Hidden Wolf Optical Illusion

One of the benefits from having such big audience is constant flow of optical illusion submissions we get on a daily basis. The only problem is when person who submitted the illusion isn’t aware of the original author, and apart from the picture attached the email lacks additional information for me to look up its origins on the interwebs. This is again where you come in handy.

Check out the painting on your right. The style somewhat resembles these previous hidden animal illusions, but am not exactly sure if this is the case. How do we link this awesome work to its origins? Any clues?

If we change the subject back to the site’s theme, what do you see in this painting that makes it qualified as an optical illusion? How many wolves are there? Is there something hidden inside it? Anything else? Let’s see what can you come up with!

63 Replies to “Hidden Wolf Optical Illusion”

    1. Stare at the bottom left Wolf and the to of the stream merges with the top wolves. DO NOT focus at the wolves just the one I said. If you do it right the little head just peaking out will form an eye and the wolf on the onther side of it will form the other.

  1. It’s Nice….., The wolfs at the top form the ears and then the other 3 in the center form the face and nose….you have to look at it but not look in the same time to see it, do not focus!!….you won’t see anything.
    Cool…

  2. You are right. Like many illusions posted here before this picture was painted by Donald Rust.
    Love this one in particular! Mostly the eyes of hidden Faces and animals are quite unnatural painted and give the illusion away almost immediately. This one plays with the shadows very clever.
    Did you all spot the Lynx in the front?

  3. I see 11 wolves. One is covering several of the heads we see….in the middle of the picture. Did I miss some around the wolves in the background?

  4. You should try tineye.com – it’s a Reverse Image Search, you upload an image and tineye.com finds its original source.

  5. I wish the attachment were a little larger. It’s hard to pick out the subtleties and I think there may be more than what I’m seeing. I count 10 wolves for certain, including the large illusory wolf, as well as a lynx. Very neat!

  6. Interesting. There seems to be 8 wolves (9 if you count the merged image wolf). And they seem to be chasing a wild cat of some description. Maybe it’s a cougar?

    As to the origins…no idea :)

  7. Ahh yes I see it :) You can see it better if you zoom out. If you still can’t see it click the image and it’ll redirect you, then look at the little thumbnail, you’ll see it :)

  8. i think its just cool that out of one thing they can make so many. a friend of mine has a shirt that has a wolf with 7 other wolves hidden around it. but this is neat trying to see how many wolves there are. i found 12 by the way

  9. I saw it almost instantly, it’s just that I had to look around a bit. Nice! And can I have your e-mail? I don’t use Outlook. When I click ‘Submit Illusion’ it opens up Outlook. Please reply! Love this site. Good day.

  10. Nice.

    Is this by Bev Doolittle? It seems like the kind of thing she’d make, but I don’t recognize it.

  11. I saw the wolf face instantly,and I counted 11 wolfs I’m sure should be there,and some that I think are just my imagination.

  12. I counted 9 wolves which make up one bigger one, chasing a bobcat… and until I read someone else’s comment didn’t see much else. But now I can see a rabbit, a horse, a fish and a deer. I’ll just bet there are more there than the eye can detect. I’d love to have this as a painting on my wall at home because there is so much to see.

  13. I like the site, but the kodak add has to go.. really annoying to have the whole page scroll itself down constantly…. please get a different advertiser

  14. 20 wolves really? what might you be smokin’? I saw what someone said looked like a dolphin, but it’s not & I did not see arabbit at all.
    There are 9 wolves 1 composit wolf head chasing either a bobcat or Lynx.

    1. Ha Ha, I agree with you. 20 wolves? dolphins? rabbits? killer whales?

      I see a total of 10 wolves (9 wolves make up one wolf head) chasing a cat.

  15. Wow! I see this big wolf plus the small ones and thats 11! But on Yahoo, it shows us the answer and that is 10. So, i am very confused!

  16. this is not the best, the large wolf is not very clear, and the small wolves seem to be coming out of nowhere, and seeem to be sitting on nothing.

  17. I see 9 plus two hidden ones The large one and the one head facin right that is between the 2 bottom wolves in the creek

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