What do you see?

For me it was slightly ruined by the word “Rhino” coming up under the mouse pointer when it was over the picture.

Looked like a cross between a baby and a car to me, or just a baby on wheels (the whirls).

Looks more like an elephant to me, but is that being pedantic?

You know … crawling along and looking upwards ….the head does the baby thing for me.

Is it against the rules to say both?

I assume the whorls on the legs are its feet. I thought Rhino, but I think the options given should have included at least one of John and Belle.

It’s clearly a triceratops.

I thought it was one of Holden’s ponys. I couldn’t wait to find out in which poll Bush acheived his new low.

The ferocious beast from Maggie and the ferocious beast. That’s what you get when you have a 3 year old girl who was obessed with it for at least a year. I thought it was going to be a drawing of said beast by one of your kids. That said, if you’re familiar with the show, Hamilton is the gayest pig ever seen in a cartoon.

…and it’s a cowlick, not a quiff, because, Dudemar, a quiff is the whole do, like a coiffe, and it’s artificed, whereas a lick is just a bit that sticks up on its own, regardless.

A really beautiful drawing by a 2yr kid.

Voted rhino, but it looks more aghast than pensive. The second option is interesting, although it’s surely more of a baby egret than a duck.

I assume the whorls on the legs are its feet.

Its a classic rendition of the rhinoceros knee, silly (although more common in cartoons than in real life).

_You know … crawling along and looking upwards ….the head does the baby thing for me._

that’s what i see too.

Obvioulsy its a bird gargling while sitting in a bird bath.

A couple of people have said “Triceratops”, which is what I first thought when I saw the picture at John & Belle’s blog — though is a triceratops really that different from a rhinoceros? Practically the same beast say I — But my favorite answer is Rob’s in 33. I can totally see the gargling bird. Though most bird baths are on one leg, not two.

A rhino with scaly knees, and you are clearly a bad parent for saying “What a nice duck! But why is it sitting on top of two speakers?” and hurting the artist’s feelings. The survey confirms your guilt.

Clearly, the duck people are superior. Death to the rhino-seers!

A horned pig!!
oh, that’s a rhino.

Similar to the “Gargling Bird”–But I see no bird. Only a joyous dog, head turned upward, spitting a delightful fountain into the air.

Then again, maybe it just discovered its missing tail hanging from a low tree branch….

I saw what #15 saw but he said it better.

Like some other commenters, I first thought “triceratops”. But the triceratops has two horns on its forehead and one on its nose, whereas this beastie, at first sight, has them the other way round.

So it’s clearly a triceratops looking over its shoulder at something in the sky.

Unicorn. Which I guess is morally equivalent to rhino.

OR…maybe Dali in profile on all fours….I’m just sayin’….

My daughter liked drawing wolves and dogs: here, here, and here.

Still life with a mutant/rotting/abstract pear.

a rabbit sitting on Wittgenstein’s speakers

John, it may be a baby with a quiff and a Nietzsche moustache that’s been dipped in hair gel, but I say “baby” all the same.

I immediately thought rhino, maybe triceratops. The hummingbird/stereo thing works once pointed out… but why on earth would a kid draw that? The swirly knees are a classic rhino/elephant giveaway in animal cartoon iconograpy.

That would be an elephant raising his trunk to the sky and bellowing.

Weapons of mass destruction.

I saw a really beautiful unicorn drawn by a three-year-old child.

>Is there any NON gargling bird in the picture?

Yeah. Look closely…hint: it looks just like a baby.

I saw this when John posted it at J&B, and I believed him when he said it was a rhino. I can see the “bird” now that I know about it, and it’s very nice, not to mention the “sleeping guinea pig”.

The thing is, and this was what came to mind the first time I saw it, I think there’s room for multiple construals of the elements of the rhino’s head even without considering non-rhino interpretations. How do people interpret the roughly trapezoidal form below and left of the anterior horns? (I originally saw it as an open mouth, but that doesn’t look “pensive” at all.)

I thought it was a puff of smoke over a campfire in a firepit.

It is a bird sitting on the head of a dark haired man who is wearing glasses. His eyes are slightly crazed. What else could it be?

Full Discloser: I have spent quite a few years in Japan. Constant exposure to manga may or may not have affected my interpretation.

This werewolf sees a rhino.

A crude approximation of an animal, probably a horse. The thing it reminded me of most is a wooden horse that kids would play on, probably pretending that they riding into battle as the head looked vaguely armored.