A full-bellied leopard naps beside his reflection in a mirror and dreams of his next prey!

𝗔 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! / 𝗽𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 à 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 !
Xavier Hubert-Brierre and his wife Anne-Marie, with their friend Michel Guiss Djoumou, set up cameras in a remote area of Gabon's forest to shoot the diversity of wildlife in this beautiful country and then publish their videos on KZbin. The first videos were not particularly exciting as they mainly showed wild animals " walking by " for a few seconds in front of the lenses of their trap cameras fitted with motion detector. So, they came up with the idea of setting up very large mirrors to attract the curiosity of the animals and filming their reactions to their reflection with these trap cameras. These mirrors break the monotony of the daily life of some animals in this remote area. Although their presence may disturb some jungle species, many quickly get used to them and even take pleasure in observing their reflection in these mirrors or in sleeping near their reflection, a friend? a mate? like the leopard, a solitary animal, the main carnivore in this remote area.
Red river hog / Potamocherus porcus
- red coat with an erectile white mane of the spine to the back
- long white ears ending in tufts of white or black hair.
- weight up to 120 kg (male). Boars are somewhat larger than sows.
- feeds on roots, tubers, fruits, grass, insects and even carrion.
- communicates almost continuously through growls and small barks.
Using its large snout, it searches the ground under dead leaves for roots, tubers, seeds and fruits like the Ozouga (Sacoglottis gabonensis).
The sow has a very high fertility rate. After a gestation period of about 4 months, she will give birth to an average of three to six piglets, dark brown with horizontal yellow stripes. These stripes disappear before the age of 6 months.
Its main predators are leopards and humans. Its meat is highly prized, and for example in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, a red river hog can be purchased for 300/400 USD depending on its size. It is on the list of thirteen partially protected animal species in Gabon whose hunting, capture, possession, transport, and sale are regulated in accordance with the texts in force.
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Xavier Hubert-Brierre et son épouse Anne-Marie, avec leur ami Michel Guiss Djoumou ont installé des caméras dans un coin reculé de la forêt gabonaise afin de filmer la diversité de la faune de ce beau pays et ensuite publier leurs vidéos sur KZbin. Les premières vidéos n'étaient pas particulièrement intéressantes car elles montraient essentiellement des animaux sauvages "passant" pendant quelques secondes devant les objectifs de leurs caméras pièges équipées de détecteurs de mouvement. Alors, il leur est venu l’idée de placer de très grands miroirs afin d’attirer la curiosité des animaux et de filmer avec ces caméras pièges, leurs réactions face leur reflet. Ces miroirs rompent la monotonie de la vie quotidienne de certains animaux dans cette région reculée. Si leur présence peut déranger certaines espèces de la jungle, rapidement beaucoup s'y habituent et prennent même plaisir à observer leur reflet dans mes miroirs ou à dormir près de leur reflet, un ami ? un compagnon? comme la panthère, animal solitaire, principal carnivore de cette forêt.
Le potamochère / Potamocherus porcus :
- pelage roux avec une crinière blanche de l'échine jusqu'au dos
- oreilles avec aux extrémités un pinceau de poils blancs.
- poids pouvant atteindre 120 kg (mâle),
- se nourri de racines, tubercules, insectes, fruits, herbe et même de charognes.
- communique en permanence par grognements et petits aboiements.
A l’aide de son important groin (museau), sous les feuilles mortes, il fouille le sol à la recherche de racines, tubercules, graines et fruits comme l’Ozouga (Sacoglottis gabonensis).
Après une gestation de 4 mois environ, la laie ayant un taux de fertilité très élevé, met au monde de 3 à 6 marcassins de couleur brun foncé avec des rayures jaunâtres longitudinales. Ces rayures disparaissent avant l'âge de 6 mois.
Ses principaux prédateurs sont les panthères et les hommes. Sa viande étant très prisée, à Libreville, la capitale du Gabon, un potamochère se négocie suivant sa taille à 300/400 euros. Il fait partie de la liste des treize espèces animales partiellement protégées au Gabon dont la chasse, la capture, la détention, le transport ainsi que la commercialisation, sont réglementés conformément aux textes en vigueur.

[@ginagjuniort]

This channel is amazing. It’s like watching a secret world happen. Thanks, you have brightened my dull and boring London days with the idea of secret jungles in far off places.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Learn all about our idea of mirrors that brighten up your dull London days:* 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

[@psamanda1010]

Verdade. Eles vivem a vida deles sem pressa e sem preocupação nenhuma

[@AniFam]

A hilarious and wonderful dream~👍

[@Zaku186]

I wanna pet that cat soooo bad. Sleep well kitty.

[@MrVisa1000]

Don't. He's a wild animal that eat you without thinking twice about it.

[@monotongrauton]

Fascinating to watch. For me it looks like he's enjoying that there is 'another leopard' around, that he can snuggle up to (also seen in the other video with the elephants). Even gives him enough confidence to lie down for a nap, with his buddy around. Seems he's a pretty lonely guy. Of course it's just my imagination.

[@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 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: 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 Look at how the silverback gorilla's behaviour has evolved near the mirrors his family is looking at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc 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

[@monotongrauton]

@@XHB06400CANNES thank you for your response and explanations.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@monotongrauton 🙏🙏🙏 I really appreciate it when a viewer thanks me for my explanation that allowed him to understand the behaviour of the animals in front of the mirrors. Merci beaucoup!

[@randquadrozzi5850]

spectacular and healthy looking leopard.Glad to read your cameras also deter poachers.Snare traps are disgusting.seen video of baby elephant trapped in a snare it was horrible luckily some people helped him.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Bonne Année à Rand, a loyal subscriber! Gabon is a large country as large as Italy or the United Kingdom with a population of less than two million. This country has 13 national parks managed and controlled by the National Agency for National Parks (ANPN). This agency also has the mission, together with the Ministry of Water and Forests, to fight against poaching of elephants to satisfy the high demand for ivory from Asia and poaching of bushpigs and small game, which are highly valued by the Gabonese. Please watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 *Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects, watch the video of this elephant (Gabon)* kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c *Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare?* kzbin.info/www/bejne/foHOZqmNpLOHebM *An elephant injured by a poacher’s snare recovers after self treatment* kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJi7f4xorKyEZ7M *An elephant trapped in a poacher's snare* *In the remote area where I fixed my mirrors with an average of five cameras in front of each other and 80 trap cameras outside the area around the mirrors for nearly 11 years, I have noticed a significant increase in the number of leopards and their size. Why?* Because small game is more important and thus makes it possible to feed a larger number of leopards. Why is small game more important? Why has the gorilla family become larger? Why are chimpanzee groups more important? Why do red river hogs (bushpig) troops exceed fifty individuals? The poachers of this game avoid this region for fear of being photographed by my cameras : Watch this videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHrShoBmi9OMpMk

[@randquadrozzi5850]

@@XHB06400CANNES I'll check out sites.you would be great working for the Gabon tourism or wildlife agency your like a book of knowledge.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I just find your comment in my spams. Thank you for your support!

[@gustavocarvalho3368]

it's evident the love you have for this animals and the patient you have to awnser comments with quality information. Great work !

[@XHB06400CANNES]

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

[@michaelclark1727]

@@XHB06400CANNES do you have any ethical concerns about placing these mirrors in this habitat.Some of the animals appear stressed. You are not a scientist or primatologist by your own admission .Is this just for entertainment. Many of these animals are endangered.Altering their habitat seems like a risk to me.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@michaelclark1727 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

[@BJ-wn7yy]

Look at his forequarters... That is one robust male leopard

[@adhip0574]

Wow this is amazing!

[@cristianfuentes6164]

Mr Hubert-Brierre you are a hero

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*As you can see from reading my descriptions, English is not my mother tongue (native language) and my knowledge in your language does not allow me to understand the meaning of your comment, please explain it in an other way.* Keep watching my 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 : kzbin.infovideos

[@fourthright]

@@XHB06400CANNES so u only speak baguette?

[@RahatKhan-wz3uo]

Youre doing a great jon Xavier. Keep up the good work. I subscribed.

[@learnin....4494]

I have to say, It's an AWESOME channel.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_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!

[@learnin....4494]

@@XHB06400CANNES JUST IGNORE THOSE COMMENTS...

[@raejae3755]

Beautiful cats

[@VADemon]

Beautiful work!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_Your compliment is 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 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: Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIquoY2kiMaYd9U 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 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Good vision! Thank you again.

[@VADemon]

@@XHB06400CANNES Thank you Xavier for the detailed comment. I am a very different KZbin viewer because I download each video and usually watch offline later :) So I have seen the baby elephant and the poor elephant who escaped the snare and many others since I've found your channel (thanks to a Russian TV channel showing one of your videos many years ago)

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@VADemon Merci beaucoup !

[@AnisurRahman-bl4rc]

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[@user-zd9il6hh5s]

很喜歡你所拍攝的影片 加油 I really love all this video hope u can continue to update

[@XHB06400CANNES]

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

[@blanketmobbypants]

The Leopard just was like sleep is important than other animals lol

[@Tengrinin_Kirbaci]

My cat friend is also don't care about his reflection on the mirror just like this Big cat

[@SUPERPAX9]

More videos needed

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_A comment like yours is a great moral booster after reading numerous comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors!_* 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, cells, 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%. 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 can I suggest some of my 180 homemade videos from my channel that have never been recommended by KZbin and which unfortunately have a very small number of views even though they are very instructive such as A leopard man and a leopard woman use a mirror for their text messages. The gorilla disapproves kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpOmkoOJYpVkpJY dance with intimidating jumps among chimpanzees in front of mirrors placed in their jungle (Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5Kyipxtipycqpo a young male sitatunga (swamp antelope) crosses the stream in two jumps - the jungle of Gabon kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWSkmXepmrKfeas Blood-sucking ticks often infest the skin of elephants, causing intense itching. How do you get rid of them? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnfcga1rp9eme8U In the jungle, a mirror often has to be replaced kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKHIdoCKobeYh9k How do elephants choose mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3LIlWawappnn9U and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Keep watching the many videos I put online on my channel and read the description attached to each of them. You will find very interesting information about the reactions of the animals in front of my mirrors in the jungle: kzbin.infovideos Good watching

[@AnimalsUQChannel]

The best channel 👍👍❤❤

[@XHB06400CANNES]

🙏🙏🙏 *I appreciate the label you gave to my video.* May I invite you to watch especially my videos which, unfortunately, have a very small number of views and are very informative like: Baby elephant sleeps standing up glued to mom so as not to be left out when the night walk restarts? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIquoY2kiMaYd9U First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY Baby gorilla is in mirror training class: Mom's coming to pick him up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5rUpHmphK-bhtE Elephants calves playing in heavy rain in the Gabon jungle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIiuZ6SBqMt_rNk A calf elephant thinks its reflection in the mirror would be a young cow or a young calf: cute react kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ25h5uejrunibc For a baby elephant it is not easy to move through the jungle (Gabon): kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHmXgWCgdshpeLM In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Two Silverback Gorillas Fight in the Jungle - Animals Reactions in Huge Mirrors dirtied by a Leopard kzbin.info/www/bejne/anStYWeterGgfrc Good vision! Thank you again.

[@DasExpedition]

Thanks 🙏👍🏼 bro (HUBERT-BRIERRE Xavier)

[@tinkmarshino]

So they so have sweet dreams...

[@madiv2098]

gorgeous footage! love the "dream" :) any sign of narcissus?

[@chrisfactschannel]

omg that is such a funny video

[@manda2759]

Love this channel, I haven't came across it in a little while. The behaviors in the animals are fascinating and it's relaxing to watch. I see you haven't posted in a little bit, are there new things you're working on?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you to my loyal subscriber. Aged 77, half-deaf, and my wife aged 72 with knee problems, we have decided not to pursue this passion that has become dangerous. Given the large number of videos filmed over more than 10 years by our numerous trap cameras, we are thinking about publishing new videos on line, such as the specific behaviour of members of a gorilla family. If you are a subscriber, you will be informed by KZbin when a new video is published. I'm sure you haven't read all our 180 home-made videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos. After viewing each video, I recommend that you first read the accompanying description in English, which contains further explanations, and then return to the home page of my channel to choose another of my videos. May I suggest some of my 180 videos filmed with our traps, posted on my channel, which have never been recommended by KZbin and which therefore unfortunately have a very low number of views, even though they are very instructive, such as - The baby elephant sleeps upright close to its mother so that it is not forgotten when the night walk resumes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIquoY2kiMaYd9U - A newborn elephant's first mud bath with its mum and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY - The baby gorilla is being trained in the mirror: Mum comes to pick him up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5rUpHmphK-bhtE - Elephants playing in the pouring rain in the jungles of Gabon: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIiuZ6SBqMt_rNk - An elephant calf thinks its reflection in the mirror is a young cow or calf: cute reaction kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ25h5uejrunibc - It's not easy for a baby elephant to get around in the jungle (Gabon): kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHmXgWCgdshpeLM - Elephants crossing the River Ndouni in Gabon in front of trap cameras: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo - Two silverback gorillas fight in the jungle - Animal reactions in huge mirrors dirtied by a leopard: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anStYWeterGgfrc - A male and female leopard use a mirror for their text messages. The gorilla disapproves kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpOmkoOJYpVkpJY - chimpanzees dance with intimidating leaps in front of mirrors placed in their jungle (Gabon) kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5Kyipxtipycqpo - a young male sitatunga (marsh antelope) crosses the stream in two jumps - the jungle of Gabon kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWSkmXepmrKfeas - Blood-sucking ticks often infest the skin of elephants, causing intense itching. How can you get rid of them? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnfcga1rp9eme8U - In the jungle, a mirror often needs replacing kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKHIdoCKobeYh9k - How do elephants pick mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3LIlWawappnn9U and unfortunately there are many others in the same case! Enjoy

[@adrenaline996]

Ну типичная кошка 😁😜

[@XHB06400CANNES]

У кошек, если львы запрограммированы на жизнь в больших семейных группах, леопарды генетически запрограммированы на жизнь в одиночестве. Так что этот самец леопарда - одинокое и территориальное животное. Он не чувствует себя одиноким и не ищет партнера без запаха. Ему не нужен друг. Эти зеркала разбивают определенное сходство в его жизни в тропическом лесу. Перед ними из минуты в минуту меняется поведение самца леопарда, его желание составить компанию, желание подраться с соперником, незваный гость на его территории, который странным образом не имеет запаха и немой. Он встречается с самками только во время брачного сезона. Чтобы пригласить самок в зной, он издает гортанный звук, который называется "зов пиления". Этот звонок также предупреждает соперников-мужчин не входить в его домен: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8. Продолжайте смотреть новые видео, которые я размещаю онлайн на своем канале, и прочитайте описание, прилагаемое к каждому из них. Вы узнаете очень интересные сведения о реакциях животных перед моими зеркалами в джунглях: kzbin.infovideos Если вы не понимаете английского языка, вы можете помочь себе в бесплатной программе перевода, такой как www.deepl.com/en/ru/translator или translate.google.com

[@renator.alvesmorbeckalvesm7258]

Boa tarde SHOW BARRA DO GARÇAS MT

[@terrywbreedlove]

Interesting different reaction to the big gorilla who got very upset and beat the ground. The Cat seems to look at all four corners and the edge of the mirror and is very relaxed. Is this a predators instinct to investigate possible new food and surroundings ?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

These are two very different behaviours: 1) the silverback gorilla avoiding looking at his reflection in the mirror because between silverbacks looking straight into the eyes is a fighting declaration (not in blackback gorillas) but trying to intimidate and chase away this intruder (his own reflection which he does not know because he has not been able to undertake his mirror training where it is appropriate to look straight into the eyes) 2) the leopard that does not have the cognitive ability to recognise himself, does not know what he looks like and smells the scent left by a rival male that has previously rubbed against the mirror Watch more of my 180 homemade videos published on my channel kzbin.infovideos and read the description attached to each of them. You will find very interesting information about the reactions of the animals in front of my mirrors in the gabonese jungle: Good vision!

[@samirsan9105]

EN ce qui me concerne, je ne pensais pas la faune gabonaise aussi riche. Je pensais que leur dirigeants avaient tout détruit, tout vendu... Ton expérience donne envie de découvrir ce pays, la faune et les gens qui la protège 👏👏👏 Merci.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Merci pour tes différents commentaire dont celui sur Michel, chargé par une herbivore !* *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

[@ignanimepm4545]

Good to see Narcissus is doing ok.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thanks to my loyal subsriber!

[@filipisandre]

do you think he actually saw his reflection or was he more interested/content with the flatness and corners (to mark and scratch his head on) of the structure itself? i know pet cats see poorly up close and in bright light, so im wondering if he was too close to actually see himself? if he did, thats one cool cat!

[@pandoratube4929]

I think use circle mirror is more fun.

[@ogulcansahin3135]

love your vids, are these mirrors installed for a long time? I wonder the long term effects on the behaviour of the animals; do they deliberately go to the mirrors and play, or do they just randomly stumble upon them? In the case of primates: is it possible to add this to their culture or is it just a daily distraction?

[@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

[@quietginja9946]

Study shows kitty recognizes but does not care.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Not exactly: Kitty doesn't recognise itself in the mirror, but it has realised that this odourless animal (its reflection because it doesn't know what it looks like) does not present any danger and therefore it doesn't care. *For leopard fanatics, I publish many videos of these felines:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rOd2tqYsaXhdE a 19 minutes video containing all the shots (assembled end to end) in front of this feline's mirror from 1:00 pm, time of his arrival before his encounter with the elephants, during the face to face and afterwards, until his departure from the mirror at 11:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4ukgJJmbKyXidU and kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpLSe3eOj7ara9U two short versions taken by camera traps of a different brand and from a slightly different angle of view. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJWnYqKkaa1sqdU a night face to face leopard/elephants kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 a video showing how, this solitary feline calls the oestrus females of his domain when he wants to copulate and kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIK3aaKBpseBeKc a video of one of his matings. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3-rXmOadrSSodk A young leopard plays with its mirror reflection under the control of its mother in the jungle. kzbin.info/www/bejne/el6kkqVvh5qdmLs Leopards VS mirror - 3 years later the same mother with her new cub (identification demonstrated in clip) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZCYYWqGYqmYn8k leopard: mirror learning does not progress kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaTgoWcZ9Wdp8k What a great seducer! and so on. Please read the description attached to each of my videos published on my KZbin channel you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle kzbin.infovideos

[@alejmc]

What all these videos still make me wonder is that: sure, sight senses are tricked as the mirror is almost a perfect reflection… but what about all the others? Smelling and hearing, especially when up close, wouldn’t be fooled. Unless sight is of such high importance that even if every other senses isn’t “detecting” the supposed other animal… it still goes with it. Makes me wonder if just printing a life sized photorealistic animal prop (flat cardboard box style) would also trigger some of the animals to try to approach it or scare them away.

[@wandersonmiranda7463]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@KARI6266]

Szkoda

[@user-fu4jo8zl2o]

سبحان الله العلي العظيم وبحمده لا اله إلا الله محمد رسول الله

[@pale_profile7237]

Lol

[@leopardjunglesafarijhalana6659]

Gjb

[@insane5907]

What camera do you use to record them

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Please watch my video with some samples of trap cameras I use* kzbin.info/www/bejne/naeQlnmrnNB5npo To learn more about these wildlife encounters with giant mirrors installed in the jungle in Gabon, after watching, read the accompanying description of each of my 180 videos published on my KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos

[@benhot5397]

He or she Loves the Creator ^^

[@KARI6266]

Ciekawe

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Obejrzyjcie mój kanał kzbin.infovideos z jego wieloma filmami o faunie Gabonu. Przeczytaj opis dołączony do każdego z moich filmów, ponieważ znajdziesz tam bardzo interesujące informacje o zwierzętach, a zwłaszcza o tym, jak reagują na moje lustra. Jeśli nie rozumiesz angielskiego, a nie francuskiego, możesz przetłumaczyć moje opisy za pomocą darmowego oprogramowania tłumaczącego, takiego jak: www.deepl.com/pl/translator

[@wingedhussar1453]

how do ppl say they don't see their reflection. clearly it knows its a reflection because otherwise it would attack it

[@sarban1653]

This one probably does, but many of them don't.

[@abhijeetrana490]

Hlo sir

[@fimagkrusvi8722]

What if mirror helps to see not only learning process but basic psychological requests of animals as well. Monkeys and elephants usually want to investigate themselves while leopards need warm friendship.

[@rkdrkd-sm6ql]

Monsieur es que la prochaine fois vous prouver filmé les chevrotain aquatique

[@XHB06400CANNES]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/a53YeImtd5loack

[@paulmrn2222]

@@XHB06400CANNES merci pour votre dévotion, vivement la prochaine vidéo !

[@manda2759]

Probably a dumb question, but is this the same male Leopard from your other videos that loves to hang by the mirror? Or an entirely different one?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

It isn't a dumb question because the arrangement of marks (rosettes) on the fur leopards is unique (like fingerprints to humans). So I explain in my video kzbin.info/www/bejne/el6kkqVvh5qdmLs You can check that in the majority of my videos with a male leopard, it is often the same one!

[@manda2759]

@@XHB06400CANNES I think it's really funny and interesting how out of all the animals the leopard seems to really enjoy the mirror the most. The leopard was upset when the elephant broke it! It's neat how he will hang out by it all night and send messages to potential mates! Very interesting. The monkeys seem more suspicious of it haha. I've been watching lots of your videos. Great videos!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@manda2759 *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 180 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 about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle. Good vision!

[@manda2759]

@@XHB06400CANNES Oh I am sure it's FAR from easy. That weather is unforgiving! How do you keep the bugs away? Is there a natural way that actually repels them? It seems you know many people that are involved down there, I'm sure they learned some tricks to keep the bugs at bay. Honestly, I'm terrified of attack bugs! You can ask me to pick up a snake and I will handle it, but if I see a wasp or a hornet and I'm running away screaming! The work you do is wonderful, although tiring. I was thinking myself from your videos that going to do the camera checks, batteries, footage searching etc must be enough of a pain. The more you describe, the more I didn't realize all you have to do and the weather doesn't help you out. Thanks to you, your wife Ann-Marie, and Michel for all your perseverance. Keeping poachers away is a huge win! Fun fact: Elephants are my 2nd favorite animal. How did you get into all of this? What started it? My whole life dream was to do some kind of work with the ocean and it's inhabitants. Orcas specifically and other whales/dolphins. That's how I found your videos actually, I was watching my black and white apex predators swim along the sea. No other creature brings such a smile to my face than the wolves of the sea. But anyway, I certainly will check out your videos. I've been watching many of them. Your hard work does NOT go unnoticed! Also, your English is pretty good. Your descriptions and comments are very informative and clearly understood. I didn't realize you only spoke French. Either way you guys are great!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

your comment is a morale booster! 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. 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

[@netfactova5066]

Excuse me I want your no I want to contact u u have given a copyright strike on my video I have only used a small video clip did u see that video how I made that

[@doctoralban8049]

Красавчик заснул и сниться дичь

[@yungjeddy]

Haven’t seen a study like this… so cool 🫶🏻 wish i could study with you! more videos please

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Sorry, half deaf (76 years old) I prefer to stay alone in the forest with my wife who has very good hearing (70 years old) We do not wish to share the dangers with others.*

[@yungjeddy]

@@XHB06400CANNES ohh hello my good sir… so kind of you to comment here… hope you and your wife have a wonderful day! im curious to know what your spiritual thoughts are hehe (sorry for the random question)

[@user-vr7ty7oc1d]

Это ни один и тот же леопард

[@Ammunetta]

U Copyright strike ppl 🤣🤣💀

[@mathewvanostin7118]

Why would he let you steal views, allow competition in the same niche and lose youtube money $$$ when he is the one who went to africa, bought a huge strong mirror, transport it in the jungle and film hours of video to probably maybe get 30 minutes of interesting footage. Not to mention all the time it takes to edit 😆 Just make your own video if you want to be big in youtube game If you like a video share link. Instead of downloading the video and reuploading it. Altho to be honest 90% of people who do this is because they try to be big on youtube in a lazy opportunistic way by using other peoples videos. Just make your own video! At worst adopt a cat, play with him, record video and upload it you gonna get views and suscribers. And video would be 100% yours

[@tigerswood7481]

Good.

[@netfactova5066]

I request u please remove this strike

[@abhijeetrana490]

Please take your strike sir Channel name is Total knowledge 2.O I delete my video in KZbin

[@kumarswami47]

Bonjour monsieur, je veux parler avec vous de la grève du droit d'auteur. Ma chaîne a été clôturée en raison de grèves. Je Suis Très Pauvre. Ma famille dépend totalement de ma chaîne. Veuillez supprimer l'avertissement pour atteinte aux droits d'auteur de ma chaîne. Réponds-moi, s'il-te-plait

[@payalindianmarwarihorsefar7505]

Fgn

[@mr.aaryan03]

Hello friend plz help me plz brother copyright strike remove 😭😭😭😭😭

[@taser42]

Sorry I made a meme of your video that I saw in twitter I did not check who's video it was. I was just trying to be funny. If possible pls . Cancel strike I have learned my lesson if not then live and learn. Thanks and keep up with your videos sorry if I caused any bad feelings.

[@rfunn1605]

Sir please remove your copyright strike my channel

[@XHB06400CANNES]

_COPYRIGHT_*S*

[@rfunn1605]

@@XHB06400CANNES sir please remove your COPYRIGHT strike Rfunn channel

[@flowersandcandyflowersandc9093]

@@XHB06400CANNES Why lie ? 😐

[@user-hb1jq3xh5q]

It is not worth teasing a primate or any animal for fun, likes and money!!!! It doesn't amuse me, nor do I like it!!!!! Mercy

[@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

[@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

[@harpz7840]

And what's your issue with that? This is very interesting content to watch. The animals aren't being forced to look at the mirror, they are free in their natural habitat. Stop whining and spamming them same comment on every video and get a life.

[@21jajego1]

@@harpz7840 earning money from stressing the animals. You are serious? In their free habitat there is no mirrors

[@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

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@21jajego1 Denim 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘇𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁! (𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲 𝗡é𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁) "you have been bothering wild animals for years for no other reason than money." In 12 years of trapping I have - bought 304 photographic traps at an average price of 150 us dollars each, - made a total of 48 return flights between France and Gabon with my wife, - built 50 mirrors (short life span due to humidity and termites) and finally we stayed about 60/70 weeks in the Nyonié camp located 10 km from my trapping area! Please read at least the description attached to my videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqfPmoekf5yCotE scared chimps reassure themselves with rump-to-rump contacts front of mirror kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaqXpqKupt9litU Vine or branch in hand, gorillas and chimps are emboldened to attack their reflection in a mirror. Have you once set a foot in the forest to be able to announce: "always several mirrors in the wild, and that the animals must encounter them hundreds of times" What have you done so far in your life to make such remarks about me? On your channel I see that you have managed to post 4 videos totalling 93,000 views in 12 years (on my side during the same period 180 videos, 142 million views, 199,000 subscribers) Finally, why do you hide behind a pseudonym, have the courage to put your full identity to assume your words!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@Har S *_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.. *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._* Watch more of my 180 videos published on my channel kzbin.infovideos and read the description attached to each of them. You will find very interesting information about the reactions of the animals in front of my mirrors in the gabonese jungle: Good vision!

[@ghazalsalah9148]

Hello! Hope all is well. My name is Ghazal Salah. I'm an online producer at CNN Arabic. We came across your videos and we would like to connect with you directly in regards an interview request. Can I have your email to discuss this further? Thanks!

[@nickh6674]

Hello I run a TickTock account that has almost 1,000,000 followers I would love to use one of your videos and credit you in the description let me know! If that’s OK.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Sorry, I don't at all agree with you using any of my videos to post on your **_TickTock_** account, and crediting me in the description.*

[@nickh6674]

@@XHB06400CANNES no problem! I won’t.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you for having the politeness to ask me for my prior consent. Good luck!

[@nickh6674]

@@XHB06400CANNES thanks! Ofc. 😊