Gabon' Jungle: Elephant families refusing to share a large mirror with a leopard (long version)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ส.ค. 2018
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Anne-Marie and Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE along with Michel GUISS DJOMOU have set up very large mirrors in a forest in the west of Gabon. (250 cm x 122 cm). In this natural and uncontrolled environment numerous camera traps have been placed in front of each of these mirrors in order to film animals’ reactions to their own reflection from different angles and at different distances. Over the past few months an imposing male leopard has become addicted to his reflection. These huge mirrors are installed in his domain. He refuses to share them with other wild animals and does not hesitate to face a mother elephant and her children.
Some of my subscribers regretting that my videos are not long enough this video contains all the leopard's trap camera shots (assembled end to end) in front of this mirror from 13 PM before his meeting with elephants, during the face to face and after until he left the mirror at 23PM
Also if two short versions taken by two trap cameras of different brands and under slightly different angles of view, have already been published on my channel, • Gabon' Jungle: An Elep...
• In the Gabonese jungle...
At 15:43 It's the cry of a monkey sitting safely in the big tree above the mirror. A few seconds later you can see the image move slightly because the monkey's movements in the tree caused a small dead branch to fall on the camera pole and then a few leaves fall to the ground in the camera's field of view. You can hear several warning messages (han-han / han-han) of this monkey to warn his congeners of the presence of a predator (the leopard) at the base of the tree where the mirror is set up.
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Anne-Marie y Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE con Michel GUISS DJOMOU instalaron espejos muy grandes en un bosque del oeste de Gabón. En este entorno natural e incontrolado, se colocaron múltiples trampas fotográficas delante de cada uno de estos espejos para filmar, desde diferentes ángulos y a diferentes distancias, las reacciones de los animales a su reflejo. Con el paso de los meses, una imponente pantera masculina se hizo adicta a su reflejo. Como estos grandes espejos están plantados en su dominio, se niega a compartirlos con otros animales salvajes y no duda en enfrentarse a una madre elefante acompañada de sus hijos.
Algunos de los suscriptores de mi canal lamentan que mis videos no sean lo suficientemente largos. Por eso este video contiene todas las tomas (ensambladas de punta a punta) de este felino frente a este espejo desde la 1:00 pm, antes de su encuentro con los elefantes, durante el cara a cara y después hasta su salida del espejo a las 11:00 pm.
También una segunda versión corta tomada por otra cámara trampa de otra marca y desde un ángulo de visión ligeramente diferente fue publicada en mi canal, • In the Gabonese jungle...
15:43, un mono sentado en el árbol sobre el espejo hace que una rama muerta caiga sobre el poste de la cámara y que algunas hojas caigan al suelo en el campo de visión de la cámara. Por han-han / han-han este mono advierte a sus compañeros del peligro
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Anne-Marie et Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE avec Michel GUISS DJOMOU ont installé de très grands miroirs dans une forêt à l’ouest du Gabon. Dans cet environnement naturel et incontrôlé, de multiples des pièges photographiques ont été placés devant chacun de ces miroirs afin de filmer sous différents angles et à différentes distances, les réactions des animaux face à leur reflet. Les mois passant, un imposant mâle panthère est devenu addict à son reflet. Ces miroirs de grandes tailles étant plantés dans son domaine, il refuse carrément de les partager avec les autres animaux sauvages et n’hésite à faire face à une mère éléphant accompagnée de ses enfants.
Certains des abonnés à ma chaine regrettent que mes vidéos ne soient pas assez longues. Pour cette raison cette vidéo contient toutes les prises de vue (assemblées bout à bout) de ce félin devant ce miroir depuis 1h de l'après-midi, avant sa rencontre avec les éléphants, pendant le face à face et après jusqu'à son départ du miroir à 23h.
Egalement une seconde version courte prise par une autre caméra piège d'une autre marque et sous un angle de vue légèrement différent, a été publiée sur ma chaîne, • In the Gabonese jungle...
À 15:43, c'est le cri d'un singe assis en sécurité dans ce grand arbre au-dessus du miroir. Quelques secondes plus tard, vous pouvez voir l'image bouger légèrement car les mouvements du singe dans l'arbre ont provoqué la chute d'une petite branche morte sur le poteau de la caméra, puis de quelques feuilles au sol dans le champ de vision de la caméra. Vous pouvez entendre plusieurs messages d'avertissement (han-han / han-han) de ce singe pour prévenir ses congénères de la présence d'un prédateur (le léopard) au pied de l'arbre où est installé le miroir.
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fascinating behavior, excellent work
Thank you for such a comment that encourages us to continue this time-consuming and somewhat dangerous passion to share with you the beauty of Gabonese wildlife. We will continue to publish new videos on my channel. Don't forget to read my description, in English and French, attached to each of them. You will learn some very interesting information about jungle animals: th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
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No sabe español?
@@XHB06400CANNES que idioma es el sullo
@@luisjavierboterohernandez4683 No hablo español, pero uso software de traducción para responder a las preguntas en español. En general, las descripciones que se adjuntan a mis vídeos están escritas en inglés porque la mayoría de los usuarios de Internet las entienden y luego en francés, que es mi lengua materna. TH-cam limita la longitud de las descripciones y a menudo no hay más espacio para otra descripción. Acabo de comprobar y añadir una descripción en español. Por favor, léalo y hágame saber si hay alguna corrección que hacer. Sigue viendo los nuevos videos que he publicado en mi canal y si entiendes inglés o francés, lee la descripción adjunta a cada uno de ellos. También puede utilizar www.deepl.com/translator
para traducirlo. Encontrará información muy interesante sobre las reacciones de los animales a mis espejos en la selva: th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
Your compliment is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. As you may have noticed, we are not sitting comfortably in our armchairs, publishing, 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, changing memory cards, cells, batteries, cleaning lenses, removing fallen branches in their field of vision, walking up beds of creeks to find areas where animals are crossing over to install new traps 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 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. Thank you. Keep watching the other videos on my channel 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:
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.
Poor cat wasted a whole day looking at a screen. Reminds me of another species.
ouch
Brilliant
Different reasoning though😅
Ok boomer
The infamous tiktoker
Poor cat, he is getting stressed with a non-existing enemy threatening to invade his territory. That is why he can not leave the place.
Leopard: hmmm. A strong and handsome opponent. We shall duel!....Ah! It appears as though you are very skilled! And still very handsome!
Please watch the nightly version 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 (𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻) th-cam.com/video/NdD1on4H9ss/w-d-xo.html
Check out more of my 160 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
LOVE how the leapord develops a love/hate relationship with his mirror image, sometimes quarreling with it, sometimes taking a nap with it, sometimes purring & rubbing up against it with affection.
*Without these mirrors,* jungle life is cruel and monotony : These animals encounter other opponents in the jungle constantly. And those opponents (or prey) have actual claws, fangs, tusks, and horns to fight back with and shed blood. They fight or they flee or both. They fight amongst themselves within their own herds and prides regardless of species for food, status, for mating right and territory and might die in those encounters.
*With these mirrors, I break the monotony of the daily life of some animals in this remote area of the gabonese rain forest. If the presence of my mirrors can disturb some species in the jungle, quickly many of them get habituated to it and even take pleasure to observe their reflection in my mirrors.* These wild animals can go to these mirrors, as they see fit and stay in front of them, as long as they wish. They are not tied as dogs with leashes, locked as dog or cats in flats especially with dressing rooms equipped with a full-length mirror!
They are not imprisoned for life in pens or cages with the distraction of watching visitors standing behind their fences or bars, eating the food they have neither picked nor hunted as Harambe (a silverback gorilla), born in captivity and dead 17 years later, still captive , killed by a bullet in his enclosure!
*_No food is placed by humans next to mirrors to encourage them to come._*
I would like to point out that among the wild animals meeting these mirrors placed in this remote region of Gabon, some seem happy to look at themselves in these mirrors:
as these leopards:
th-cam.com/video/rE0QRf2pjqg/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/D-Aar9R5jbY/w-d-xo.html
as these chimpanzees:
th-cam.com/video/z48pJP28SIg/w-d-xo.html
as these young gorillas:
th-cam.com/video/C3SQd1o_r00/w-d-xo.html
Look at how the silverback gorilla's behaviour has evolved near the mirrors his family is looking at th-cam.com/video/ORbg3fAE2SU/w-d-xo.html
Look at how the gorilla family's walking speed increases when they approach a mirror whose location they have memorized th-cam.com/video/ORbg3fAE2SU/w-d-xo.html
Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 180 videos published on our channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
I'm watching a giant cat have an existential crisis.... odd.
Please watch the nightly version 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 (𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻) th-cam.com/video/NdD1on4H9ss/w-d-xo.html
Check out more of my 160 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
@@XHB06400CANNES its he having a existential crisis yes or no?
Leopard gets charged by Elephants. Looks back at the mirror Leopard like "Are you coming too?" Lol
The leopard just wanted to fight but then fell in love.
In psychology it’s called mirroring. LoL
Please watch the nightly version 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 (𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻) th-cam.com/video/NdD1on4H9ss/w-d-xo.html
Check out more of my 160 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
My sister is like that all day in front of the mirror, she thinks she owns the bathroom.
Tell me about it. When we still lived with our parents my youngest sister would be in the bathroom forever. I'd like to know what takes women so damn long in there. (That was before cell phones so she couldn't have been playing with her cell phone.) They should show consideration for others and realize other people need it too.
@@brucea9871 please never forget....most women only have one hobby...themselves. That's why ;)
For the very first time in her life, the leopard has never really ponder so hardly and deeply. The horror, joy, and enlightenment of self awareness.
Dande lion
Yeah
I think of the scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey when the ape man beholds the obelisk
Please watch the nightly version 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 (𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻) th-cam.com/video/NdD1on4H9ss/w-d-xo.html
Check out more of my 160 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
get him a huge box somewhere around and he'll forget there even was a mirror lol
Leopard: "Oh no, there's a leopard trapped in that metal box! Don't worry, I'll save you!"
Elephants: "What a dummy. Get lost!....Oh no, there's elephants trapped in that metal box!"
Janeil Nold bahahahaha
Please watch the nightly version 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 (𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻) th-cam.com/video/NdD1on4H9ss/w-d-xo.html
Check out more of my 160 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
I'm happy you did not put any silly music in the background, the sounds in jungle are serene and awesome. Lol that poor lepord was there till late night.
ha! he's still there
The fact that the leopard can't smell the intruder in the mirror must confuse him a lot
Thats the point
That leopard is absolutely gorgeous
The leopard cant' seem to figure out if it should be dominant or submissive, and it cant' figure out why the other leopard disappears when it goes behind the mirror. Remarkable.
🙏🙏🙏 *I appreciate the label you gave to my video.*
This male leopard behaviour changes from one minute to the next, of desire for company, of desire to fight with a rival, an intruder in his territory who strangely has no smell and is mute. Or maybe this male rubs himself on the mirror because a female leopard in estrus did it earlier leaving her scent? He only meets females during the mating season. To invite the females in heat, he emits a guttural sound called " sawing call ". This call also warns rival males not to enter his domain:* th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
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.
Animals are so pure, so innocent. The human being is the one who damages everything and ends the lives of these creatures, children in their essence.
It’s far more interesting seeing animals in their natural habitat rather than in a cage every day of their lives. Thank you for these videos!
*_A comment like yours is comforting_*
- after reading numerous comments calling for the dismantling of these sadistic mirrors,
- after my wife and I have spent days alone in the Gabonese forest to maintain our mirrors and many photographic traps, change memory cards, batteries, clean lenses, remove fallen branches in their field of vision, walk up the creek beds to find areas where the animals cross to install new traps etc... Soaked by tornadoes, the body is covered with insect bites of all kinds (horse flies, gorilla flies, tsetse flies, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work is increasing due to the 95% humidity level. This is a choice. Thanks again. Check out my other homemade videos of the channel and don't forget to read the attached description each time. You will learn very important information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
A little into themselves...fighting for the mirror 😂😂😂
The poor thing is exhausted trying to figure this one out
Some people are so sensitive. It is literally a mirror in a jungle. It's not harming anyone, neither the animals or their way if life. It just adds something new and interesting to their everyday. Animals can get bored just like humans and this helps them explore a little more than what they are used to!
They have to be losing their minds! To be walking along minding your own business. And come across the place where stuff doesn't make sense anymore.
Wes Guill losing*
It’s like watching CNN, which I definitely don’t do, nor any TV.
The leopard is so adorable when it rolls over 🥰
Leopard just wants a friend ☺️
Very facinating to be able to observe this behavior.
4:31 - The trees start rustling like Jurassic Park, the leopard runs for it expecting the T-Rex and................ Baby Elephant comes out all gangsta!
Yeah.with mighty backup 😀
The leopard has become grateful for his friend in the mirror, as adult life is one of solitude for the male leopard, it's comforting to have a calm friend that's not trying to bite his head off.
To invite the females in heat, he has to make a guttural sound called " sawing call ". This call also warns rival males not to enter his domain: th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
On our TH-cam channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos are published more than 160 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 attached to learn more about the behaviour of the animals in front of their reflection.
Elephants come in like"AYY WHO THAT IS ROUND THERE"
Leopard fell in love with himself. I really don’t blame him 😍
The Leopard looked a little uncomfortable, although he marked and held his ground. " He looks about my size, and Just as pissed off as me! It could go either way".
Such beautiful animals.
6:31 -- "What's that? Oh, don't mind those elephants, you handsome devil, you!"
Leooard goes into existential meltdown and the elephants are somewhere between "do I look fat?" and "not sure I like this witchcraft, but damn sure the cat can't have it"
He skip lunch and breakfast for this maze of reflexion :D
Maybe the leopard just want a company, he comes many times to the mirror
*In felines, while lions are programmed to live in large family groups (pride), male leopards are genetically programmed to live alone, to live without any female (except during mating periods) and without their own offspring and therefore to be single throughout his life. So this male leopard is a solitary and territorial animal. He occupies a territory that overlaps a few smaller female territories. He doesn't feel alone and dont search an odourless mate. He doesn't need any friend, any lifepartner. **_"This male leopard is not in love with his own image reflected in a mirror in the jungle as Narcissus, an impossibly handsome figure from Greek mythology, fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water."_** These mirrors break a certain sameness in his life in the rain forest. Front of them This male leopard behaviour changes from one minute to the next, of desire for company, of desire to fight with a rival, an intruder in his territory who strangely has no smell and is mute. Or maybe this male rubs himself on the mirror because a female leopard in estrus did it earlier leaving her scent? He only meets females during the mating season. To invite the females in heat, he emits a guttural sound called " sawing call ". This call also warns rival males not to enter his domain:* th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
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.
Leopard is encountering love at first sight. With its own shadow, hahahaha
So many times in life we are actually fighting ourselves and don't even know it
13:03 - Just like a kitty cat. Congrats on reducing poaching through your mirrors and camera traps.
Thank you for your congratulations about poachers! Merci beaucoup ! Check out more of my 180 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos Good vision!
Leopard to mirror : "my precious"
I think the cat was genuinely interested in what it was looking at. You can see it transition from defensive/territorial to curious and fascinated.
Leopard is solitary and territorial animal. So this male leopard doesn't feel alone. These mirrors break a certain sameness in his life in the rain forest. *Front of these mirrors this male leopard behaviour changes from one minute to the next, of desire for company, of desire to fight with a rival, an intruder in his territory who strangely has no smell and is mute. He dont search an odourless mate because to invite the females in heat, he just has to make a guttural sound called " sawing call ". This call also warns rival males not to enter his domain:* th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
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 attached to learn more about the behaviour of the animals in front of their reflection.
The elephants were protecting the “other elephants in the mirror” that they had seen, from the leopard! They didn’t want the leopard sharing those other elephants, not the mirror!
What a beautiful cat.
Such magnificent animals!!! I wish we had more random cameras installed in the wild, it would be fascinating to see all the animal behavior.
*More "random" cameras would not bring more triggers and especially the main difficulty is that the detected animals do not stay only 3 to 5 seconds in the field of view of the trap* We are neither scientists nor veterinarians. We wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years, 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/YkmPBl4NPv8/w-d-xo.html (In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River). 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. I have put online two other shorter versions of this encounter between a leopard addicted to mirrors and a family of elephants walking on the path along our mirror number 6
th-cam.com/video/UZAO_07GdSs/w-d-xo.html same camera 2 minutes version 16 million views
th-cam.com/video/taoJDXZQx5s/w-d-xo.html an other camera of a different brand and under slightly different angle of view On our TH-cam channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos are published more than 150 videos shot by our trap cameras in the jungle in Gabon. A majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After each watching do not forget to read the description attached to each one to learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection
Leopard be like, I'mma fight you!,
-after some huff and puff-> alright alright, I see we are evenly matched, how about we go our way?
-some time passes-> damn, you didn't fall for it huh?
-some stink eye exchange later-> ok, ok, maybe you are not that mean after all, how about touch nose and make friends?
-some hours later-> dude!, you are my bestest buddy, I'mma fight the elephants for you!
-runs away in panic, comes back later-> yeah, sorry about that, they were kinda big and scary, we are good though right? yay
This was hillarious...had me laughing so hard
15:31 here, it seems that the leopard is thinking: "he's too f*cking good, he's just perfect...he's just like me!" LOL
Looks like the big leopard isn't too keen on sharing the mirror with the other leopard either lol
I also love how the animals seem to understand that the mirror is a special object and stay close to it to investigate, at least until survival forces them to keep moving in search of food.
Daemia I know!!! You can also see that some are confused and think there is another animal behind the mirror, while others like elephants are just trying to protect it as they see value in it. Fascinating!
This is beyond awesome. Thanks for creating and sharing this video. I only wish the mirror was taller as well so that large animals like the elephants can see themselves as a whole.
that leopard seems to have become a narcissist, "look at that handsome cat" lol
In felines, lions are genetically programmed to live in a pride while leopards are genetically programmed to live alone. Lone lions are males who have been driven from the pride. Leopard is solitary animal. These mirrors break a certain sameness in his life in the rain forest. Front of them this male leopard behaviour changes from one minute to the next, of desire for company, of desire to fight with a rival and of desire to mate. Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 180 videos published on our channel:
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Thats a true love hate relationship he has with that mirror
Exactly: This male leopard behaviour changes from one minute to the next, of desire for company, of desire to admire himself in his reflection and of desire to mate. Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 100 videos published on our channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos
I agree. You can see evidence of behavior change throughout the video. I also believe he may have a hint of narcissism is too lol.
Isn’t this how the story of narcissism started... he loved his reflection
Elephants came in like “sup b*tches” 😂 4:34
My cat used to look round the edge of the TV if there were big cats on the screen and they walked out of shot.. as if he was trying to figure out where they went. I think this leopard is doing the same thing when he keeps hanging around at the edge of the mirror. He thinks it’s another cat but can’t figure out where it goes.
The colours on the leopard are mind blowing 👌
For leopard fanatics, I publish a 19-minutes long video containing all the leopard's trap camera shots (assembled end to end) in front of this mirror from 13 PM before his meeting with elephants, during the face to face and after until he left the mirror at 23PM th-cam.com/video/aYkF84-adOo/w-d-xo.html
Also a second short version taken by another trap camera of a different brands and under slightly different angle of view, have already been published on my channel, th-cam.com/video/taoJDXZQx5s/w-d-xo.html
Listen to another leopard sound similar to the exhaust from a KTM bike that having trouble starting: a guttural sound (produced at the back of the throat) to invite females in heat for mating and to warn rival males to keep out, male leopards emit a repeated sequence of roars called "sawing", because it sounds like a wood plank being cut with a saw : th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
On our TH-cam channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos are published more than 160 videos capture with our trap cameras in the jungle in Gabon. A majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After each watching do not forget to read the description attached to each one to learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection.
Poor Leopard, he just wants a friend.
In felines, if lions are genetically programmed to live in large family groups (prides), leopards are programmed to live alone, to be solitary felines. Lone lions are males who have been driven from the pride. This male leopard doesn't feel alone. He desires to fight with a rival and dont search an odourless mate. He only meets females during the mating season. To invite the females in heat, he makes a guttural sound called " sawing call ". This call also warns rival males not to enter his domain: th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
On our TH-cam channel th-cam.com/users/XHB06400CANNESvideos are published more than 160 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 attached to learn more about the behaviour of the animals in front of their reflection.
Leopard: Hello? Police? There's an incredibly handsome man in my house; oh wait a second. Don't worry. It's only me!
Elephant: That's the third time this week, he's called us! Let's go take that mirror away!
That poor leopard was about to go mad
The cat must be thinking, "WHERE does he go every time I walk around this thing?"
The elephants are thinking the same thing
The mirror gave the leopard paws to reflect.
Best comment!
Please watch the nightly version 𝗔 𝗹𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 (𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗻) th-cam.com/video/NdD1on4H9ss/w-d-xo.html
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This leopard is so enamoured with himself he can't leave for too long😻😻😻
Elephants came in ratchet asf 😂😂😂 they pulled up like, YEAH WE IN DIS BIT*H, WHERE EVERYBODY AT!?
Question Questioning Question yes 😂😂😂😂
This is like space odyssey 2001 when the cavepeople find the oblisque.
THIS is what TH-cam was made for. Not eating Tide pods or jumping off things.
The Leopard didn't think it was another cat, he just wanted to see how he looks when his attacking!
Leopard was like... thought I was the only male in this neck of the woods
Poor leopard, he's actually salivating and panting from the stress. He can't reach his enemy but also can't leave the area bacause it's his territory and he has to protect it.
If the mirror placement seems to have screwed up their mind, these large mirrors break the monotony of the daily life in the rain forest. Wild animals can go to these mirrors, as they see fit and stay in front, as long as they wish. No food is left by human next to the mirrors to encourage them to come. I would like to point out that these wild animals. Among the wild animals meeting these mirrors placed in a remote region of Gabon, some seem to be happy to look at themselves in these mirrors: th-cam.com/video/C3SQd1o_r00/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/ORbg3fAE2SU/w-d-xo.html
They are not imprisoned for life in pens or cages with the distraction of watching visitors standing behind their fences or bars, eating the food they have neither picked nor hunted.
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I think he is panting, etc bc it is the hot part of the day. You can see him take a nap about a minute into the video, so he can't be all THAT stressed! LOL x'D
Fascinating video, many thanks. Elephants; "come away children - that looks dangerous"! Gorillas; "Argh, don't take any notice of that thing - it's human monkey junk"! Leopard; "I'll be aggressive" - reflection equally aggressive? "I'll respond by being submissive" - reflection equally submissive? "Reflection looks and smells like me - could it be a lost member of my family"? "Blimey, reflection looks so handsome - this thing is mine". "I'm exhausted - I really need to lie down and ponder this thing" :)
@04:34 Elephants sure know how to make an entrance.
Sign of intelligence is how quickly an animal realises its a mirror. The Leopard is not getting any awards on that anytime soon.
The Leopard is conscience, But not self aware.
Did your momma give you that name when you realized that our reality is a matrix ?
@@alexandergolke1325 Interesting. Tell me, have *you* looked yourself in a mirror?
I love how hes standing up and looks like hes boxing at times.
Leopard be like, "Maaaan, you look like that cat that owes me money!"
Leopard Is like I officially trust nothing
So an elephant and leopard walk into a bar with a big mirror
6:36 - "One last look, mi amor, before I must go."
LMAOOOOOO
Leo is absolutely in love with his image. What a narcissist.
Or maybe not? At first he thinks it is someone else. Then tries to understand how the other animal could be stuck inside a flat mirror. I wonder if Leo does ever come to terms that it is his reflection?
plasminus whoooosh
6:50 lol the elephant said "move!" with his hand
The animals are just curious and confuse and i think if humans see the mirror for the verry first time they will act the same way ..
just show the mirror to the baby. first question will be "what is it?"
The leopard looking in the mirror is an example of high instinct and low consciousness.
Asi es, los animales practicamente sin mucha conciencia es como si no la tuvieran ni un poco, son robots organicos.
What I find interesting is, all the animals looked behind the mean in expectation of their opponent being behind the mirror. When the cat found none, she went so far as to mark her territory! You go girl!!
Teresa Gary ...Good Point
I saw that too. It was a male but that's exactly what was happening
What a GORGEOUS! set of Elephants 😍😍😍 they look really healthy and have perfect unbroken tusks and perfect ears too
In this video the leopard faces a first family of elephants whose matriarch has crossed tusks (not perfect because her trunk cannot swing between her tusks) and later on a second family whose matriarch does not have perfect ears because her left one is partially cut out on its edge. Please Watch again ! Keep watching the 160 homemade videos published on my channel and don't forget to read each description attached to each of the videos:
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I'm gonna just lay over here and act like you're gone. When I get up, you better be.
Hearing the sounds the leopard makes is simply amazing, incredible work.
Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: th-cam.com/video/RLus4bTWzfM/w-d-xo.html
I'm really greatful people like you guys exist and possess the passion that you do, it's probably the only way for many people, myself included, to enjoy the sights and sounds of these animals reacting to something this unique. Thank you again for your hard, wonderful and creative work, and for sharing it with the world!
That leopard is acting just like a cat would do in front of a mirror
Non-recognition of self in a mirror is not a lack of intelligence. In apes, as in mammals or as in humans, self-recognition in a mirror is not innate. It is the result of the more comfortable learning 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. This learning in the mirror can last several weeks and it is only around the age of 2 years that the young human understands that in the mirror it is not a play partner who makes the same movements as he does. Among chimpanzees or gorillas, in the insecurity of the jungle learning with his parents who have not done this and who do not speak, this is much more difficult even for intelligent individuals.
Some animal species perform inconsistently on the mirror test. Chimps and orangutans have unambiguously passed, but they don’t always. In captivity learning in the mirror seems easier and therefore seems to allow better results in mirror self-recognition. *A home cat, like other felines as leopards, do not have the cognitive ability to recognize themselves in a mirror.* Please read the description attached to each of my videos 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
Loving that elephant version of a shoo shoo gesture :3
love how the little elephant charges through first say hey you better run momma's coming lol tough guy
5 AM TH-cam: Wanna see some elephants scaring away a Leopard from a mirror?
Me: Sure!
Those animals are so beautiful 😱😍♥️
i am not sure what exactly were these animals thinking but they were way too attracted towards the mirror
I like to think he’s practicing his moves in the mirror. RAWR XD
Domestic cats do this as well and eventually learn that the mirror cat is not a playmate, opponent, or any concern at all.
Aux auteurs : ne tenez aucun compte des critiques ridicules qui sont formulées à votre encontre ci-dessous. Elles ne méritent pas votre diligence à répondre.
On ne protège bien que ce que l’on connaît bien. Votre démarche est scientifique, intéressante, elle ne perturbe en rien le monde qu’elle observe, et nous éclaire vraiment sur certaines fonctions cognitives de ces mammifères.
Par ailleurs, ce spectacle est particulièrement touchant.
Bref, merci de votre travail et continuez à nous le faire partager...
Leopards brain: 'Sigh, don't worry, we'll be back in 100.000 years, we'll crack this, buddy..'
The leopard struggling with it's own self realisation.
It's fascinating. This leopard seems to be entranced by the reflection. Almost paralyzed by his/her own reflection. Caught in a narcissistic loop.
Leopard - *"I know ur there, I can see u!*
Leopard - *"ur delusional, there's no one here but u."*
Poor confused leopard *"I'll wait"*
House cats react similar untill they figure it all out.
Great video. Thank u for shaeing.
lol mine didn't care. This leopard really got confused tho. At one time he was like "I'll stop here before this rectangle so the mean leopard won't appear" so funny
The leopard is like "come out and fight me, you coward!"
but at the end it's like "I think I've fallen in love!"
I FREAKIN' LOVE LEOPARDS!!!
That leopard's mind was blown! It's almost like a drug that he couldn't put down.
Dang, I just can't figure this out, says the beautiful Leopard, let me lay down and think about it. Lol
Wonderful videos. Just found them and could not stop watching!