The animals speak/The eyes speak

Eye contact is one of the first modes of communication for all animals with visual perception. Everyone sees that it is seen and everyone sees that its reactions cause the other to react. Approaching the animals by looking at them, with the eyes or the camera, always makes them much effect. Be careful. They can be stressed, harassed, even traumatized, simply by being looked at. We can also push them to attack (a dog, otherwise very nice, bit me on the arm when I was eight years old, because I stared at it too long). Never pursue with your gaze a caged animal which seeks to hide, because it is a rape.

Between pleasure and fear
Animals are generally shared between pleasure and fear of being watched. When the gaze is too tight, they flee to escape the stress:



But curiosity can overcome fear:









That I look at them can even encourage them to come and meet me:





You can also play hide and seek with the look:



Lulu, a grey gibbon, and the dean of the park of the Head of Gold in Lyon, knows how to look at you while hiding her gaze in the shadow:



A mallard has kept the pleasure of being watched:



The ducklings are the least frightened by the gaze of the camera, which is not bigger than them. They came to give it a few pecks:



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The predatory eye
A camera resembles the eye of a predator, like the barrel of a rifle. Animals generally know very well that an eye which looks at them can be a danger and they do not like to be fixed:



A human being can also feel threatened by a gaze:



Many animals are afraid to look at you in the face:





Prey, above all, do not like to be fixed and avoid looking at you in the face. Predators in general do not have this fear:



The gaze of the feline seems to reveal its predatory instincts:



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Remote silent communication
A glance is enough to establish communication over long distances:



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Hello and goodbye


When it leaves you, a giraffe do not cease to follow you with its eyes:



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The strangeness of the gaze
The gaze of an animal can sometimes seem very strange, because we do not know how to interpret its expressions:



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