The interesting thing is, while most cats fail the mirror test (some actually figure it out right away), its actually an unfair test. Cats don't actually see detail very well, especially close up. Cats are far sighted, so they don't see 'themselves' in a mirror, they see a cat shaped thing that doesn't make noise and has no scent. That freaks them out. The mirror test is not a fair test because it doesn't take into consideration how an animal identifies itself. Cats identify things by scent first and by sight second. Cats rub their own scent all over their territory, friendly creatures IN their territory and identify things including themselves mainly by smell. It also doesn't help that there are only something like 400 or so coat patterns a cat can have. Imagine if all human's had one of 400 faces and there was no diversity further than that...that would suck for recognizing people since everyone would have like 8 million doppelgangers. Humans probably wouldn't use sight as a primary for of identification either.
*humans (plural non-possessive) human's = singular possessive (or a contraction of "human is/has") Apostrophes are for contractions and possessive nouns, not pluralizing.
It’s a glitch in the Matrix … Seriously though, I feel like I can detect the ‘photon lag’ here, at times … though, it’s probably something to do with the angle of the mirror?
I tried this years ago with a cat I had at the time. It was a smaller mirror and he was a few years old, not a kitten. He just sat and looked at his reflection for a while; then he went behind the mirror, saw that there was nothing there and, after that, he just wasn't interested in it at all, completely ignored it.
How can a human learn to tell the difference between a cat that hasn't figured out the mirror test, versus a cat that _has_ figured out the mirror test and thinks that their reflection is fun to play with?
An excellent question. Kind of reminds me of a study a while back, which came to the conclusion that young children don't understand the concept of one person not knowing information that another person knows. Except, I remember the question from that study. It was: "If Johnny wears Dave's shoes and walks through the house with mud on them, will Johnny or Dave be blamed for the mess?" I optimistically answered that Johnny would be blamed, because I thought it was UNFAIR that Dave should be blamed for something that Johnny did, and hoped that their parents would believe Dave when he told them the truth. The study came to the conclusion that young children don't understand that information isn't universal. But they failed to ask the follow-up question as to WHY the children were answering the way that we did. Because I have to wonder how many of the kids in that study answered the same way that I did, for the same REASON that I did.
*Damn, this *guy's (contraction of "guy is") guys = plural non-possessive *good. They're (contraction of "THEY aRE") their = possessive there: for all other uses *perfectly.
Years ago, I saw a prank video on UA-cam where they set up a public women's restroom (hand washing area) with what appeared to be a mirror but was actually a window, with identical twin actors on either side.
When my cat first saw herself in a mirror (on a dressing table) she must have assumed it was a window. She immediately rushed round the back (she hated strange cats - she was tiny but feisty) and stopped short. A quick look round the front at the reflection again and she just ambled away - presumably realising it was her reflection. She was quite smart.
0:58 This right here I love. The kitten just intelligent enough to recognize that the other kitten doesn't exist on the other side of the mirror itself, but isn't clever enough to piece together that the other kitten is merely a reflection of itself, so it has to assume the other kitten is in some form a real entity.
My kittens tried to find the "playmate" - Behind mirror. :D Learned (as adults) to totally ignore this. On the other hand, Cats do seem to use mirrors to see *other* things? Cats are EVER Interesting! :P
Have you seen "Florida Man Experiencing a Mirror for the 1st Time"? Standing his ground, the guy walks past it, pulls out his handgun and shoots the mirror.
Brings back happy memories of my cat Hubert Herbert Sherbert who as a kitten used to do this sort of thing against the glass of the patio doors. Thanks.
Flash backs to Duck Soup! Pretty much all the moggies I have had a similar response at first sight of themselves in a mirror as kittens…. But soon learn that the supposed interloper is actually themselves and don’t respond to cutely. Spoilsports.😂
I had a cat that used to have a stare-down (dominance thing) with herself in the mirror, which of course she always lost. She finally stopped when she was about three years old.
I know I'll get some flack for this, but I actually think mirrors are a good IQ test for your pet. The smarter dogs and cats seem to get the concept of a mirror immediately or at least very quickly, while the less intelligent ones are completely flummoxed.
@@Danielathan They didn't recognise themselves. They just recognised it wasn't a real dog/cat. Dogs and cats don't recognise themselves in mirrors. My dog used to go mad and try to attack itself. She also watched Animal Hospital and would try to attack the TV.
@@heldinahtmlhell I didn't say they recognized themselves, only that they calmly studied their reflection. I know cats and dogs can't recognize themselves in the mirror. Still, it fits the original comment.
I once had two cats in the same time period. One would hear animals on the TV and watch and watch, go up, look over the screen, look behind it, hilarious. And she would play in mirrors. The other cat, nada. Completely unaware.
I remembered from the time we adopted my dog Sushi he barked at his own reflection on the piano and when I hold him in my arms in front of the mirror he was squirming and try to bark at the mirror and I almost dropped him cuz of that
CAT'S MOVEMENTS, POSES, AND MANNERISMS is the cutest thing ever, lol
Amazing how they were able to synch their movement so perfectly, I'm blown
"I'm gonna surprise him with this special attack, he won't see it coming"
"damn, he's good, he blocked it again!"
Music sounds like something out of a Banjo-Kazooie game.
The interesting thing is, while most cats fail the mirror test (some actually figure it out right away), its actually an unfair test. Cats don't actually see detail very well, especially close up. Cats are far sighted, so they don't see 'themselves' in a mirror, they see a cat shaped thing that doesn't make noise and has no scent. That freaks them out. The mirror test is not a fair test because it doesn't take into consideration how an animal identifies itself. Cats identify things by scent first and by sight second. Cats rub their own scent all over their territory, friendly creatures IN their territory and identify things including themselves mainly by smell. It also doesn't help that there are only something like 400 or so coat patterns a cat can have. Imagine if all human's had one of 400 faces and there was no diversity further than that...that would suck for recognizing people since everyone would have like 8 million doppelgangers. Humans probably wouldn't use sight as a primary for of identification either.
I find it weird that people say cats fail the mirror test when every grown cat I've tested on mirrors have no problem recognizing that it's a mirror.
*humans (plural non-possessive)
human's = singular possessive (or a contraction of "human is/has")
Apostrophes are for contractions and possessive nouns, not pluralizing.
@@alvallac2171 Lol, fair enough, I'll fix it.
I think the best parts are when she's poised to go to ground, then gets confused when the opponent doesn't pounce.
I remember mine used to check behind the mirror to see if the "other cat" was there. 🪞😺🤗
Clever. The scientific way.😊
Clever. The scientific way.
😂😂😂😂 love that!!
The cat is just beginning to understand that that image moves like him. “Could it possibly be me? Improbable!”
For some reason, I almost feel like there are two cats, here.
That's what he thought.
You can see when they get out of sync, it's two cats
It’s a glitch in the Matrix …
Seriously though, I feel like I can detect the ‘photon lag’ here, at times … though, it’s probably something to do with the angle of the mirror?
@@kierenmoore3236 I feel like you can’t train photons, and you can’t train cats. Which one is more likely?
@@kierenmoore3236 (Neither.)
Dang! This guy knows all my moves!
I tried this years ago with a cat I had at the time. It was a smaller mirror and he was a few years old, not a kitten. He just sat and looked at his reflection for a while; then he went behind the mirror, saw that there was nothing there and, after that, he just wasn't interested in it at all, completely ignored it.
How can a human learn to tell the difference between a cat that hasn't figured out the mirror test, versus a cat that _has_ figured out the mirror test and thinks that their reflection is fun to play with?
An excellent question.
Kind of reminds me of a study a while back, which came to the conclusion that young children don't understand the concept of one person not knowing information that another person knows.
Except, I remember the question from that study. It was: "If Johnny wears Dave's shoes and walks through the house with mud on them, will Johnny or Dave be blamed for the mess?"
I optimistically answered that Johnny would be blamed, because I thought it was UNFAIR that Dave should be blamed for something that Johnny did, and hoped that their parents would believe Dave when he told them the truth.
The study came to the conclusion that young children don't understand that information isn't universal. But they failed to ask the follow-up question as to WHY the children were answering the way that we did. Because I have to wonder how many of the kids in that study answered the same way that I did, for the same REASON that I did.
Delightful! And great and appropriate music! Perfect!!!
Ah, the old draw match of the twin clown cats! 😅😂🤣
“A wiley opponent! He anticipates my every move!”
Outstanding choice of music!!!
Very funny cat!
"You talkin' to me? YOU talkin' to ME? You talkin' to me? Then who the h-ll are you talkin' to? Talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here!"
DAMMIT! Beat me to it. 🙃
Cats are great creatures.
Great exercise for his tail!😂
A cat has no idea what a mirror is, all they know is that their opponent is matching every gesture, move, and attack.
My one cat was hissing and growling when she attacked the Mirror. When she was a kitten, it was hilarious.😁
"Ooh this new opponent is very good ... anticipating and matching my every move!"
Love those moves! Another kool move!
that was so fun thanks! Such a determined cat lol!
A worthy adversary, indeed!
Now that's some good stuff there, a couple times he was just gonna walk away but couldn't, came right back for more.
damn this guys good, their matching my moves perfectly
*Damn, this
*guy's (contraction of "guy is")
guys = plural non-possessive
*good. They're (contraction of "THEY aRE")
their = possessive
there: for all other uses
*perfectly.
@@alvallac2171 cats dont care about gramar
Got that tail working overtime
I mean, cat’s got some pretty awesome moves…
I really enjoyed that, especially the strange sound track.
So funny when the cat rolls over it thinks l got you now, springs up to pounce but its foe is there to meet them 😻🤕🤗
"I'm scared of it but I also want to play with it."
I've never seen those two emotions so mixed.
Which one’s Groucho and which one’s Harpo? 😂
My kitten immediately ran behind the mirror to find the other cat.
Kitty has met its match.
Haha kitten wants to play with the kitten in mirror 😂
What's funnier is a dog eating in front of mirror. He thinks the other dog is gonna get his food 😂
Cats understand mirrors.This one is playing like we all do in mirrors. My cats will even spot me in the mirror and immediately turn and look at me.
Cats will understand mirrors with time, but most cats are confused the first time they see a mirror.
@@AL3Z72true.... 😊
Because that's what I do in a mirror, bat at myself and get frisky...
Yeah not innately, they learn, or they don’t
Some do. Some don't.
That's no mirror! That's two identical cats in complete synchronisation with each other.. lol 😅
“Are you meowing to me?” (Kitty Deniro in "Taxi cat").
1:22 min
I swear to god at that moment, for just a moment, it looks like the Mirror Kitty moves BEFORE the This Dimension Kitty.
After awhile, you begin to think that there are actually two cats.
My adversary knows my every move !
Hilarious. Nice soundtrack too.
His cute little ears going into “attack mode.” 😹😹😹😹
Could do without the music....
Then turn the sound off…..😂
@@albertsmyth9616 I wanted to hear kitty noises, smartass.
@@albertsmyth9616 🤡
This is too cute. I subscribed just for that kitty😻
🐑
Damn! This other cat's almost as clever and handsome as me...!
Very Cute Kitten. Great Video 👍
The video is cute and the music is just amazing. So dramatic, epic and... mischievous? Idk a better word.
Was waiting for one cat to outsmart the other :(
Years ago, I saw a prank video on UA-cam where they set up a public women's restroom (hand washing area) with what appeared to be a mirror but was actually a window, with identical twin actors on either side.
Great choice of music, reflects the cat's mystification
Awe that is like so adorable and cute, my little black did the same and started at herself in the mirror, so sweet.
When my cat first saw herself in a mirror (on a dressing table) she must have assumed it was a window. She immediately rushed round the back (she hated strange cats - she was tiny but feisty) and stopped short. A quick look round the front at the reflection again and she just ambled away - presumably realising it was her reflection. She was quite smart.
STOP….COPYING….ME! 😂
Cat: oh wow, this fellow is so fast....
That kitten be like: “Mom, who IS this other kitten? He looks JUST like me! And he’s also copying my moves!”
Grrrr! That other kitten is mocking me.
It's tripping him the heck out thats for sure lol
0:58 This right here I love. The kitten just intelligent enough to recognize that the other kitten doesn't exist on the other side of the mirror itself, but isn't clever enough to piece together that the other kitten is merely a reflection of itself, so it has to assume the other kitten is in some form a real entity.
It's just a copycat.
9 years in the gulag for that pun
Cuteness levels are too freaking high
My kittens tried to find the "playmate" - Behind mirror. :D Learned (as adults) to totally ignore this.
On the other hand, Cats do seem to use mirrors to see *other* things? Cats are EVER Interesting! :P
cute kitty thinks it's a different cat.
I would like to see this experiment repeated but with a glass window instead of a mirror, and an identical cat on the other side! LOL
Have you seen "Florida Man Experiencing a Mirror for the 1st Time"? Standing his ground, the guy walks past it, pulls out his handgun and shoots the mirror.
Have you seen the video “Chuck Norris sees a mirror for the first time?” Of course not, nobody can copy Chuck Norris
Imagine if the reflection reached out and grabbed the kitten like in "Evil Dead 2" 😂
I hate imitators!
Brings back happy memories of my cat Hubert Herbert Sherbert who as a kitten used to do this sort of thing against the glass of the patio doors. Thanks.
STOP COPYING ME!!! MOM!!! HE'S COPYING ME!!!
Mirror is definitely haunted/possessed by a ghost.
Kitty is fighting the ghost to keep then trapped in the mirror so it won't take over their human
Little fluffed up taile😅.
Neither of my cats are interested in mirrors at all, it's like they know it's them but just don't care to look at themselves.
Cats and dogs don't have the ability to notice themselves in mirrors. However, they eventually learn that the cat in the mirror is not a threat.
@@undertyped1where did you get that information. Now you’re just making stuff up
Flash backs to Duck Soup!
Pretty much all the moggies I have had a similar response at first sight of themselves in a mirror as kittens…. But soon learn that the supposed interloper is actually themselves and don’t respond to cutely. Spoilsports.😂
Has the kitten met any other cats before? That would probably help it figure out the mirror cat isn't real.
I had a cat that used to have a stare-down (dominance thing) with herself in the mirror, which of course she always lost. She finally stopped when she was about three years old.
Ha! 😆Cats are comical.
Looks to me like the kitty is mostly intrigued. I love cats...
Sometimes things are not what they seem.
Kitten really wants a friend 😊
My cat is so used to watch the mirror now that it even knows now when im behind him just because of my reflection, cats are very intelligent creatures
*used to watching
*I'm
*reflection. Cats (to fix your comma splice run-on)
*creatures.
@@alvallac2171 tH4nK2 F0R y0uR h31p,
這傢伙的反應、速度都跟我一樣
這怎麼打？!
😂😂😂
Perfect musical score much like " The Spider Inside Me " on UA-cam.
Very few animals recognize the image in the mirror as themselves.
That's not a Mirror it's an identical kitty matching every move.
Looks like the effect of catnip.
かわいい
Why don't cats act this way when seeing their reflection in windows or water?
I know I'll get some flack for this, but I actually think mirrors are a good IQ test for your pet. The smarter dogs and cats seem to get the concept of a mirror immediately or at least very quickly, while the less intelligent ones are completely flummoxed.
If they can see you in it too, they don’t have any idea what they themselves look like
I don't think any dogs are cats pass the mirror test. The smarter ones may realise it's not a real dog or cat, I don't know.
Each of my dogs and my cat all just looked at the mirror, studied themselves for a moment, then went on with their day, so I think they passed.
@@Danielathan They didn't recognise themselves. They just recognised it wasn't a real dog/cat. Dogs and cats don't recognise themselves in mirrors.
My dog used to go mad and try to attack itself. She also watched Animal Hospital and would try to attack the TV.
@@heldinahtmlhell I didn't say they recognized themselves, only that they calmly studied their reflection. I know cats and dogs can't recognize themselves in the mirror. Still, it fits the original comment.
That's u, silly kitty hehee ❤️🔥🤣
It thinks different from a dog. A dog would be looking behind the mirror.
My kitten look for the "other" cat behind the mirror as well. So its not just dogs.
I once had two cats in the same time period. One would hear animals on the TV and watch and watch, go up, look over the screen, look behind it, hilarious. And she would play in mirrors. The other cat, nada. Completely unaware.
Loved the music!!! And the awesome kitten(s)!😺😺
Looks more like a cat than a kitten.
Бой с тенью .😼
I remembered from the time we adopted my dog Sushi he barked at his own reflection on the piano and when I hold him in my arms in front of the mirror he was squirming and try to bark at the mirror and I almost dropped him cuz of that
Name the kitty Groucho and Harpo!
There's a reference not everyone will get, but it's spot on.
This mirrors the human mind : Sets of thoughts in opposition/ contradiction against other thoughts.
stop drop and roll!
This would be funnier with cat translations
"Jeez! This other kitten's got some MOVES. Can't....get past....defenses!"
It would be funny if after a minute the reflection suddenly make an error in movement.