World Animal Day 2026: see the world through their eyes
World Animal Day is on 4 October. This year's theme is "See the World Through Their Eyes", and that is just what this site does: it turns any photo into an animal's view, built from published eye studies. Try three animals below, then your own photo.
A simulation made from published eye studies. Not what the animal feels.
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10 things to share on World Animal Day
- Dog: A dog sees with 2 colour types; you have 3.
- Harris's hawk: A sign you can read from 10 m, a Harris's hawk has to get to about 6.9 m to see as clearly.
- Western honey bee: Has 3 colour types like you, but one of them sees ultraviolet.
- Brownbanded bamboo shark: Sees no colour at all, only light and dark.
- Western diamondback rattlesnake: Keeps no fixed hours: it is up by day and by night.
- Rhesus macaque: Sees colours a lot like you do.
- Bald eagle: The zone where both its eyes see the same thing is about a third as wide as yours.
- Rock pigeon: Sees 4 kinds of colour; you see 3.
- Cat: Sees mostly blues and yellows. Red and green look alike.
- Portia jumping spider: A friend you can recognise 30 m away, a Portia jumping spider has to get to about 5.6 m to see as clearly.
In the classroom
Teachers can run the theme as a lesson: pick an animal, guess what it sees, then check on the projector. Classroom ideas and licences ยท Guess the Eye, the daily animal guessing game
About the day
The theme comes from the World Animal Day 2026 announcement. See Like Animals is not connected with the World Animal Day organisers.