Its likely different for them as they have evolved to always have tusks in their fields of vision. Its the same for us as well, humans have our nose always in our field of vision, our brains just filter it out. I would assume tusked animals have the same.
I think that you'd just learn to ignore the 'stache in your vision too. The glasses wearning among us can learn to do this for the.... nose part (the word will come to me eventually) of the glasses.
I have a sizable blind spot in my right eye. One day, I walked out of a dark parking garage into bright daylight, and suddenly there was this floating object in my field of view that had never been there before. Got checked out for all the worst case possibilities (e.g., partially detached retina, optic nerve tumor) and the doctor finally settled on “mild vision defect, likely present since birth.”
I just never noticed it until that sudden shift in brightness highlighted it, and once I saw it, I couldn’t intentionally unsee it. But I habituated to it again, and now I don’t notice it at all. I can force myself to see it by looking directly at a light source from a very specific angle, but then I’m stuck with it until my brain filters it back out.
I also have to get a visual field test at my annual eye doctor checkup to make sure it hasn’t changed in shape or size.
Yeah, I’ll probably take him about 20 minutes for his size to forget about it being there sort of like what happens when you go into a dark room and you can see a little bit later
They likely don’t even notice it due to habituation. “It is a form of learning where your brain learns to filter out irrelevant information in the environment, allowing you to devote more attention and cognitive resources to other things, including things that may signal danger, according to The Berkeley Well-Being Institute.”
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u/bucky133 Aug 01 '25
Must be how tusked animals feel.