leopard: learning of mirror don't progress - l'apprentissage des panthères au miroir stagne

𝐑.𝐈.𝐏. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 DESCRIPTION TO READ ABSOLUTELY : ENGLISH / FRENCH ###
For many months, leopards spend day and night, many hours in front of 6 mirrors (2.5 mx 1.22 m) mounted by Anne-Marie, Xavier and Michel in rainforest near Nyonié (Gabon), 30 km south of the equator line. They continue to consider their reflection as a stranger entered their hunting area, or as a leopard of the opposite sex they are trying to seduce. The phases of attack, growling are interspersed with phases of seduction.
• A leopard waits patien...
• Une panthère plonge à ...
Depuis de nombreux mois, les panthères passent de jour comme de nuit, des nombreuses heures devant les 6 miroirs (2,5 m x 1,22 m) placés par Anne-Marie, Xavier et Michel dans la forêt près de Nyonié au Gabon, à environ 30 km au sud de la ligne de l’équateur. Tout comme lors de leur premier contact avec un de ces miroirs, elles continuent à considérer leur reflet tantôt comme un étranger entré dans leur domaine de chasse tantôt comme un congénère du sexe opposé qu’ils tentent de séduire. Les phases d’agressions, de grognements sont entrecoupées par de phases de séduction.

[@WitsEnds]

1:43 "Holy shit it's a leopard!"

[@ct92404]

At 02:10, it definitely seems like the leopard has caught on that something strange is going on. The way he tilts and moves his head back and forth looks like he is trying to figure out what's going on and that he is starting to realize that his movements are matching his reflection. He might not understand yet that it's actually himself, but to me it seems like he is realizing it's not just another leopard. I think someone needs to study the recordings again, because something unusual was happening there. It looks like progress to me.

[@zel3888]

agreed it looked like he was entering a different phase there. He was swaying his head back and forth ... it didn't look like he was confronting another animal in that moment.

[@MakeSushi1]

I love the sound of a leopard purring it's like a akrapovic exhaust!

[@rabbitseason4241]

+How To Make Sushi That was/is one of the best comments on KZbin ever! :)

[@MakeSushi1]

+rabbitseason cheers bro

[@judesjewels7831]

Leopards don't purr. No big cat that can roar is capable of purring - it's simply the way their larynx is. But that doesn't mean the quieter snarls are any less beautiful sounding!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

+JudesJewels How do you call its so particular sound? What does it mean?

[@judesjewels7831]

+Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE I wish I could say what the sound is but it's not the rhythmic sound purring has that follows the breathing pattern all purring cat species make. As you're around wildlife a great deal, you know that large cats communicate with a variety of sounds -- not just roars or snarls. I'm merely guessing that what some think is purring on your video is more a happy come-hither sound. I've never had the opportunity to be around big cats but have avidly watched every possible nature documentary I've been able to find (over +20 years) - many following life stories of big cats. In them, I've watched the social interplay of mothers with cubs, between almost adult siblings, males with females, and in the case of lions, among pride members. They often make sounds they make with each other that someone unfamiliar with big cats would assume are aggressive but aren't. I still think there is a great deal we don't know about them yet.

[@trevors5216]

Dam ....the Sound these magnificent animals make , that deep growl ..... AWESOME.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 100 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@rainwhenidiie]

OMG how amazing! The sounds he's making are absolutely beautiful. ❤️ xx

[@rainwhenidiie]

+Mr1987Joe lol xx

[@elcapidetripu]

3:03 It's a boy

[@lexa8702]

God, you are too awesome. The way you make all these magnificent creatures.

[@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

[@Sherlock245]

@@XHB06400CANNES its true the lord Almighty created these animals and they are science evidence to show why!!!!! Do you say an art painting evolved by itself??

[@tranquilrabies]

1:50 Dude is jacked as hell lol

[@shanks6190]

Wonder how much he can deadlift.

[@TechBirb]

You should see lions

[@pelagic6]

Super fascinating watching his intelligence at work...

[@theego2897]

Intelligence? It thinks it's looking at another leopard lol

[@beepot2764]

Big cats make the craziest noises lol! Especially Bobcats and cougars.

[@DownHavenEnt]

Leopard: what did I eat? I know I didn't smoke today? What is this?

[@alexshapiro9841]

hey thanks! Why do animals act like they see their reflection for the first time? Don't they see their reflection in the water when they drink or walk over puddles?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

1) Have you been successful in clearly recognizing your own image clearly by leaning over a pool, a puddle of rain water, in a pond ? Maybe just your shade on a sunny day? On the water's surface its own image cannot be reflected perpendicularly but laterally. For this reason your neighbour, under some light conditions and some quality from the bottom of the pond, can see distinctly your face but not his own. Thus, an animal cannot clearly see itself in a pond or a puddle and therefore, it cannot learn in the mirror because for it as well as for humans, self recognition in a mirror is not innate. 2) Cats don't have the ability to recognize themselves in a mirror, even after a long training in the mirror. To date: only Humans, Orangutans, Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Gorillas, Rhesus Macaques, Bottlenose Dolphins, Asian Elephants, Orcas and Magpies have shown the ability to recognize their own reflections. Thank you for watching more of my 160 home made videos posted on my channel and read the description attached to each one. You will find very interesting information on the animals' reactions to my mirrors in the jungle: kzbin.infovideos

[@JimelWalker]

This would make a pretty cool movie. Wild animals from the rain forest find a mirror but to them it's a magical mystery. Like, Madagascar with a mirror.

[@katyalupochev9589]

From description: “the phases of attack, growling are interspersed with phases of seduction” Tsundere leopard

[@misshirly9957]

beautiful creature

[@XHB06400CANNES]

For leopard fanatics, I publish a 19-minutes long video containing all the leopard's trap camera shots (assembled end to end) in front of this mirror from 13 PM before his meeting with elephants, during the face to face and after until he left the mirror at 23PM kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rOd2tqYsaXhdE Also a second short version taken by another trap camera of a different brands and under slightly different angle of view, have already been published on my channel, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpLSe3eOj7ara9U

[@JokeRmakesPie]

The sound she/ he makes has my toes curling.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 100 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@DustyLWithHusk]

Bro out here falling to the ground like my cats when they wanna be scratched 😂😭

[@Partykurt]

Sort of like how they first layed down and began to show their stomach to show submissiveness, but then got cocky whe mirror pulled the same move

[@Gourmeticainsularis1]

When it was moving it's head back and forth...Was it experimenting to see what the hell was going on or was that a normal behaviour leopords around other leopards?

[@Gourmeticainsularis1]

Gourmeticainsularis1 It definitely seemed to me that the learning progressed...In the beginning all it did was growl at the mirror and stalk around but the couple times it looked to be experimenting and figuring out that it was looking at itself.

[@DimitrisZg]

wish i never hear that sound when i walk in the mountain

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 130 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@murdechoc]

i think he pretty much got it

[@robert.emiranda1217]

Magnificent And Wonderful animal...

[@XHB06400CANNES]

For leopard fanatics, I publish a 19-minutes long video containing all the leopard's trap camera shots (assembled end to end) in front of this mirror from 13 PM before his meeting with elephants, during the face to face and after until he left the mirror at 23PM kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rOd2tqYsaXhdE Also a second short version taken by another trap camera of a different brands and under slightly different angle of view, have already been published on my channel, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpLSe3eOj7ara9U On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 150 videos shot by our trap cameras in the jungle in Gabon. A majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After each watching do not forget to read the description attached to each one to learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection

[@drandy.youtubechannel1436]

Amazing 👍👍👍

[@nemesisnibiru8367]

Someone should try putting a big tv or projector out there showing an animal and see what happens... Hologram maybe?

[@ObitoUchiha-ck6kx]

Sounds like a ktm.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_Listen to another leopard sound similar to the exhaust from a KTM bike that having trouble starting:_* a guttural sound (produced at the back of the throat) to invite females in heat for mating and to warn rival males to keep out, male leopards emit a repeated sequence of roars called "sawing", because it sounds like a wood plank being cut with a saw : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 160 videos capture with our trap cameras in the jungle in Gabon. A majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After each watching do not forget to read the description attached to each one to learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection.

[@HOLLAELLMIERAWR]

the sounds 😱😱😱😱

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 120 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@codiguy5905]

awsome

[@heyitsmedammit]

This is superb.

[@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.

[@ihsanpandu631]

Why every time I hear Leopard roar I remember Tarzan game xD

[@Lady8D]

WOW! My volume isn't even up very high but that sound is making my speaker go crazy! Can't even imagine what that sound would feel like in person! You know, if one was able to feel it through the fear, piss and bowels releasing...just sayin, I'd be terrified!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 100 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@Lady8D]

Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE Will do, thanks!

[@Lady8D]

Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE PS) Thanks for creating and posting these! Its SO very interesting!

[@pattylizzy]

Wow!

[@Sigfried78960]

C’est peut-être moins costaud qu’un Jaguar mais celle-là est vraiment grande et impressionnante

[@nomadlion1985]

Leopard growl is like satan from hell !!

[@mariepi]

algo que extraña al leopardo es que no capta olor de leopardo, y el olor es en los animales tan importante como la vision, por lo quese leopardo capta "algo raro" en el leopardo que ve

[@robertoe.miranda3349]

THUNDERCAT....

[@kimik1082]

He just trying the de niro scene in movie, taxi driver :)

[@kenymus]

Leopard: so, I have a Harley Leopard: no shit. Wait..lemme roll around in these leaves for a sec. Ahhhh. That’s alright Tell me more Leopard: it go, rrrrrrr. Rrrrrrrrr. Rerrr

[@XHB06400CANNES]

It does not sound like a Harley. It is a guttural sound (produced in the back of the throat) to invite females in heat to mate and to warn rival males to stay away. Male leopards make a repeated sequence of roars called "sawing", as it sounds like a plank of wood being cut with a saw:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 *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

[@yamsauceda6150]

Mirror

[@peyxander]

I'm not sure they are meant to recognize themselves in reflections because they all look the same, it would be pretty hard to distinguish one from another, same for most animals. Humans have distinct features so it's easy to recognize ourselves. (I'm just guessing here)

[@peyxander]

also what if it did recognize itself but then it wouldn't be able to tell if the other leopard real he sees is him or not?

[@obesedog23]

To us humans they all look the same, but it's the same with animals looking at humans as moreorless the same. They easily recognize differences amongst others of their own species

[@dannymahoney6533]

mate you're an idiot they have distinguishing features to one and another like we do too but they see us as all the same

[@obesedog23]

Danny Mahoney Was it necessary to call him an idiot? Relax

[@dannymahoney6533]

+obesedog23 lol my bad I do let these comments get the best of me I just don't like when people stat a fact that's not true....but apologies fella

[@SchachtStudio]

1:43 Kitty got moves!

[@sirsamuelin]

3:03 Dem nuts.

[@AGENT-tq1nm]

sounds like 1986 royal enfield bullet 0:28

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Yes he sounds like Royal Enfield. Listen to another leopard sound similar to the exhaust from a KTM bike that having trouble starting: a guttural sound (produced at the back of the throat) to invite females in heat for mating and to warn rival males to keep out, male leopards emit a repeated sequence of roars called "sawing", because it sounds like a wood plank being cut with a saw:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 170 videos capture with our trap cameras in the jungle in Gabon. A majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After each watching do not forget to read the description attached to each one to learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection.

[@MrMarkjon]

lol it submits to itself

[@gv4476]

1:43 haha

[@smeghead7252]

it's a "four stroke"

[@autolux9465]

AMG 63

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Listen to an other leopard's sound: "sawing call", a guttural sound to invite females in heat and warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 130 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@bloggs24]

Close your eyes and imagine your on Isla Nublar

[@patribbing6756]

chili peppers turn to lava quicker than lazer beams

[@johntriadafylidhs5632]

innocent souls trapped in a beasts bodies ( god desicion ) no one like himshelf in a mirror only the selfish humans the real monsters !!!

[@strangevideos3048]

0:08 Mustang exaust

[@Franz19970]

He loves himsemf

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*In felines, while lions are programmed to live in large family groups (pride), male leopards are genetically programmed to live alone, to live without any female (except during mating periods) and without their own offspring and therefore to be single throughout his life. So this male leopard is a solitary and territorial animal. He occupies a territory that overlaps a few smaller female territories. He doesn't feel alone and dont search an odourless mate. He doesn't need any friend, any lifepartner. These mirrors break a certain sameness in his life in the rain forest. Front of them This male leopard behaviour changes from one minute to the next, of desire for company, of desire to fight with a rival, an intruder in his territory who strangely has no smell and is mute. This leopard was clearly drawn to and interested in the mirror, rubs himself on the mirror because may be a female leopard in estrus did it earlier leaving her scent? He only meets females during the mating season. To invite the females in heat, he emits a guttural sound called " sawing call ". This call also warns rival males not to enter his domain:* kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 180 videos captured by our trap cameras fixed in the Gabon jungle. The majority of them show encounters of wild animals with our 6 large mirrors. After watching each of our videos, don't forget to read the description in english attached to learn more about the behaviour of the animals in front of their reflection.

[@JustineAgada]

kitty

[@GARedPain]

damm its fucking CUTE! xd

[@ampodelgado2882]

What is the purpose of this?, Is it not cruel to cause confusion and disturb the mental state of the animal?, Not being rude I just really want to know.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Without these mirrors,* jungle life is cruel and monotony : These animals encounter other opponents in the jungle constantly. And those opponents (or prey) have actual claws, fangs, tusks, and horns to fight back with and shed blood. They fight or they flee or both. They fight amongst themselves within their own herds and prides regardless of species for food, status, for mating right and territory and might die in those encounterss. *With these mirrors,* I break the monotony of the daily life of some animals in this remote area of the gabonese rain forest. If the presence of my mirrors can disturb some species in the jungle, quickly many of them get habituated to it and even take pleasure to observe their reflection in my mirrors. These wild animals can go to these mirrors, as they see fit and stay in front of them, as long as they wish. They are not tied as dogs with leashes, locked as dog or cats in flats especially with dressing rooms equipped with a large mirror! They are not imprisoned for life in pens or cages with the distraction of watching visitors standing behind their fences or bars, eating the food they have neither picked nor hunted as Harambe (a silverback gorilla), born in captivity and dead 17 years later, still captive , killed by a bullet in his enclosure! No food is placed by humans next to mirrors to encourage them to come. I would like to point out that among the wild animals meeting these mirrors placed in this remote region of Gabon, some seem happy to look at themselves in these mirrors: as these leopards: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaTgoWcZ9Wdp8k kzbin.info/www/bejne/el6kkqVvh5qdmLs as these chimpanzees: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWboX2GZ52Gf8k as these young gorillas: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWS2gpdnpMSlZpI kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc Look at how the silverback gorilla's behaviour has evolved near the mirrors his family is looking at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc?t=155 Look at how the gorilla family's walking speed increases when they approach a mirror whose location they have memorized kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 160 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@alexshapiro9841]

It's crueler to cause confusion and disturb the mental state of humans by posting nonsense questions such as yours.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@alexshapiro9841 What a support ! Many thanks! *With these mirrors, I break the monotony of the daily life of some animals in this remote area of the gabonese rain forest.* If the presence of my mirrors can disturb some species in the jungle, quickly many of them get habituated to it and even take pleasure to observe their reflection in my mirrors. These wild animals can go to these mirrors, as they see fit and stay in front of them, as long as they wish. They are not tied as dogs with leashes, locked as dog or cats in flats especially with dressing rooms equipped with a large mirror! They are not imprisoned for life in pens or cages with the distraction of watching visitors standing behind their fences or bars, eating the food they have neither picked nor hunted as Harambe (a silverback gorilla), born in captivity and dead 17 years later, still captive , killed by a bullet in his enclosure! No food is placed by humans next to mirrors to encourage them to come. I would like to point out that among the wild animals meeting these mirrors placed in this remote region of Gabon, some seem happy to look at themselves in these mirrors: as these leopards: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaTgoWcZ9Wdp8k kzbin.info/www/bejne/el6kkqVvh5qdmLs as these chimpanzees: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGWboX2GZ52Gf8k as these young gorillas: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWS2gpdnpMSlZpI kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc Look at how the silverback gorilla's behaviour has evolved near the mirrors his family is looking at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc?t=155 Look at how the gorilla family's walking speed increases when they approach a mirror whose location they have memorized kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPFmGacdqplibc Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 160 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@ChillExpressions]

@Alex Shapiro chill man, she said she’s not trying to be rude but was just curious.