Gabon Its fauna seen by a camera trap What diversity!

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  • My wife and I wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years (in the retail sector), to show on TH-cam the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it. We are neither scientists nor veterinarians nor primatologists nor photographers. Our first videos posted on our TH-cam channel, ten years ago, essentially showed wildlife "walking" in front of the lenses of our trap cameras equipped with motion detectors: The crossing of an elephant in front of a trap camera lens for about five seconds is not particularly interesting, except as in this case of a slide show showing the diversity of wildlife moving in front of the single trap!
    On the other hand, a video of young elephants playing in a river while adults are quenching their thirst is much more enjoyable to watch. • Elephant calves have f... Elephant calves have fun during a creek crossing (Gabon jungle). To find such "spots" it is advisable to get further away from the path used by the few 4x4 vehicles of Nyonié, to go deeper into the forest and to walk in the beds of creeks and small rivers. This is not safe, especially when you are old. To progress more easily in the forest, animals use this off-road trail, without vines, bushes, brambles, and trees mixed on the ground because of the very numerous tornadoes in this region on the Equator line.
    We came up with the idea of placing huge mirrors at the end of a long straight line of an off-road track to catch their eyes and "block" them in front of their image. We have also placed other mirrors under trees where numerous animals appreciate the fruits. At other locations in the middle of the forest it would have been lucky for animals to meet their reflection.
    Our use of mirrors has been of great interest to primatologists, including members of the PSG, not the Paris Saint Germain football club, but the Primate Specialists Group, who have only been able to study self-recognition in a mirror in great apes in laboratories with captive animals or animals born in captivity, used to contact with humans. These animals did not have to search for food, defend their families against other congeners and predators, sometimes imitating humans, and therefore had different and distorted behaviors from primates living in complete freedom with their group or family in a remote area of Gabon's forest. Our cameras have highlighted a very particular behavior among chimpanzees in the Nyonié region and resulted in a scientific publication, "Reflections in rainforest mirrors facilitate behavioral observations of wild chimpanzees Primates n°58 2017-01". On our two following videos this behavior is filmed: • Rump-Rump Rubbing in C... (Rump-Rump Rubbing in Chimpanzees = anti-stress effect? A social behavior ever observed previously) and • scared chimps reassure... (scared chimps reassure themselves with pseudo-copulation and rump-to-rump contacts front of mirror).
    This is how, incidentally in wild animals, we discovered and became interested in their self-recognition in our large mirrors.
    Keep watching my homemade videos (170 pieces) that I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting explanations about animal reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle and share its link with your friends: www.youtube.co...

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  • @AniFam
    @AniFam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow~ a lot of different animals~ Amazing~❣️💙
    Thank you for sharing this amazing video! 🤗👍
    🔆AniFam〽️

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Did you read my long description attached and watch my two similar amazing videos suggested at the end of my video:*
      th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      Watch my 170 other homemade videos on the channel and don't forget to read the attached description each time. You will learn very important information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @alexbertil2756
    @alexbertil2756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thanks alot for these. Really well made

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Did you read my long description attached and watch my two similar videos offered at the end of my video:*
      th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      Watch my 170 other homemade videos on the channel and don't forget to read the attached description each time. You will learn very important information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @bigmonkeybanana
    @bigmonkeybanana 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you all so much for your awesome work and these amazing videos !

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *_A comment like yours is comforting after reading numerous comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors_*
      I suggest you some of my 160 home-made videos from my channel which have never been recommended by TH-cam and which unfortunately have a very small number of views even though they are very instructive such as:
      Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeAs/w-d-xo.html
      A male and a female leopard overuse a mirror for their SMS. The gorilla disapproves th-cam.com/video/dbCaPS-01n4/w-d-xo.html
      dance with intimidation jumps among chimpanzees in front of mirrors set in their jungle (Gabon) th-cam.com/video/AaOYi7U7it8/w-d-xo.html
      a young male sitatunga (swamp-dwelling antelope) crosses the creek in two jumps - Gabon's jungle th-cam.com/video/C3AhDseMlCI/w-d-xo.html
      Blood-sucking Ticks often infest Elephant skin causing intense itching. How do they get rid of them? th-cam.com/video/dFyPz5rrsEc/w-d-xo.html
      In the jungle, a mirror must often be replaced th-cam.com/video/BpeEMTlReQw/w-d-xo.html
      In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River th-cam.com/video/YkmPBl4NPv8/w-d-xo.html
      How do elephants pick mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high?
      th-cam.com/video/1Aed3z554is/w-d-xo.html
      and unfortunately there are many others in this case!
      Keep watching the numerous videos that I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle : th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      Good vision!

  • @michellelee8933
    @michellelee8933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I didn't even know the existence of Gabon, thank you for sharing, africa surely have a lot to discover!!

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      May I suggest you some others of my videos filmed in Gabon:
      th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeAs/w-d-xo.html Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts?
      th-cam.com/video/6I009XLJr4c/w-d-xo.html Elephants enthusiastically enjoying a healthy mud bath
      th-cam.com/video/8TbsrgYbyI4/w-d-xo.html an elephant crossing a river splashes camera trap
      th-cam.com/video/at6BdMfrXxE/w-d-xo.html A male elephant walks in the night, thinking of his next girlfriend.
      th-cam.com/video/xgMWeqCfAzY/w-d-xo.html Elephant VS camera trap in Gabon.
      th-cam.com/video/gqj_bY0g0C0/w-d-xo.html Elephant VS camera trap in Gabon.
      th-cam.com/video/bAOJzN4PxEE/w-d-xo.html a one-eyed elephant mows tall grass in front of the mirror for better camera trap field of view
      th-cam.com/video/YkmPBl4NPv8/w-d-xo.html In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River.
      th-cam.com/video/oIH76mIIob4/w-d-xo.html Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga
      th-cam.com/video/quaL3-TxUY0/w-d-xo.html African Jacana a swamp dwelling antelope-pecker:
      th-cam.com/video/0Qz5DW4632U/w-d-xo.html Shot in Gabon on the evening of the first major storm after the dry season. What is that?
      and unfortunately there are many others in this case!
      Watch more of my 170 homemade videos published on my channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos and read the description attached to each of them. You will find very interesting information about the reactions of the animals in front of my mirrors in the gabonese jungle: Good vision!

    • @michellelee8933
      @michellelee8933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES je vais regarder ça, merci :)

  • @chewy99.
    @chewy99. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow this diversity is awesome! Usually in regular television programs they only focus on one or two animals in the savannah, but this video shows so many different types of animals all living in the same habitat, truly fascinating! (And, thank’s Micheal, for cleaning up!)

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Look at other animals and birds that have triggered a trap camera placed in the middle of a creek or another camera placed at the outlet of a mangrove bordering the Atlantic Ocean beach.
      These cameras are 5 kilometers away from each other: th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      Click on the "show more" option, I attach a description with more information to each of my 170 videos published on my channel. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @tinkmarshino
    @tinkmarshino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Xavier you and your wife Anne- Marie ( thought I think she prefers just Marie) As I reach out to my 70th year I look back at folks like you and Jane Goodall and thank God that there were such dedicated people out there to bring real life to my here in my busy little world.. a life of adventure and dreams.. I love the forests and jungles and have always felt at peace and more... whole out there.. I am sure you understand what I mean.. I thank you all for for the joy you have shared with my low these many years now.. I hope this finds you in good spirits and in wonderful health and safety.. Carry on my old friend.. though you do not know me I will never forget you.. my eternal thanks

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Hello Loyal Subsriber! Your eternal thanks encourage us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion.* It is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in English which is not our native language and then put them online to show the beauty of Gabonese fauna, talk about poachers, show how elephants who have managed to get away from a wire snare trap, treat the deep cut made by this trap, show how elephants pick mangos, self recognition in mirrors that is not innate both among humans than among primates and other mammals and so on...
      It's a choice.. *Keep watching my videos published on my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them!*

  • @MJHistory100
    @MJHistory100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vraiment merveilleux, merci de nous partager ces moments magiques ! Chaque créature se révèle être d'une splendeur admirable

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Regardez d'autres animaux et oiseaux ayant déclenché une caméra piège au milieu d'un ruisseau ou une autre caméra placée à la sortie d'une mangrove bordant la plage de l'Océan Atlantique.
      Ces caméras sont à 5 kilomètres l'une de l'autre : th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      Cliquez sur l'option "show more", je joins une description en français, après celle en anglais, avec plus d'informations à chacune de mes 170 vidéos publiées sur ma chaîne. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @lynderherberts2828
    @lynderherberts2828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very cool. I always enjoy your videos.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🙏🙏🙏 *Hello loyal viewer!*
      *May I invite you to watch especially my videos which, unfortunately, have a very small number of views and are very informative like:*
      Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeAs/w-d-xo.html
      First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: th-cam.com/video/2pj1VfkNJS4/w-d-xo.html
      Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up: th-cam.com/video/qiqsFsOJhPo/w-d-xo.html
      Elephants calves playing in heavy rain in the Gabon jungle: th-cam.com/video/jWK6qKsfLvw/w-d-xo.html
      A calf elephant thinks its reflection in the mirror would be a young cow or a young calf: cute react th-cam.com/video/3lVVhhYVtSU/w-d-xo.html
      For a baby elephant it is not easy to move through the jungle (Gabon): th-cam.com/video/ZH4P-jAc6BQ/w-d-xo.html
      In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River: th-cam.com/video/YkmPBl4NPv8/w-d-xo.html
      and unfortunately there are many others in this case!
      Two Silverback Gorillas Fight in the Jungle - Animals Reactions in Huge Mirrors dirtied by a Leopard th-cam.com/video/4CJ04wELmHU/w-d-xo.html
      After each watching, don't forget to read my description with more information attached to each of my 170 videos published on my channel. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      Good vision!

  • @MaThTrash
    @MaThTrash 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for your exciting work. I've been following your videos for many years!

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🙏🙏🙏🙏 I really appreciate it when a loyal viewer thanks me for my new posted video. Thank you very much! Merci beaucoup !

    • @emilybipi9660
      @emilybipi9660 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Baby Smart Monkeys and beautiful girl💕#Animals

  • @NationalJungleGraphic
    @NationalJungleGraphic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Belles images avec une diversité incroyable sur le même spot. Bravo 👍

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Merci pour votre appréciation sur cette vidéo. Regardez d'autres animaux et oiseaux ayant déclenché deux caméras voisines (dans un rayon de 5 km). L'une placée au milieu d'un ruisseau et l'autre placée à la sortie d'une mangrove bordant la plage au bord de l'Océan Atlantique :*
      th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      Cliquez sur l'option "show more", je joins une description en français, après celle en anglais, avec plus d'informations à chacune de mes 170 vidéos publiées sur ma chaîne. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @cristianfuentes6164
    @cristianfuentes6164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful animals, we humans must protect them always.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *In the remote area where I planted my mirrors with an average of five cameras in front of each other and 80 trap cameras outside the area around the mirrors for nearly 11 years, I have noticed a significant increase in the number of leopards and their size. Why?* Because small game is more important and thus makes it possible to feed a larger number of leopards. Why is small game more important? Why has the gorilla family become larger? Why are chimpanzee groups more important? Why do red river hogs (bushpig) troops exceed fifty individuals?
      The poachers of this game avoid this region for fear of being photographed by my cameras : Watch this videos th-cam.com/video/bIoUM0VnYng/w-d-xo.html . The leopard is a solitary animal that does not hunt in a troop. It avoids attacking solitary male elephants as well as families with children because of their power of reaction in case of attack. It avoids attacking a calf in a herd of forest buffalo because of their aggressiveness. He avoids attacking monkeys (mandrills) and great apes (gorillas and chimpanzees) because of their cohesion and moreover he does not climb trees well. Moreover the flesh of these mammals is not very tasty except for the buffalo calf. *The leopard appreciates small game such as small antelopes (blue duikers), porcupines and especially palm rats. It is therefore very easy and quick for him to find fresh meat to eat and his passion for mirrors will not let him starve!*
      On our TH-cam channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos are published more than 180 videos captured by our trap cameras fixed in the Gabon jungle. The majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After watching each of our videos, don't forget to read the description in english attached to learn more about the behaviour of the animals in front of their reflection.

    • @thekm3233
      @thekm3233 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Definitely..

    • @cristianfuentes6164
      @cristianfuentes6164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@XHB06400CANNES thank you for your explanation, I've seen many of your videos, and congratulations for your important work.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cristianfuentes6164 *_Yours comment is a great moral booster after reading comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors!_* *Your feedback on my videos encourages us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion. It is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. As you may have noticed we are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in English which is not our native language (french) and then put them online to show the beauty of Gabonese fauna, talk about poachers, show how elephants who have managed to get away from a wire snare trap, treat the deep cut made by this trap, show how elephants pick mangos, self recognition in mirrors that is not innate both among humans than among primates and other mammals and so on... and answer to numerous comments posted on my channel*
      It's a choice..
      Watch more of my 180 videos published on my channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos and read the description attached to each of them. You will find very interesting information about the reactions of the animals in front of my mirrors in the gabonese jungle: Good vision!

  • @randquadrozzi1280
    @randquadrozzi1280 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That path is like a highway it's so busy.interesting place.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁: My wife and I are neither scientists nor veterinarians nor primatologists nor photographers. We wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years (in the retail sector), to show on TH-cam the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it. Our first videos posted on our TH-cam channel essentially showed wildlife "passing" in front of the lenses of our trap cameras equipped with motion detectors: The passage of an elephant in front of the objective of a trap for about twenty seconds is not particularly interesting. On the other hand, a video of young elephants playing in a river while adults are quenching their thirst is much more enjoyable to watch. th-cam.com/video/4XFgRkSaeTs/w-d-xo.html Elephant calves have fun during a creek crossing (Gabon jungle). To find such "spots" it is advisable to get further away from the path used by the few 4x4 vehicles of Nyonié, to go deeper into the forest and to walk in the beds of creeks and small rivers. This is not safe, especially when you are old. To progress more easily in the forest, animals use this off-road trail, without vines, bushes, brambles and trees mixed on the ground because of the very numerous tornadoes in this region on the Equator line. We came up with the idea of placing very large mirrors at the end of a long straight line of an off-road track to catch their eyes and "block" them in front of their image. We have also placed other mirrors under trees where numerous animals appreciate the fruits. At other locations in the middle of the forest it would have been very lucky for animals to meet their reflection.
      Our use of mirrors has been of great interest to primatologists, including members of the PSG, not the Paris Saint Germain football club, but the Primate Specialists Group, who have only been able to study self-recognition in a mirror in great apes in laboratories with captive animals or animals born in captivity, used to contact with humans. These animals did not have to search for food, defend their families against other congeners and predators, sometimes imitating humans, and therefore had very different distorted behaviours from primates living in complete freedom with their group or family in a remote area of Gabon's forest. Our cameras have highlighted a very particular behaviour among chimpanzees in the Nyonié region and resulted in a scientific publication, "Reflections in rainforest mirrors facilitate behavioral observations of wild chimpanzees Primates n°58 2017-01". On our two following videos this behavior is filmed: th-cam.com/video/ttMGcLrQ12E/w-d-xo.html (Rump-Rump Rubbing in Chimpanzees = anti-stress effect? A social behavior ever observed previously) and th-cam.com/video/4vliTnJ7Olo/w-d-xo.html (scared chimps reassure themselves with pseudo-copulation and rump-to-rump contacts front of mirror).
      This is how, incidentally in wild animals, we discovered and became interested in their self-recognition in our large mirrors.
      Keep watching my homemade videos (170 pieces) that I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting explanations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle and share its link with your friends: th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

    • @randquadrozzi1280
      @randquadrozzi1280 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES interesting story how your videos came to be.if i didn't know i would have thought you were living out your life's dream in the jungles of gabon checking out the wildlife.best of luck and good health to you your wife and team.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @rand quadrozzi *Your feedback on my video encourages us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion.* It is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in English which is not our native language and then put them online to show the beauty of Gabonese fauna, talk about poachers, show how elephants who have managed to get away from a wire snare trap, treat the deep cut made by this trap, show how elephants pick mangos, self recognition in mirrors that is not innate both among humans than among primates and other mammals and so on...
      It's a choice..
      Keep watching the numerous videos that I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle : th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @JuanCruz-qd1tw
    @JuanCruz-qd1tw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing video. Gabon looks like a very interesting country, i hope i can visit one day

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *If you visit Gabon, the goal of my videos will be reached!* My wife and I are neither scientists nor veterinarians nor primatologists nor photographers. *We wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years (in the retail sector), to show on TH-cam the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it.* Our first videos posted on our TH-cam channel essentially showed wildlife "passing" in front of the lenses of our trap cameras equipped with motion detectors: The passage of an elephant in front of the objective of a trap for about twenty seconds is not particularly interesting. On the other hand, a video of young elephants playing in a river while adults are quenching their thirst is much more enjoyable to watch. th-cam.com/video/4XFgRkSaeTs/w-d-xo.html Elephant calves have fun during a creek crossing (Gabon jungle). To find such "spots" it is advisable to get further away from the path used by the few 4x4 vehicles of Nyonié, to go deeper into the forest and to walk in the beds of creeks and small rivers. This is not safe, especially when you are old. To progress more easily in the forest, animals use this off-road trail, without vines, bushes, brambles and trees mixed on the ground because of the very numerous tornadoes in this region on the Equator line. We came up with the idea of placing very large mirrors at the end of a long straight line of an off-road track to catch their eyes and "block" them in front of their image. We have also placed other mirrors under trees where numerous animals appreciate the fruits. At other locations in the middle of the forest it would have been very lucky for animals to meet their reflection.
      Our use of mirrors has been of great interest to primatologists, including members of the PSG, not the Paris Saint Germain football club, but the Primate Specialists Group, who have only been able to study self-recognition in a mirror in great apes in laboratories with captive animals or animals born in captivity, used to contact with humans. These animals did not have to search for food, defend their families against other congeners and predators, sometimes imitating humans, and therefore had very different distorted behaviours from primates living in complete freedom with their group or family in a remote area of Gabon's forest. Our cameras have highlighted a very particular behaviour among chimpanzees in the Nyonié region and resulted in a scientific publication, "Reflections in rainforest mirrors facilitate behavioral observations of wild chimpanzees Primates n°58 2017-01". On our two following videos this behavior is filmed: th-cam.com/video/ttMGcLrQ12E/w-d-xo.html (Rump-Rump Rubbing in Chimpanzees = anti-stress effect? A social behavior ever observed previously) and th-cam.com/video/4vliTnJ7Olo/w-d-xo.html (scared chimps reassure themselves with pseudo-copulation and rump-to-rump contacts front of mirror).
      This is how, incidentally in wild animals, we discovered and became interested in their self-recognition in our large mirrors.
      Keep watching my homemade videos (170 pieces) that I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting explanations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle and share its link with your friends: th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @kellyburke5990
    @kellyburke5990 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing! Thank you for sharing.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *On my TH-cam channel I also publish two others videos of animals and birds having triggered a trap camera placed in the middle of a creek or another camera placed at the outlet of a mangrove bordering the Atlantic Ocean beach. These cameras are 5 kilometers away from each other:*
      th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      Click on the "show more" option, I attach a description with more information to each of my 170 videos published on my channel. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @mrmcg9288
    @mrmcg9288 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Michael was my favorite!!

  • @Delph.
    @Delph. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Effectivement, quelle diversité ! Merci de nous faire partager cela...

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Avez-vous regardé cette vidéo sur un ordinateur ou une tablette et cela jusqu'à la fin où les miniatures de mes deux préconisations de vidéos similaires sont proposées à un accès direct par un simple clic ? Il semblerait que celles-ci n'apparaissent pas en cas de lecture avec un smartphone.

    • @Delph.
      @Delph. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES Bonsoir. Sur mobile, seul support sur lequel j'ai regardé vos vidéos, 2 miniatures apparaissent à la fin de la vidéo pour :
      1/Gabon rainforest : Wich wild animals triggered this trap camera (#201) set up on a creek.
      2/15 different wild animals photo-trapped at the same location near the Nionyé camp in Gabon.
      Dites moi si vous voulez que j'essaie sur tablette ou ordi...

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Votre réponse me rassure car dans de nombreux contrôles sur mobiles de vidéos publiées antérieurement les miniatures d'invitation n'apparaissaient pas. Continuez à regarder mes très nombreuses vidéos d'animaux publiées sur ma chaine th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos et permettez-moi d'insister; lisez la description en français, jointe à chacune d'elles, après la description en anglais. Bon visionnage

    • @Delph.
      @Delph. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES merci, et oui oui, je regarde les descriptions. 😊 Bonne continuation !

  • @Tarbis71
    @Tarbis71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing channel , love it

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Your compliment is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me.* We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. A comment like yours cheers us up after my wife and I have spent days alone in the Gabonese forest for the maintenance of our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. *Then, back in the camp, we do the editing with for each video a description in English which is not our native language, respond to comments from viewers and then put them online to show the beauty of Gabonese fauna, talk about poachers, show how elephants who have managed to get away from a wire snare trap, treat the deep cut made by this trap, show how elephants pick mangos, self recognition in mirrors that is not innate both among humans than among primates and other mammals and so on...*
      Keep watching the other videos on my channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Please read the description attached to each of my videos you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle !
      May I invite you to watch especially my videos which, unfortunately, have a very small number of views and are very informative like:
      Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeAs/w-d-xo.html First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: th-cam.com/video/2pj1VfkNJS4/w-d-xo.html
      Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: th-cam.com/video/DluIAy7k0l8/w-d-xo.html
      Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga: th-cam.com/video/oIH76mIIob4/w-d-xo.html
      Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? th-cam.com/video/5o9gWi8pZqE/w-d-xo.html
      Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: th-cam.com/video/2buTj7pNvHM/w-d-xo.html
      and unfortunately there are many others in this case!
      Good vision! Thank you again.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kaziflows2936 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀!

  • @mcanuysal
    @mcanuysal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    NO poachers this time, I hope.. Variety of animals is jaw-dropping really,

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All my 170 homemade videos posted on my channel are filmed in Gabon th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      Don't forget to read the description attached to each of them.
      May I suggest:
      th-cam.com/video/4XFgRkSaeTs/w-d-xo.html
      (Elephant calves have fun during a creek crossing / Gabon jungle)
      th-cam.com/video/OdRL5f8Ho7Y/w-d-xo.html
      (Wild elephant moms and their tiny babies relax, spray, wallow and play in mud. Natures' pure bliss)
      th-cam.com/video/2L5gKSYhQTE/w-d-xo.html
      (Tiny baby elephant with broken knee shows remarkable survival resilience)
      th-cam.com/video/1Aed3z554is/w-d-xo.html
      (How do elephants pick mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high?)
      th-cam.com/video/HPk5vWoNTCQ/w-d-xo.html
      (An elephant injured by a poacher’s snare recovers after self treatment)
      Good vision!

  • @evesl8629
    @evesl8629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Los animales son una bendición ♥️

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Mira otros animales y aves que han disparado una cámara trampa colocada en medio de un arroyo u otra cámara colocada en la salida de un manglar que bordea la playa del Océano Atlántico.Estas cámaras están a 5 kilómetros de distancia entre sí:* th-cam.com/video/1zAKfoRSC2o/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/JMJG3S2NzWA/w-d-xo.html
      *Sigue viendo mis otros videos publicados en mi canal* th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      *Lea la descripción adjunta a cada uno de mis videos en inglés y francés. Encontrará información muy interesante sobre las reacciones de los animales a mis espejos en la selva. Si no hablas inglés y francés, puedes usar este práctico software de traducción. Es gratis:* www.deepl.com/es/translator

  • @minivega261
    @minivega261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Natureza de Deus perfect 😍

  • @rohitchaoji
    @rohitchaoji 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like how some of them seem to look towards the trap camera, like their senses are momentarily drawn towards it, but since it's hidden, they probably disregard it.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *This camera is not hidden. It is enclosed in a steel security box screwed to a tree trunk or a post deeply embedded in the ground* th-cam.com/video/gv-eFugkFh8/w-d-xo.html *and protected from theft by a padlock. In the entanglement of the dense vegetation of the jungle, cubic steel security boxes containing our cameras immediately catch the mammals' eye:* th-cam.com/video/V4gRWNQ8vHw/w-d-xo.html
      Please watch more videos among my numerous homemade videos posted on my channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      *Don't forget to read the description attached to each of them.*

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES Camo paint the box?

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eclipse369. please watch my video th-cam.com/video/gv-eFugkFh8/w-d-xo.html

  • @emilybipi9660
    @emilybipi9660 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Baby Smart Monkeys and beautiful girl💕#Animals

  • @williamvine6076
    @williamvine6076 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What great captures! I would really like to talk to you about a scientific collaboration in your part of Gabon.

  • @Mantikone
    @Mantikone 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice, thx.

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🙏🙏🙏 *I appreciate the evaluation you gave to my video.*
      May I invite you to watch especially my videos which, unfortunately, have a very small number of views and are very informative like:
      Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeAs/w-d-xo.html
      First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: th-cam.com/video/2pj1VfkNJS4/w-d-xo.html
      Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up: th-cam.com/video/qiqsFsOJhPo/w-d-xo.html
      Elephants calves playing in heavy rain in the Gabon jungle: th-cam.com/video/jWK6qKsfLvw/w-d-xo.html
      A calf elephant thinks its reflection in the mirror would be a young cow or a young calf: cute react th-cam.com/video/3lVVhhYVtSU/w-d-xo.html
      For a baby elephant it is not easy to move through the jungle (Gabon): th-cam.com/video/ZH4P-jAc6BQ/w-d-xo.html
      In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River: th-cam.com/video/YkmPBl4NPv8/w-d-xo.html
      and unfortunately there are many others in this case!
      Two Silverback Gorillas Fight in the Jungle - Animals Reactions in Huge Mirrors dirtied by a Leopard th-cam.com/video/4CJ04wELmHU/w-d-xo.html
      After each watching, don't forget to read my description with more information attached to each of my 170 videos published on my channel. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      Good vision! Thank you again.

    • @Mantikone
      @Mantikone 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES the first link tells me the video is unavailable. th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeas/w-d-xo.html

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry and thks. try again: its run (SaeAs instead Saeas)
      th-cam.com/video/nYKpZnSaeAs/w-d-xo.html

  • @Sarah.Riedel
    @Sarah.Riedel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy shit I had no idea elephants even lived in forests! I also didn't know chimpanzees and gorillas had overlapping territories - amazing!

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chimpanzees and gorillas are smart great apes, they avoid meeting each other so as not to have to settle disputes between neighbours. When ones are in learning session in the mirror, the others wait their turn to take their place in front of the mirror. Please read the description attached to each of my videos 170 homemade published on my TH-cam channel you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
      Please watch th-cam.com/video/Y9tXqHw-dt0/w-d-xo.html (Young gorillas fascinated by their reflection in the forest ignore a large group of mandrills) and after read my attached description.

    • @Vortex_one
      @Vortex_one 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES Wow they wait there turn? Thats interesting! I would think they woukd avoid eachother so much as to not even be near one another let alone wait for there turn for the mirror

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Vortex_one 🙏🙏🙏 I really appreciate it when I get a feedback on my reply to a comment! Merci beaucoup !
      Keep watching my other 170 homemade videos posted on my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

    • @eclipse369.
      @eclipse369. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES waiting turns - very nice

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eclipse369. 🙏🙏🙏 not on waiting list!

  • @charyntin222
    @charyntin222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @lessisters9031
    @lessisters9031 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good

  • @josuemboyo9320
    @josuemboyo9320 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A tu déjà vu une interaction entre chimpanzé et gorille dans cette région ? Si oui l'aurait tu déjà filmé ?

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dans la région où sont placés mes miroirs, le principal carnivore (hormis les braconniers qui évitent de s'y rendre en raison de la présence de plus de 70 caméras-pièges th-cam.com/video/bIoUM0VnYng/w-d-xo.html ) est le léopard. C'est un animal solitaire qui ne chasse pas en troupe. Il évite d'attaquer les éléphants mâles solitaires ainsi que les familles avec enfants en raison de leur pouvoir de réaction en cas d'attaque. Il évite d'attaquer un veau dans un troupeau de buffles de forêt en raison de leur agressivité. Il évite d'attaquer les singes (mandrills) et les grands singes (gorilles et chimpanzés) à cause de leur cohésion et de plus il ne grimpe pas bien aux arbres. De plus la chair de ces mammifères n'est pas très savoureuse à l'exception du veau du buffle. Le léopard apprécie le petit gibier comme les petites antilopes (céphalophes bleus), les porcs-épics et surtout les rats palmistes.
      Il faut noter que les chimpanzés, frugivores, insectivores et herbivores mangent occasionnellement des petits singes comme le singe à nez masqué (Cercopithecus nictitans).
      Il existe donc une sorte de statuquo entre les éléphants, les gorilles, les chimpanzés, les buffles et les léopards qui évitent de se rencontrer, d'autant plus que dans cette forêt "il n'y a pas de compétition pour la nourriture, les fruits et les tiges comme les marantacées, étant nombreux en toutes saisons "*. Dans la forêt reculée où nous avons planté nos miroirs vivent des groupes de chimpanzés et une famille de gorilles. Pour ne pas avoir de conflit, ces grands singes évitent de se rencontrer. Par exemple, lorsqu'un groupe de chimpanzés fait face à un miroir, le gorille à dos argenté emmène sa famille à l'écart de cette zone pour attendre que le groupe parte et vienne ensuite se confronter au miroir.* Merci de regarder mes 170 autres vidéos postées sur ma chaîne et de lire la description attachée à chacune d'elles. Vous y trouverez des informations très intéressantes sur les réactions des animaux à mes miroirs dans la jungle : th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos

  • @jpaulstudios5152
    @jpaulstudios5152 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're right lions don't live in gabon

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There have been lions in Gabon only in the eastern region with high dalles covered with savannah and gallery forests. The last one was killed near the town of Moanda around 1980.
      In central and western Gabon, covered by a dense rainforest, lions cannot live there.

    • @jpaulstudios5152
      @jpaulstudios5152 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@XHB06400CANNES you mean the hunters killed the last one in 1996

    • @XHB06400CANNES
      @XHB06400CANNES  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a campaign to poison lions in the Boumango and Bakoumba areas in the 1990s to protect the animals at the Boumango ranch," said Lee White, Executive Secretary of the National Parks Agency (ANPN).