Can other animals see space and the stars?

 The one animal I found the most interesting regarding visually seeing the stars is the Dung Beetle!

Yes, would you believe the dung beetle uses the milky way for navigation?

Apparently the dung beetle is actually pretty smart. Other than playing with poop, that is. Some really unfortunate scientists got to spend some quality time with one of the most maligned creatures on the earth. But what they found was nothing short of amazing. They had known for some time that the beetle used the polarized light from the sun for navigation, but what did they do at night? They thought it could be the moon, but what about moonless nights? It turned out that they were using the milky way, which was confirmed by taking them to a planetarium. They found that the beetles used the visual cues of the milky way instead of something like the magnetic field.

They confirmed this in the field by giving the beetles cool hats like what you see here (the control group got transparent hats). The beetles with the opaque hats could not navigate.

 

Credit : Quora

Picture Credit : Google