The hilarious video showing the reactions of various wild animals seeing themselves in the mirror for the first time is making internet users burst out laughing!
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The funny clip, posted on Instagram, features a compilation of moments where animals were caught interacting with their own reflections in the mirror.
Shared just a few days ago, the video has already received over 42 million views and more than 7,000 comments from users amused by the scenes.
“That bear was having an existential crisis,” joked one Instagram user. “The room said: ‘Self-love’,” commented another. “I have a similar reaction when I look in the mirror,” admitted a third viewer.
This behavioral technique, known as the “mirror test”, was developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. as an attempt to determine whether an animal possesses the capacity for visual self-recognition.
According to experts, when seeing their own reflection, most animals assume they are looking at a rival and attack the image. According to professor Daniel J. Povinelli, the animal may perceive the reflection as a strange entity that it can control through its own movements.
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