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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Their rectangular eyes can also rotate so that they always have parallelism to the ground.

Can you imagine your eyes doing that?

[–] jeremias@social.jears.at 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Your eye does rotate!

Look at your eyes in the mirror and rotate your head, look on the veins in your eye and you will see that your eye tries to stay parallel to the ground.

In humans it is just much less obvious due to our round pupils.

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't see my eyes in the mirror, due to the delay caused by the slow speed of light my reflection is blinking whenever I'm not.

[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I’m imagining looking in the mirror and seeing myself with my eyes closed; it’s freaking me out.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

thanks for the nightmare fuel

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup. This is why it's easier to read a clock that is upright, regardless of the orientation of your head.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

And the brain adjusts visual image with other information like our sense of gravity and equilibrium. So if you tilt your head, you don't lose sense of up and down - unless you're in zero-g.

[–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Our eyes rotate too

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also they scream

And despite having hooves can climb an almost straight face of rock

And they'll eat a damn aluminum can and not have a health problem from it

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am with crows.

This sounds made up.

Okay I feel like being a little pedantic. Goats don't eat metal. Goats are actually very selective eaters. They can eat a wide diet but only eat the best first. The can thing mostly comes from back when labels were put on with gelatine based glues. Goats would chew on the can to get the glue off.

Interestingly enough cows will eat metal. Not intently but cows are not good at being selective eaters so if it ends up in their mouth it is usually eaten regardless if the cow wants to or not. This leads to a condition called hardware disease, where metal collects in the cows stomach specifically the reticulum. This can lead to the stomach being punctured and the cow dying from sepsis.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago

Scare kid? Like the baby goat? Why would they?

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fear of Goats, God and school shootings. Using these three things are all you need to scare you’re child into behaving well and in turn to be a good parent. I personally like to weave all three together at once

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno if it's a great idea to warn kids about the goat god who shoots up schools, but you do you I guess.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Method comes second to results