Super Belle the Wonder Dog. I really want to see the world through her eyes. Especially when I’m yelling at her “I told you, stop eating the bugs! Just because it fits in your mouth doesn’t mean it’s food!”
I’m curious how deep see fish like barreleye fish see their world. Barreleyes have tubular eyes totally enclosed within a transparent skull. They can swivel their eyes to point straight up or forward.
/image barreleye macropinna microstoma
@Oldelvis@Oldelvis Really??? I also thought of the 'Rump but re-read the question. An entire day living that asshole’s day without having any control. An entire day staring at women’s crotches and boobs.
Plus, isn’t seeing out of someone else’s eyes like walking in their shoes? …hard pass!
@Zebra It is a cool one. I love the vids where they put the cam ON the bird. I believe I read that the fasted clocked was 206 mph in a kill dive. And, if you’ve never seen a Goshawk manuevering thru the woods… quite impressive (not near the speed of the peregrine tho).
@lseeber For the past dozen years we have been lucky to have a pair of nesting red sholdered hawks in a stand of mature oak trees on our property. They are much like your goshawk in their ability to navigate through the trees and undergrowth - truly magnificent creatures – ![red shouldered hawk] https://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Learning/documents/Profiles/redshouldered91411.pdf
@lseeber
Take a look at this site - this pair showed up out of nowhere and have been breeding at the same scrape for 5 years. The volunteer support group provides some amazing photography and deserves some support. ![Utica Peregrine project][1]
[1]: https://www.facebook.com/Falcon-Watch-Utica-538758112909331/?tn=,d,P-R&eid=ARDd1oLchIb9bhUz8-AnkyfVPkOyj7vGRgpZd0j4L5stRCm9ncqjUOo6re5Jb0K-UxcTnUeacYXA0X0k
@Zebra Neat! At my property that I just moved out of (but still own) we had a few red tail hawks and a great horned owl. The owl itself kept a lot of other birds and bats from settling in anywhere too close.
@Zebra I can’t see the 2nd link. Don’t have a facebook acct and it keeps wanting me to make one. Not happenin’!
My fav cam at the Cornell site was the Great Horned Owl nest after breeding. The Osprey took over that nest for the past 2 yrs tho.
@zinimusprime “Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”
I’d have very different answers depending on whether I can turn off this “animal vision”, whether it is a question only of position, like the animal’s wearing a camera, or whether I have the loss and benefit of the animal’s own sight organs… and it’d be a different question entirely if I could haunt the animal and get all the other sensations too.
Eric Burdon. Because Alan Price and Hilton Valentine were a couple of no-talent losers. And don’t even get me started on Steel or Chandler. Screw those guys!
City pigeon
@Zachalope right?? It’s bird or go home.
Andean Condor. Massive birds which can travel over a hundred miles a day and have nests 3 or 4 miles in elevation.
Eagle. Go high or go home.
@mehcuda67 Ditto
@mehcuda67 Yep.
@mehcuda67
Go high or go home. So, what? Take it to the limit?
@mehcuda67 Absolutely. A bird that rides the thermals and gets a high-up view (I resisted “birds-eye view”) of breathtaking landscapes.
Super Belle the Wonder Dog. I really want to see the world through her eyes. Especially when I’m yelling at her “I told you, stop eating the bugs! Just because it fits in your mouth doesn’t mean it’s food!”
@ruouttaurmind The geese landed in the park down the block. Plenty of delicious goose poo if she wants to come over!
@smilingjack She loves the bugs and the bird poo. And the occasional graze through the salad bar (grass and weeds). Silly dog.
Mantis shrimp!!!
@melonscoop yes, see ALL the colors!
@melonscoop don’t want to put a damper on this, cuz they still have pretty good color vision, but it’s not as good as originally thought.
https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/ladybits/mantis-shrimp-vision-not-mindblowing-you’ve-been-told
A Cuvier’s Beaked whale. I really want to see what they see at great ocean depths. They can dive to depths of up to 10,000 feet.
Fly on the wall
@therealjrn Nicely done.
I’m curious how deep see fish like barreleye fish see their world. Barreleyes have tubular eyes totally enclosed within a transparent skull. They can swivel their eyes to point straight up or forward.
/image barreleye macropinna microstoma
Woman.
Need POV of something completely alien and inscrutable.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp. Humans have three color-receptor rod cells, mantis shrimps have SIXTEEN.
@DVDBZN Some of us only have two, you insensitive clod!
@Limewater
Sorry, I wasn’t aware there were any dogs on this site.
@DVDBZN Damn! That’s harsh!
Dichromacy
@DVDBZN @Limewater Do wolves count?
Well, since I am a wolf, I choose human.
@PooltoyWolf Aren’t you more pool toy than wolf?
@Fuzzalini Sentient inflatable wolf, so I’d say 50/50!
Bigfoot.
Eagle
Humpback anglerfish.
@TheFLP What a pretty pretty lady.
A bat.
Can’t snakes see heat? Bees have all those eyes, what’s that like?
chester cheetos here i come.
Jack Ass, The one currently elected President…
@Oldelvis @Oldelvis Really??? I also thought of the 'Rump but re-read the question. An entire day living that asshole’s day without having any control. An entire day staring at women’s crotches and boobs.
Plus, isn’t seeing out of someone else’s eyes like walking in their shoes?
…hard pass!
Eagle
an Eagle or a Sea Otter
Shark
Peregrine Falcon.
@lseeber
My favorite bird…
![Peregrine Falcon][1]
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Peregrine_Falcon/overview
@Zebra It is a cool one. I love the vids where they put the cam ON the bird. I believe I read that the fasted clocked was 206 mph in a kill dive. And, if you’ve never seen a Goshawk manuevering thru the woods… quite impressive (not near the speed of the peregrine tho).
@lseeber For the past dozen years we have been lucky to have a pair of nesting red sholdered hawks in a stand of mature oak trees on our property. They are much like your goshawk in their ability to navigate through the trees and undergrowth - truly magnificent creatures – ![red shouldered hawk]
https://www.ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/Learning/documents/Profiles/redshouldered91411.pdf
@lseeber
Take a look at this site - this pair showed up out of nowhere and have been breeding at the same scrape for 5 years. The volunteer support group provides some amazing photography and deserves some support. ![Utica Peregrine project][1]
[1]: https://www.facebook.com/Falcon-Watch-Utica-538758112909331/?tn=,d,P-R&eid=ARDd1oLchIb9bhUz8-AnkyfVPkOyj7vGRgpZd0j4L5stRCm9ncqjUOo6re5Jb0K-UxcTnUeacYXA0X0k
@Zebra Neat! At my property that I just moved out of (but still own) we had a few red tail hawks and a great horned owl. The owl itself kept a lot of other birds and bats from settling in anywhere too close.
@Zebra I can’t see the 2nd link. Don’t have a facebook acct and it keeps wanting me to make one. Not happenin’!
My fav cam at the Cornell site was the Great Horned Owl nest after breeding. The Osprey took over that nest for the past 2 yrs tho.
Any kind of high-flying bird or anything that can see more colors.
i guess if i had to choose between those, i’d go with seeing more colors.
@katylava I wonder if the next day would be incredibly dull and depressing because you know those extra colors exist, but you can no longer see them.
What about a honey badger? That would be fun. I don’t give a shit.
Mantis shrimp, scientists say they can see more colors than us.
Come on, at least include 1 flying animal.
Those mice what live in the women’s locker room, amirite, fellas?
Penguin. Preferably an Antarctic one, but tropical would be good too.
Dolphin
How is there not a flying animal option!?
Sperm whale - I want a first row seat to a royal rumble with a giant squid.
@zinimusprime “Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”
@Limewater What is this from?
@zinimusprime Moby Dick, chapter 94.
@Limewater Oh, how our lexicon has changed!
I’d have very different answers depending on whether I can turn off this “animal vision”, whether it is a question only of position, like the animal’s wearing a camera, or whether I have the loss and benefit of the animal’s own sight organs… and it’d be a different question entirely if I could haunt the animal and get all the other sensations too.
Peregrine Falcon.
an Eagle
Cat 'cause you are only seeing the world for 8 hours. And sleeping for the other 16!
@Jdub you have a very active cat …
@stolicat right on, he’s still a teenager!
@Jdub
I’ve been known to do that without the cat.
A worm!
/ Surprised no one said Goat
/giphy eyes of a goat
…not what I was expecting
NYC Peregrine Falcon
California condor, especially if I have their visual acuity.
Eric Burdon. Because Alan Price and Hilton Valentine were a couple of no-talent losers. And don’t even get me started on Steel or Chandler. Screw those guys!
Grizzly bear. Might get a glimpse of a Sasquatch.