[Lx]

Round pupils, way weird.

I want one.

[Stoat]

Round pupils, way weird.

All cats have keen senses, which they need to locate and their prey. Like us, cats have forward-facing eyes. But they can open their pupils three times wider and see in the dark six times better than people can. Cats have a layer of tissue in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum, which bounces light back through the retina a second time and increases the amount of light the cat has to see by. That’s what causes the “eyeshine” that you see with cats at night, when their eyes seem to glow red or green. Cats can also focus clearly and quickly for long and short distances. Without moving their heads they can detect movement within a visual field of 280 degrees—which means they can see out of the corner of their eyes a lot better than we can!

San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes Small Cat

(the above snippet refers to cats generally, not specifically to the Pallas cats)

I want one.

If one could be convinced not to eat stoats, I would get one in a heartbeat  :-)

Round pupils, way weird.

All cats have keen senses, which they need to locate and their prey. Like us, cats have forward-facing eyes. But they can open their pupils three times wider and see in the dark six times better than people can. Cats have a layer of tissue in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum, which bounces light back through the retina a second time and increases the amount of light the cat has to see by. That’s what causes the “eyeshine” that you see with cats at night, when their eyes seem to glow red or green. Cats can also focus clearly and quickly for long and short distances. Without moving their heads they can detect movement within a visual field of 280 degrees—which means they can see out of the corner of their eyes a lot better than we can!

San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes Small Cat

(the above snippet refers to cats generally, not specifically to the Pallas cats)

I want one.