Can you spot the elephant in six seconds? Optical illusion reveals how intelligent YOU are

At first glance, this vintage-looking image seems pretty unremarkable, but take a closer look.

There’s a hidden elephant concealed in this optical illusion sketch of a circus master.

The man has a sword strapped to his body and is carrying a trumpet.

Smartly dressed, he is wearing a coat with tails and a bi-cornered hat tucked under his arm.

But if you can spot a hidden elephant in this sketch within six seconds it means you are of high intelligence, according to Jagran Josh.

The image appears to have made the rounds in 2022, but it has since resurfaced online .

For those wondering where the elephant is hidden, look closely at the circus master’s coat.

If you follow the tail of it up, the trunk of the elephant appears and the button, or perhaps a torn hole, on the back serves as the animal’s eye.

The sleeve makes up one of the elephant’s ears and the sword forms a tusk.

This is far from the first animal-related optical illusion that’s left people scratching their heads.

Last month, another optical illusion image with black-and-white horizontal lines sparked headlines.

The closeness of the lines made it difficult for observers to spot the secreted frog. 

For those wondering where the elephant is hidden, look closely at the circus master’s coat

If you still can’t see it, you might have a bit more success if you stand further back from the screen.

If that doesn’t work you can try squinting or looking away from the screen and then back again.

To make it a bit easier for those of you who are still struggling, we have an image showing the animal – a frog – as it would appear in a different color scheme below.

A third mind-bending optical illusion surfaced earlier this month.

The artwork was created by Japan’s Akiyoshi Kitaoka who is known for illusions.

In an anti-clockwise direction, starting from the top, you can see a blue circle and then a magenta one, but when you hit the third rounded shape, the answer is a little more complicated. 

Can you see the animal hidden between the black and white horizontal lines in the picture above?

The frog was hidden between the lines, but is a lot easier to see under a different colour scheme

What do you see? This optical illusion is tricking your eye into seeing a yellow circle

If the last circle is yellow then your eyes have been fooled – because when you focus in on its color, you’ll see it’s actually black and white.

But don’t feel too bad as you’re not the only one who was betrayed by their eyes.

Recently the optical illusion re-emerged on Reddit after initially being shared by its Kyoto-based creator Akiyoshi, who is a professor of psychology at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University.

Redditor Eumaeu5 posted the image with the caption: ‘There is no yellow in this image (cover all but a few of the ‘yellow’ lines to prove this). Your brain expects yellow and fill in the gaps.’

One redditor explained what was happening in the optical illusion.

‘Your brain has an auto white balance feature. Because all the lines are blue, except in the “yellow circle”, it tricks your brain into adjusting to a cool white environment, like daylight or a cloudy day,’ they said.

‘The result is it also adjusts everything around the actually black lines to be perceived as warmer. Thus, white becomes warm white.’