Preyface

Eyes on the sides of the head.

What it is

Prey animals (rabbits, deer, horses, many birds, etc.) have their eyes positioned on the sides of their skulls. This gives them a very wide field of view — useful when you’re more likely to be eaten than to do the eating.

Predators tend to have forward-facing eyes for better depth perception when hunting.

The same general principle sometimes gets casually applied to certain human faces that have a wider-set or more laterally placed eye look.

Examples in the wild

How this domain happened

A cousin was visiting. Conversation turned to a sister’s cat whose eyes sit a bit more on the sides of its head than a typical forward-facing predator look. That led to the term “preyface,” which somehow also got applied to Sydney Sweeney and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Someone said “you should register the domain.” So it got registered. On a whim.