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No way to know until we cook it with some curry and a scotch bonnet or two.

I was the opposite. At first I thought it was a goat but now I'm very confident it's a bird.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I just saw it

Same

It is so obviously, undoubtedly a bird that I was convinced it had to be a shit post, until it hit me and I saw the goat, too.

the pupils are the tell for me, 95% bird

One of my aunts uncritically posted this on Facebook last year. Like she actually believed that this was a real picture

yeah we are australian and it's embarrassing how long it took us to see the goat lmfao

🎶 no wait, that's a goat, silly me

Come on, that's obviously a...wait...OH COME ON

Omg I just saw the goat wtf wtf

I keep scrolling it on and off the screen. For the first instant I see it, I see a goat until my eyes focus on the eye and beak. A really weird sensation.

We Australians only see the bird. But we also hear the picture. Kookaburras have a very distinct call

The bird was obvious when I looked that way, but given the title I happened to see the goat first.

Why are you fucking with me like this? 🤣

I panicked for a second after immediately seeing the goat and then it changed into a bird and I could no longer see the goat. I got my brain fixed eventually, but I was actually a little scared I could not go back and see both things.

Bird

A goat with no nose and a painfully distorted neck, or a very normal bird with a peculiar color pattern ?

Rabbit

My god...

@iseefacesinthings.bsky.social

I saw the goat first. The bird took a looong beat. Unlike with the dress, I can still see them both.

Goatbird!

I didn't notice the goat at all. I thought the joke was that there is no goat.

I saw the goat first but after several minutes of inspection this is clearly a bird. Freaky deaky.

Gird

Definitely a bird. It took me a while to even see the goat.

Yes

The eyes tell the tale.

Goat

That is clearly not a goat mouth

Hey bird, do deformed goat, its my favourite!

This is testing my slender hold on sanity

That’s pretty cool.

Oh there's the goat! I'm firmly seeing bird, it took me a moment to get a goat from it. 😆

The answer is obviously yes.

🎶 Merry merry king of the bush is he! Looks like a kookaburra to me! (Though I can see the goat too, once someone said it.)

It is a bird but I see the goat

That is a kookaburra

I see both but that is definitely a bird. We hear them at sunset every evening 🤍🤎

Probably!

It's a goat duh where's b... Oh My GOD ITS A BIRD

I can see where the goat comes from, but the bird is far better defined It's a bird

Took me a bit to see the goat, and it does look surprisingly goat-like, but I reckon it's a kookaburra.

Yes

I see a little pair of hands, clutching at a slippery, wet rope, sliding down, down into the dark water.

Why not both?

I saw a bird first, couldn’t see a goat, but then all of a sudden I did.

From my perspective, it's obviously both, but I should acknowledge that I did my thesis on the goat-bird duality theorem.

Zebra

Both!

If you're looking for a real "dress-level" argument, do yourself a favor and read Toni Morrison's Recitatif short story

Bird. Not goat eyes.

I saw a goat 😭

I see the goat, but I'm under the influence of 4 beers...

" An IQ too high?"

It's both. It's a goat craning its neck.

I saw the goat first.

Took me a while to even "see" the "goat" It's clearly a bird tho :P

Thanks I hate it But also bird (I did see goat eventually tho)

Kookaburra

Also obligatory. You’re welcome youtube.com/shorts/8Mvzm...

I mean Kookaburras are the GOAT so there’s that

I can see the goat but I'm pretty sure it's a bird.

Oh shit

i saw the goat first, but only because i was scrolling and the "goat" appeared first and primed me. it's the bird.

Thanks. Couldn’t see the goat at all. Still have to squint but I’m squinting thanks you!

Thank you. I could not see the damn goat.

That worked once I took my glasses off and made the beak less clearly a beak.

THANK YOU! wild!

I saw the form of a goat at first, but on closer inspection, that beast is clearly feathered.

goated bird

Bird

Bird (you see the eyes!)

A Hawks game.

Had a little trouble seeing the goat,but then it was a bit of a shock. Not an actual question that it's a kookaburra, but the goat is definitely a surprise extra.

I saw the goat first... I couldnt even see the bird... but turns out its definitely a bird because goats have weird pupils

Does anyone see the goat at first glance? I had to look for a while.

I thought that was understood. The goat is emo.

😅

It's a kingfisher?

I saw bird immediately & was wondering why it said goat on the photo. I did then subsequently see a goat, but it still feels more a bird to me!

Dolphin

Kookaburra. Used to be a pet shop I'd visit that had one way back (also rays and piranhas)

that's a Girt

I saw a lamb at first glance, so

We'll have to ask Mothman then

With the dress, there was no context -- just "What colors do you see?" With this, I can see the goat (as long as I don't look too closely) but it looks way more like a kookaburra.

I saw it shift between blinks and I was perplexed and not a little distressed.

It was goat 100%…until it wasn’t

A goat that fell down a long flight of stairs, poor thing

And a hidden lamb😉

Well it is OBVIOUSLY… oh no…

*patpatz birb*

The "goat"'s features aren't clearly defined. That's markings on the back of a bird's head, not a goat's mouth.

definitely works for its call

I know one thing about the kookaburra, and that is he sits in the old gum tree and merry merry king of the bush is he. Also he laughs. Okay, three things.

It's an absurd creature.

I spent some aquarium time this weekend trying to spot a Tassled Wobbegong.

You're allowed to call it a Kingfisher if you like.

It is from an indigenous name which is onomatopoeic. I reckon in most languages, onomatopoeic based names end up sounding a bit silly.

But it’s a kookaburra

A great new “duck/rabbit” example for intro to cog sci classes!

That is a speckled dress in white, black and brown. Can’t really understand why that would be hard to tell at all 🤷‍♂️

We can see one of its eyes, and it isn't the creepy, soulless eye of a demon from hell. So, bird.