By Vurdlak on March 13, 2012, with 135 Comments
If you had the opportunity to explore our Spot The Object category, specially it’s early days, you’ll quickly recognize who is the artist behind this beautiful poster. Steven M. Gardner loves nature and animals so much, he constantly comes up with new illusions such as today’s one. Your assignment is to find all of the hidden animals this card holds, and to help you just a bit – all of them are bears, black bears to be exact. Ready? Set! Start! First one to find them all deserves the right to brag about it in the comments section.
(115 votes)
Can not find more than 6 hidden ones :
-three in the driftwood/rock below the 2 bears
-one in the flowing water below the bears
-one to the far right of the right bear- in the back ground
-of course the one large face inthe background behind the birch trees.
that is 6. some suspecious forms in the leaves and other backgrouind areas but nothing that really could be varified by others too seeing it.
one large bear head mixed in with the trees. i found the rest.
6?
9+2
I FOUND ALL 12
12+2
8+2 were is the 9th! Help anyone?
I can hardly BEAR to admit that I can only find 8 Bears in the painting.Some of them are BEARly visable.BEAR in mind that this was a very difficult painting to make.
Good one! I’ve got nine.
8
9+2 I thank theres 1 more
13 hidden plus two
I count 6
7 + 2 how the heck are you gettin 9, lol?
15 I found good picy
I see 12
rock, rock, rock, water, tree, grass, background… that’s all I see
also, based on some of his other work, I think there are only 7 + 2 and that some of you said 9 + 2 because the title of the image is ‘ninebkbears’, not because you actually found 9 hidden
I can only find 8 but I don’t think the one I think is number 9 counts as a bear….
479 + 2
Beat this !
i’ve seen 12 + the 2 obvious. :-) Seruously people, where have you seen 9 hidden bears? With all my effort ,i couldn’t spot more than 6 hidden ones.I would really like a hint for the 3 others ,if they really are there, not only something that looks like but is not.But if someone can really find 9 hidden bears in this picture I congratulate him/her with all my heart :-)
In addition to my previous text:
I’ve spotted 3 things that may look like a bear but im not sure about them .They dont have the obviousness of the other 6 objects.
I think that these are not really a bears , but my mind is trying to find as mush as possible, given the assignment so i’m maybe forcing myself to see something that is not there !
Does anyone shares my point of view?
Hopefully this is my last entry.I’ve spotted 7 hidden bears + the 2 obvious and I think that this is my limit :-)
10+2
Winnars!
i found all of it and im only 11years old
I count 13 if you add the two that aren’t really hidden
that one in the background is creepy!
6 illusions + 3 obvious
3 in the rocks, 1 in the leaves, 1 at the base of the tree, 1 in the water.
I’ve found googol bears,but I’m sure I can find at least googolplex. see you at infinity :-)
I see nine hidden bears – three in the rocks, one in the water, one in the tree limbs, one in the twigs above the rocks, one in the background and two bear faces in each of the tree barks next to each of the non-hidden bears.
most of you people are crazy! by a big stretch in imagination I can find 6 or 7 hidden which doesn’t include the two obvious critters on either side. but anymore than that and you’re just making rocks and wood into what you think may be bears.
and although some other people may think these things are “cute” they really ain’t (yeah, they EAT people!). just check out those claws and teeth. you also aren’t gonna out climb or out run them. not even a vehicle is safe (unless its big and you can start and subequently run right over the critter). the only realistic option is to shoot them.
There’s a full bear outline in tree branches in the upper right, also do all off the trees leaves together make the head of a bear facing profile right.
Just found mother bear nursing !! I would love to know if anyone else sees this. And its not 9!
Ok. How many
SPOILER ALERT
I found 10 + the obvious 2
- water bear… big rock bear… center background bear…
at the base of three there are 3:
– a face sketched at the base of the bulk of the three:
– and two on the rocks near the base of the log one laying down sideways… (and pardon my french) the a$$ of the one laying is the front of another. in a menacing stance with a cloudy/shadowy face.
-one face in the grass between the legs of the “obvious” bear on the right
- the outline of a bear in the branches and leaves above the obvious bear on the right
- what seems like a bear coup whispering in the water bear’s right hear carved on the rock.
- And the least obvious… and I think I see a bear maybe I’m seeing bears every where by now… a negative image of the background bear above and to the right of the obvious bear.
The outline of the leaves seems like a Bear too… but it’s a little to far fetched to me
a challenge now… find the Duck!
:)
yeah there is another face on the other three… so 14 potential bears so far
7. : ;(
7
i found 12 bears im not sure if there is more so can some one please tell me ?? thank you for your support and i do hope you can help me. mwah!!
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Does anyone not see that face on the mountain behind the bear near the water?
I just spent today going through this blog and some of you posters are really nuts. Did you try that schizophrenic test? lol Better make sure you didn’t get the schizophrenic answers, because you guys are seeing bears everywhere, same with the face in the woods and some others. You’re making it up in your own heads. Being creative is one thing but this is too out there.
There are no bear faces in the bark at all, although I can see the two that you THINK are there, they are CLEARLY not bear shaped, but are an almost-facsimile of a face. Same with a few others. I can only find 7 ACTUAL bear shapes, plus the two real bears. Anything past that, that has been described in here so far, is not a bear but your mind messing with you with all of your wishful thinking. I’d recommend taking some psychology classes, because I feel like I know what group of people you would be in if you ever had to do a study like the Stanford Prison Experiment, or Milford’s experiments.
i found all 18
This one works better. enjoy!
I love how people post they found more than there really is too look cool. HA!
Nine for sure!
http://perspectives.rea-hedrick.com/optical-illusions/hidden-black-bears-solution/
There seems to be 1 obvious stalker bear, and 1 “very hard to find” one.
PS. I found 15 which i dont think i should be able to find… I think my imagination has gone wild
Make that 16
yr not alone i have 17
make tht 19 lol