The rabbit or duck is one of the most popular ambiguous image optical illusion.
In this illusion, the head of the animal can be either perceived as a rabbit or a duck.
The rabbit-duck illusion first appeared in the German Humor magazine named Fliegende Blätter in the year 1892.
Duck! Rabbit! is a funny picture book for children, which was a New York Bestseller for 9 weeks. It is based on this ambiguous image.
There are many versions of the rabbit-duck figure. Here, are few…
Rabbit or duck pictures
(Which animals are most like each other? Rabbit and Duck)
Magazine: Fliegende Blätter
(German humor magazine)
Year: 23 October 1892
Country: Germany
Joseph Jastrow, An American psychologist
Magazine: Popular Science Monthly
Year: January 1899
Illustrator: Walter Ehrenstein (1899-1961),
German psychologist
Year: 1930
Year: 1953
Book: Mind Insights
Rabbit or duck cartoon
Year: 2012
Country: Austria
New Yorker Cartoon
The above carton features two ambiguous images. They are:
- Duck or rabbit figure
- Boring’s wife or mother-in-law figure
An interesting thing about this cartoon is that the wife or mother-in-law is performing shadow art of duck or rabbit.
Rabbit or duck logo
