My cat can see the rotating snake illusion!

Can cats experience visual illusions? Show your cat the rotating snakes illusion (available here: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/i...), film it and let me know the result by filling in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eFIR...

If enough people do this we might be able to crowdsource some real evidence that cats can see visual illusions!

/Rasmus

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Sure it is anecdotal evidence, but anyway. The snake illusion is made by Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka. See his homepage for more nice illusions: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/i... .

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[GenericOverusedName]

My cat is so good at visual illusions, she can do this on a blank sheet of paper!

[FinrodCarnesir1]

Barce yourself, hobby animal rights activists are comeing. My cat suffered so much from the laser pointer that it started cuddeling with me and slept in my bed. So cruel.

[foonykins]

your cat is probably schizophrenic

[danieljamesaraujo]

wow i was being sarcastic everyone... can't take a joke i suppose...

[aMidnightBreeze]

*Brace *coming *cuddling

Okay, I'm leaving. My obsessive pedantry is over. Try not to hate me, it's uncontrollable.

[LucieDelilah]

that cat is freakin adorable

[TKMBIB]

The cat is probably just playing with the paper. Cats are farsighted, like seriously farsighted. They have to be a couple feet away from something to see it clearly. Unless the optical illusion still looks like it's rotating when it's blurry... which I'm not sure about since I'm nearsighted. The further I got away from the paper, the less the illusion was moving which might be a distance thing, but it also made it blurry to me. Adorable kitty, though =3

[deckterrorist]

defo will try on my cat :D

[KLCcro]

it's not a torture u fool!!! does it hurt? no!!! it's just a simple prank on cat,and proof that cat can see optical illusion!!! suck on this .I. and report me bitch!!!

[Azxs12121]

i cant believe people torture animals like this. thank god for peta to save the day from animal abusers. i emailed peta this video and am awating a response. hopefully theyll put rasmusab in jail!

[VincentSpaans]

I'm seriously interseted if the cat sees the illusion or simply attackts the clorored drawing like my cat does.