Guess the eyes

June 11, 2024 • 8:15 am

Reader Divy, who runs a Florida vet operation with her husband Ivan (Mobile Veterinary Services; Instagram page here), produced this wonderful collage of animal eyes. Your job: guess the animals.  Divy’s notes:

All these animals have been seen by us in one capacity or another, either as patients, or part of a collection check.

The answers are below the fold.

Click “continue reading” to see the answers:

Starting from top, left to right:
Albino gator
Eclectus parrot (female)
Snail eating turtle
Macklot’s python
Water monitor (juvenile)
Moluccan cockatoo
Catalina Macaw
Albino water monitor (adult)
Australian freshwater crocodile (juvenile)
Dwarf rabbit
Crested gecko
Ring-tailed lemur
Aldabra giant tortoise
Eclectus parrot (male)
Scarlett Macaw
Keel-billed Toucan
African-crowned crane
Eurasian eagle-owl
African grey parrot
Panther chameleon

12 thoughts on “Guess the eyes”

  1. Wow – BRILLIANT idea!

    … and I think that might qualify for using “literally” literally.

  2. The eyes have it! Amazing diversity of eyes among vertebrates. Add arthropods and mollusks, and the diversity of visual systems on Earth is staggering. We can also count cameras and telescopes as part of the extended (human) phenotype.

  3. Brilliant idea indeed. There was only one where I felt something like instant recognition, the owl, which for reasons unclear to me I recognized as such. That’s a bit strange, since I am a stranger to owls, but know gray parrots intimately.

  4. Thanks for the comments! I got the idea of making the collage when I took a picture of the Albino gator’s eye. There’s just so much diversity from one animal to the next, sometimes within the same family of animals. My personal favorite is the python.
    Glad you all enjoyed it, and thank you Jerry for sharing it 😃

  5. Fun!
    (I gave up when I realized from the answer list that there were none of cats, the only one I might have recognized 2 out of 3.)

    1. As a cat lover, I would have posted the eye of one of the few exotic cats we’ve seen in our practice, but alas, all photos were too blurry for the collage.
      Maybe next time!

        1. We don’t see cephalopods, but I agree, that would be an awesome addition to a collage such as this.

  6. Great collage! I recognized that we were looking at mostly herps and birds (from surrounding tissue) but could only actually guess owl, chameleon and a few parrots. I do have a question about the snail eating turtle eye. Is the dark ring actually involved in vision of is it just a black pigmented portion of the iris which helps to maintain the color camouflage of the turtle and hide the eye?

    1. That’s an interesting question. As far as we know, only the iris is involved in their vision. The dark ring is actually part of their camouflage.

  7. I felt I recognized a few, More or less. It seemed to have a lot of reptiles and birds.

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