The jungle mirror must be cleaned often so that chimps gorillas and mandrills can look at themselves

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Anne-Marie and Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE along with Michel GUISS DJOMOU have set up very large mirrors in a forest in the west of Gabon. In this natural and uncontrolled environment numerous camera traps have been placed in front of each of these mirrors in order to film animals’ reactions to their own reflection from different angles and at different distances. Over the past few months an imposing male leopard has become addicted to his reflection. The leopard's frequent rubbing of his reflection in the mirror has coated the mirror with the oils that protect his fur, grease from of his paw pads and drool. The dirtied mirror makes it difficult for the camera traps to film a clear image of the animals' reflections. (Robin Alcorn translation).
Animals frequenting these mirrors often have difficulty seeing their own image behind a cloud of drool. Also these camera trappers often have to go into the jungle to wash the mirrors.
Did you observe the chimp having an intimidating charge from 00:47 to 00:57?
It is a single-armed (hand and right forearm cut in a trap?). It was first filmed by our cameras eight years ago. Despite his handicap, he remains one of the dominant males in the group.
• An one-armed chimp in ...
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Anne-Marie et Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE avec Michel GUISS DJOMOU ont installé de très grands miroirs dans une forêt à l’ouest du Gabon. Dans cet environnement naturel et incontrôlé, de multiples pièges photographiques ont été placés devant chacun de ces miroirs afin de filmer sous différents angles et à différentes distances, les réactions des animaux face à leur reflet. Les mois passant, un imposant mâle panthère est devenu addict à son reflet. Se frottant fréquemment à son image, il enduit les miroirs de la graisse protégeant sa fourrure, du gras de ses pelotes et de sa bave. Cela rend plus difficile la vision des reflets filmés par leurs pièges photographiques. Les animaux fréquentant ces miroirs ont souvent du mal à voir leur image derrière un nuage de bave.
Aussi ces photo-piégeurs doivent-ils se rendre souvent dans la jungle pour y laver leurs miroirs.
Avez-vous bien regardé le chimpanzé faisant une charge intimidatrice de 00:47 à 00:57 ?
Il s’agit d’un manchot (main et partie avant-bras droit coupés dans un piège ?). Il a été filmé pour la première fois par nos caméras il y a 8 ans. Malgré son handicap, il demeure l’un des mâles dominants du groupe.
• An one-armed chimp in ...

[@JFein]

Not gonna lie, someone did a great job splicing together that thumbnail.

[@bigman88george3]

Thumbnail fooled me. Thought the leapord was cool with the dude.

[@evilelfis3646]

That jaguar is in love with himself hehe

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Evilelfis* If you had read its title of my video and the description attached to, you would not have posted such a statement in your comment because as indicated that the video was filmed in Gabon (Africa) and that the cat is a leopard (Panthera pardus) and not a jaguar (Panthera onca) only found on the American continent where no elephants are found on this continent. Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 130 videos published on our channel before posting a comment : kzbin.infovideos

[@michael.5360]

Hmmmm? I was thinking.... Why not broaden the experiment by placing hand-held mirrors on the ground.(would they grasp the handle?) Would the chimps response be different? Or another thought just occurred...... Why not place a mirror on the ground covered with Just food. As the chimp starts eatting the food , gradually exposing his reflection ,what would be the reaction? Just a crazy scientific thought.Being scientists , and scientist do crazy things, I wonder why they hadn't thought of various paradigms, in a range of experiments using reflection devices. It's like when I was a kid there was always some prize at the bottom of a cereal box or Cracker-Jacks box.

[@aenikamandal2301]

2:05.. Leopard is like.. "O god.. i am so handsome ..from left .. from right.. from every side... i am proud of myself ..but i am sooo lonely" never mind 2:22.. " let me pet myself "

[@oliamangbo]

I came here for the guy cleaning the mirror with the leopard by his side.😀

[@DavidMichaelChen]

Over years the mirror will raise the animals' intelligence.

[@harambe2132]

That’s a huge leopard

[@PrimeraC18]

Los Leopardos de las selvas del Congo y Gabon crecen más que sus contrapartes de la sábana

[@YoungMesrine]

@@PrimeraC18 yep because they have no competition, no lion no hyena no cheetah... so it's plenty food for them

[@kuaikukia]

The leopard obviously felt so lonely

[@XHB06400CANNES]

In felines, lions are genetically programmed to live in a pride while leopards are genetically programmed to live alone. Lone lions are males who have been driven from the group. So this leopard male doesn’t feel lonely. He doesn't have the need for companions. He only meets females during the mating season. On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 100 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

[@jimbobjunior.]

I started this video on full volume. That jungle noise pierces right through your mind!

[@dandelion1627]

The leopard is my favorite. She truly loves the mirror. I think she knows it is her reflection, she just does not understand the magic of mirror.

[@eternallight4425]

It's a male

[@hiki_neat315]

@@eternallight4425 lol

[@alexandergolke1325]

He's like George Costanza , lying on his couch , kissing his cushion !

[@maknificentthegreat3441]

I have no real reason as to why this intrigues me but I cant stop watching it... Kudos!!

[@R.G.777.]

The leopard knows it's a beautiful creature which is why it was trying to hug and lick its reflection..its right! It is a beautiful creature

[@redwoods7370]

The big cats are gorgeous and they are king and top of the food chain and they sure know it. Love them!!

[@1O9Piano]

cancer7 loll xD

[@RiksnDixn]

This is sick narcistic behaviour for this type of big cat (who live alone) and consequently the line of this degenerate will die out.

[@jimzorn3853]

What do you mean "some day"?

[@titfortat5727]

RiksnDixn u are mad!

[@atomicplaygirl66]

If that pesky leopard would stop kissing himself maybe the mirror would stay clean. But seriously, it must be quite a treat for all these animals just having something new in the jungle to play with.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_A comment like yours is comforting after reading numerous comments calling for the dismantling of these sadistic mirrors! I break the monotony of the daily life of some animals in this area of the equatorial forest._* Wild free-ranging animals can go to these mirrors, as they see fit, and stay ahead as long as they want. No food is left by humans near mirrors to encourage them to come. 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. They are not tied as dogs with leashes, locked in flats especially with dressing rooms equipped with a large mirror. 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

[@jaobyeden4143]

@@XHB06400CANNES this is a very good point. This is not cruel.

[@PueMonTen]

The leopard is beautiful

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

I adore this big, handsome kitty! Are all leopards this drooly?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I've received a very interesting explanation from Bob The Ranger about this very important drooling ( kzbin.info ) This leopard "is definitely acting like he sees a rival male, with some confusion as to why there is no smell or sound. Once he gets to the mirror he realizes there is some kind of physical barrier between him and his rival so is making sure that barrier carries his scent in his side, he us seeing his rival do the same thing so the drooling intensifies"

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

@@XHB06400CANNES I sort of guessed it might have to do with marking. Thanks for Bob hook up! I subscribed right away!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@chocolatefrenzieya 🙏🙏🙏 *I really appreciate a viewer's reply to my comment* 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 Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Good vision! Thank you again.

[@JeovahLovesYou]

Kitty's just wants to cuddle! Awwww

[@XHB06400CANNES]

If this leopard want to cuddle or to invite females in heat he makes a guttural sound "sawing call". This call warn rival males to keep out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3YpGeYibytnK8 On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 130 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.

[@zeolol9817]

This animals be like "Wait, a minute who are you??"

[@Pb6459]

Please don’t ever remove the mirror. The Leo will be heart broken forever. Cause it seemed soo stress free and loving with the reflection of itself in mirror

[@1O9Piano]

These results are so funny, people wouldn't believe it hearing it in person

[@Pb6459]

タイタス I know

[@Pb6459]

Anna K haha it’s funny cause you said he needs to find girlfriends 😂😂

[@tusharsirschemistry]

Actually to shoot this type of video in jungle, ....it needs courage, passion ,dedication ,love for own hobby/ job, support from spouse( which is a great thing) ... U can't believe I watch this video frequently..which makes me very happy. Salute u 2 for your great job.. Keep it up.... Stay safe n healthy .God bless

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Your compliments are a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our trap cameras placed in a remote area of the Gabonese virgin forest and collect their memory card. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in addition to the published images. Our knowledge of the English language is limited and if you notice errors in the title of the video and in the description, your corrections are welcome because if, once published, the images can no longer be modified, the title and description can be corrected at any time. Thank you again. Merci beaucoup ! kzbin.infovideos

[@shyamalkrishna2667]

Kem chho

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_@Tushar Sir's Chemistry_* Thank you. Keep watching the other videos on my channel kzbin.infovideos especially those that unfortunately have a very small number of views and are very informative like: How elephants harvest mangoes when the branches are too high: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJO3npabpat9n5Y First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep3YenSvbNBjopo Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXqraGmjfq6imJY Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Don't forget to read my description attached to each of my videos: Good vision! Thank you again.

[@harambejr.4711]

*Gets approached by leopard while cleaning mirror.* “It’s just a prank bro!” 😂🐆

[@StFalcon89]

This reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. How the cave men stumble upon a strange technology and it changes humanity forever. This must be such a strange discovery for these animals.

[@zacx6970]

At first i thougth the leopard is trying to steal the mirror! Lol

[@bobbyharper8710]

The leopard needs a friend.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

In felines, lions are genetically programmed to live in a pride while leopards are genetically programmed to live alone. Lone lions are males who have been driven from the group. So this leopard male doesn’t feel lonely. He doesn't have the need for companions. He only meets females during the mating season. On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 100 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

[@Bigjohndodge00]

They should try this out at walmart!

[@Skizzy461]

Bigjohndodge00 that's messed up LOL

[@futurestrangeofficial]

Hilarious and Original

[@Patriot842]

Hahahaha hahahaha....Bigjohn

[@Goldrunner1169]

That would be fckin mayhem

[@leonardlarrisey7525]

They should put windshield wipers on. The animals would love that

[@JusTez216]

That leopard seems to enjoy the sight of himself in the last clip. He was like look at all this beautiful fury, then turns around to see as if he was embarrassed for his brief break in character.

[@streetfighter1853]

Teacher: what does your dad do? Students: he cleans the mirror in the jungle.

[@Himanshu-xf7qk]

*student

[@streetfighter1853]

@@Himanshu-xf7qk sorry typing error.

[@MasterMind-cy7md]

I wonder how much they pay the mirror cleaner

[@j-sant-animations8105]

The leopard is a wannabe Narcissus. It’s adorable though. My cats could care less about their reflection. . .

[@carloshurt4499]

Thought one of the gorillas would've broken it thinking it was being challenged 😁

[@youngboyxaj6692]

Here before this is randomly is people’s recommended and gets millions of views 😄

[@romanticdonkey468]

After reading the description and comments below, I appreciate all the hard work you all have done so I can watch these videos from the other side of the world.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Such a comment 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. 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 addition to the published images. It's a choice. Thank you again. Watch our other videos of the channel and don't forget to read the description each time. You will learn some very important information. kzbin.infovideos.

[@auntiem873]

Kitty is in love with itself.

[@Kiran-oq2om]

2:30.. gorilla: who are you?? Mirror: who are you??

[@azureablaze8721]

- What we gonna do today? - We will sit in front our totem.

[@johnedwardjones999]

A narcissistic leopard. Can understand. Top of the line good looking big cat. If I looked that good I'd be staring at myself.😁

[@Sprecherfuchs]

2:05 "Back again, Harry?"

[@USCtrojanFootball1]

The Leopard seems to get the most out of the mirror. It's if he's made peace with it and/or he's figured it out & enjoys it. The other animals are still trying to figure it out.

[@kvantumteologia]

Good idea. It is can lift up their self conciousness. Maybe.

[@magicalpowersinfullforce5802]

L👀king at themselves, hehe...😅😄😃🤣😂😁😊😉😆

[@truhoodbitch]

I see dude is going extra fast. Haha I don't blame him one bit!

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Awesome what a mirror in the middle of a jungle can do.

[@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 Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep3YenSvbNBjopo Amazing Antelope - The Water chevrotain dive and swim beneath the water surface kzbin.info/www/bejne/a53YeImtd5loack As First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo How do elephants pick mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3LIlWawappnn9U Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXqraGmjfq6imJY Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! After each watching, don't forget to read my description with more information attached to each of my 170 videos published on my channel. kzbin.infovideos Good vision! Thank you again.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@XHB06400CANNES watched and enjoyed all the videos and i hit the like button on all of them.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@randquadrozzi1280 *Your feedback on my video 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. 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 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..

[@randquadrozzi1280]

looking forward to your next video.i love all types of wildlife and nature.i live near the Everglades and its crazy with pythons and nile monitors and lots more.can only imagine what its like were you are.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@randquadrozzi1280 Thank you! If you subscribed to my channel you will receive an email next week announcing a new video that I am finishing editing: This silverback dares directly looking into his reflection's eye. It causes yawns: threat or stress?

[@mlulovemyindialovemyindia1167]

Thanks for the excellent Video. I enjoyed watching.

[@Patriot842]

Too funny. Animals are hilarious!

[@crookedpaths6612]

I wonder if any of these animals, formerly with no awareness of self, are now having an identity crisis. 😆

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you for explaining what it means to have an identity crisis.

[@bobbuilder155]

That is a huge leopard, easily 180cm to 200cm tall easily between 85kg to 100kg. He probably regularly hunts those chimps, gorillas, and mandrils since he frequently visits the same spot they do. Never knew mandrils, gorillas, and chimps live so close together. Since there is no documented footage, I have seen of them encountering each other.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*In the area where my mirrors are placed, the main carnivore (except for poachers who avoid going there because of the presence of more than 70 trap cameras kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHrShoBmi9OMpMk ) is the leopard. It is a solitary animal that does not hunt in a troop. It avoids attacking solitary male elephants as well as families with children because of their power of reaction in case of attack. It avoids attacking a calf in a herd of forest buffalo because of their aggressiveness. It avoids attacking great apes (gorillas and chimpanzees) because of their cohesion and moreover it does not climb trees well and it avoids attacking mandrills because on the one hand they are in troops of 150 to 300 individuals which have very sharp teeth and climb trees very easily. . Moreover the flesh of these mammals is not very tasty except for the buffalo calf. The leopard appreciates small game such as small antelopes (blue duikers), porcupines and especially palm rats.* It should be noted that chimpanzees, frugivores, insectivorous and herbivores occasionally eat small monkeys such as the putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans). Thus there is a kind of statuquo between elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, mandrills, buffaloes and leopards that avoid meeting each other, all the more so because in this forest, there is no competition for food, fruits and stems as marantaceae, being numerous in all seasons. So a fight between a silverback gorilla and a leopard cannot take place. Watch my 180 other homemade videos on the channel and don't forget to read the attached description each time. You will learn very important information. kzbin.infovideos

[@bagdadaladin8672]

leo have specialization of kill prohumans creatures

[@Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT]

Let's turn that mirror into the TV plasma screen and play them movies and HBO, CNN and other channels. Just to see how they would react. With speakers on.

[@mickcarson8504]

Yea, then show them Dracula sucks. LOL.

[@dantesguide9574]

Subjecting them to CNN is animal cruelty

[@rayscheelhaase4733]

Maybe chimps can be taught how to clean mirrors.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*In the remote forest of Gabon where we have planted our mirrors live a community of chimpanzees and one group of gorillas. This is not a circus or a zoo where you can teach them how to clean mirrors.* Thank you for watching more of my 180 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

[@DragonbornCanid]

@@XHB06400CANNES im pretty sure they were joking 😅

[@Patriot842]

Hats off to the park employees for having to risk their lives and clean all these mirrors. Of course, I know the rangers are close by. I thank God for all of you, who are trying to protect these wonderful creatures, that he has blessed us with to cohabitate with on the earth.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Why would we be attacked if our arrival was loud enough to warn the animals of our presence and so that they would not be surprised by arrival of the mirror cleaners (My wife, I and Michel = no park employees for no rangers are close by. Leopards, chimpanzees and gorillas are grateful to us and to Michel for the regular cleaning of the 6 mirrors placed in their region. So they prefer to wait nearby until we have finished our work and left the mirror area to come back to observe perfectly either their own image, that of a rival or that of a female leopard in heat. I rely a lot on my wife's very good hearing to detect the presence of animals and to avoid surprising them. For example, a mother elephant (with baby) who has heard us from a distance will warn us to turn back, while a mother with her cub, surprise by our presence nearby will react more severely. Look at this beautiful river crossing location: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo Its our choice to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion. Keep watching my 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

[@poppykok5]

Mr. HUBERT-BRIERRE...I'm a new subscriber because I love your *fascinating* videos that I can't seem to stop watching over & over...Thank you ever so kindly for sharing them...I wish you & your colleagues to always be safe & out of harm's way...Thank you for your daring work...Sincerely, Poppy...US

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Dear Poppy : A comment like yours cheers us up after my wife and I have spent days alone in the Gabonese forest maintaining our mirrors and many cameras. Tempered by storms, the body covered with bites of all kinds of insects (horseflies, tsetse, black ants etc) and unfortunately the number of cameras refusing to function increases. Your comment encourages us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion. On your side keep watching the new videos that I put online on my channel 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 : kzbin.infovideos

[@zaimahbegum-diamond1660]

Well...the leopard is the most beautiful 😍

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you for watching my following video where this male looks even more wonderful because of the brightness leopard VS mirror: He knows he is a great seducer! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHaTgoWcZ9Wdp8k Don't forget to read the description attached to each of our 100 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@Bandera123]

It's so cool , so many different animals live there

[@tyrone4u559]

That Leopard was magnificent 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 2 others short versions taken by other trap cameras of a different brands and under slightly different angle of view, have already been published on my channel, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpLSe3eOj7ara9U kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4ukgJJmbKyXidU On our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos are published more than 130 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

[@MissMarshall]

I love this video. Thank you for sharing it 💙

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Such a comment, together with other identical comments, encourages us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion. Keep watching the new videos that I put online on my channel 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 : kzbin.infovideos

[@sanSDI]

Love your videos, thanks for the effort!

[@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%. - reading after some comments reproaching us for the traumas generated by our large mirrors placed in a remote region of the jungle in Gabon, where wild animals live freely. They can go to these mirrors, as they see fit, and stay in front of them, as long as they want. No food is placed by humans next to mirrors to encourage them to come. - editing of videos with for each one a description in English which is not our native language and then put them online to show the beauty of Gabonese fauna, talk about poachers, show how elephants who have managed to get away from a wire snare trap, treat the deep cut made by this trap, show how elephants pick mangos, self recognition in mirrors that is not innate both among humans than among primates and other mammals and so on... 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

[@maxiepattie85]

super cool guys!

[@chrisraimondi6272]

Curious if you are getting more repeat visitors since you started the project. Do they seem to have altered their paths at all to view the mirror? I mean obviously they are intrigued, but curious if once they leave they forget about it. I haven’t watched much of your videos, maybe 10 or so, but I think this is a great idea. So I apologize if you’ve already covered this. How far away from civilization is this spot?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

How far away from civilization is this place? The closest village to this place is 10 kilometres away, the second one is 35 kilometres away and the civilization (city) is one and a half hours away by 4x4 and then 45 minutes by motorboat.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I mean obviously they are intrigued, but curious if once they leave they forget about it: 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

[@lennarthagen3638]

So interesting, i like this thumbs up

[@karimbalucci9288]

Amazing project!!!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Such a comment, together with other identical comments, encourages us to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion.

[@mikeomolt4485]

Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE When the animals drink water from a river, they see a reflection of themselves. It would be interesting to compare how the animals react if the mirror is placed horizontally.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Mikeom Olt Not sure that they see a reflection of themselves, but their own shade if sunny. Have you succeeded in seeing your own image clearly by leaning over a pool of water? Maybe just your shade on a sunny day?

[@akuma4593]

This is actually truly amazing, I believe recognition of self is one of the first stepping stones to sentience.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Dante Jericho the first stepping stones to self-awareness. Do not forget to hit the “show more “ option I attach a description to each video of our KZbin channel kzbin.infovideos to learn more about the behaviour of animals in front of their reflection.

[@danielearhart6467]

I feel very confident now that I can clean mirrors.

[@Cage711]

Cool video 👍

[@lcomment6320]

The animals are watching animals planet

[@jazzyb.channel]

Hari Krishna hahaha

[@fast03vette4me]

I wonder what KoKo would have thought? RIP great one, with more compassion than many humans.

[@srkucrickk]

Koko was used to mirrors as she grew up in a human environment.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Exactly a human environment aware of the properties of the mirror was very useful to Koko, to help him with words, in his learning of the mirror. In animals and humans alike, self-recognition in a mirror is not innate. An adult human, facing a mirror for the first time in his life, while unaware of its properties and even its existence, would also behave irrationally. It is only the lack of knowledge of the mirror that makes him react in this way. In humans over 2 years of age, after learning in the mirror with their parents, they recognize themselves in their reflection. In the dominant free ranging male gorilla in the jungle, this learning is much more difficult because : - he's not helped by his parents - it does not receive explanations about the reflective properties of the mirror - he hasn't been exposed to mirrors since he was a kid. Head of a family of a dozen members, females and children, this silverback must protect it. Faced with the image of a gorilla he has never seen before (himself), having penetrated his domain to stole some of his females, he has only the idea. *Pacifist, he avoids looking straight into the eyes, sign of invitation to fight in these primates* , he glances at his reflection out of the corner of his eye. In bipedal position to show his corpulence, by raising a cloud of dust, by lateral charges and very powerful and loud slaps on the ground, he tries to intimidate and push away this reflection which, strangely, adopts the same attitudes as his own. Moreover, this stranger disappears when he is no longer in front of the mirror. In my description attached to my video, *I explain that behavior in silverback gorillas* and the behaviour of other members of his family. Hit the “show more “ option, I attach a description with more information to each of my 130 videos published on my channel. kzbin.infovideos

[@isaz597]

These male leopards are the apex predator & are almost as stocky as a jaguar.

[@sailorarwen6101]

Those animals are all so pretty.

[@threekidsandcounting9477]

Aren't they scared the animals will attack them if the animals happen to walk by there when he's cleaning the glass? Lol

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Why would they be attacked if their arrival was loud enough to warn the animals of their presence and so that they would not suddenly be surprised by the presence of mirror cleaners. 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

[@threekidsandcounting9477]

@@XHB06400CANNES well wild animals will still attack sometimes, they don't always run off when humans show up lol

[@JMRabil675]

@xavier because its a fucking WILD ANIMAL. They are completely unpredictable lol... you dont seem qualified for this KZbin channel

[@residentevil9894]

This is how tweekers act in the bathroom in the downtown bus station

[@PranaChi369]

Introducing the mirror to the earth realm is sorcery on many levels.....

[@daviderossi39]

2:28 'what do you think Karl?" "well I don't know, i don t think is well cleaned. We should fire that guy.'

[@louzer2566]

That thumbnail tho’

[@Cassxowary]

Sounds about right. You clean it and the big catto (and doggos) keeps coming back like must rub and slobber all over it 😝

[@phapnui]

they should prank the beasts with a flat screen tv and show one of their enemies.

[@leonardlarrisey7525]

In 3-d

[@josephgericke6599]

Great thumbnail!

[@krishnajadav4487]

As so many of the animals come about to get entertained by the mirror and all of them have different times I guess so hence an encounter with an animal when you go to clean the mirror is what makes me anxious.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Why would we be attacked if our arrival was loud enough to warn the animals of our presence and so that they would not be surprised by arrival of the mirror cleaners. Leopards, chimpanzees and gorillas are grateful to us and to Michel for the regular cleaning of the 6 mirrors placed in their region. So they prefer to wait nearby until we have finished our work and left the mirror area to come back to observe perfectly either their own image, that of a rival or that of a female leopard in heat. I rely a lot on my wife's very good hearing to detect the presence of animals and to avoid surprising them. For example, a mother elephant (with baby) who has heard us from a distance will warn us to turn back, while a mother with her cub, surprise by our presence nearby will react more severely. Look at this beautiful river crossing location: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo Its our choice to pursue our overwhelming and somewhat dangerous passion. Keep watching my 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

[@mosquitobite101]

he does love seeing himself...lol... cute

[@tatycardenas6962]

A giant cat post needs too be installed next 🐆

[@specialofficerdoofy2125]

1:30 Goodbye 😀

[@ashokchauhan9908]

Super video

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_A comment like yours is a great moral booster after reading comments calling for the dismantling of these cruel mirrors!_* Keep watching the numerous videos that I put online on my channel 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 : 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 Amazing Antelope - The Water chevrotain dive and swim beneath the water surface kzbin.info/www/bejne/a53YeImtd5loack First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY How do elephants pick mangoes if the branches of the mango trees are too high? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3LIlWawappnn9U Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep3YenSvbNBjopo In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXqraGmjfq6imJY Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Good vision!

[@axjmd]

Funny as hell! The animals reactions are priceless.

[@AnarinaTV]

this experiment is just amazing and cute at the same time :)

[@XHB06400CANNES]

I appreciate the label you gave to my experiment. May I invite you to watch especially my videos which, unfortunately, have a very small number of views and are very informative like: First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY 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! After each watching, don't forget to read my description with more information attached to each of my 160 videos published on my channel. kzbin.infovideos Good vision! Thank you again.

[@abuamina8950]

Really beautiful reactioms there qnd funny

[@paolaapecechea270]

Como se ama ese leopardo, tiene la vanidad por las nubes

[@daoyster8579]

Leopards are the best in the mirror they love it 😂😂😂

[@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 Listen to another leopard sound similar to that of 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.

[@izzuddinzainal9664]

That leopard just want to make friends!

[@beatrixthegreat1138]

interactive tv for primates. I'll laugh so hard if theres a family of gorillas come through with a human kid. Baby Tarzan caught on camera. and that Leopard is like "Hello Sexeh".

[@josegarcia-qf6hv]

You can actually teach your dog to identify itself, dogs can’t really do it but if they are exposed to the mirror they eventually learn it’s their reflection, it helps if you sit with it next to you and do your hair or makeup with them they’ll eventually understand, I don’t know if all dogs can but mine could she liked wearing make up on her eyes shestared into the mirror if my sister puts a little color on them.

[@kurtlawrence5536]

jose garcia I wanna see a video with that

[@mikecatranace2941]

That must look like some kind of portal to them

[@MsJasminecox]

0:18 that aint speed edit. That's his actual movement

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Sorry that you did not understand that the washing of the mirror had little interest in itself, which is why it is shown at high speed, while the return of the animals to their image, with better definition, is more interesting. Don't forget to read the description attached to each of our 130 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos

[@JMRabil675]

Isnt it dangerous for the washer guy to be out there with all those wild animals alone? Also, is that camera running 24/7? Do the animals ever mess with the camera?

[@MsJasminecox]

@@XHB06400CANNES wow lol.it was a joke. i was saying that he's ready to get out of there. lol

[@theestevan611]

It seems that the jaguar is in love with thereself.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

If you had read the description attached to this video, you would not have had use the word "jaguar" in your comment because as indicated that the video was filmed in Gabon (Africa) and that the cat is a leopard (Panthera pardus) and not a jaguar (Panthera onca) only found on the American continent. Please do not forget to read the description attached to each of our 100 videos published on our channel kzbin.infovideos Please watch my video again and look at the leopard. His coat feature rosette patterns without one point inside them. So he isnt a jaguar !

[@theestevan611]

Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE opps. Sorry. I thought it was a jaguar.

[@bigman88george3]

Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE 😔 Dude. You thought all that was necessary?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Estevan Aurada Please explain where wild elephants and wild jaguars are found in the same rain forest (not in the same zoo) ?

[@rolfpoelman3486]

with itself.

[@diansemrysemryani2927]

The 'cat' just being a cat

[@sunnyztmoney]

Coming up to this in the jungle for them is like seeing the obelisk for us

[@jimmyfortrue3741]

Somebody needs to donate a big squeegee to this guy.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Michel prefers a piece of cloth that he leaves on the back of each mirror rather than a big squeegee to this guy. For my part I find that washing a mirror is faster with a squeegee: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anStYWeterGgfrc Hit the “show more “ option, I attach a description to each of my 100 videos published on my KZbin channel you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle kzbin.infovideos

[@nzanshitiri9305]

I will walk fast and catch that one behind this mirror 😂

[@TweqzYTB]

Bonjour Xavier, Encore une vidéo et description très intéressante! J'aimerai savoir si vous avez un email, what's app, ou autres moyen de communiquer car j'aimerai vous poser quelques questions! En tant que photographe animalier, je suis passionné par votre travail.

[@TheHucore]

Gracias por tomarte el Tiempo en este video

[@michaelsalazar1469]

I love animals!!

[@ishikawa1338]

Can u put a camera on the other side of mirror, in a box or sumthin so we can see them that way also

[@tonymink3097]

Thx x. Please keep up good deed!🌝

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Your compliments are a great reward for my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Michel and me. We are not comfortably sitting in our armchairs, to publish without any description, pieces of videos copied from the Internet and put end to end. But we maintain our trap cameras placed in a remote area of the Gabonese virgin forest and collect their memory card. Then we do the editing of the videos and write a long description in addition to the published images. Thank you again. Merci beaucoup ! kzbin.infovideos

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*_@Tony Mink_*Thank you. Keep watching the other videos on my channel kzbin.infovideos especially those that unfortunately have a very small number of views and are very informative like: How elephants harvest mangoes when the branches are too high: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJO3npabpat9n5Y First mud bath of an cute new born elephant with her mom and aunts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKHNYomcoLN9iZY Fresh Water from Creeks triggers the urge to urinate in wild mammals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep3YenSvbNBjopo Eaters of waterlilies: Buffalo, Elephant, Sitatunga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXqraGmjfq6imJY Can an elephant survive without half of its trunk lost in a poacher's wire snare? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6CcmIqfbdWNp6c Before buying ivory jewellery or carved ivory objects: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPYhZ1tpbOpfq8 and unfortunately there are many others in this case! Don't forget to read my description attached to each of my videos: Good vision! Thank you again.

[@annettegenovesi]

This is great. I wonder what the result might be if you left a few hand mirrors around for them to carry away. Would they fight over them? Love these cute animals!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

If I put up a few hand mirrors for them to take away, they would first have to know how to use them to look at themselves, and they would have to stay in front of the cameras so that they could film if they fought to take them away.

[@annettegenovesi]

@@XHB06400CANNES Good of you to answer Mr. Xavier and I thank you. I didn't think that it would not be possible to hold them too long in their paws.

[@ishikawa1338]

Oh, hi mark!

[@SilentmindVA7Cities]

marvel mary i did not hit her it’s boulsheet

[@user-cr1kq5tf8b]

animals are so innocent and cute... 😘😘😘😘😘😘