Animals with cool eyes!

Share your favorite photos of animals with cool eyes!

This double crested Cormorant might be my favorite!

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This pigeon’s eyes look pretty cool!

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Another red-eyed beauty!

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That was the first animal that came to mind for me, but I don’t have a good photo of it. Just gorgeous. <3

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Tough to beat the vertical pupils of north american spadefoots, like https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155939

Always reminds me of Hypnotoad from Futurama (although Hypnotoad’s pupils are horizontal)

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Eristalinus taeniops https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129193917

and there are lots more insects with crazy eyes :-)

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Tabanidae https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292459678

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Cormorants do have cool eyes:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-some-blue-organisms-you-have-photographed/59163/68?u=jnstuart

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Horned Ghost Crab (see observation link)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335066389

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Butterflies have some really awesome eyes!!

And so do dragonflies and damselflies!!


This sky blue was gorgeous!!


Interesting mix here!


Those blood-red eyes 00

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I like this picture I took of this snake because it is identifiable to species from this picture alone assuming one knows the locations (Pacific Northwest of the United States) AND because you can see me leaning in to get the close-up in the reflection of its spectacle (the scale covering the eye).

https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/476602975/large.jpeg

Original observation here

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Eastern Box Turtle

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121080996

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White-eyed Vireo

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314390296

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The aptly-named Fiery-eyed Dancer:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1530733

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Australian Red-eyed Tree-frog https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/260502944

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Some lacewing eyes are kaleidoscopic mirror-balls https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/47727044

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https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/256948029 Bush stone curlew.

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flies have all the coolest stats!

here’s the observation

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Hairy eyeballs!

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