Eyesight in the Animal Kingdom

-Hargrave Eye Center

Jellyfish have 24 eyes

Guinea pigs have their eyes

open when their born!

Most hamsters blink their eyes separately

Goats’ pupils are rectangular and they have a wide field of vision

A dragonfly can detect motion with its 30,000

lenses in its eyes

Owls are the only bird that can see blue.

The shark cornea is very similar to humans and is

used in human eye surgery

Snakes have a set of eyes to see, and another to detect

heat and movement.

Snakes have a thin membrane

covering their eyes and no eyelids

Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from

desert sand blowing.

Worms have no eyes.

The four-eyed fish can see both above and below water simultaneously

Owls move their heads around

because they can’t move their eyeballs

A scallop can detect predators with their 100 eyes!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Geckos can see colors in low light and much better

than humans

The eyes of a chameleon are

separate from each other and could look in different directions

Dogs don’t see red and green.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.