(Upbeat music)
- And of course we're with my buddy max and he's got eight
beautiful animals, I tell you what,
- These are my favorite cats, I think, in the world;
like the pattern that they have on them is just unlike any
other animal out there. It looks like a piece of art,
like, truly just a piece of art -[Brian] On animals
- nature's art,
you know, I mean, we hear about nature's paintbrush,
God´s paint brush, all that, and this is on full display.
- Oh my gosh, Clouded leopards are, you know, I mean,
just some of the most incredible, of course,
they're not a really big cat, but they're amazing,
they have unbelievably big teeth for their size and,
and just really big paws and unbelievable.
I mean, they definitely are, I mean, top two, top three cats
on the entire world for me, as far as my love of cats,
just amazing; of course, clouded patterns,
why they call them clouded leopards, oh my gosh.
That's just like your baby. Huh?
- Yeah, he's amazing
- Oh boy
- [Max] you don't see that often. Right
- [Brian] Oh my God. Look at that.
He's your friend!
- Yeah. These guys are just truly, truly incredible animals
and so needs to be able to get up close and personal
like this with them; and it just makes you have
such a greater appreciation for what they are
and it makes you care about them more, you know?
and that's the goal. You want people to care about animals
and to want to make a difference for them out there
in the wild, so things like this, just, you know,
help bridge that gap between humans and animals.
- Oh my gosh, of course, these are critically
endangered animals, so it's so important for places
like this to be spreading that education and conservation
throughout, you know, I mean, it's amazing. I mean, wow!
what an animal! Unbelievable, Oh my God.
You're such a cutie! What are you doing, cutie?
- They're the most arboreal of big cats,
they, they live in the trees and their back ankles rotate
like a squirrel -[Brian] really?
- But they're so comfortable, they're like,
they're like a squirrel. They can hang upside down;
they're the largest big cat that can run straight down.
- [Brian] Really? - How long their tail is too.
- [Brian] Yeah. -They use it, you know, when they're
running through the trees, - [Brian] She's really beautiful
- to help keep their balance.
- [Brian] little rudder, yeah, like a rudder.
- Oh! Come on!
- [Brian] You can tell the relationship that, you know,
they have, I mean, as soon as you came in, they love you.
- Hey! you got to show up, you got to spend time with them,
you know, it's all about the time that you put in.
I definitely believe you get what you put in, you know,
like the time that you put in, you definitely get back out;
they love and respect you if you're out here
taking care of them, spending time with them,
they know that, all that stuff, you know, so, little buddy,
you want to eat my pant leg; really?
We just talked about how nice you are, how sweet you are
and now you want to eat my leg.
- [Brian] This animal here is something else, I mean,
of course this is a melanistic.
- [Man] Absolutely loving on you from start.
You know, he's just really been a great guy; their pattern
is just incredible; most people don't realize that
they do have a pattern, and it's so cool
but what a, what a stout, incredible big cat.
You know what I mean, and it's so powerful.
- [Brian] Yeah. You can just see those legs.
I mean just, wow! How old is this? One?
- [Woman] A year
- [Man] Six months, maybe seven months.
- Oh my gosh, yes, I know; we're playing.
Nope, don't rip my hair out, don't rip my hair out.
It's okay. - but you see they're very gentle
I mean, they're very powerful, so of course,
you know the rule there; they hurt you on accident,
but you could see, you could see, you're really a good boy
- You heard something else! You are something else!
My goodness! Great! This is amazing!
This experience is like no other, I tell you what,
I love big cats and I love, Jaguars are amazing,
agile animals, obviously, you know, they'll take down Cayman
and stuff like this and of course, melanistic
is their recessive mutation, you could still see
the pattern, but, yet it's still caught the little bit
of black out of it; absolutely wonderful. I mean,
this thing is ridiculous. I know you're a cheeky, right?
You can't get a little cheeky. Oh my gosh!
I tell you what, that is, that is, that's worth the trip
all the way to Florida just to spend a few minutes
with this guy, I can't believe how amazing that is. Wow!
Geez! I'm in love, I'm literally in love; I love reptiles,
but man, I tell you what, this is insane.
- That's a good boy
(Upbeat music)
- [Brian] So obviously when you look at an animal like this,
a lot of times you think like, oh, that must be an ostrich,
right? And sometimes even people think they're Emus,
but honestly this was the smallest of these birds;
these are actually called Rheas and that's full grown.
You know, an ostrich can get like eight, nine foot tall,
and he was going to probably be about five foot tall,
but Rheas actually, stay small like that;
this is a really interesting, kind of, beautiful one,
pretty typical of what you see a Rhea, but this one here
is really, really amazing. It's like white,
it's almost like it's leucistic; it's got the blue eyes
white; I've never actually seen these; now, they do have
the white emus, but I've never seen the white Rhea,
which is pretty cool, so it's, it's really amazing,
but again, this is super, super cool animals; on average,
usually Rheas aren't quite as friendly as emus are,
but these guys seem to be really chilling during the petting
area. So it's pretty cool to just be up and close with them.
(Birds chirping)
We are in the goat area. I love goats too. I got the Turkey;
I, for some reason, I've always wanted the Turkey as a pet.
I don't know exactly why, but look at how awesome they are.
Cool little aviary. They got Scarlet Macaws, blue and gold.
We got of course Cockatoos over here. I love the setup.
you know, it's kinda, you know, real tall for them
to get up, they got the waterfalls going down over here,
got the branches all over the place so they can kind of
decide; and they're very quiet to be honest with you,
normally, when you walk into a, an aviary like this,
so loud, you can't even take it, but it's pretty cool,
and apparently this one is named Heineken, right?
Why is it named Heineken?
- We think he came somebody that really approved of the
Heineken. Yeah. And that's how the name he said
when he says it, it sounds like they really were happy
when they said it. - Okay guys, I'm in love right now;
there's no doubt about it. These of course, are Lemurs,
but not just the normal lemurs that you always see in
Madagascar or something like that. These are actually
what they call ruffed Lemurs and Jay has one over
- He's chugging the camera, he's trying to blog.
- [Brian] So he's over here hanging out with Jay right now.
- Hi, buddy!
- And these are black and white ruffed Lemurs right here,
again, all lemurs are from Madagascar; Prosimian animals,
they have the most unusual, like soft really cool hands;
I think he might actually jump over to Jay.
- [Jay] Oh! He's got on my camera! He's got it again!
Oh no! I got you bud. - and of course this is actually
a red ruffed Lemur, and they're just very curious
about the camera, right? They're like, what's this camera
what's going on? They love this little fuzzy right here.
- Oh my God Brian, I need help, I need hands
- [Brian] You're fine.
- They got in the camera.
- [Brian] Jay, Jay, Jay, you're going to be all right.
- Okay. Now we're good; we're managing, we're managing.
- (Laughs) Jay, he's always, he's always complaining, and
that's the only problem, Jay.
- But you know me, dude. I can't take this stuff anymore.
- Oh no. He's gonna put his two week notice in that.
- [Jay] I had it with Lemurs
- the Lemurs were in the last straw,
Brian. All right, Jay, get in with that lagger;
quit this little dude. You want to be a camera guy?
You want to be a camera guy? You shoot him.
You shoot him Jay, Alright. Alright.
Make sure the shot's squared up.
- Are we blown out?
- Are we blown out? Make sure the f-stops okay.
- At least he's got aim.
- [Brian] Yeah, he's got it, he did it; look at this guy
beautiful! They're just so soft in their class and
they're just amazing. I mean, I tell you what,
I loved rough Lemurs and to be honest with you,
so many people see the ring-tailed Lemurs, right?
That's what most people see.
- Brian, what are you doing to me, dude?
- [Brian] Come on buddy. Come on up here.
- Just keeps getting heavier every time, every two seconds.
- But the truth is the ring-tailed lemurs are typically a
little bit naughty to be totally honest with you,
for whatever reason, the rough Lemurs, the black and whites
and the reds are just much more docile, they're more easy
to interact with and they're absolutely amazing.
You having a fun time?
- I'm having a blast dude!
I love them. I'm in heaven. this is absolutely
the time of my life. This is, this is where I could stay
all day.
Max, what do you have there?
- I've got some,
a very intimate experience with the lemur happening
right now.
- I like it it's the chaos, chaos.
- [Jay] Oh no!
- [Brian] Gene, what's up?
- I've got a little mustache, lose some hair
- Finally dude!
- I think they like Jay a lot.
- [Woman] Because he's like a tree.
- [Man] Well, it's always nice to be on the tallest tree.
- And that'd be me.
- These types of animals make just great ambassadors
to the wild counterparts. Because people don't realize
the devastation of deforestation and all that coaching
in the wild; that's my mouth, thank you;
and it's, it's so important, You know, when people
see animals, they fall in love and that's
what makes a difference, and everybody needs to remember
that animals make better humans, you know, kids who grow up
with animals learn, love, respect, responsibility;
it just it's a good way for everybody to start out, you know
Ain't that right?
- Brian, I thought I told you to get these lemurs
out of my face; How am I supposed to work like this!
Oh my God, you've got one too?
- [Brian] And you ever just coming in here and hang out?
- Every once in a while, yeah.
- You in here every day after school, you've got homework
that way you can literally tell your folks that lemur stole
my homework. It's not a bad idea.
- That's actually smart.
(Laughs)
(Cows mooing)
- [Brian] So you guys may not know this, but one of Noah's
favorite animals in the world one that he wants to get
is actually a Watusi Cow, so that's the one with
the big horns over here of course we got some horses
coming over, but the Watusis are amazing and
he's going to freak out because not only do they have
a big pair Watusis, but they have a baby Watusi too
that's not too old, so it's just absolutely amazing,
I mean, they're just, they're so interesting,
and like I said, Noah, it's all he talks about
is "one day I'm going to get Watusi cows"
so they are amazing, look at the horns on them, oh my God!
- The offspring mimic the father,
- [Brian] Okay.
- so this is the dad on the left, mom and then baby
and it's a little girl, but you can see she's
got that pattern going like the dad,
which is absolutely stunning. I think he's a gorgeous guy.
- Gorgeous little cow, you're my little cow (mumbles)
- [Brian] Hi! Oh my gosh, a little Watusi! A little Watusi!
Oh my gosh! you are so amazing! what are you doing?
Oh yeah, look at that, oh my gosh.
- Look got that shot. Right? mom, dad and the kid
- Oh my gosh, that's beautiful. What are you doing, silly?
Look at, now, she's curious. Now she's curious.
Hi, little one, hi, how are you? beautiful
Oh my gosh. I love it; that tongue is kind of
almost like a big cat where it's like a little bit
of sandpapery stuff on it; very interesting.
You can't eat me though; girl, you can't eat me,
you can lick on it, but you can't eat me, he's still there.
Oh my God. This is ridiculous, this is so cool.
Look at the size of the Sulcata, I mean that is a big animal
and that's what I always tell people when people even
see speedy are Sulcata they think it's a big tortoise,
but they can get this large, I mean, this is a giant;
third largest tortoise in the world and you can just see
what a beast is, look at that big old legs on this guy,
they don't care if it's, I mean, it's amazing,
so when you get that cute little Sulcata think about it
one day, it's going to be this size.
Look how amazing this Koi pond is right here; I mean,
great water feature; really nice coil over here
I think about the Koi all the time when we're doing
the expansion, we're definitely going to have probably
at least two different Koi areas, one upstairs and
then one out front and it's an inspiration
when I see stuff like this, especially because our one out
front will be outside, so I love seeing like kind of ideas
so that I can just kind of envision what ours is going
to look like; so that's pretty awesome.
Clayton, my man here is actually the one that kind of
helped get this whole thing going. I appreciate you so much.
He brought over some koi fish food for us
So what do you say? you throw some in there and see what
these guys (mumbles)
So you're into snakes as well, right?
- Yeah, I'm a big snake fan, reptiles are my thing.
- You think you're gonna add a reptile park to the
zoo when you get older?
- Yeah, we've had a plan to have like a little
glove pile, type of, exotic thing, situated like,
right over there
by that tent, so then people can see more than just
what we had.
- That's awesome. I mean, I love it. Love this guy, man.
He's absolutely incredible.
Of course, Brutus is a Liger. Now what's happens
is that when you have a Tiger and Lion gene,
they basically unlock this kind of magic where they're
actually larger and the Ligers are the big ones,
and then the Tigons are the opposite way,
which are a little bit smaller, but this is just
an absolute beast; I mean, what an amazing animal.
It's shocking to see something that large, so then
this is actually the Tigon, which is the opposite
of the Liger as basically just a matter that the male
is a Tiger in the females a Lion. Whereas with the Ligers,
it's the male Lion and the female Tiger and
they're obviously completely different; I mean, this is
like more of a normal size of a tiger. Whereas obviously
the Ligers are gigantic.
Leave it to Florida, I tell you what, we're just driving
and all these Parrots just fly right into the
tree over here. I'm not sure exactly what the species are,
but I mean the entire tree is full of them, and
it's amazing. I mean, is this crazy.
- They're wild Parrots
- [Brian] wild Parrots
- from the zoo, these are just wild animals
in Florida right now.
- Florida (laughs) Florida.
It's a wild place.
- You remember to be kind, show him the love,
show him, that's what you want to show;
you don't want to show them rough housing.
You don't want to, because that's not, we know that they are
capable of that, it's in there,
- [Brian] Sure
but what we want to bring out is that
amazing bond and that incredible
relationship because that's what this is really all about.
- [Brian] All right, so Clayton, tell me a little bit about
your Caracal.
- So, she's about a year old we got her when she was
really young, she was like a little fur ball.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's amazing, and do you love her
or what? What's her name? What's her name?
- Giselle
- [Brian] All right, that's awesome.
And of course, Giselle is an amazing animal, these guys
come from South Africa and are just really, truly amazing
those ears you can obviously imagine there for really
being able to hear, and, just love this guys.
And that's the one thing good about the beard now, I can do
the little scratchy scratch on them.
- [Jay] She's loving it, Brian!
Oh my God! This is amazing! I love it! okay,
so maybe I'll keep the beard for a little while longer,
- [Jay] It looks good.
- I tell you what, this is amazing, not all Caracals
are this way; I'll be honest with you, they can be
a little high strong but she is absolutely incredible.
What a great time we've had here I can't stress enough
Big Cat Habitat is an amazing place, If you ever down here
they're open every day, except for Monday and Tuesday,
so you can come down, you can donate their 5 0 1 C3.
Not-for-profit, go short, show them some up.
'Cause I see through, they're bridging that gap between
wildlife conservation, getting people to love these animals.
It's really an amazing place. Super impressed.
I can't thank Max,
and everyone so much for bringing me here and what a great
time. I mean, obviously Clayton senior, Clayton Jr.
I'll put all the links on the description to everyone
go show them some love, but we got to hit the road, guys.
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