) and the positioning of the ‘ears’ are a little strange,” he said.
“I made the rabbit comment to prime readers into thinking it was actually a rabbit, to give it a fighting chance at least. 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.”
The idea was based off “the static bird/rabbit illusion” created by psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1899 to prove the power of suggestion, Quintana said.
“The static bird/rabbit illusion is well-known within psychology and philosophy, so when I saw [the Imgur> video, I thought it would interesting to share it," Quintana said.
So, is it a bird or a rabbit?