Wild animals not caring about mirrors mounted in the Gabonese jungle

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In the Gabonese jungle, if some animals like primates are interested in large mirrors installed by Anne-Marie and Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE and their friend Michel GUISS DJOMOU and try to learn just as human children do because self-recognition in a mirror is not innate, other animals do not pay attention to them or no longer care to them because they do not have the ability to understand their reflective properties but by cons they have realized that these mirrors were not dangerous.
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Dans la jungle gabonaise, si certains animaux comme les primates sont intéressés par de grands miroirs installés par Anne-Marie et Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE et leur ami Michel GUISS DJOMOU et tentent de faire leur apprentissage tout comme les enfants humains le font car la reconnaissante de soi dans un miroir n'est pas innée, d'autres animaux n'y prêtent pas attention à eux ou n'y prêtent plus attention car ils n'ont pas les capacités d'en comprendre les propriétés réfléchissantes mais par contre ils ont compris que ces miroirs n'étaient pas dangereux
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En la selva gabonesa, si algunos animales como los primates se interesan por los grandes espejos instalados por Anne-Marie y Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE y su amigo Michel GUISS DJOMOU y tratan de aprender como lo hacen los niños humanos porque el reconocimiento de sí mismos en un espejo no es innato, otros animales no les prestan atención o ya no les prestan atención porque no tienen la capacidad de comprender sus propiedades reflectantes, pero por contra se han dado cuenta de que estos espejos no son peligrosos.
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Na selva gabonesa, se alguns animais como primatas estão interessados em grandes espelhos instalados por Anne-Marie e Xavier HUBERT-BRIERRE e seu amigo Michel GUISS DJOMOU e tentam aprender como as crianças humanas fazem porque o reconhecimento de si mesmo em um espelho não é inato, outros animais não prestam atenção a eles ou não prestam mais atenção a eles porque eles não têm a capacidade de compreender suas propriedades reflexivas, mas por contras eles perceberam que esses espelhos não eram perigosos.
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В габонских джунглях, если некоторые животные, такие как приматы, заинтересованы в больших зеркалах, установленных Энн-Мари и Хавьером Хьюбертом Брайерре и их другом Мишелем ГУИССом ДЖОМУ, и пытаются узнать как и человеческие дети, поскольку распознавание себя в зеркале не является врожденным, другие животные не обращают на них внимания или больше не обращают на них внимания, поскольку не имеют возможности осознать их зрелищные свойства, потому что они не имеют возможности их отражать.

[@tinkmarshino]

I just love seeing these animals in there night time routine.. Especially animals I have never seen nor am likely to ever see.. Thanks you two.. Merry Christmas..

[@Ryan-qv9ed]

The regular camera trap videos are even cooler than the mirror ones, love to see the different wildlife

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Thank you for checking out more of my 160 home made videos posted on my channel and read the description attached to each one. You will find many regular camera trap videos in the jungle: kzbin.infovideos

[@jaguarandi2]

What an amazing jungle.

[@mosquitobite101]

thank you for putting the name of the species up

[@angeguy]

That jungle is bounded of various species, amazing

[@XHB06400CANNES]

In this video I wanted to show that there were also animals and birds in the Gabonese jungle that were encountering our mirrors without caring about them. Soon to show the diversity of its fauna, I will publish a slide show of those who have not had the opportunity to pass in front of the mirrors but who trigger our many trap cameras placed outside the mirrors. Thank you for watching more of my 150 videos posted on my channel and read the description attached to each one. You will know very interesting explanations about animal behaviors in the jungle : kzbin.infovideos

[@angeguy]

@@XHB06400CANNES you and your team are amazing, congrats 👏

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@angeguy A big "MERCI"

[@sebasvila777]

Your work is awesome, keep doing this, it's greats as your work and your time doing this. It must be not easy and im not a scientist but im sure what youre doing is something great.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

My wife and I are French people born in Africa (Senegal & Congo Brazzaville). We went to school in Africa and did our higher studies in France and then all our professional career, first in West Africa and then in Gabon. For twelve years we have been retired in France and regularly return to Nyonié for the maintenance of mirrors and cameras. We are neither scientists nor veterinarians nor primatologists. We wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years, to show on KZbin the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it. Our first videos posted on our KZbin channel essentially showed wildlife "passing" in front of the lenses of our trap cameras equipped with motion detectors: The passage of an elephant in front of the objective of a trap for about twenty seconds is not particularly interesting. On the other hand, a video of young elephants playing in a river while adults are quenching their thirst is much more enjoyable to watch. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo (In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River). To find such "spots" it is advisable to get further away from the path used by the few 4x4 vehicles of Nyonié, to go deeper into the forest and to walk in the beds of creeks and small rivers. This is not safe, especially when you are old. To progress more easily in the forest, animals use this off-road trail, without vines, bushes, brambles and trees mixed on the ground because of the very numerous tornadoes in this region on the Equator line. We came up with the idea of placing very large mirrors at the end of a long straight line of an off-road track to catch their eyes and "block" them in front of their image. We have also placed other mirrors under trees where numerous animals appreciate the fruits. At other locations in the middle of the forest it would have been very lucky for animals to meet their reflection. Please watch the other videos on my channel and share its link with your friends: kzbin.infovideosOur 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).

[@randquadrozzi1280]

I can see why the water chevratain is hunted so much.they are pretty plump.with the wide array of animal life im suprised i haven't seen more wildlife shows on tv about gabon.

[@rohitchaoji]

I wonder if they don't pay attention to the reflections or just perceive the phenomena differently and what they see is not another one of their kind, but something entirely different that we cannot possibly know, so it might appear like a big reflective surface with nothing special about it, maybe?

[@CarolynDenison]

I'm # 4 Today. I see the many new animals. Some I'm seeing for the first time too. Oh No your broke down too? My truck is sitting my driveway broke down. Ben sitting here a month. I get cabin fever. I hate sitting still in the house by myself day after day. Timing chain messed up. I sure hope your's is nothing so serious. That is a long hike your having to make. I wish you luck,

[@marleypeters4758]

Guess you can't win them all. Some of these animals I never even knew existed keep up the good work.

[@XHB06400CANNES]

*Such a comment encourages us to continue our time-consuming and somewhat dangerous passion to share with you the beauty of Gabon's wildlife. We will continue to post new videos on my channel. Don't forget to read my description, in English and French, attached to each one. You will learn some very interesting information about the animals of the jungle:* kzbin.infovideos

[@silver120mp]

good god...those rats are big

[@jpaulstudios5152]

Does Gabon have hippos crocodiles gray parrots black rhinos snakes olive baboons Marabou storks warthogs giant forest hogs hyenas wildebeest Thompson gazelles giraffes zebras black leopards flamingos vultures rock pythons African fish eagles black mambas Green tree pythons and white rhinos

[@XHB06400CANNES]

In Gabon, my trap cameras have already made photos and/or videos of hippos, dwarf crocodiles, Nile crocodiles, grey parrots, green snakes, no baboons but mandrills, episcopal storks, red river hogs, vultures, pythons, African fish, black mambas etc. ... one day I will publish a slide show of this very diverse fauna.

[@mathildamn9651]

@@XHB06400CANNES please do it we all wanna see !!

[@marioalbertojimenezsanjurj3183]

Jaja!!! The last imagens are so funny, by the way I watch all the footage videos that you send. Neither human beings, no animals are able to recognize their own image... It is not it???? Saludos desde México!!!!!

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Hello from Cannes! It is true that in animals as in humans, self recognition in a mirror is not innate. It is the result of the more comfortable training in the mirror at home among young humans in the company of their parents who have done this training and who have the words to explain to their young child the properties of the mirror. Among primates, éléphants and felids, in the insecurity of the jungle learning with his parents who have not done this and who do not speak, this is much more difficult even for intelligent individuals. Some animal species perform inconsistently on the mirror test. Chimps and orangutans have unambiguously passed, but they don’t always. An Asian elephant named Happy passed in 2006 after staring into a really big mirror, and examining a mark on her head with her trunk. No African elephant has so far passed the self recognition test in a mirror. Please read the description attached to each of my 150 videos published on my KZbin channel you will know very interesting informations about animals reactions front of my mirrors in the jungle kzbin.infovideos

[@marioalbertojimenezsanjurj3183]

@@XHB06400CANNES Thank you very much for both, your useful comment and for share your channel. By the way when you say Cannes, are you talking about France????

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@marioalbertojimenezsanjurj3183 My wife and I are French people born in Africa (Senegal & Congo Brazzaville). We went to school in Africa and did our higher studies in France and then all our professional career, first in West Africa and then in Gabon. *_For twelve years we have been retired in Cannes (France)_* and regularly return to Nyonié for the maintenance of mirrors and cameras. We are neither scientists nor veterinarians nor primatologists. We wanted to thank Gabon, which has welcomed our family for more than 35 years, to show on KZbin the diversity of the fauna of this beautiful country and to make Internet users want to visit it. Our first videos posted on our KZbin channel essentially showed wildlife "passing" in front of the lenses of our trap cameras equipped with motion detectors: The passage of an elephant in front of the objective of a trap for about twenty seconds is not particularly interesting. On the other hand, a video of young elephants playing in a river while adults are quenching their thirst is much more enjoyable to watch. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zQgXWiabODrJo (In Gabon front of trap cameras, elephants crossing Ndouni River). To find such "spots" it is advisable to get further away from the path used by the few 4x4 vehicles of Nyonié, to go deeper into the forest and to walk in the beds of creeks and small rivers. This is not safe, especially when you are old. To progress more easily in the forest, animals use this off-road trail, without vines, bushes, brambles and trees mixed on the ground because of the very numerous tornadoes in this region on the Equator line. We came up with the idea of placing very large mirrors at the end of a long straight line of an off-road track to catch their eyes and "block" them in front of their image. We have also placed other mirrors under trees where numerous animals appreciate the fruits. At other locations in the middle of the forest it would have been very lucky for animals to meet their reflection.

[@marting4089]

On dirait que tout les animaux n'ont pas autant de temps de temps libre que les chimpanzés

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Que voulez-vous dire ? Que les chimpanzés passent plus de temps à faire leur apprentissage au miroir que les éléphants, buffles, varans ou autres qui n'ont pas les capacités intellectuelles à se reconnaître dans un miroir et qui donc après plusieurs rencontres ont considéré cet intrus non digne d'intérêt ?

[@marting4089]

C'est facinant toutes ces réactions devant le miroir, félicitation pour votre travail!

[@jyde50]

how big is nyonie jungle and is it a park and it is been protected?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Nyonié is a tourist camp located on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. It is east of a 20 km wide strip of very sparsely inhabited, straddling the equator, between the Pongara National Park (900 km²) to the north and the Wonga Wongué National Park (4.300 km²) to the south. It is in a remote part of this strip where I planted my mirrors with an average of five cameras in front of each other and 70 trap cameras outside the area around the mirrors since 2010, I have noticed a significant increase in the number of leopards. 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 Keep watching the other videos on my channel kzbin.infovideos Don't forget to read my description attached to each of my videos: Good vision!

[@rahmanrahman3232]

Keren

[@masterrucu]

they didn't care because they are pray and they need to be less confus to be safe

[@nell4547]

I'm from Gabon and i want to know whats point these videos of you filming animals in front of mirrors?

[@XHB06400CANNES]

Bien aimable à vous de regarder ma chaine où j'ai publié plus de 160 vidéos en 10 ans kzbin.infovideos Après la vision de chacune d'elles, merci de lire la description qui y est jointe (en anglais puis en français). Vous y trouverez la réponse à votre question.

[@nell4547]

@@XHB06400CANNES Why not leave wild animals in the wild? why do you have to get involved, I read the description and I still don't understand the purpose of this ritual...

[@XHB06400CANNES]

@@nell4547 Merci de bien vouloir me répondre dans votre nationale qui est également la mienne ! Quel type de rituel voulez-vous chercher dans ma publication de vidéos ? Avez-vous regardé d'autres de mes vidéos et lu les descriptions attenantes ?? *_Voilà Nous ne sommes ni scientifiques, ni vétérinaires. Nous voulions remercier le Gabon, qui a accueilli notre famille pendant plus de 35 ans, 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 : Le passage d'un éléphant devant l'objectif d'un piège photographique pendant une vingtaine de secondes n'est pas particulièrement intéressant. D'autre part, 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/j5zQgXWiabODrJo (Au Gabon, devant des caméras pièges, des éléphants traversant la rivière Ndouni). Pour trouver de tels "spots", il est conseillé de s'éloigner du sentier emprunté par les quelques véhicules 4x4 de Nyonié, de s'enfoncer plus profondément dans la forêt et de marcher dans les lits des petites rivières et des marigots (ruisseaux). De telles recherches ne sont pas sans danger et tout particulièrement quand on est plus tout jeune. Pour progresser plus facilement en forêt, les animaux empruntent ce sentier tout-terrain, sans lianes, buissons, ronces et arbres mélangés au sol à cause des très nombreuses tornades dans cette région située exactement sur la ligne de l’équateur. Aussi nous avons eu l'idée de placer de très grands miroirs au bout d'une longue ligne droite sur ce parcours pour attirer leur curiosité et les "bloquer" devant leur image. Nous avons également placé d'autres miroirs sous les arbres dont de nombreux animaux apprécient les fruits. Dans d'autres endroits au milieu de la forêt, il eut fallu beaucoup de chance pour les animaux rencontrent leur reflet. Notre utilisation des miroirs a été d'un grand intérêt pour les primatologues, dont les membres du PSG, non pas le club de football de Paris Saint-Germain, mais le Primate Specialists Group, 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, et de plus au contact des humains. Ces animaux n'avaient pas besoin de chercher de la nourriture, de défendre leur famille contre d'autres congénères et prédateurs, imitant parfois même les humains. Ils avaient donc des comportements très différents de ceux des primates vivant en toute liberté avec leur groupe ou 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 ont donné lieu à une publication scientifique, "Reflections in rainforest mirrors facilitate behavioral observations of wild chimpanzees Primates n°58 2017-01". Sur nos deux vidéos suivantes ce comportement est filmé : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqWweJaCp7ZkaKc (Rump-Rump Rubbing in Chimpanzees = effet anti-stress ? Un comportement social jamais observé auparavant) et kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqfPmoekf5yCotE (les chimpanzés effrayés se rassurent par pseudo-copulation et par des contacts "croupe contre croupe" devant le miroir). Veuillez regarder les autres vidéos sur ma chaîne et partager son lien avec vos amis : kzbin.infovideos Bonne vision.

[@jasonvoorhees5180]

It’s for multiple reasons. Filming the animals in front of mirrors or just capturing them on trail cameras gives us insight into their daily lives, natural behaviors and their cognitive abilities for self awareness/self recognition. Wildlife biologists do this quite often. It’s because of footage like this that we know which wild animals live in the region and where they go. Doing this doesn’t really harm them in any fashion or inhibit their daily routine the mirror essentially just serves as an object of curiosity for the animals as they acclimate to its presence, sometimes they become quite fascinated and enthralled with what they see (especially leopards). Filming on foot in the traditional way (e.g. what you’ll see a lot in nature documentaries) is a bit more difficult in dense African rainforests and can sometimes make you even less likely to see wildlife depending on whether or not they’re disturbed by your presence.

[@nell4547]

@@XHB06400CANNES Donc, si je comprends bien, vous faites ce rituel pour aider différentes organisations avec des recherches telles que la conscience de soi pour les primates, et vous normalisez ce ritual en disant que vous êtes devenu une grande aide pour une certaine organisation et vous le faites depuis de nombreuses années, ma question est, est-ce vraiment nécessaire que fais tu? cela dérange les animaux. Si vous voulez faire connaître le pays aux visiteurs, pourquoi ne pas simplement filmer les animaux comme le ferait une personne normale sans mirroir?

[@jpaulstudios5152]

I made you a picture on Facebook is zira the lioness in Gabon