Animals Seeing Themselves For The First Time
animals in mirrors, animals being freed, animals seeing reflection, lion, cheetah, bear
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In this video we commentate/report about some light hearted moments in which people do a questionable act and then have to pay the consequences of their actions, we also add edits in the clips to make it more entertaining!
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In this video we commentate/report about some light hearted moments in which people do a questionable act and then have to pay the consequences of their actions, we also add edits in the clips to make it more entertaining!
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00:00A not-so-known fact is that individuals of most animal species can't recognize their reflections
00:05as themselves, so it's always interesting to see how they will react. Elephants happen to be one of
00:09the only animals that have self-awareness, so after first testing if the mirror does the same
00:14as they do, when they finally understand it's them, they start inspecting parts of their bodies
00:18they've never seen before, like inside their mouth. This bear's reaction shows why you never
00:26want to surprise a bear. When a lion was presented a mirror, even though it couldn't
00:37understand that it was himself, he still knew something wasn't right and kept checking the back,
00:42showing their innate curiosity. A six-month dolphin is usually able to recognize themselves
00:55in the mirror, which is much earlier than humans do, and if you put a mirror in front of them,
00:59they'll start exploring what they look like when they do certain things, such as being upside down.
01:13Adult cheetah males are actually social creatures,
01:16so when this one saw his reflection, it thought it was a friend.
01:18This gorilla was absolutely amazed by his own reflection, and couldn't get over how
01:28weird tongues are, which to be honest, I don't blame him.
01:38Dogs lack self-awareness, so it's almost impossible for them to recognize that the
01:42reflection is them, but since they rely a lot on scent, they usually get bored or
01:46uninterested in mirrors very quickly. Squirrels are very territorial animals,
01:56so if they see other squirrels feeding in their territory, they will chase or nip at it.
02:00This squirrel kept attacking the mirror. This pair of monkeys were not happy with their new competition.
02:16At a safari, some visitors recorded a lion getting a big scare from his reflection.
02:25This is an extremely rare video of a cat actually understanding how reflections and mirrors work,
02:30and it is proven by the owner showing a finger behind the cat and him knowing where it is.
02:39When some wild dogs went for a drink, they were really taken aback by their reflections
02:43and got into a strange predicament if it's even worth drinking water from the pond.
02:54With less than 200 white tigers left in the world, most are currently in sanctuaries.
02:58This beautiful white tiger surprisingly seems uninterested in his reflection.
03:06A bear in Finland got startled by a mirror.
03:14Apparently, this cat got into a blinking competition with himself.
03:31Chihuahuas usually don't rank at the top on intelligence, but interestingly enough,
03:35this doggo understood the reflection after seeing her owner in the mirror.
03:44An amazing moment to see is from a cow that has buttons she uses to speak,
03:48and when she saw the mirror, she immediately pressed the button that symbolizes her friend
03:51cow Nala, meaning she thought it was another cow. When a puppy saw a mirror for the first time,
04:00he thought he made a friend, which is a little heartbreaking.
04:12Roosters are sort of terrifying. If there are more roosters and fewer hens,
04:17then they tend to fight each other to gain more hens. So if they see another
04:20rooster, they see more competition, hence why they tend to attack their reflection.
04:32Octopuses have demonstrated intelligence in a number of ways with them even being
04:36able to get themselves out of complicated containers, such as a closed jar.
04:42But after multiple tests, it's safe to say that octopuses cannot understand their reflection,
04:51and since they're solitary animals that prefer to live alone in the dark,
04:54they tend to lash out at the mirror.
05:04An absolutely amazing intelligence test done by the BBC was to put a bowl behind a mirror to see
05:09if pigs have self-awareness and are able to tell where the food is.
05:15It took this six-week-old piglet just a few hours to learn the concept of a mirror.
05:21To test if magpies understood their reflection, they placed small yellow stickers under their beak
05:26to see if they'll try to remove it, and to scientists' surprise, they actually did.
05:30And well, this wasn't completely surprising, considering they're one of the most intelligent
05:34animals to exist, with even having emotional capabilities shown by the death rituals they do,
05:39in which they express grief over their lost comrade.
05:42Manta rays have the largest brain of any fish, so it wasn't completely unexpected when it was
05:46found they passed a self-recognition test. When they put a mirror in the tank, they didn't react
05:51the way they would with another manta ray. Instead, kept passing by the mirror in all of themselves.
05:56This was the first time they'd seen a manta ray in their entire life,
05:59so it's safe to say that they're one of the most intelligent animals in the world.
06:04In addition to being able to tell where the food is, they're also able to tell where the
06:07food is, so it's safe to say that they're one of the most intelligent animals in the world.
06:21Leopards are one of the least understood wild cats, but we do know that they are the least
06:25social of the African big cats, so this leopard did not know how to react when another leopard
06:29got so close. If you give them long enough time, chimpanzees are some of the only animals
06:38that are able to recognize their reflections. Sadly for many animals,
06:57mirror tests can be more confusing than anything since they have a very different vision,
07:01which may contribute in why they can't identify that it's their reflection.
07:04Snakes, for example, are dichromatic and can detect infrared radiation,
07:08enabling them to generate a thermal image of predators and prey.
07:14And horses are unable to see a short distance directly in front of them
07:17since how their eyes are positioned.
07:19Bobcats are crepuscular hunters and great fishers as well, with them being able to take on small
07:30sharks and drag them off water. When a bobcat in the wild encountered a mirror,
07:34it showed how solitary and territorial they are.
07:37Since only one bird species has shown evidence of self-recognition,
07:50most of them will be aggressive towards their reflection because they compete for resources.
07:54This man got very unlucky when a bird got a glimpse of himself in his rearview mirror,
07:58and the bird starts attacking the reflection.
08:08A very known fact is that from tiny geckos to giant komodo dragons,
08:12lizards tend to be territorial and spend most of their time alone.