a baby chimp clinging to its mother's belly by itself as she leaps up and down in front of a mirror

Description English/French. 𝐑.𝐈.𝐏. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬
In the gabonese rainforest, Anne-Marie and Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE and Michel GUISS DJOMOU have set up their large mirrors to shoot the animals' reactions to their reflections (Equatorial Africa). In humans, self-recognition in a mirror is not innate. When first exposed to full-length mirrors, as is often found on cupboard doors or in dressing rooms, babies first think that their reflection is a playmate copying their movements. It is only at 2 years old, after long exposures to the mirror in the calm of his house, often with his parents explaining that his image is himself, that a child understands "the mirror". If his mother, without him noticing, puts a lipstick mark on his forehead, then in front of the mirror, seeing his reflection with this mark, he will put his hand on the mark his own forehead (mirror test or mark test developed by psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr). In chimpanzees, this recognition is also not innate. On the other hand, in the insecurity of the jungle, for this mother chimpanzee with her infant grasping her own hair, her learning is much more difficult. She checks her reflection, challenges it with intimidating jumps while having her baby clinging to her hairs. The strength of the fingers of this baby who is still suckling, is impressive.
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Dans cette région reculée du Gabon, Anne-Marie et Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE et Michel GUISS DJOMOU ont planté de grands miroirs afin de filmer les réactions des animaux face à leur reflets. Chez les humains la reconnaissance de soi dans un miroir n’est pas innée. Lors des premières expositions à des miroirs de plain-pied, comme il y a fréquemment sur les armoires ou dans les dressings des habitations, les enfants humains pensent que leur reflet est un camarade de jeu qui copie leurs gestes. Ce n’est que vers l’âge de 2 ans, après de nombreuses expositions au miroir dans le calme chez soi, souvent en compagnie de ses parents lui expliquant que son image est lui-même, qu’un enfant comprend « le miroir ». Si sa maman, sans qu’il ne s’en rende compte, lui fait une marque de rouge à lèvre sur le front, puis face au miroir, voyant la tête son reflet avec cette tâche rouge, il va porter sa main sur son propre front. Chez les chimpanzés cette reconnaissance n’est également pas innée. Dans l’insécurité de la jungle, pour maman chimpanzé avec son bébé accroché à ses poils cet apprentissage est beaucoup plus difficile. Elle teste son reflet, le défie par des sauts d’intimidation tout en ayant son bébé agrippé à ses poils. La force des doigts de ce bébé qui tète encore, est impressionnante.

[@annettegenovesi]

I don't know why, but I could just keep watching these forever. I feel it adds intense interest in their lives, which can be very dull and mundane. So what if the photographer benefits? That's what makes the world go round.

[@WEAREDERBY1884]

Same here i wish these were longer i could quite happily sit and marvel at their reactions all day. Its comical yet fascinating 🤔

[@WEAREDERBY1884]

Bless her 🙏 she's like have i had to many of them berry's or what is going on. I'm hypnotised by their reaction

[@Bonobo3D]

Thank you for your hard work to record this fascinating footage. The moment where the chimp touched the mirror and was so startled!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Your comment is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our trap cameras, some facing huge mirrors set up in a remote area of the Gabonese virgin forest and collect their memory card. Then we do the editing with for each one 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... I recommend another moment when a chimpanzee was surprised he couldn't pass its fingers through a mirror kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWboX2GZ52Gf8k Keep watching the other videos on my channel kzbin.infovideos Please read the description attached to each of my videos you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle ! Good vision! Thank you again.

[@mattchu4273]

Maaan you’re just pushing these apes into existential crisis LMAO

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*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 encounterss. *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 large 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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaTgoWcZ9Wdp8k kzbin.info/www/bejne/el6kkqVvh5qdmLs as these chimpanzees: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWboX2GZ52Gf8k as these young gorillas: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWS2gpdnpMSlZpI kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc Look at how the silverback gorilla's behaviour has evolved near the mirrors his family is looking at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc?t=155 Look at how the gorilla family's walking speed increases when they approach a mirror whose location they have memorized kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 160 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@yankeesheikh6926]

@@XHB06400CANNES u r doing a phenomenal Job sir , keep it up , And thanks

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@yankeesheikh6926 *_Yours comment is a great moral booster after reading comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors!_* *Your feedback on my videos encourages us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion. It is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. As you may have noticed we are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in English which is not our native language (french) and then put them online to show the beauty of Gabonese fauna, talk about poachers, show how elephants who have managed to get away from a wire snare trap, treat the deep cut made by this trap, show how elephants pick mangos, self recognition in mirrors that is not innate both among humans than among primates and other mammals and so on... and answer to numerous comments posted on my channel* It's a choice.. *May I suggest you some of my homemade-made videos from my channel which have never been recommended by KZbin and which unfortunately have a very small number of views even though they are very instructive such as:* First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep3YenSvbNBjopo Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Check out my 180 homemade videos published on my channel kzbin.infovideos and read the description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting informations. Good vision!

[@yankeesheikh6926]

@@XHB06400CANNES people like u keep people like us motivated , stay safe sir , thanks

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@yankeesheikh6926 🙏🙏🙏 *_Merci beaucoup !_*

[@TheTibetyak]

Hey Xavier. Great upload. I was surprised the baby wasn't dislodged from mother's belly when she began to jump up and down. Obviously, little ones have great strength quite early. Stay healthy.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I appreciate the label you gave to my video. At birth, their fingers, at rest, are in a half-fist position, their grip is strong.

[@josipd7535]

in this coronavirus pandemic I needed som laughing...thank you and keep the good work!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

For your quarantine, may I invite you to watch especially my no KZbin recommended 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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep3YenSvbNBjopo Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXqraGmjfq6imJY Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Check out the other videos on my channel and don't forget to read my description attached to each of my videos kzbin.infovideos Good vision

[@x1area51ii7]

Why dont you guys put 2 way mirror and put video behind the mirror so we can see them closer or thier reactions..lol

[@annettegenovesi]

Oh I love that idea

[@raygun26]

That’s amazing, she thought they touched finger tips.

[@ExpeditionTech]

I'm curious if she believes the "foreign" chimp is holding her own baby. It appears as if she is reassuring herself that the baby is still with her and not with the "intruder".

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I asked myself the same question and this without finding an explanation for my other videos of mommy great ape with their baby on their back or against the belly in front of the reflection of foreign mommies with their own baby whose presence they feel against them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2XdmWetoZ6mlbc kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWboX2GZ52Gf8l_eep watching my homemade videos (160 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: kzbin.infovideos

[@SUPERPAX9]

I know you’re busy & it’s difficult to prepare these videos, but please try as much as you can to upload more or longer, because it’s great seeing these! Thanks!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

For 10 years, in a remote area of the Gabonese forest, using trap cameras equipped with motion detectors, we have been filming animals that trigger them as they pass by. In the same way, we have placed large mirrors (250 cm x120 cm) in this forest and we film their reactions to their reflection. To date my channel publishes more than 160 home-made videos. It is becoming more and more difficult to put online new videos with new behaviours because they are often repetitive. When a new posting is made, to be personnaly informed by an email from KZbin with its link, please subscribe is to the channel. Check out more of my videos, more particularly the oldest videos, unfortunately totalling only a small number of views and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. Good vision! kzbin.infovideos

[@Davidova]

thanks for sharing

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you for your support: Keep watching my 160 other homemade videos on the channel and don't forget to read the attached description each time. You will learn very important information: kzbin.infovideos

[@henrycanoli]

if only they had water or something to splash on the fog on the mirror they might realize its an object instead of a portal to another monkey realm lol

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*By slapping on the mirror, they think they are hitting a rival, a stranger* Silverbacks and dominant chimpanzees feel stronger when they have an object in their hands, such as a branch or a vine. However, in front of a huge mirror, their reflection having the same behaviour, they are not brave in front of such an opponent. Watch my videos in which chimpanzees hit the mirror with vines and shrubs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5vbqImdqtGSoq8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKjOiaeom62tatU kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5K2XqSioNZ2mdU kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4fEkGergrGieLc After each viewing, click on the "show more" option, I attach a description with more information to each of my 160 videos published on my channel: kzbin.infovideos

[@MrScrew]

Nice

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I appreciate the label you gave to this video. Please watch the other videos on my channel: kzbin.infovideos you will certainly find an even more nice video as: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX6lpYeDmbyifac kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWboX2GZ52Gf8k Dont forget after watching each one of my videos published on my channel to click on the "SHOW MORE" option to read my description attached to each one of them. You will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle

[@TheTibetyak]

Hey Xavier, Check this video out "Curious Cat Discovers She Has Ears While Striking Pose in Mirror". It really looks like the cat is asking, " Who stuck those up here!?!?!?" Stay healthy.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thanks, I know this video with a cat scratching its right ear while looking at an animal in a mirror. It cannot think that it's himself because it doesn't know what it looks like! In no way does it try to find out the reason for its itch by looking with this mirror at a part of its body that it cannot see directly. To date, no domestic cat, no feline has recognized himself in a mirror.

[@wonk123]

hmm yes that reflection of me is made of me

[@orangewedges]

On average how long does it take chimps, for example, to be mirror trained and have self-recognition in the mirror?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

We are neither scientists nor veterinarians nor primatologists nor photographers. We wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years, to show on KZbin the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it. Our first videos posted on our KZbin 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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo (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. Scientists may be able to tell you how long it takes on average for a male / dominant male / female / child chimpanzee to recognize itself in a captive mirror. Personally, I think it is very difficult to give a figure in the case of mirror training in free-ranging chimpanzees. It all depends on the sex, the rank of each one in the group and the size of the group. You may have noticed in this video that this mother seems to take advantage of the absence of other chimpanzees near the mirror to learn to mirror. Finally, once they have understood the properties of the mirror, will they still go regularly to one of them? Keep watching my homemade videos (160 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: kzbin.infovideos

[@orangewedges]

Thank you so much for taking the time to write such an in-depth response to me and to share all your knowledge and experience with working in Gabon with us through your videos. I truly appreciate it and seeing the footage you have is so fascinating!!!

[@Vensti73]

Intéressant leur comportement 😜

[@XHB06400CANNES]

J'apprécie le qualificatif que vous avez donné à cette vidéo. Veuillez regarder les autres vidéos sur ma chaîne : kzbin.infovideos N'oubliez pas après avoir regardé chacune de mes vidéos publiées sur ma chaîne de cliquer sur l'option "SHOW MORE" pour lire ma description jointe à chacune d'elles. Vous connaîtrez des informations très intéressantes sur les réactions des animaux devant mes miroirs dans la jungle.

[@Dragon-rv2hu]

🤣

[@reeyees50]

0:54 spooked

[@DARCZTOPS]

Hi bro, I would like to APPLY A THOUSAND FOR APOLOGIES, for having used your material without consent, I would like you to be able to answer the email I sent you in any way so that we can solve this, since you put at risk that they eliminate my channel, I again ask you a thousand apologies and Help me not to end up on the street, excellent video ♥ Hermano y te pido compasion y disculpas, he estado llorando no quiero que mi ilusion se acabe aqui, Un saludo y suerte bro, Dios te bendiga Hola bro, Quisiera PEDIRTE MIL DISCULPAS, por haber usado tu material sin consentimiento, Quisiera que de cualquier manera pudieras contestar el correo que te envié para que solucionemos esto, ya que pones en riesgo que eliminen mi canal, te pido de nuevo mil disculpas y que me ayudes a que no termine yo en la calle, excelente video ♥

[@fffilawan8257]

Jsisj

[@TriangularLandum]

hahahah

[@user-lh3cv3gr5t]

(⌒,_ゝ⌒)Why are you making videos about your Wai friends? This must be a loaf of bread

[@21jajego1]

You didn't make these mirrors for their good. You add links in your comments, it's your business. What they get in return for your benefits is stress. Percentage of animal curiosity. Really the animal kingdom does not need such inventions, they add nothing

[@XHB06400CANNES]

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 KZbin the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it.* Our first videos posted on our KZbin 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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aompmIWhiMaYitU 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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqWweJaCp7ZkaKc (Rump-Rump Rubbing in Chimpanzees = anti-stress effect? A social behavior ever observed previously) and kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqfPmoekf5yCotE (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: kzbin.infovideos

[@user-px5cf4ds4b]

Это эволюция, стресс полезен для прогресса вида

[@The_ZeroLine]

Relax. Their very presence actually helps the animals by lessening the chances of poaching even if only by a small degree.