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Jackdaws With Human Eyes

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According to this article in National Geographic, jackdaws are possibly the only animal able to interpret the human gaze, because their eyes are unusually similar to ours.

Bit of an unsettling idea, though I'd feel even more uncomfortable under the stare of, for instance, a goat:

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(Pic from here)

Or Snowy the albino gorilla:

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