> Instead of having good vision, dogs, horses, mice, antelope – in fact, most mammals generally – have long damp snouts that they use to sniff things with. It is we humans, and apes and monkeys, who are different.

What a load of bull. Dogs and wolves eyes are facing forward, as do cats', owls', jumping spiders' main eyes, and generally those of most hunting predators. Eyes facing forward is good for depth perception and judging speeds and thus hunting, a bigger field of view is good for detecting threats from any and all directions and thus for prey animals. The location of the eyes depends mainly on where the animals sits on the predator<->prey scale. Apes tend to be apex predators, thus the predator eye location.