- Do you remember these purple-ly gray snakes
from the mystery clutch?
Well today we are actually one step closer
to understanding what exactly is going on
with the mystery gene.
Now, if you guys remember,
this is actually the mystery female,
the mom to the babies that I just showed you,
that popped out randomly just about five years ago
that's just out of nowhere, which is absolutely incredible.
And then all of a sudden, we were like,
what in the world is this?
We've gotta figure it out.
And she was bred to this mystery male
which was one of her offsprings.
So later on the vlog, I'm going actually show you guys
what I think is the base gene to this mystery.
It is been producing some crazy stock
like this, this, and these, but nothing like this.
So later in the video, I'm gonna actually reveal
to you what I think is actually going on.
But first, do you remember
that Super Lori Leopard Clutch that was bred
to a Black Pastel Lesser?
Well, they have shed out now and look absolutely credible.
I love this animal right here.
This is actually the very first ever
Leopard Lori Lesser Ball Python.
Absolutely incredible.
And then of course we got that crazy blue eyed leucistic.
It doesn't make any sense.
So I don't even know what the genetics are behind this.
And then look at this animal right here.
Woo doggie, that is actually a Black Pastel.
It's a Lori Ball Python.
And it's a Leopard Ball Python.
And then this one is crazy too.
I'm exactly sure what the genetics are behind it
but it's definitely a Black Pastel,
is definitely a Lori.
It appears to be a Leopard too.
So these two may be the same genetic,
but just have different expressions or phenotypes of it.
This clutch is a dream come true.
I'm gonna keep all of these, raise 'em all up,
and start breeding them to other things.
Because I think we found the magical genetic,
definitely that Lori Leopard Ball Python
that bred into Black Pastel Lesser,
that was the genes that I needed to produce from.
(group laughs)
- I'm so confused.
- [Cameraman] You're the one that told us to come in here.
- Yeah, we're gonna go.
(group chatters)
Or a Bugatti.
- He said small.
He said small.
- [Brian] Okay. So are you done?
- Think you're being sneaky.
- It's so stupid.
- I wonder why we're being stopped.
- I know. - Tuesday.
- She says she's doing an interview.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday dear Brian ♪
- Were you surprised?
- [Family] Wait, hey, wait.
Yeah, success.
- I know. - She's special.
What's this?
- Now, she's trying to cut the cake again.
- [Crew] Is it good?
- Hey Mike, if you look under there.
- Aw man.
What's that?
- Don't touch Perdita.
Did she bite somebody?
- Not that I know. - Probably.
- Whoa, probably?
Don't touch.
- Does that mean that we should touch Perdita?
- Touch.
- It says don't touch.
- Perdita.
- So, what does that mean?
- Isn't my dad solving a mystery right now too?
- Hmm.
- And now we have a mystery on our hands.
How are we gonna solve this?
Should we just take the sign?
- [Both] Don't touch.
- What do we not touch, Perdita or the sign?
- Clearly, Perdita.
- Yeah, don't...
Oh, oh, whoa.
Nope, let's not touch Perdita.
Let's just go ask someone if they put the sign in here.
- Okay.
Good idea.
- And then, take a look at these guys.
These are those Suma Ball Pythons that are hetero-pied.
Unbelievable.
Now that they shed out, you can really see the super
mahogany or what they call Suma.
Now these are the mahoganies here.
Just a really dark, incomplete dominant gene.
That's incredible.
But then, the super version, of course,
is the Suma Ball Python.
And that's the het for pied too,
so in the future we can breed the black and white
ball pythons which are absolutely incredible.
Once they shed out, woo doggie, are they beautiful!
- Dad.
- What's up with Perdita?
- There's a sign in her enclosure.
- What are you guys talking about?
- Did you put it in there?
- There's a sign that says don't touch.
- [All] Perdita.
- I'm not really sure what you guys are talking about.
- Maybe we should check with someone else.
- Who else are we gonna ask?
- I thought that was his writing.
We're gonna need the sign, here.
- Okay, perfect.
- Should we take the snake too?
- Okay.
- We have to find out.
- You have all of the knowledge and wisdom of this place.
What's up with this sign?
- What did Perdita...
Oh, he's looking at us.
- He's look at it.
- Tell us, Perly.
He doesn't know anything.
- Milton, do you know anything about this sign?
Hello?
Oh, there he is.
Who put it in?
- Connie. - She'll know.
- Connie, we we've been worried sick about Perdita.
What's wrong with her?
- What's wrong with Perdita?
Did you make this sign? - I don't know.
No.
- Did you see who put it in the enclosure?
- Have you seen this sign?
- No.
- Do you even work here?
- Yes.
- What does this mean though?
- Don't touch
Perdita.
- She said maybe Perdita.
- We didn't even ask Perdita.
Guys, come on.
- That should've been the first thing we did.
- We're so dumb.
- So I've got my buddy here, Eli.
Have you ever seen anything like this before?
Aren't they absolutely beautiful?
- Yes.
- Which one's your favorite?
- Probably this one.
- Aw, it's so beautiful, isn't it?
Here, you can hold it.
That is a world's first animal.
It's the only one in the entire world with this genetics
and you're holding it right now.
- Wow!
- That's awesome.
- Did you make this sign?
- What does it mean?
- Who put this in your cage?
What does it mean?
Don't touch.
- [Both] Perdita.
- Everybody, touch her.
- [Staff] Perdita?
Oh, I don't think she wants me to touch.
Did you just rip?
- No, I didn't fart.
- [Staff] I'm out.
- You figure out the mystery by yourself.
- I didn't even fart.
- I saw Ashley writing something earlier.
Maybe that, she wrote it.
- Ashley? - Nope.
- Yeah. - There is no way.
- [Second Staff] That fingerprint right there.
- That's a male.
- I would definitely check with her.
- You don't know anything.
- She does have big thumbs.
- You guys ready to see the clutch that just hatched out
that I think unlocked the mystery gene?
Let's back up for a second before we show ya'.
This is the original mystery mom
which is just a normal Pinstripe Ball Python.
Now, we brought in the Pinstripe Ball Pythons
in the late 90's and proved 'em out
to be an incomplete dominant.
Well, they don't have a super version.
But, about 50% of the babies, when produced to a normal,
will come out pinstriped.
You can see they're very much pinstriped.
They just got a little bit of dotting
on 'em but not too terribly much.
So when weird stuff started to pop out of this girl,
it didn't make a lot of sense.
- That's not the same thumb.
Did you make this sign?
- No, I didn't make that sign.
- I know because the thumbs don't match.
- She did make that.
Why would Connie lie?
- Okay, did you put it in the enclosure at least?
- No, I didn't.
- [Second Staff] Do you know anything about this sign?
- I've never seen this sign before in my life.
- Where were you at 2:00 PM today?
- Right here.
Is that even my handwriting?
- I don't know, we should test it.
It smells like Ashley.
- [Ashley] Look at my handwriting.
It looks nothing like that.
- I don't know, it's kind of close.
Look at the Perdita.
- Yeah, no.
But, it does kind of look like Alissa's handwriting.
- That's exactly what a liar would say.
- And nothing was more shocking than when I took
that pinstripe to a Black Pewter Ball Python,
which is a pastel and a black pastel.
We popped out the original mystery female
that was actually the mom to the clutch
of the purple little babies,
so this entire process has been wild!
In the first clutch of the mystery female actually had,
we popped out a number of animals
that were all very different.
This is just a pastel and a pinstripe,
but you can see the pinstripe isn't pinstriped at all.
It's all broken up.
There's lots of dotting and freckling and blushing.
Take a look at this one with all that yellow in it.
Absolutely incredible!
You can barely even see that it's a Pinstripe Ball Python.
Again, these should just be pastel/pinstripe
that are called Lemon Blasts, but they look nothing
like it and these were the males that I bred this year.
- Hey.
- I have poop on my hand.
- This sign, did you write that?
- Yeah, I wrote that.
- What?
- That was that easy?
- What does it mean?
- I'm just kidding.
I didn't actually write that.
- Aw, I thought we figured it out.
- It smells.
Is this your poop hand?
- The Starburst, I'll throw it up.
Don't do it.
Don't mach charge.
- [Staff] Alissa! Alissa!
- What's up guys?
- (burps) We have a clue.
- [Staff] You're so gassy.
- Okay. - I'm always gassy.
Oh, have you seen this sign before?
- I have not.
- Well, what does it mean?
- Oh my god!
- If you read that, how would you say it?
- Don't touch Perdita ...,
so there's something that comes after Perdita.
This is one sentence and then this is the start
of a second sentence.
- Okay, so she can tell us all that,
she probably wrote the sign.
- No.
- "National Treasure."
- [Second Staff] Here's the thing with the water.
- You realize on "National Treasure", they used lemon juice.
- Bee boop, boop.
Jessica in the bee boop Caledonian Room.
- My god, that must be a clue.
- Let's go find Jessica in the New Caledonia Room.
- [Staff] All right, let's do this.
- Let's go.
- Bye boys, thanks for the visit.
- Once this clutch was actually hatched,
which was the mystery male to the normal female,
I actually am able to see some differences here.
Now, to give you an idea, again,
this is a normal pinstripe.
You can see the striping down it.
It's got a few freckles on it, nothing too major.
Looks pretty normal, right?
And this is actually a normal pastel pinstripe
which is a Lemon Blast, which again,
you see a little bit of dotting and stuff like that.
Let's get into the crazy stuff.
Look at this animal right here.
That is the mystery gene.
There's no doubt about it.
You can see the massive difference between the two here.
All of the freckling, the way it's broken up.
It doesn't have that complete pinstripe down its back.
The pattern is all over the body.
And again, you see another one that is very similar.
Also much brighter too!
It's like it's got more yellow to it.
So this is the base morph of the actual mystery gene.
The question is that what can I do from here
and why when we breed this base morph,
that there's this granite looking pattern?
Why when we breed it to certain things,
does it blow out all the pattern?
That still is a mystery.
So now I've identified the base morph
which by the way, down in the comments,
I need to have a better name than the Mystery Gene.
Let me know what you think we should name this genetic
mutation because this is the base morph.
Again, don't know if it's incomplete dominant.
I'm expecting it will be.
And maybe possible those patternless animals
are actually the super version of this.
We'll find out more next year because we have more
animals up to size.
I'm excited about it, but again, I need a name for it.
I think we finally have identified the actual base morph
and we have another clutch I can show you even more.
- Guys.
- [Jessica] Hola?
You trying to come in?
- Are you naked?
Oops.
Sorry.
- Have you ever seen this sign before?
- No, I haven't.
Haven't seen it.
- [Second Staff] Well, could you tell us
what you think it would mean?
- What do you mean what does it mean?
- No, no, no! - If you had to read this,
what would you read?
Don't touch the sign or don't touch-
- Perdita.
- Because, don't touch, Perdita.
- I would say it means don't touch Perdita.
- What? - That's it.
- [Noah] There's a rip in the page and-
- A thumb print. - Fingerprints on the tape.
- Can you just hold your thumb up to here
so we can see if it lines up
to that thumbprint right there?
- No.
- [Second Staff] The thumb right there?
- No.
- [Second Staff] Thumb right there?
- But, no.
Did you guys talk to your mom yet?
- You seen her writing?
Let's go ask her.
- [Jessica] I really don't know what's going on right now.
- Let's go ask her.
Do you know anything about this sign?
Are you certain you've never seen this sign before?
- Have you seen anybody with that sign?
This is getting annoying.
- [Second Staff] This is stupid.
- This is why I didn't become a detective.
- Come on guys, we gotta go find Beth!
Beth, do you know anything about this sign-
- What sign?
- Beth, do you know anything-
- What sign?
What sign?
What are you guys, cops?
- Yeah, today, we're detectives.
- No, I don't.
- Where were you at the time this sign was written?
- Here.
Where else am I?
- [Second Staff] Writing the sign.
- It kind of looks your handwriting.
- That looks nothing like my handwriting.
- [Second Staff] You're lying.
- I'm not lying!
- [Staff] Tell us the truth!
- I don't know who wrote this sign.
- [Second Staff] Tell us what we need
to know about this sign.
- Which one of you wrote the sign?
- You're fired.
- Brian come in and ask for a marker.
Come in here and throw candy at me!
- [Staff] No, no.
- I just found this, Noah.
Do you think we should ask him?
- I'm right here.
I didn't write the sign.
- So why would somebody-
- [Jay] Nothing like how I write.
- Why would somebody write this note to us?
- I'm obviously being framed.
- Must be a good interview.
All I hear is your heartbeat.
- She's only at the beginning, at the middle part.
(Noah coughs)
- [Staff] Uh-huh.
- Mom.
We've been looking for you all day.
Couldn't you read under the door?
Did you not see the sign on the door?
- No, I didn't.
- [Second Staff] Do you know what the sign is?
- Honestly, I don't really know what that sign is.
Your dad asked me to make it, but I don't know why.
- Don't touch Perdita.
- [Second Staff] So you don't know what it means?
- I don't know what it means.
Go find Brian.
- Dad literally told us he didn't know anything about it.
- This makes no sense.
- This doesn't make any sense.
- I don't mind the Scooby genes.
It's actually pretty cool.
Let me know in the comments if you like the Scooby gene
or if you think something else,
but this would actually be a black pastel pinstripe
mystery animal.
You see the pattern is completely whacked out,
lots and lots of granite and it doesn't look like a black
pastel pinstripe at all which is really cool.
And then, this is actually more of a normal pinstripe
with what looks like the mystery gene.
It's not as freckled as the others ones
but you can tell the pinstripe is completely blown up
with hardly any striping on it at all.
Now, there is what they call polymorphism within pinstripe,
but this looks nothing like it with the blushing
and everything like that.
But, I'm starting to figure out things.
Now, interestingly enough, I don't know
any of these pastels, black pastels or normals.
I don't know if they're mystery gene.
I don't see anything different in that
and I wonder if the expression
of them is gonna be different.
With that being said, look at this.
This is actually a black pastel,
but look at the striping down its back.
Really interesting.
Unlike a normal cinnamon or a black pastel,
so I'm wondering if that's the way the mystery gene
is expressing in this particular thing.
- Dad. - Dad.
- Mr. Brian. - It doesn't make sense.
Mom said something.
- Yeah, this is my sign.
Yeah, this is my sign.
- You made it for her?
Or, she made it for you?
- No, no, I made it for her.
It says, "Don't touch Perdita."
- Literally we asked you- - But why?
- You were the first person.
- No.
- I asked everyone here.
- I thought you said that don't touch.
Perdita was saying don't touch.
This says don't touch Perdita.
- No, that says don't touch.
- [All] Perdita.
- No, don't touch Perdita because she's shedding.
- No, that's exclamation points-
- No, this says don't touch. Peridita.
- Well, it's about to say don't touch, Perdita.
So yeah, this is my sign.
- Well, nothing is solved.
- Everything's solved, Noah.
- Why?
Why can't we touch her?
- I tell you what.
This is absolutely amazing and we still have
a lot to figure out, speaking of out!
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Remember.
- Like that.
- He's getting something.
Beep boop, beep boop, boop, boop, boop.
Bee boop, boop. - Done.
- [Second Staff] Channeling Noah.