mcc
Consider: People often remark that cats often suddenly stop and stare in strange directions, seemingly looking at nothing at all. What humans don't understand is that the cat is in fact not looking, but *listening*; the cat has heard something, and is turning its head so its ears are cupped in the direction of the sound. Implication: If elves were real, they would often as a group swiftly turn their heads to apparently stare at nothing at all, swiveling their ears slightly as they do so 34 comments
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@mcc People do this too, but we barely notice doing it ourselves, and pay little attention when others do it. 
Erin
@mcc a required first semester course in Elvish Spy College is to wait for the humans around you to react to the noise before you also react Elvish Spy Grad School has a course on learning how loud of a noise humans can usually hear in case human spies are also not reacting to noises to see if you are waiting for them to react
ShadSterling
@sargoth @ChateauErin @mcc … who else is looking back and forth trying to figure out what the difference is?
Krishean Draconis
Consider that you are viewing the image on a device created by humans, that is designed to reproduce the color space perceivable by humans, and that the file format is also designed by humans to store the color space perceivable by humans 
Rachel Greenham
@sargoth @ChateauErin @mcc I like the story of some early scientist working with prisms laid out a set of thermometers under the various colours and an extra one for ’control’ off the red side, was mystified to find that one was hottest of all… definitely one of those ‘oh that’s odd’ moments.
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I find that the polite thing to do when my dog does this, is to shut up and let her sort it out. Once she turns back to me, I continue talking.
Chookbot
@donkey @mcc @lisamelton I'd go further and say "fluffy elves" is possibly the best ever description of cats. Just look at this face, as an example:  
zombiecide
@mcc if you actually watch you can usually see the ears adjusting just the tiny bit to catch the sound better
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Permission to use that as my excuse upon the likelihood that I will simply stop speaking and stare into the not a void over your right or left shoulder. It's anyone's guess what'll distract me from any given conversation. It's 'cause I heard something, right over there. I promise! 
No One Special
@mcc cats don't need to turn their heads to listen; their ears are constructed such that they can turn independently of the head and each other. Source: https://youtu.be/2h7WaQjNorA?feature=shared |
Gregory's Server
@mcc Rabbits do this too