a blackback gorilla makes some crazy faces at his reflection during learning in the mirror

Description: English / Français
This male gorilla is about 11 years old, sexually mature, with large canine teeth as in the silverbacks, but without a prominent sagittal crest like his father. He's a blackback gorilla. Although he left his birth family several months ago, he has not yet had the opportunity to establish his own troupe by attracting emigrating females.
He is very cool with his reflection. He looks straight in the eyes at his image, while his father, who did not learn in the mirror, thinks he sees in his reflection a stranger, an intruder and as a peacefull primate, he only looks at him from the corner of his eye to avoid defying this stranger (look straight into the eyes between two silver backs = a war declaration).
The faces he makes when looking in the mirror and his repeated checking of his teeth and tongue suggest that he has completed his apprenticeship in the mirror and has recognized himself in the mirror. Such behaviour should be repeated over time to confirm that he has figured out that he was looking at himself.
The rolled-lip face with the lips rolled upside down, the upper lip to the nostrils, the lower lip to the chin either one or both lips together. This allows either to expose the upper or lower teeth and gums or all teeth and gums.
Kisses of his reflection with open mouth and kisses with tongue (French Kiss) are behaviors that are common among chimpanzees. They have a goal of reconciliation after a quarrel but what do they correspond to in this blackback? And the helical swirling of the tongue with the mouth open what can it mean?
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Ce gorille mâle est âgé d'environ 11 ans, sexuellement mature, avec de grandes canines comme chez le dos argenté, mais sans crête sagittale proéminente comme son père. C'est un gorille à dos noir. Il n'a pas encore constitué sa propre troupe en attirant des femmes émigrantes.
Bien qu'ayant quitté sa famille de naissance depuis plusieurs mois, Il n'a pas encore eu l'opportunité d'établir sa propre troupe en attirant des femmes émigrantes.
Il est très à l’aise face à son reflet qu’il regarde droit dans les yeux. Les grimaces qu’il fait en se regardant dans le miroir et son auscultation répétée des ses dents et de sa langue laissent penser qu’il a achevé son apprentissage au miroir et qu’il se soit reconnu dans le miroir. Il conviendra que de tels comportements soient répétés dans le temps pour confirmer sa reconnaissance de soi.
La grimace avec les lèvres enroulées à l’envers, la lèvre supérieures jusqu’aux narines, la lèvre inférieure jusqu’au menton soit l’une soit les deux lèvres ensemble. Cela permet d'exposer soit les dents et les gencives du haut ou du bas ou toutes les dents et les gencives.Les embrassades de son reflet avec la bouche ouverte et les embrassades avec la langue (French Kiss) sont des attitudes rencontrées chez les chimpanzés. Elles ont un but de réconciliation après une querelle mais à quoi correspondent-elles chez ce blackback ? Et le mouvement hélicoïdal de la langue bouche ouverte, que peut-il bien signifier ?

[@Skye-st4zi]

🌿Thank you for posting your extremely, fascinating videos! Watching the behaviours of all the creatures on your videos are completely addictive. Primates & elephants especially intrigue me. I can’t thank you enough for sharing your work! Wishing you great success & happiness! 🦍🐘🌿🍃👏

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Your compliment is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our trap cameras facing huge mirrors set up in a remote area of the Gabonese virgin forest and collect their memory card. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in addition to the published images. Keep watching the other videos on my channel kzbin.infovideos May I invite you to watch especially those that 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! Don't forget to read my description attached to each of my videos: Good vision! Thank you again.

[@Skye-st4zi]

Thank you very much for your kind response. I will of course be very, very happy to watch the videos that haven’t been viewed as often. Each and every creature has something to teach and your videos are priceless! The information you have written is very much appreciated as well! It is very painful for me to see an animal that has been hurt , I understand nature can be cruel, but humans causing the suffering and exploitation of an animal is something I wish I could be of more help with. Have you had close calls or interesting interactions with wildlife while setting up the mirror and camera traps? A book or blog would be great to read about your work in Gabon! Thank you all again, my family wanted me to let you all know they are loving your videos as well! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours 🙂👋👋👋.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@Skye-st4zi My wife and I are French people born in Africa (Senegal & Congo Brazzaville). We went to school in Africa and did our higher studies in France and then all our professional career, first in West Africa and then in Gabon. For twelve years we have been retired in France and regularly return to Nyonié for the maintenance of mirrors and cameras. We are neither scientists nor veterinarians. 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. 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).

[@Skye-st4zi]

Hi Xavier, 🌿You are very special people and I hope the goodness comes right back into your lives! Gabon must be very appreciative of your beautiful videos! Thank you for all the information you have written down for me. Each animal you have filmed is a treasure to discover. . I am very grateful there are wonderful people in the world like yourselves who bring joy and priceless information to all of us. ✨✨✨Thank you !✨✨✨✨

[@joyceketelhut5366]

So true, elephants, primates so intelligent, sentient.

[@1969tochiro]

I see that every day at my local gym we're not different

[@publicalias8172]

We're human.. So yeah naturally different

[@Nognamogo]

@@publicalias8172 Were extremely similar though, due it having a common ancestor in evolution pretty recently. Gorillas probably have similar internal experiences to us. Just without spoken language since the physical adaptations for that didn't evolve in their brains.

[@chiefcaptn1922]

@@Nognamogo If you still believe the textbooks you grew up on I would humbly suggest updating your research to modern times. Evolution is simply not realistic, and has been proven false by multiple well known researchers- one of which has been jailed for their publication on the topic differing from that of the goverments established agenda.

[@Rek-55]

@@chiefcaptn1922 and what is realistic? God creating ...?

[@whyitmatters6906]

@@chiefcaptn1922 but the bible is pretty realistic hum?

[@michaela518]

He passed the mirror test👍

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Keep watching my videos posted on my channel and read the description attached to all of them. You will find very interesting information on the animals' reactions to my mirrors in the jungle: kzbin.infovideos

[@samhelfrich2901]

I love it, when they realize they're looking at themselves! 😍

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*To gorilla fanatic, I advise you to watch my following videos published on my channel* kzbin.infovideos *(do not forget after each viewing to read the description attached to each of my videos):* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHuYoo16jZqKqbc In the Gabon jungle a young male gorilla continues his learning in the mirror long version kzbin.info/www/bejne/pau9gKBsbZ18m9E a young male gorilla takes his mirror training seriously (unlike his family - 45 min long version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/amqWiWOlrdhojpY Unlike his family this young gorilla male takes his mirror training seriously in the Gabon jungle kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2Oqiql7eZKZhMk a Young Gorilla Male Keeps on Learning in Mirror in Gabon Jungle, at Night, under Heavy Rainstorm kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWS2gpdnpMSlZpI A Young Gorilla’s Reactions to his Reflections in Mirrors In Gabonese Jungle : a Dancer? a Drummer? kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6LTYWOLqdOZndE Some innate behaviors in this adolescent gorilla are really very close to ours but not all ( Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5rUpHmphK-bhtE Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX6lpYeDmbyifac Young gorillas learning in the mirror kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5q0gouGjteiqLc Silverback gorilla ignores his reflection kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX6mgnt_lqh6pq8 A silverback gorilla briefly looks his reflection in the eyes and yawns: not tiredness, but arousal!

[@jaysky2000]

This blackback gets an A+ in his mirror education. Smart boy!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

As in humans, self-recognition in gorillas is also the result of learning to look in the mirror. To do this, one must be exposed to one's reflection many times and examine it quietly: one's face, body and the gestures (attitudes) it copies. *While mirror training can be successful in some blackback gorillas (females, adolescents and children),* after a long practice in mirror in laboratory as in wild, it is *compromised among silverbacks* where looking another silverback, or its reflection, straight in the eyes is a sign of defiance, an attitude that these peaceful males avoid. *After many years of encountering these mirrors, this silverback has still not learned that a silverback reflection does not present the slightest danger for him.* In my description attached to this video, I explain that behavior in silverback gorillas and the behaviour of other members (blackbacks) of his family. Hit the “show more “ option, I attach a description with more information to each of my 180 videos published on my channel. kzbin.infovideos

[@fatface1695]

He's like "who's this sexy beast? Oh that's me" 😂😂😂

[@n3rf0r30]

"Damn, I'm handsome."

[@pamelaraney4654]

N3rf0r and it’s true

[@noname-xo5mp]

If you put cameras in the average human bathroom you wouldn't find much different

[@robber576]

I wonder if this encounter in self recognition will change its behaviour? Discovering yourself in the mirror and self awareness is one of the biggest steps a human child does in human development.

[@chananon8120]

And, let the insecurities begin.. The mirror gave us the ability to see our own worst enemy every morning...

[@Asmobia]

King Kong: "My wife says I am ugly... I bet she doesn't meet you, bro".

[@AppiusOS]

What days off were like before the internet

[@ToyRifle]

This guy just seduced himself.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Sorry this guy didn't just seduce himself. He continues his understanding of the mirror: He has not yet reached the level of being self-conscious. 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 !

[@Leo-uc3sr]

@@XHB06400CANNES it's a joke bro

[@Anna101shark]

Hes beginning to believe

[@g0679]

Anna101shark Yep. That’s me, alright.

[@ozairyahya3438]

He’s the one

[@ЮрийБогданов-ч1ч]

This is me when the Internet was turned off.

[@sangeetasamad787]

I think he is in love with himself...♥️

[@XHB06400CANNES]

After each watching do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 160 home made videos capture with our trap cameras in the jungle in Gabon, you will learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection. On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos

[@stevencoardvenice]

@@XHB06400CANNES You should consider inserting the description as text at the end of all your videos, from now on. Most people do not read the description under the video

[@sontoloyo616]

Gorilla : I just realized my face is ugly

[@MontagZoso]

He’s not ugly!

[@BixbySnyder209]

Incredibly

[@spiro9210]

98 percent human. No surprises here.

[@notbelaved]

this is actually something that i do after i take a bath

[@tinkmarshino]

just gotta love that tongue action.. these big fellas are amazing creatures.. thanks Xavier again! carry on and be safe my friend.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you for your quick reaction to watch my new videos as soon as they are online and to post a comment each time.

[@tinkmarshino]

@My Secret Account oh! to much... gotta love the cheek!

[@tinkmarshino]

@@XHB06400CANNES I keep my eyes open for the good stuff! It is always a pleasure to see your videos..

[@tinkmarshino]

@My Secret Account Well if you were not, that seems a bit sick to me.. But then it is your choice not mine.. as long as you enjoy it.. carry on...

[@YouGottaShootEmInTheHead]

0:57 It's not gay to kiss a homie in the mouth

[@JRnyc]

He's looking at it like how the hell does this work?

[@Reinhard_von_Lohengramm]

Let's be honest, we've all been there.

[@NerdyPanDaDaDa]

It's always so iinteresting to see the different reactions. I really appreciate how you explain their behaviours in the description. Thank you for your research!

[@gyamjatang]

Awesome footage, Xavier! I’ve been marathoning these videos, as well as checking out the description and comments. Thank you for the incredibly informative descriptions! You and your wife have created an incredible ongoing project that deserves more recognition! As an artist and wildlife admirer myself, this is not only beautiful and fascinating to watch (amusing, too!) but very educational to everyday animal lovers and, I’m sure, to primatologists/other behaviourial scientists alike. Please do keep up the work. Much respect and love from New York! :-)

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_During the year 2020 I hope to be able to lengthen your marathon, not of New York, but that of my many videos._* Your compliment is a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our trap cameras 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...

[@gyamjatang]

@@XHB06400CANNES Oh no, I was going through videos I'd commented and reviewed the videos I'd commented on because I rarely do. I'd never replied back! Oh no!!! But here I am!!! & Of course - you definitely have lengthened the marathon! It is selfless and tireless work, and no worries, your English is incredibly proficient. I admire and respect the amount of effort you, your wife Anne-Marie, and friend Michel, have placed onto this channel to reach the wider public. Wonderful team. Would you happen to have a business email? I tried looking on your channel page, and would love to assist to get the wider message out (voluntarily). If not, that is okay! I hope you all are well.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@gyamjatang Thks for your compliment. Please explain what means "would love to assist *to get the wider message out* (voluntarily)."

[@gyamjatang]

@@XHB06400CANNES Of course! What I mean is if there is any way I can assist you with no monetary gain from my end. To get the "wider message out" I meant, to spread more awareness of your project :)

[@psychonautical6587]

This is what a mirror feels like when you’re on psychedelics

[@GoddardsJournal]

It seems he knows it's a reflection of himself.

[@unknownalien3837]

it would be so badass to be able to effectively communicate with these glorious animals and be able to commune with them. so fascinating

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*To the gorilla fanatics, I advise you to watch my following videos published on my channel **kzbin.infovideos** (do not forget after each viewing to read the description attached to each of my videos):* kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHuYoo16jZqKqbc In the Gabon jungle a young male gorilla continues his learning in the mirror long version kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5SwqnWJYp1qgs0 a blackback gorilla makes some crazy faces at his reflection during learning in the mirror kzbin.info/www/bejne/pau9gKBsbZ18m9E a young male gorilla takes his mirror training seriously (unlike his family - 45 min long version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/amqWiWOlrdhojpY Unlike his family this young gorilla male takes his mirror training seriously in the Gabon jungle kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2Oqiql7eZKZhMk a Young Gorilla Male Keeps on Learning in Mirror in Gabon Jungle, at Night, under Heavy Rainstorm kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWS2gpdnpMSlZpI A Young Gorilla’s Reactions to his Reflections in Mirrors In Gabonese Jungle : a Dancer? a Drummer? kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6LTYWOLqdOZndE Some innate behaviors in this adolescent gorilla are really very close to ours but not all ( Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5rUpHmphK-bhtE Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX6lpYeDmbyifac Young gorillas learning in the mirror kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5q0gouGjteiqLc Silverback gorilla ignores his reflection kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX6mgnt_lqh6pq8 A silverback gorilla briefly looks his reflection in the eyes and yawns: not tiredness, but arousal!

[@Bodyknock]

Yep, a lot of animals who pass the mirror test, one of the things they like to do is look at parts of their body they can’t normally see like their mouths.

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

Amazing work , I told you before even you are not a zoologist or speciallist, but you remarks and notes are very important to the researchers in general, and that is the big touchable effect of your work and beloved hobbies ! Thanks and go on with much success 👍

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_A comment like yours is a great moral booster after reading numerous comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors!_* Thanks again! Merci beaucoup !

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@XHB06400CANNES 🌹👍

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@XHB06400CANNES de rien

[@brandonw9522]

Lol lil guy he’s still a baby didn’t get that silver fur yet

[@zakazany1945]

"Damn, I am looking good"

[@CrankyB1tsch]

they are indeed our relatives

[@XHB06400CANNES]

-relatives- *We share a common ancestor!* The kinship of the gorilla and the chimpanzee with man is not in doubt today. Moreover, the "great apes" are classified in the same primate family as man: the hominids. *_We are all tailless primates! Despite some differences such as the length of the limbs or the shape of the jaws, similarities are obvious in the skeleton: large skull to house the voluminous brain, large rib cage and long arms._* But man is closer to gorillas or chimpanzees than to orangutans. A genetic resemblance has been discovered: man is said to have about 99% of his genes in common with the chimpanzee and only slightly less with the gorilla. The gorilla is therefore, after the chimpanzee, the second closest cousin to man! *And we would have a common ancestor, who would have lived in Africa only 8 to 10 million years ago.* Please watch my video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGGul3Ror9eef5I This adolescent gorilla's attitude is really very close to that of his human cousins (Gabon jungle) Check out more of my 170 homemade videos from my channel and don't forget to read the description attached to each of them, you will find very interesting information. kzbin.infovideos Good vision!

[@JustinTymeMedia]

this is a smart one...

[@thatguythatdoesstuff7448]

I think he's just evaluating his snack choices, choosing to cut down on the candy and convincing himself that the dentist isn't really THAT scary.

[@iyaramonk]

That's funny. I didn't know they can fold their lips outwards like that

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Explained in the attached description: The rolled-lip face with the lips rolled upside down, the upper lip to the nostrils, the lower lip to the chin either one or both lips together. This allows either to expose the upper or lower teeth and gums or all teeth and gums. Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 180 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@ozairyahya3438]

The title really makes me laugh

[@XHB06400CANNES]

The non-self awareness in a mirror is not a lack of intelligence. In animals 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 at home and who have the words to explain to their young child the properties of the mirror. Among primates, éléphants and felids, 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. 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. To date: only Humans, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Gorillas (blackbacks), Rhesus Macaques, Bottlenose Dolphins, Asian Elephants, Orcas, African Grey Parrot and Magpies have shown the ability to recognize their own reflections after an even long training in the mirror for some ones. To learn more about these wildlife encounters with the giant mirrors installed in the jungle in Gabon, after watching them, read the description accompanying each of my 160 videos published on my KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos

[@DR-vq9vv]

What a wonderful video. Keep up the good work. Love your channel. Thanks

[@adventure_48]

1:22 is what i look like under my jeep after realizing i shoulve paid someone to work on it

[@saif1002]

Me under the Jeep realising the rust is pretty bad.

[@Kaptanıderya89]

Girls before they take a picture.

[@VanishingImage]

Acts like a drunk person who has been left alone for too long lol. I love it

[@syaq2433]

Me at 2am

[@zzzz1192]

X2! What a experience to be alive :)

[@JungleCrook]

And the Mirror of Erise claims another victim

[@chenashlynx7477]

Me when I'm home alone

[@Keewi3]

🤣😂🤣

[@joodlenoodle1766]

This is so cool! Interesting to see that self-recognition can be taught. Gorillas are so expressive and beautiful, I feel like your videos have given me a new intimacy with these amazing videos. Thank you!

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

Gorilla: -makes weird faces- Gorilla 2: What are you doing...? Gorilla: n-nothing...

[@Bonobo3D]

Magnificent gorilla! He can appreciate himself too.

[@arcanum-a]

Very nice footage, you have just earned my subscription + like.

[@ZombieQueen819]

He is over the top tooooo sweet ❤❤❤❤

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*I would like to thank you for your comments on many of my videos:* *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

[@ZombieQueen819]

@@XHB06400CANNES Thank you so much I am a subscriber now and ,,, Thank your wife for all her work she does to. I had to see the videos that you linked in and it so wonderful to see chimpanzee and why and how they do relieve stress. The elephant 🐘 baby or calf was very adorable.. I love gorillas 🦍 and when your video popped up I had to watch all the handsome and beautiful gorillas and their reactions to the other gorillas 🤣🤣, the one blackback after he figured out, it was his image was priceless.. And I want to thank Gabon also for letting you and your to video the beautiful animals. Please be safe and your family 🦍🦍

[@douglasjones2955]

Really love you're stuff - it's priceless

[@XHB06400CANNES]

A comment like yours cheers us up after my wife and I have spent days alone in the Gabonese forest for the maintenance of our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. It's a choice. Thank you again. Watch my other videos of the channel and don't forget to read the description each time. You will learn some very important information. kzbin.infovideos

[@ferryanton6550]

Gorila : ooooh man, i so handsome hhahahhahhha

[@praisethesun6771]

Fascinating, looks like he already recognizes himself in the mirror.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Please read the attached description!

[@SrChr778]

Somebody should play the song "You Got A Friend In Me". Cause it looks like he made a friend of himself.

[@binyikbicitli5772]

Who yawning right after saw him doing it?

[@CarolynDenison]

I came back for a visit with my favorite Gorilla's.

[@michaelchoate6213]

These videos always cheer me up. Thanks for your work, and allowing us an opportunity to learn more about how these creatures behave.

[@josemiguelcarrizo7373]

All chlidren do the same thing sometime

[@justicewillprevail1106]

So gorilla do recognize themselves in the mirror?

[@StephanBuchin]

Le fait que l'imitation et l'activité à imiter sont simultanées doit troubler le fonctionnement de ses neurones miroirs jusqu'à l'instant où il prend pleinement conscience que c'est lui aussi en face et peut alors commencer à jouer et explorer. C'est nouveau et ça doit être épuisant pour le cerveau.

[@Flokoli1]

Tout comme ça a été puissant pour ton cerveau quand on t'a présenté un miroir pour la première fois étant bébé

[@rebeccamcinroy6042]

It means he is goofing around just like we do when we make silly faces in the mirror

[@LynnColorado]

Loved Mr. Exhausted.

[@MrSlanderer]

It’s almost a certainty that he has seen the mirror before. I’m no expert on gorillas’ individual characteristics, but he looks like one that you have caught on camera before, in a troupe. I assume that is what your description was insinuating, especially for those who keep up with your work.

[@Brock_1025]

Looks like he's found a new friend LOL This loyal friend will meet him everyday at this spot LOL

[@iananderson8363]

Ugh! That’s what I look like when I curl my lip?! No wonder the others are so mean to me, I better knock that off.

[@TheCorrectionist1984]

No way we're related right? Lol

[@goodtimesbro9635]

@Oshe Shango wasn't humans more chimp like around 1 million years ago

[@thomsonandfrench4974]

@@goodtimesbro9635 1 million years ago we had homo erectus that was rather human-like and migrated to Europe and Asia. If we're talking around 3 million years ago we come to the australopthecenes, who were much more ape-like and had a cranial capacity more similar to other apes. They were still upright walking, but not quite like us since they weren't quite as well-adapted for that kind of locomotion.

[@goodtimesbro9635]

@@thomsonandfrench4974 Do you know about Lucy australopithecus? Wasn't that species around 3 million years ago?

[@thomsonandfrench4974]

@@goodtimesbro9635 Lucy was indeed australopithecus afarensis from around 3 million years ago, yes.

[@goodtimesbro9635]

@@thomsonandfrench4974 God im dumb

[@mark-o-man6603]

Pervrilla. Dude was giving himself a tongue kiss and trying to spoon his reflection.

[@meee4meee]

Just found your channel a few days ago, thanks for doing this type of research. Always interesting to see self recognition progression. I did a refutation of one of these types of tests in my developmental psychology class as it relates to cultural differences.

[@thysvanzyl2782]

Oh monkey thou art vain !!

[@ffadelf]

So. Finally requgnized it self.

[@marilen2222]

😃 good one.

[@RantaHun]

I do this after a heavy drinking session in the morning. and bear and I remember what happened yesterday

[@deenibeeniable]

"I"

[@hondacivic6260]

Nice ✔️

[@Italian_Isaac_Clarke]

Nature must be damn boring to be so amused by a mirror.

[@kcufbla]

You must be so damn boring to talk to...

[@ОльгаБрызгалова-ф5б]

Отвлекают от повседневных дел!?)

[@JucoskiGetnuked]

your work is fascinating bro congratulations, im from brasil and i love watching it !, should do that in the amazon hahahaha

[@XHB06400CANNES]

A comment like yours cheers us up after my wife and I have spent days alone in the Gabonese forest for the maintenance of our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. It's a choice. Thank you again. Watch my other videos of the channel and don't forget to read the description each time. You will learn some very important information. kzbin.infovideos

[@stevencoardvenice]

I thought the adult males were too scared of their reflection

[@paulagwhyte1720]

Only the mature Silverbacks won't look directly into the eyes on another so they cannot make the connection that it is themselves in the mirror. They see a possible aggressor. This guy is young enough to look himself in the eye and has become aware of himself. He's great!

[@stevencoardvenice]

@@paulagwhyte1720 I see. Not a full blown silverback yet

[@goodtimesbro9635]

@@stevencoardvenice Exacly, before the males become silverbacks they are called blackbacks

[@SickJose]

So Interesting watching vids like this!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

A comment like yours cheers us up after my wife and I have spent days alone in the Gabonese forest for the maintenance of our mirrors and numerous cameras traps, to change the SD, batteries, batteries, to clean the objectives, to remove the fallen branches in their field of vision, to go up on foot the bed of the marigots to find zones of crossing of animals to install new traps there etc... Drenched by tornadoes, the body covered with insect bites of all kinds (horseflies, gorilla flies, tsetse, black ants, magnan ants etc.) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to work increases because of the humidity rate of 95%. It's a choice. Thank you again. Watch my other videos of the channel and don't forget to read the description each time. You will learn some very important information. kzbin.infovideos

[@dalusa7601]

@@XHB06400CANNES a lot of thanks for your work.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@dalusa7601 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: kzbin.infovideos 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: 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! Good vision! Thank you again.

[@fredericwursten4883]

Hallucinant! On dirait qu’on assiste aux limites des études faites par des scientifiques…

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*D'où nous est venue l'idée des miroirs ?* Mon épouse et moi sommes, ni photographes professionnels, ni scientifiques, ni vétérinaires. Nous voulions remercier le Gabon, nous ayant accueilli pendant plus de 35 ans dans le secteur de la grande distribution, en montrant sur KZbin la diversité de la faune de ce beau pays et donner envie aux internautes de le visiter. Nos premières vidéos diffusées sur notre chaîne KZbin montraient essentiellement des animaux sauvages "passant" devant les objectifs de nos caméras pièges équipées de détecteurs de mouvement : La marche d'un éléphant devant l'objectif d'un piège pendant une vingtaine de secondes n'est pas particulièrement intéressante. Par contre une vidéo de jeunes éléphants jouant dans une rivière pendant que les adultes étanchent leur soif est beaucoup plus agréable à regarder : kzbin.info/www/bejne/aompmIWhiMaYitU *Pour trouver de tels "spots", il convient de s'éloigner du sentier emprunté par les quelques véhicules 4x4 de Nyonié (camp à 30 km de notre zone de piégeage), pour s'enfoncer plus profondément dans la forêt et remonter les rivières en marchant dans leur lit. Cela n’est pas sans danger surtout lorsque l’on est âgé.* Pour progresser plus facilement dans la forêt, les animaux utilisent le sentier des tout-terrains, sans lianes, sans buissons, sans ronces et sans arbres entremêlés au sol, suite aux très nombreuses tornades dans cette région à cheval sur la ligne de l’équateur. Alors, Il nous est venu l’idée de placer de très grands miroirs au bout d’une longue ligne droite afin d’attirer leur curiosité et de les « bloquer » devant leur reflet. Nous avons également placé d’autres miroirs sous des arbres dont nombreux animaux apprécient les fruits. A d’autres emplacements au milieu de la forêt, il eut fallu beaucoup de chance pour que les animaux croisent leur reflet ! Notre utilisation des miroirs a suscité un grand intérêt chez les primatologues, notamment les membres du PSG, non pas le club de football du Paris Saint Germain, mais le Primate Specialist Group (Groupe des spécialistes de primates), qui n'avaient étudié la reconnaissance de soi dans un miroir chez les grands singes que dans des laboratoires avec des animaux captifs ou nés en captivité, habitués au contact avec l'homme. Ces animaux, imitant parfois l'homme, n'avaient pas à chercher de nourriture, à défendre leur famille contre d'autres congénères et prédateurs, avaient donc des comportements déformés, très différents de ceux des primates vivant en toute liberté avec leur groupe ou leur famille dans une zone reculée de la forêt gabonaise. Nos caméras ont mis en évidence un comportement très particulier chez les chimpanzés de la région de Nyonié et cela ont donné lieu à une publication scientifique, "Reflections in rainforest mirrors facilitate behavioral observations of wild chimpanzees Primates n°58 2017-01". Ce comportement est filmé sur nos trois vidéos suivantes : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqWweJaCp7ZkaKc (Frottement de la croupe chez les chimpanzés = effet anti-stress ? Un comportement social jamais observé auparavant) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqfPmoekf5yCotE (des chimpanzés effrayés se rassurent avec des contacts de pseudo-copulation et de rump-to-rump devant le miroir) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnrXfKmNZs-ag80 (Chimpanzees front of a Mirror in the Gabon Jungle Grooming Power displays Copulation, Grooming again) Regardez nos autres vidéos de la chaine et n'oubliez pas à chaque fois de lire la description qui y est jointe après celle en anglais. Vous y apprendrez des informations très importantes. kzbin.infovideos

[@whitecunt6903]

his trying to make the ahegao face

[@mesofius]

Amazing, thank you

[@mudiusp6050]

Absolutely wonderful video!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I thank you for your appreciation on this video and may I suggest you watch the 45 minutes lond video of this whole exposure of this juvenile male gorilla to the mirror on February 25, 2019: the rushes were assembled in chronological order. Only images where it is not within the camera's field of view have been cut off: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHuYoo16jZqKqbc

[@tsopmocful1958]

The huge sole of its stompy foot at the end and with it being a giant hand as well.

[@mataronakeni3569]

Ufff que genial debe de ser estar cerca de un gorila, excelente trabajo ✌🏻👍🏻

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Ahh shit. This is actually how Planet of the Apes begins. STAHP NOW!

[@kimilamb3262]

Hilarious! 🤣🤣🥰

[@khmervillageofcambodia4380]

good

[@amarildoferreira8863]

Muito interessante parabéns 👏👏

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Un comentario como el suyo nos anima después de pasar días en el bosque gabonés manteniendo nuestros espejos y muchas cámaras con mi esposa. Atemperado por las tormentas, el cuerpo está cubierto de mordeduras de todo tipo de insectos (tse-tse, hormigas negras, etc.) y desafortunadamente el número de cámaras que se niegan a funcionar aumenta. Su comentario nos anima a perseguir nuestra abrumadora y un tanto peligrosa pasión. Por tu parte sigue viendo los nuevos videos que puse en línea en mi canal. Por favor, leia a descrição anexada a cada um dos meus vídeos publicados no meu canal do KZbin você vai saber informações muito interessantes sobre as reações dos animais frente aos meus espelhos na selva kzbin.infovideos Si no hablas inglés o francés, puedes usar este práctico software de traducción. Es gratis: www.deepl.com/es/translator

[@mickey6275]

Oh man, I've got a zit

[@ariceinnightmera83]

このゴリラは頭良さそう

[@jocianerodrigues6107]

Será que ela pensa que é outra Gorila no espelho coitadinha 🐵😍🤗❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@vitorhugo2331]

Acho que depois de um tempo eles se reconhecem no reflexo! Posso estar errado e deve haver estudos que comprovam que estou, mas gosto de acreditar que eles se reconhecem.

[@seddar]

Mirror mirror on the wall .........

[@Corbeaufreux]

Juste par curiosité et pour me rendre compte : quelle hauteur fait ce miroir, s'il vous plaît ?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Dimensions du miroir 250x122cm

[@tilawa4862]

شكلي سنة ٢٠٠٠ ونا قدام المراية فاضي وماعندي شغلة لا هم ولا غم طايش 🥴🥺

[@TSemasFl]

If that was a female gorilla, she'd never leave the mirror. There'd be makeup bottles everywhere blow-dryer hanging, pimple popping madness abounds. I know, I have a gorilla girlfriend.

[@gabrielbritez2656]

Yo en el espejo del baño practicando como besar

[@lorv1003]

m o n k e .

[@omen3648]

True.

[@vwiggins9797]

Does he have a sense that he is looking at himself? Its hard to say.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

In animals 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. 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. Among gorillas or chimpanzees, in the insecurity of the jungle learning the mirror with 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 family 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 families in gorillas as their group 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 stole 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. Under these conditions, learning to use the mirror is not possible and cannot be successful. Watch my video with more than 24 million views kzbin.info/www/bejne/qquTkqmNj9SkoMk and then read my description attached. I explain the reaction, in front of a mirror, of each member of the gorilla family and the very particular reason for the behaviour of the silverback. Watch also this other video kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc "Gabonese Gorilla family all have cool reactions to their mirror reflection except for the silverback" The silverback has calmed the displays of aggressions he performed in an attempt to get rid of this intruder (his image) who encroached on his domain. He observes his females and descendants attentively and non aggressively who are glued to the mirror. His gaze passes furtively over his image, but only stops for a brief second. *_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. 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. Don’t forget after watching to read the description attached to each of my 160 videos published on my KZbin channel you will know very interesting information about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle kzbin.infovideos

[@irGuilty]

Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE great description makes perfect sense

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@irGuilty Merci beaucoup !

[@bichtuyennnoi6108]

Trời ơi tui thương dì đâu luôn á

[@vonversace]

Dude a Supa freak