Wild Gorilla Sees His Reflection In A Mirror For The 1st Time. His Unexpected Reaction Is Hilarious!
Imagine seeing yourself for the first time in your life. What would that be like? Would you like what you see? Would you hate it? Would you be intrigued? We all take the mirror for granted, but sometimes we forget that most creatures have never laid eyes on one.
French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre placed some mirrors in the forest so he could catch some wildlife interacting with their reflections for the first time. This is one of the coolest and strangest photography experiments I have ever witnessed.
The results he captured are just stunning. While some of the animals enjoyed what they saw, some seemed perplexed while others seemed to be enraged and didn’t want anything to do with the animal in the mirror. Each animals reaction is so unique and different. Nature never ceases to amaze.
It is so interesting how the different animals react to themselves. I think the leopards had the best reaction of them all. Which animal’s reaction did you like the best? Let us know.
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Cat Looks In The Mirror For The First Time Ever. He Proceeds To Make The Most Hysterical Face Ever.
When you train your camera on a newborn baby you never know what you may end up filming, especially when your fur babies are wandering around nearby! This video is the perfect case in point and once you watch it you’ll understand why the short, sweet clip has racked up over 6.9 million views on YouTube ever since it was posted.
The home video starts out with an adorable little baby sitting next to a bed. The young child’s proud parent is looking on while filming the precious moment when something catches the baby’s attention. Suddenly a faint meow can be heard off-screen and the camera pans to the right, revealing a beautiful Scottish Fold kitty!
The curious cat had decided to stop by the bedroom to pay her owner and the baby a visit and she announced her arrival with a series of short mews. As she began to walk over towards the camera to greet her human she passed in front of a mirror and caught a glimpse of her reflection in the glass. That’s when the magic happened and the look on her face suddenly became animated and her eyes went wide. The startled looking expression she made is hilarious and adorable all at once. You have to check out how surprised she looked because it’s pure feline silliness at its best!
On a final note, the cat didn’t actually recognize its reflection as being its own in the mirror. Cats do not possess the ability to self-recognize based on how they have performed on the mirror self-recognition test. For that test an animal is anesthetized and while they are out they are marked with something, like paint, on an obscure part of their body.
They are placed close to a mirror and when they come to are observed closely to see if they either examine or touch the mark in any meaningful type of way. If they do, it is interpreted as a clear sign that they are perceiving the reflection in the mirror as their own self-image. As it turns out, cats are in the majority as not many animals have passed the mirror test. So far only humans and other great apes, dolphins, orcas, the Eurasian Magpie, Asian Elephants, and some types of ants have passed it.
In the end, the Scottish Fold in the video likely saw her reflection as being either another cat or something strange and super weird. We’ll never know for sure what goes through an animals mind but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep trying to understand them! Note: If trouble viewing on mobile device or iPad turn device horizontal.
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Giant Dog Notices Himself In The Mirror For The First Time. He Proceeds To Throw a Hysterical Fit.
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Kane the French Mastiff may look like an incredibly powerful and aggressive dog, but he’s really just a gentle, protective giant! He’s a natural when it comes to being a guard dog and this clip is proof of not only that, it shows just how adorable and handsome he also is.
The big boy happened to come across a mirror and lets just say he didn’t like what he saw. That’s because he caught sight of the reflection of himself in the glass, a sight which sent him straight into beast mode!
As soon as he was alerted to the supposed intruder, Kane growled and stared himself down with the most fierce, unrelenting gaze he could muster. His low menacing growl would make anyone think twice about taking another step and he even threw in that weird licking behavior that dogs seem to always do when they get super angry! Check him out and wait for the end of the clip, it’s the best part.
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