On Sept. 10, 2024, a claim spread on social media about the shape of goats' pupils. One Facebook user posted a meme that asked: "Have you ever noticed that goats have rectangular pupils?

The eyes of deer and people share a number of features, but they also have a few significant differences. Unlike human pupils, which are round and when dilated do not span much of the eye ...

Rather than a bouncy round pupil like our own, sheep have a rectangular black blob in the middle of their eyes. So, what gives? These ruminant mammals sit alongside deer and antelope, a group ...

Vertical pupils can be found in dogs, cats, vipers, geckos, crocodiles and some birds. Goats, sheep, deer, horses, frogs and toads have horizontal pupils. One advantage to slit-like pupils is ...

The study reveals that herbivorous prey animals such as deer and zebras are likely to have horizontal pupils, while predators actively hunting during the day – like cheetahs and coyotes – usually have ...

There are even a bunch of animals — grazing sheep, deer, and horses — that have super-weird horizontal pupil slits. Using computer models, Banks found that these animals are able to see an ...

The pupils of its eyes glow white in the images collected across a four-county area. From the photos, state deer biologist Charlie Killmaster said that it appears the animal could weigh ...

The researchers found that horizontal slit pupils were most common among grazing prey animals like deer and sheep. To figure out how the orientation of an animal's pupil's affects its vision ...

Many herbivores, like horses and deer, have horizontal, rectangular pupils, rather than vertical slits. The authors don’t think these pupils help with depth perception. But rectangular pupils ...

Deer Park pupils also took home Water and Kids coloring books to review with their parents. "This is perfect timing for us," said physical education teacher Sandra Cooper, who hosted the ...