He got lucky and caught the edges and was looking at the frame before noticing the reflection. He'd of flipped out too if he just turned left and saw another bear. It would startle you too if you were wandering around and a reflection that shouldn't be there suprises you, but not if you just found a random mirror, different circumstances.

Nope. Not luck. My cats used to do that to the tv when they see birds on it. They pounce at the screen, and then when they realise they aren’t affecting them and are being ignored they start to frantically look behind the tv even checking the front every few seconds to see if they are still there. And there is another bear and mirror short. The bear does the same thing. Freaks and checks behind it.

Because they see the reflection first. He came to the edge first and knew it was flat.

I know, I love how he stood up and kept looking over and into the mirror..No doubt, this is one smart bear...

That'd be creepy if the bear in the mirror stayed when the other bear left the mirror.

Average bear is smarter then humans

Bear: I am you and you are me.

He's prolly democrat

Defiantly NOT related to Obama or Biden..

He's smarter than the person who put the mirror out there

😆

Lmao!

Nah, he’s wondering about the boundaries of the reflection

@@chairmanofrussia that seems hilariously accurate The way this bear just keeps analyzing the edge like it’s trying to discover something

Love? Them? Dumb comment.

@@123TauruZ321 Wha?

@@thatonecabridog The bear landed on it's neck. I highly doubt it's "okay".

Hilarious!!! I did laugh out loud when he/she was rising up to check out the situation and kept at it for a bit. Too amazing!

@ottohesslein3230 😂😂😂😂

smelled humans up to their old pranks.

Windows, even. Bears who go dumpster diving had to have seen a store front. After the initial surprise, the bear is probably just assuming there’s some kind of trap involved. “ AAUUGH, oh great, what fresh hell are the humans instigating now?”

the experience of encountering a mirror for the first time is quite different than seen your vague reflection in water or whatever else.

There's a short of a bear attacking it immediately. Some bears might be more intelligent than others.

@@awright119021 It’s true for every species that individuals vary in intelligence, even for insects. But attacking the mirror immediately doesn’t necessarily mean it’s dumber, it could also just be more predisposed to a fight or flight response. The same bear may also react differently under different circumstances.

And evidently, you'd be wrong as you literally just witnessed for yourself.... I don't get your comment

bears have one of the best smell senses in land mammals 7x more precise than dogs have

So about three times smarter than humans.

@@richsackett3423three times smarter than you*

@@Dagger_323 Humans who think they are the smartest animals on Earth also are the dumbest humans. Every fkn time.

jow drivel

No cog wheels, just running the basic bear program, trying to check out the other bear's butt hole. Tried several approaches to get to the butt hole, using the most rudimentary algorithms, when all failed, moved on with it's routine.

BRUH 😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣that's a good one

@@yosefshawarma3739 that's a true one, unlike the idiots in the comments who say it's an Einstein bear

@@wytworwyobraznii agree

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

it was cute when he started squatting though just to make sure 🤣.

How do you know that? Nothing indicated this

He also knows he's on camera. So... which came first? The bear and the mirror OR the Marx Bros. and the mirror?

😂😂😂

Думаю молодой потому нет страха как у взрослых

видать это не первое его зеркало.

@@riresou5785 кидались как раз молодые, а этот взрослый умный

He never figured out that it was his own reflection. Just because an animal's demeanour leads to less aggression, doesn't make them more intelligent.

@@aaronmicalowe I think I agree. It seems like he just got confused and left.

Indeed. However I've seen another video of a grizzly bear that freaked out and attacked the mirror, clearly not recognizing that it's looking at its own reflection.

@@aaronmicalowe Curiosity without aggression is the first step of intelligence.

@@LKauf279 This guy showed no aggression!? You're probably gonna say he went to look over and behind the mirror, but I saw him going to stand on his hindlegs a couple of times to try to appear bigger and more intimidating (only to find he couldn't see any opponent anymore).

I 100% agree. It seems like every neural network with memory from insects, animals including us, and soon computer based neural networks gets a historical development that's unique to them that shapes their perspective and temperament no matter the size of the network. Existence is endlessly fascinating. 😀

My Fishing Gear is in the Kitchen!!!

Quantum DecoBearance

Ugh excuse Me? Christian Holway. You start your Comment with? If You Owned that Bear. What makes You. Think? That anyone OWNS, that Bear? Really do You Believe? That Bear is OWNED by Someone? I'M going too Think, that your Comment was just a Slip of The Tongue. Type of Thing. So Good Luck.

@@robertwaid3579 calm down it was just a scenario they created

​@@robertwaid3579 Wow you got real crazy over nothing

​​@@robertwaid3579overdosing on meds again? Cagati in mano e prenditi a schiaffi

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Of course you are wrong. Reflections are not bear things. Two different worlds. For example, you look at a chair and you see that it is red or blue or whatever, its color, its decorations, what kind of wood it is made of or in what condition it is. The animals (mostly) don't care, the animal considers the chair as if it can eat it. And if not, can the chair eat the animal. If the answer is again no, then there is no reason for this animal to make any distinction between a chair and a pile of stones. This bear just made sure that there is no other bear there, so it is not in danger, so it may not care about that strange pile of stones that is for us the mirror

how the hell do you know what the bear knows

@@Kevinschart If you waste your life enough on body language, philosophical meaning of consciousness and self-awareness in all animals, and what defines the factor of intellect, then you'd maybe look back at this comment one day, and finally, "realize" the stupidity of your comment and the five stages of grief, before moving on with your day.

The saying goes, “If the bear is brown, lie down, if it's black, fight back and if it's white, say goodnight”.

Sorry Parker, but Bears like 98% of all animals can not see their reflections. they see shadowy images of movements and silhouettes in all mirror props. it's a fight or flight world, you either stand your ground or walk off.

I think it does understand. Looks at the way it goes back up and down to watch its head go in an out of frame at 1:00. It’s probably just very confused tho

Bears are like Einstein compared to maga cult members.

@@Fred-vy1hmI’m ridin with Genocide Joe Biden!

Да, чертовщина та ещё)

Are Bears smarter than Elephants and Donkeys? Hahahaha…

@@AbeTheSigma007 I think animals are like people. Some are smart, others dumb, some are easy, and others angry.

@@jvargas454 I agree with you. I was just kidding around. - Off topic, is 454 in reference to the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle?

There was one on the news last night , it had eaten some kind of psychotic mushroom and was having a wierd trip in the back of some guys ute -funny

How could this video possibly prove something about all mammals or all bears? It's one species of mammal and one individual bear. There are hardly any indicators of self awareness. The bear is confused, charges, is aggressive, and runs away.

​@@campbellsmith403 When I said "this proves" maybe I should've been more specific. It's an interesting reaction 'cause, unlike most Bear-mirror interactions, this specimen didn't deal with the reclection in a unique way (i.e. attacking) but by approaching, smelling and looking around the mirror. If you read more carefully, I said the answer could change between individuals significantly.

They found this to be true for silverback gorillas. The instinct to protect their families and display at ANY threat greatly outweigh the benefits of engaging with their own reflection. They will display and act aggressive every single time, just in case it isn't just their reflection this time. When they left the mirror there for months, the silverbacks did start to bring their families around to play with it though, while they stood guard. They can be smart enough to know their reflection and still not engage with the mirror.

I wonder if they didn't they see their reflection in water.

I remember a few videos of large zoo cats, and a couple of them, older ones with lots of life experience (and human interaction), eventually showed self-awareness with a mirror, while as an overall rule cats generally don't recognize themselves; but the potential for most of them as a whole to do so IS there, if you exercise their little brains early on and they are generally on the intelligent side. Seen a couple videos of house cats displaying this trait as well. There's not always a telling at what point the "ah-ha!" connection happens, but I imagine a good way to encourage it (if you wanna spend a lot of time trying) is to spend a substantial, and regular, amount of time in front of a good-sized mirror with your cat, while doing various activities with each other, as well as the mirror. After all, there must be a reason why the hooman is not afraid of the other rival hooman, isn't there?

no

moments later, the same bear was spotted on a tree thinking about the strangest thing that just happened to him.