Vine or branch in hand, gorillas and chimps are emboldened to attack their reflection in a mirror.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2021
- 𝗔 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀’ 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝘆𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆.
Most humans recognize themselves in a mirror, but this ability requires learning about mirrors. Young babies do not know that they are looking at their own reflection; at first, they react to their image as if it were another baby. They smile and vocalize toward the little playmate, try to touch it, and look or crawl behind the mirror to find it. Into her second year, the infant explores the visual properties of the mirror more intensely: pulling faces, clowning around, and testing the continencies of the mirror all contribute towards the realization that she is looking at an image of herself. By the age of 24 months, most infants show correct use of the mirror to investigate their appearance, checking their hair, looking at their tongue or inside their mouth, or noticing a mark on their face that can only be seen in the reflection.
Psychologists study the development of self-recognition in human infants because it tells them about early self-awareness. Researchers have also investigated self-recognition in other species, especially monkeys and apes.𝗜𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹. Convincing evidence for self-recognition exists only for great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), although strong and plausible claims have also been made for a few non-primate species, namely elephants and dolphins.
Like human babies, monkeys and apes first react to their own reflection as if they were looking at another, unfamiliar member of their species. However, this strange individual only imitates; it doesn’t interact normally, and it sometimes suddenly appears then disappears from view. The reflection clearly perplexes the viewing monkey or ape, and the behavioral reactions it elicits depend on factors such as species, age, sex, social status, and presence of others. For example, infants might approach their reflection as they would approach a potential play partner, whereas older individuals might see the stranger as a threat, giving rise to feelings of tension, and even aggressive attacks.
Studies of great apes in captivity have documented that with increasing exposure to their reflection, tension, anxiety, and aggression decrease, and the individual starts to compare its own movements with those of the reflection. Eventually this leads to spontaneous mirror-guided self-directed responses, when the individual makes use of the mirror to explore parts of its body that it cannot see directly, such as the ano-genital region, or inside the mouth. These new behaviours suggest the transition from perceiving the reflection as “other” to perceiving it as “me” Self-recognition is often confirmed in a test in which the ape is secretly marked on a part of the face (e.g, forehead, ear) that can only be seen in a mirror. Positive evidence of self-recognition indicates that some aspects of sense of self are shared between great apes and ourselves. In contrast to the great apes, monkeys show no convincing signs of self-recognition
All scientific studies of mirror-image reactions in great apes have been done on captive individuals or groups in zoos, sanctuaries, or laboratories. Nine years ago, Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE opened up new possibilities by installing several large mirrors throughout a forest zone in Gabon, in the home range of a completely wild community of chimpanzees and at least one group of gorillas, as well as many other species. Thanks to video-traps set up near each mirror, Xavier has captured the behavioral reactions of many animals upon encountering these mirrors. The forest is a dangerous environment, not least because intruders of the same species might signal possible invasion, injury, and even death. Many of Xavier’s videos show chimpanzees and gorillas responding to their reflections as if they were under threat, displaying and charging at the mirror, sometimes violently. With repeated exposure to the mirrors, however, for many individuals the social overtones of the reflection diminish, and in the secure presence of other, calm, group and family members, individuals start to explore the reflection more quietly and carefully. This change in attitude and behaviour, in turn, might eventually lead to the first great apes in the wild to have an accurate mental representation of their own visual appearance.
𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙓𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙃𝙐𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏-𝘽𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙀: 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛. 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 40 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨, 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙯𝙚𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙖𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖. 𝙃𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 200 𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨.
It's gotta be frustrating when your best ways of showing how strong you are get perfectly mimicked at the exact moment you preform said show of strength feat
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…then, when you are bright enough to find a weapon or two, your opponent finds at the EXACT same time, the EXACT same weapon. Even your elder brother cannot help. I would imagine primate psychiatrists visits soar after the weekend the portal appeared in the forest.
As a kid we went to the zoo. I singled out 1 chimpanzee ana mimicked him. What he did I did. It didn't take long for him to go ape shit throwing sawdust around chucking a hissy and having a melt down.
We were asked to move on.
Dude that's just breakdancing.
He's anticipating my every move!
Imagine losing your alpha status to your own reflection
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If you’re ever confronted by an angry gorilla, all you have to do to protect yourself is perfectly mimic everything they do until they get frustrated and run off vine in hand.
Nah man, they HIT that mirror before they ran off. If you flinch you die.
They also press their bare ass against the glass, either way I’m in a bit of an awkward scenario.
Also you have to look like a gorilla? That’s an important detail
Gorilla's dont kill people... they make shake some branches or move you around but they dont kill. Thats why Harambes ending was a tragedy. They are few in number because they are not aggressive animals. Chimps.... chimps war like human tribes and have similarities with humans with their social structures too.
😂😂😂😂🎉@@RagunatorX
My sister pulls the same BS in the mirror every morning, until she gets her make-up on and recognizes herself.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🍀
Your sister looks at her genitals and “anal region” in the mirror every morning? Damn
@@brandongreene9615 Yeah, and she also does summersaults after taking laxatives!
The baby chimp was able to figure it out. He was like "mom, mom it is just a mirror"🤣🤣🤣
Just like giving a human child an ipad.
@@franciscoreyes7370 Exactly, lol😄😄😄
Using the stick seemed like a good idea until she realized that her opponent had also armed herself with a stick!
And it was almost the same size!
"Better get myself a stick so I can feel - OH SH*T WHERE DID SHE GET THAT EXACT SAME STICK!!!???"
It is so utterly spell-binding to watch their mind's at work. Thanks very much for thinking to make this footage public - it's very special indeed. The black-back sneaking a quick peek at his rear end is just hilarious too.
*_A comment like yours 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!
“Minds at work” they are literally chimps LMAO not much is going on in their mind but hey go ahead and romanticize dumb shit 😭😂
0:27 That jump is so funny to me lmaooo
This proves to me that mirrors only exist because the earliest humans wanted to look at their own genitals.
Ah, checking your bum and making funny faces in the mirror. Be honest. We’ve all done it.
1:50 "the calls of the chimpanzees in the background encourage him to continue"
So funny to me for some reason.
"Don't be a wimp!"
"Go get him Fred!"
"Show him who's boss!"
"He's shying away, keep at it!"
The way they examine their but-holes in the mirror is remarkable
𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘂𝗽:
th-cam.com/video/NykOpdScAiU/w-d-xo.html
Front of mirror chimpanzee slap dance to scare intruders infiltrated their domain
th-cam.com/video/AaOYi7U7it8/w-d-xo.html
dance with intimidation jumps among chimpanzees in front of mirrors set in their jungle (Gabon)
th-cam.com/video/uaS-qlkqCcs/w-d-xo.html
Chimpanzees tap dance of intimidation ?? Danses d’intimidation chez les chimpanzés face aux miroirs
th-cam.com/video/ZwkXtrfHz4s/w-d-xo.html
MSR Mirror Self Recognition aggressive behaviors evolves to self directed behaviors
th-cam.com/video/_xMd6pyyMbc/w-d-xo.html
Some chimps are angry at mirrors, while others are calm
th-cam.com/video/BCpJfDSHn3Y/w-d-xo.html
In a storm, male chimpanzees are frightened by their reflections in a large mirror
Please check out more of 180 videos posted on my channel: th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos After each viewing, don't forget to read its description, which contains additional information
Maybe it's something they know is there, can feel, stuff comes out of it....What is back there??
What did we learn. When the great apes realized it was their own reflection they looked at their junk.
@05:14
The checking to see if there's someone else around, while slowly moving up one leg, before going to town, was hilarious.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
5:50 "You're the only one who understands me bro"
6:10 Literally everyone did this in front of a mirror bahahahah
Also that side glance to see if anyone is looking
I love how the moment they learned it's their own reflection, they started checking out their asses with it! 🤣
"I'm gonna grab my stick 🏒
See if they want problems then"
"Oh sh!t they got a stick too!"
Everybody gangsta until an ape starts waving its hand and touching its head when it realizes its reflection.
I imagine that, in a parallel universe,
SOMETHING is observing human behavior this way.
So they discover what a mirror can do and immediately use it to look at their own asses
So like us.
So like us.
@@Defender98TV Stoo copying other people's comments you loser.
So, like them.
"to feel stronger in front of an unknown rival, this female arms herself with a stick."
*Immediately throws stick down*
That sent me 😅
Baby chimps are adorable but adults are absolutely terrifying
babys are more curious than adult,whether be human or chimps...
In apes as in humans, self recognition in a mirror is not innate. It is the result of the more comfortable training in the mirror at home among young humans in the company of their parents who have done this training and who have the words to explain to their young child the properties of the mirror. Among chimpanzees or gorillas, in the insecurity of the jungle learning at the same time as his parents who have not done this and who do not speak, this is much more difficult even for intelligent individuals.
The silverback is the colour of the fur on the back of the chief of a gorilla group of a dozen members (his females and offspring) or dominant males within a group of chimpanzees. Because of their social status, their mission includes protecting their group in gorillas as in chimpanzees.
*_Case of a silverback gorilla:_* Faced with the image of a gorilla he has never seen before (himself), having penetrated his domain to steal some of his females, his only goal is to scare this intruder out of his domain. Peaceful, he avoids looking straight into the eyes, sign of invitation to fight in these primates, he glances at his reflection out of the corner of his eye. In bipedal position to show his corpulence, by raising a cloud of dust, by lateral charges and very powerful and loud slaps on the ground, he tries to intimidate and push away this reflection which, strangely, adopts the same attitudes as his own. Moreover, this stranger disappears when he is no longer in front of the mirror. Avoiding looking straight into the eyes of his reflection, he cannot learn the mirror. If this mirror training is *compromised among silverbacks* it can be *successful in blackback gorillas* (females, adolescents and children)!
*_Case of a female gorilla_* In front of a mirror, she sees a female she has never seen before, a stranger? (her reflection): A new female for her husband, the silverback (harem chief). Such are the male/female relationships in gorillas. So she doesn't know jealousy and she can quietly stay in front of her reflection and do her apprenticeship in the mirror which will allow her to recognize herself in her reflection.
*_Case of gorilla babies_* In front of a mirror they are happy to discover a new playmate who takes pleasure in copying exactly every one of their own moves. They are very inquisitive exactly like in humans.
*_Case of a silverback chimpanzee:_* Front of a mirror, each alpha chimpanzee (silverback) effectively recognizes his neighbour among the reflections, he also notices the presence of a stranger he has never met: his image he does not know. Why is he here? In an attempt to frighten this stranger he has never met (his image), with whom he does not want to share the females of his group, this chimpanzee alpha shows his large build, in standing in a bipedal position, stretching out his arms, ruffling his hair to be more voluminous and shows his strength with heavy slaps on the ground. His reflection taking the same attitude, he hesitates to fight it. Watch my videos: th-cam.com/video/NykOpdScAiU/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/_xMd6pyyMbc/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/uaS-qlkqCcs/w-d-xo.html
Hearing the cries of the other chimpanzees of the group (pan hut), perched in the trees around the mirror, he cannot remain calm and must assume his status of dominant male and scare away this intruder. Under these conditions, learning to use the mirror is not possible and cannot be successful.
*_Case of a female chimpanzee:_* In front of a mirror, she sees a female she has never seen before, a stranger? (her reflection): A new female that the dominant males of the group will share. Such are the male/female relationships in chimpanzees. So she doesn't know jealousy and she can quietly stay in front of her reflection and do her apprenticeship in the mirror which will allow her to recognize herself in her reflection.
*_Case of chimpanzee babies:_* In front of a mirror they are happy to discover a new playmate who takes pleasure in copying exactly every one of his own moves.
Don’t forget after watching to read the description attached to each of my 180 videos published on my TH-cam channel you will know very interesting information about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
Just like most humans lol
0:33
"This bitch...I'mma throw my stick at her.
Fuck! Missed...No problem, i'll just go and get my stick- OH SHIT SHE'S GOT A STICK, RUN"
Chimp: “What’s the scariest thing in the world?🤔 Oh yeah, a shaking tree limb!” 😭😂
This is how I envision aliens trolling us with their technology and laughing at us 😂
Discovers reflection instantly checks lower body
When you ask yourself how did they not recognise themselves and then you realise, they probably have never seen their own face
*The non-self awareness in a mirror is not a sign of lack of intelligence!* *In animals as in Apes (Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Orangutans) as in humans, self recognition in a mirror is not innate. An adult human, facing a mirror for the first time in his life, while unaware of its properties and even its existence, would also behave irrationally. It is only the lack of knowledge of the mirror that makes him react in this way.*
*In humans over 2 years of age, after learning in the mirror with their parents, they recognize themselves in their reflection*
For example in chimpanzees:
*Children and chimpanzee females are not worried about their reflection, which they do not consider as a danger but rather as a potential playmate or lover or finally as a new female who has joined the group.*
*During the first exposures, each alpha chimpanzee (silverback) effectively recognizes its neighbours among the reflections, it also notices the presence of a stranger it has never met: its image it does not know. What is he doing there? Why is he here? Why would I share with this unknown silverback the right to mate with the females in our group? In an attempt to frighten this stranger he has never met (his image), with whom he does not want to share the females of his group, this chimpanzee shows his large build, standing in a bipedal position, arms outstretched, ruffling his hair, and shows his strength with heavy loudly slaps with cupped hands on the ground. These slaps on the ground must be very noisy because this alpha chimpanzee want to show his power and thus scare the invader of his domain (his own image) and push him to escape. His reflection taking the same attitude, he hesitates to fight it.*
Under these conditions, learning to use the mirror is not possible and cannot be successful for silverback chimpanzees. After a long practice in mirror in laboratory, some chimpanzees have performed unambiguouslyon the mirror test, but not always.
Keep watching the new videos that I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting information about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle : th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
@@XHB06400CANNES tldr but i guess i agree :)
@@LowryYT 🙏🙏🙏 *I really appreciate a viewer's reply to my comment*
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.
I can never get enough of these videos! I enjoy seeing the gorillas finally realize it is their own reflection and investigate themselves.. especially when they're checking their facial expressions, mouth, etc out. Its fascinating to observe.
I wonder if they ever learn (teach themselves) to use the mirror to determine which stances or faces are more intimidating? Thank you for another wonderful, educating and enjoyable video! Enjoy your day/evening! :)
*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...*
It's a choice..
May I suggest you some of my 170 home-made videos filmed in Gabon 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:
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!
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Just get on tick tock you'll see the same thing
@@cryosleep19 you're comment is hilarious, I love it 😂😂😂 imma have to pass on that tho. I prefer to watch these videos over anything on tick tock. I hope you have a nice weekend. Ty for the giggle.
@@1spoiledbabygirl same....FREAKS OUT
This is cute, interesting, funny, and terrifying all at once.
This is probably how aliens view us living our lives
0:25, Dude on the right almost had a heart attack 😂
I love the ones with the stick. "I'll teach that bitch, I brought a stick!... Oh crap! Bitch got a stick!"
1:01 damn this dude just declaring war outright.
6:00 “yeah I’m a tough guy, I’m gonna be a big silverback one day 😎”
The first gorilla in recorded history to witness his own a$$hole, instead of seeing those of other gorillas. That makes a lot more sense than fighting reflections with sticks and leaves.
6:14 its funny how they look around if there's someone watching he doing awkward things
When they're jumping around in front of a mirror like that, you almost forget they can peel you like a banana... almost.
They look so goofy
Actually Humans aren't nearly so weak against chimps as we once thought.
@@slinkerdeer You are severely misguided.
@@slinkerdeer yeah they’re only like 45% stronger right?
@@peabrain6872 that’s still a lot stronger
Gorillas “man, I’m good looking “
Chimpanzees “dammit, I’m so ugly!”
That babies reaction to his reflection PROVES that FEAR is a taught thing! Like Bruce Lee said, "Fear is like a seed. Plant it, and it will grow"
Fear also keeps you alive. Its learned.
Fear is an instinct what are you talking about
@@alphasheep99 Maybe for you friend!
This guy knows all my best moves.
5:30 classic twich streamer
I’m dead 🤣
5:23 - Ape is like "no one is watching, so I'll just scratch this...." lol
Hahahaha I love that once they realise it’s their reflection they just wanna inspect their own buttholes
keep the mirror there for 1 month and you will some female chimps opened a beauty parlor there 🤣
Give them 6 seasons of FRIENDS and they will speak english.
Seeing that female gorilla spend so much time looking at her own snatch cracked me up for far too long. She's just like "Oh shit! Look at my goodies!" and then proceeded to check herself out for an hour lol
Ha! Yep. That part happened and my first thought "well they aren't that dissimilar to humans after all...". Damn funny that as soon as they start to understand it is a reflection, their first instinct is "better check out my grundel and junk".
Wow!
They are like ”I've got a stick!
Dang it!
They have a stick too!"
It's even funnier when they finally realize they are seeing their reflection, and examine themselves; which is also very typical of humans.
A perfect mirror is pretty high-tech. If an alien came down and showed you glub-glorp, you would probably freak out too.
Me an Alpha: *shoots spaceship*
@@Growmetheus you are not an alpha, don't lie to yourself 😅
Flashing your glub-glorp is a crime in most jurisdictions. Most would freak out.
We have discovered a pattern between apes an vr chat users that stand in front of mirrors for hours
I've always called them "Mirror apes"
This is more entertaining than the big bang theory.
The alpha chimp after completing its display of dominance: "Well played, my most worthy rival. May our battle be legendary!"
Anyone who grew up in a jungle, without any technology or speech, would have a similar reaction to these apes. I suspect humans would be more careful and less brazen, but who knows?
We assume we would know it was our reflection immediately, but I doubt that. I bet it would take a while before we realized we were seeing a reflection of ourselves. Seeing a reflection in a pool of water is very different. Apes may realize that water reflections are them, but this is basically a perfect reflection - which they have never experienced before.
I love how the infant apes are thinking “A friend to play with? Cool!”
Water has reflection, humans are wired a bit better than apes. Even primitives would still know they're looking at themselves
*I saw a scene where white explorers meeting a Papuan tribe shot a polaroid photo of a man and a woman side by side: Both of them recognized the other and didn't want to admit to being the second person in the photo because each didn't know what he looked like, having never seen himself!*
*In the following video **th-cam.com/video/cG87HaiO9Ys/w-d-xo.html** , an excerpt from the report of the French director Jean-Pierre Dutilleux on a first contact with the Toulambis tribe in Papua New Guinea shows adult dads who were afraid to see themselves in a mirror, but who after a few minutes understood the reflective properties of this object. Compared to the silverback gorilla alone facing his reflection in a very large mirror, avoiding direct eye contact with it, or with a chimpanzee group all together front of a mirror, it was easier for these Papuans, endowed with speech, standing in the middle of their quiet tribe, in front of a very small mirror with a white one that shows its reflective property, to understand, their reflection through the comments of other tribe members.*
*Have you been able to recognize your own image clearly by leaning over a puddle of rain water or over a river or a lake?* Maybe just your shade on a sunny day? I believe that on the surface of the water its own image cannot be reflected perpendicularly but laterally. For this reason your neighbour, under some light conditions and some quality from the bottom of the pond or the river, can see distinctly your face but not its own. Please keep on watching my videos and don't forget to read the description attached to each of our 180 videos published on our channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
So this is how they test gorilla glass
4:49 Stop them. They are about to open up an OnlyFans for moneys.
🤣
0:32 behold my stick...oh shit he has one too!
When they don't recognize themselves they're hilarious, when they do recognize themselves they're still hilarious.
"the guy is good, he can read all my moves"
I love how they never actually go for the attack and resort to excessive threat XD
Just like humans
Monke: I'm going to arm myself with this stick
*Get near of the mirror*
Monke: OH NO IT HAD A STICK!
*Runs*
"They have a stick too! Run away, run away!!"
The one with the vine...."Damn, this guy's good"
4:57 the other monke: *are you seeing this?*
It’s interesting to see that the curious ones who take time, explore and want to play are on the best way to learn that they are confronted with their own picture.
Those who are busy with impressing and fighting will have a longer way to recognition. They have no time to think.
While watching this video, I was amazed at how the apes seemed so curious, like I could see their brains working at understanding the situation. These animals are so highly intelligent.
"ARE YOU THREATENING ME?!" - Beavis
There's no way he knows the big stick tric... Oh my God he does, flee!
That tree was like "Take that damned mirror away! Im getting destroyed!"
I like how their first act, upon realizing it's their reflection, is to check out things that they've never been able to see on themselves before. People in here mocking their intelligence, when the video ends with extraordinary examples of their intelligence. Guess people can't sit through an entire video anymore. I wonder if the gorillas had always wondered what their hidden parts looked like, or if it came to mind once they had an opportunity.
*In the gorilla, testicles are not very noticeable as it does not need a lot of semen, even as an adult, as it will copulate his own females much less frequently than its cousin, the male dominant chimpanzee, which competes continuously with other males to copulate the numerous females in the group. His penis small and black, does not stand out in contrast to their dark pelt. When erect, it is only 3-6 cm long, whereas a bright coloured chimpanzee's penis is three times as long. According to scientists, this is due to the voluminous anogenital swelling of the females in oestrus:*
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or th-cam.com/video/FJ5qZDX5WsU/w-d-xo.html
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or th-cam.com/video/1sEixb_5IKI/w-d-xo.html
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It's funny the babies curiosity allows them explore the mirror more than the adults aggressions
*Did you read in the attached description to my video the scientific explanation of the behaviour of these great apes by Jim Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University?*
*"Like human babies, monkeys and apes first react to their own reflection as if they were looking at another, unfamiliar member of their species. However, this strange...."*
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Excellent practical experiments - harmless to animals but gives good data to study their intellectual capacity, behaviours, curiosity levels. I wonder how much time and money must have been spent for getting enough data on a single species! I have seen many of your other mirror videos and always found them interesting
Hmm, wonder if a more intelligent being is watching us in a similar experiment?
0:50 Made me laugh alot 🤣
How does this guy know my attacks before I do them !? 😂
This is truly fascinating stuff - especially later in the video when you show how the apes are aware the image is only a reflection.
🙏🙏🙏 *I appreciate the rating 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
Check out some of my other 180 homemade videos posted on my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each one; you will learn some very interesting information about how animals react to my mirrors in the jungle th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision! Thank you again.
This stuff is the same as "guys I dabbed on the haters but thier dabbing back"
Aww man, those really are our cousins! Checking out your junk in the mirror to see what’s going on is truly a universal primate activity lol
It's neat to see them try and use branches and vines in their displays, but never quite using them like any way we would. They get the idea they should do more to look more intimidating, but they're not sure to what extent to use what's around them.
Maybe they're getting startled at the fact their "rival" seems to be reflexively copying their every move, coaxing them to break their advance early and observe further?
Just undereducated speculation.
When the money started checking it’s ass out 😂
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for every video you've showed us so far!!
*_A comment like yours is a great moral booster after reading comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors!_*
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
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
Amazing Antelope - The Water chevrotain dive and swim beneath the water surface th-cam.com/video/5luGVwB453g/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
How do elephants pick mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high? th-cam.com/video/1Aed3z554is/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
In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River th-cam.com/video/YkmPBl4NPv8/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!
With the idea of checking their genitals, idk, it just seems so human to me. Gorillas and chimpanzees are such fascinating creatures!
*To gorilla lovers, I advise you to watch my following videos published on my channel* th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos *(do not forget after each viewing to read the description attached to each of my videos):*
th-cam.com/video/FJ5qZDX5WsU/w-d-xo.html In the Gabon jungle a young male gorilla continues his learning in the mirror long version
th-cam.com/video/-cMyBS-87Lk/w-d-xo.html a blackback gorilla makes some crazy faces at his reflection during learning in the mirror
th-cam.com/video/ozZOm688Ieo/w-d-xo.html a young male gorilla takes his mirror training seriously (unlike his family - 45 min long version)
th-cam.com/video/493X0oxs5X4/w-d-xo.html Unlike his family this young gorilla male takes his mirror training seriously in the Gabon jungle
th-cam.com/video/I2GYvED-fNg/w-d-xo.html a Young Gorilla Male Keeps on Learning in Mirror in Gabon Jungle, at Night, under Heavy Rainstorm
th-cam.com/video/C3SQd1o_r00/w-d-xo.html A Young Gorilla’s Reactions to his Reflections in Mirrors In Gabonese Jungle : a Dancer? a Drummer?
th-cam.com/video/mqp00Utnfgo/w-d-xo.html Some innate behaviors in this adolescent gorilla are really very close to ours but not all ( Gabon)
th-cam.com/video/qiqsFsOJhPo/w-d-xo.html Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up
th-cam.com/video/kMBtTMdWoGE/w-d-xo.html Young gorillas learning in the mirror
th-cam.com/video/5iQQXPYrorU/w-d-xo.html Silverback gorilla ignores his reflection
th-cam.com/video/gMCQHIaCGpM/w-d-xo.html A silverback gorilla briefly looks his reflection in the eyes and yawns: not tiredness, but arousal!
6:14 "I hope none of the boys see me do this"
0:27 the way the other chimp that was looking behind got startled 🤣🤣
4:42 Must be in our DNA.
Chimp: we’re evenly matched and yet equally afraid of each other. What sorcery is this?
Scientifically this doesn't tell us much as I have the same reaction to my own reflection some mornings before coffee.
I too inspect my perianal area before coffee.
The strength and mobility of these primates is astounding. 🦍
Please check out my other videos with such artsy behaviour of these chimps in the remote area of Gabon where my mirrors are set up :
th-cam.com/video/NykOpdScAiU/w-d-xo.html
Front of mirror chimpanzee slap dance to scare intruders infiltrated their domain
th-cam.com/video/AaOYi7U7it8/w-d-xo.html
dance with intimidation jumps among chimpanzees in front of mirrors set in their jungle (Gabon)
th-cam.com/video/uaS-qlkqCcs/w-d-xo.html
Chimpanzees tap dance of intimidation ?? Danses d’intimidation chez les chimpanzés face aux miroirs
th-cam.com/video/ZwkXtrfHz4s/w-d-xo.html
MSR Mirror Self Recognition aggressive behaviors evolves to self directed behaviors
th-cam.com/video/BCpJfDSHn3Y/w-d-xo.html
Good vision!
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This channel is amazing. Scholar-level primatology content, for FREE! So lazy-bones like me can sit in the comfort of my home and learn from the discoveries of other, far smarter and more motivated people. Thank you!
🙏🙏🙏 *Yours thanks make me very happy because I wish, by my videos, my descriptions and my comments to transmit to the youtubers my knowledge acquired on the fauna during my very many years of camera trapping.* 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.
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tranquilize a few and let them wake up in the middle of a mirror maze
I like the way you think 🌚
I’d pay to watch that on pay per view.
You must be fun at parties.
@@heirloomcategory5673 ..not how that saying works, but alright. B for effort I guess.
*After reading a lot of comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors,* I don't want to try such an experiment just to publish a video to amuse a few internet users and risk traumatizing a silverback gorilla or an alpha chimpanzee and maybe risk breaking my mirrors. Check out some of my other 180 homemade videos posted on my channel: th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos and read the description attached to each of them. You will find some very interesting information about the reactions of animals to my mirrors in the Gabonese jungle: Good vision!
Here are the GPS points of these mirrors:
number 1: S 00+06'40,6" E009+21'40,4"
number 2: S 00+06'40,7" E009+21'41,8"
number 3: S 00+06'47,5" E009+22'08,9"
number 6: S 00+05'41,1" E009+19'45,1"
Have a nice trip!
We see this kind of behavior in Atlanta all the time
The adult male looks like one of TH-cam videos of a fight at walmart
1:19 this one's just hyped to see his long lost cousin
Those gorillas learning their facial expressions. I did that when I was little. Had three mirrored cabinets in the bathroom so I stood on the toilet lid and closed two of them on my face and saw copies of myself from various angles and just...moved my face...like monke.
Chimp: "Holy shit guys, they're pretty good..."
This is very fascinating. I wish there were more videos like these than there currently are. A 24/7 live stream of their mirror adventures would be so cool.
Our mirrors are set up in an area deep in the jungle of Gabon, where there is no internet coverage because there is no human population. Moreover, these great apes are in total freedom in an area covering dozens of kilometres, uncontrolled. They visit our mirrors irregularly and can be absent for several days. So there is no interest in a 24/7 live stream of their mirror adventures.
*Please check out my other videos with such artsy behaviour of these chimps in the remote area of Gabon where my mirrors are set up:*
th-cam.com/video/NykOpdScAiU/w-d-xo.html
Front of mirror chimpanzee slap dance to scare intruders infiltrated their domain
th-cam.com/video/AaOYi7U7it8/w-d-xo.html
dance with intimidation jumps among chimpanzees in front of mirrors set in their jungle (Gabon)
th-cam.com/video/uaS-qlkqCcs/w-d-xo.html
Chimpanzees tap dance of intimidation ?? Danses d’intimidation chez les chimpanzés face aux miroirs
th-cam.com/video/_xMd6pyyMbc/w-d-xo.html
Some chimps are angry at mirrors, while others are calm
th-cam.com/video/ZwkXtrfHz4s/w-d-xo.html
MSR Mirror Self Recognition aggressive behaviors evolves to self directed behaviors
th-cam.com/video/BCpJfDSHn3Y/w-d-xo.html
In a storm, male chimpanzees are frightened by their reflections in a large mirror
*To the gorilla fanatics, please watch my following videos shooted in the remote area of Gabon where my mirrors are set up:*
th-cam.com/video/FJ5qZDX5WsU/w-d-xo.html In the Gabon jungle a young male gorilla continues his learning in the mirror long version
th-cam.com/video/-cMyBS-87Lk/w-d-xo.html a blackback gorilla makes some crazy faces at his reflection during learning in the mirror
th-cam.com/video/ozZOm688Ieo/w-d-xo.html a young male gorilla takes his mirror training seriously (unlike his family - 45 min long version)
th-cam.com/video/493X0oxs5X4/w-d-xo.html Unlike his family this young gorilla male takes his mirror training seriously in the Gabon jungle
th-cam.com/video/I2GYvED-fNg/w-d-xo.html a Young Gorilla Male Keeps on Learning in Mirror in Gabon Jungle, at Night, under Heavy Rainstorm
th-cam.com/video/C3SQd1o_r00/w-d-xo.html A Young Gorilla’s Reactions to his Reflections in Mirrors In Gabonese Jungle : a Dancer? a Drummer?
th-cam.com/video/mqp00Utnfgo/w-d-xo.html Some innate behaviors in this adolescent gorilla are really very close to ours but not all ( Gabon)
th-cam.com/video/qiqsFsOJhPo/w-d-xo.html Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up
th-cam.com/video/kMBtTMdWoGE/w-d-xo.html Young gorillas learning in the mirror
th-cam.com/video/5iQQXPYrorU/w-d-xo.html Silverback gorilla ignores his reflection
th-cam.com/video/gMCQHIaCGpM/w-d-xo.html A silverback gorilla briefly looks his reflection in the eyes and yawns: not tiredness, but arousal!
After each watching, don't forget to read my description with more information attached to each of my 180 videos published on my channel. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
@@XHB06400CANNES Thank you so much for your reply, and for the links also. I will be watching them soon.
@@perkypokey 🙏🙏🙏 I really appreciate it when a viewer thanks me for my reply to his/her comment. Merci beaucoup !
@@XHB06400CANNES You're very welcome my friend. I rarely ever get replies to my comments, so it was nice that you took the time to acknowledge me. ☺
@@perkypokey Merci beaucoup! 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 and becoming partially deaf. Fortunately my wife has a very accurate hearing. 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 full length mirrors.
Keep watching my homemade videos (180 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
Female: hmm how babies fit outta this thing? 😂
Imagine if aliens left behind some of their devices just to mess with us in the same way we leave mirrors for apes?
Try building Great Pyramid.
The force that they slap the ground with, the sound.... That's scary
*To intimidate and drive away their reflection in the mirror, their slaps must be loudly and noisily on the ground. Our four-legged cousins, with calluses on his hands and feet, are **_clever_** because in order to avoid hurting themself by hitting the ground very hard with very loud slaps (not punching) to show their power and thus frighten the invader (their own reflections) and push him to escape, _ they smack only sandy ground_ with cupped hands (open hands) or with their feet flat.* Hit the “show more “ option, I attach a description with more information to each of my 180 videos published on my channel. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
Their intimidation worked well on you 😁.
@@francoisperrin7397 It would have if I had been right there. Damn straight, I would have been scared, as anybody else would have been too 😁
That was a fun experience for most of them. You should build jungle gyms for them and see if they use the slides and play. That would be fun to watch also.