An illustration
featuring a concealed panda among a crowd of snowmen is sweeping across social
networking websites, and it’s causing people to tear their hair out. Hungarian
artist Gergely Dudás posted the frustrating Christmas puzzle on his Facebook
page on December 16, and it has been causing people problems ever since.
This cartoon, which
has been shared hundreds of thousands of times since it was published, is still
winding up users who are doggedly determined to spot the panda. Although some
have taken to social media to show off at having found the elusive giant panda
(Ailuropoda melanoleuca), some have expressed disbelief that the panda is there
at all.
Skeptical Facebook user
Jon Beauvais commented: “I found a dragon, 2 slippers, a can of pop and no
panda. Nice try!” A more victorious commenter, Joshua Feyereisen, said that he
found the panda “using a simple grid search pattern,” magnanimously noting that
by “deducing that the panda would not have a 'carrot' for a nose, I found it in
less than 20 seconds.”
The human brain is
designed to spot differences in patterns; these register as unusual pieces of
information that need to be carefully considered. Even though a panda within a
bunch of snowmen is indeed a very prominent feature, the animal in this
particular environment happens to be perfectly camouflaged, so we can't
immediately spot it.
So have you found the sneaky panda yet?
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