- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to vlog.
- Here I am today with Brian Barczyk,
who's very disinterested in
any of the animals that I'm showing him.
Right now he's on TikTok
trying to get new friends
and he needs attention.
- Man that's crazy, dude.
- Take a look you guys.
I'm actually with Tim here at NERD
and we have some venomous animals
that I am super excited to learn more about.
Because I'll be honest with you,
I always tell people
I'm no what I consider a venomous expert
by any stretch, but one thing I do know
is this is a rattle snake.
So what kind of a rattle snake is this?
- This is an Enyo rattle snake,
or a Baha rattle snake.
- Oh my god.
- They're one of the smallest species.
This one's a sub adult right now.
- Wow.
They max out, I believe, between 24 and 30 inches.
- And this is, I mean, he's got some amazing
buttons on it man.
And this is like really, really nice.
Yeah, and of course guys, I always tell people
snakes, in general, don't want to bite you right?
I mean, that's not what they're made for.
Why do they have rattles?
They have rattles to not bite you, right?
So that way you're walking around,
you come across this animal
and if you're gonna hear that buzzing sound,
that's just warning signals.
Say, "Hey stay away."
They don't want to use up their venom.
They don't want to hurt anybody.
I always say, if you're out on a hike whether you'll
come across Timber rattlesnakes, Western diamondbacks,
wherever you happen to be out hiking,
you find a rattlesnake like this, you hear that,
it's okay to admire it from afar,
but, you don't need to get close to it because
it's warning you don't get close,
and the one thing, and you know this Weller than
anything we're talking about,
is the fact that rattlesnakes
have an unbelievably springy bite, right?
- Oh yeah. - Yeah.
- They're like pogo sticks.
- Exactly you have a Western, right,
that like, can go crazy.
- He is insane.
- Oh my gosh, yeah.
You know, where a normal snake you might think
it will only strike this far.
A rattlesnake could probably
bite all the way out to here,
because they just coil themself up
and just lunge at you.
Now, do you know what kind of venom this has?
Is this a--
- It's a hemotoxin
- It's a hemotoxin.
- And it'll hold a pretty good bite,
It's got very small venom glands,
very small delivery system,
So it has a fairly toxic venom.
- [Camera Man] What does the hemotoxin do?
- [Tim] Attacks your blood,
mkes horrible things happen,
you're gonna bleed from everywhere.
Awful, yup, digest you while you're still alive.
- Yeah, so the hemotoxin is definitely, like,
the painful bite right?
That's where you're gonna, you know,
potentially lose fingers.
You could have lots of pain, lots of swelling.
Where as a neurotoxin, of course, it's gonna effect
the neuro system.
Oftentimes, neurotoxic bites
aren't even painful at all.
You just start to go into, you know, a coma
or cardiac arrest, or maybe your lungs shut down.
Hemotoxins are the bites you're gonna feel,
and, you're probably gonna have effects from it
for a lot of years to come.
But this is a beautiful, beautiful rattlesnake.
- One thing, Brian, about the rattling too,
when I do the tour I tell people,
if you hear the snake, that means the snake's afraid,
you've scared the snake.
The snake is more afraid of you than you are of it.
That snake's going, "Hey I'm here,
please back up, please step away."
- I totally agree,
and that's a great thing to do.
Again, these guys don't want to
hurt you at all, you know.
But look and see now he's
a little bit more calm, he's tops rattling.
- [Tim] I was hoping we could get a
good look at the rattle, but it's hiding it.
Look at its beautiful, beautiful tail he's got.
- [Brian] Look at that rattle.
Man, that's crazy dude.
(laughs)
Oh my gosh, fun times, guys, fun times.
(laughter)
- [Brian] She's buried huh?
- [Kevin] She's a white monitor.
I don't, I haven't worked trying to basically
tame her or anything.
- [Brian] Just let her go.
- [Kevin] It's basically, it's very important
his gene stock.
My buddy, Andry, over in Java
worked very hard to get her.
- [Bryan] Oh my gosh, a lizard.
- Yeah, it's a leucistic style monitor.
So it's got like this blue/red eyes.
So this animal is an ivory,
so it's like a white animal,
but it's very dirty.
- [Bryan] Right, yeah of course.
- And so you can't really tell.
But okay look at some of the nails.
- [Bryan] Oh my gosh. White, yup.
Clear, unbelievable, yeah.
- Aye yai yai.
- [Bryan] This is an imported animal.
- Originally, yeah.
So I'm just
- [Bryan] Not so much worried about the habituation.
- I'm not worried about her socialization at all.
Just keeping her happy, and healthy and feeding.
- [Bryan] Hopefully putting some eggs.
- Well, yeah, before long we're gonna go,
but look at her eyes.
So she's got like eyes.
Like it's blue and albino eye.
I'm gonna show you her claws too.
Can you see her claws?
Right there.
- [Bryan] Yeah I can see the translucent claws.
- And then you get dark claws.
I mean, we can clean her up but right now
it's all been about pretty much the welfare
of the animal.
- [Bryan] Yeah.
- But she's very, very special.
- [Bryan] I can see that.
Man that's crazy dude.
- We got Tigerytig.
- [Bryan] Tigerytig
Yes, one of my personal animals who we use
for education and stuff before.
- [Bryan] Well, you know it's funny,
I've only met you shortly but you seem to have
a lot of personal animals here.
- I do, I do.
- [Bryan] Are we gonna still talk about me
being able to take the one snake--
- You are not taking pribal.
That's my baby.
No. - Okay, well Kevin said
I could have it.
- I will pick one out for you, though.
- [Bryan] Oh yeah?
- I'll pick the second best one out.
- [Bryan] Second best?
(laughter)
- That one's the best to me because I love him.
But I will pick you a very nice pribal.
- [Bryan] I don't want the 2nd best.
You wanna say I'm 2nd best. - You can have Rob.
You can have Rob.
(laughter)
- Yo, this is actually the first rattle snake
that I saw in person when I was a kid.
Actually, my buddy Dawn Hamper who, unfortunately,
passed away recently used to breed these guys,
and they are unbelievable.
Tell me a little bit about him.
- [Tim] So this is a South American
rattlesnake, a Uracoan.
I believe you find these down in Venezuelan.
It's a very potent rattlesnake.
- Yes.
- Most of the South American stuff, central American stuff
is gonna carry hemotoxic and some neurotoxic properties,
and it's pretty potent venom,
they have a ridiculous strike.
They have this really cool high ridged backbone,
it just makes them awesome.
They have that nice triangle shape to the body.
Rick's ribs stand out.
- And it's look at that pose right there.
I mean, he is just like going.
And when I say he, it's a pretty evident male.
The thing that's interesting about rattlesnakes
is you can see males will have a really large,
defined long tail that's pretty easy to see,
but there's something about the color,
that gray and kinda sandy look to these guys.
I love Uracoans and I always have.
Again, it's probably because when I was a teenager
I saw them and I was like,
as a matter of fact, I hate to say it,
I was like 15 and I almost bought a pair from Dawn.
Probably would've been a bad mistake to be totally
honest with you. - Yeah.
- But nevertheless, it was still a
really interesting animal.
And I've always just had a love for these guys ever since.
And the thing that's cool about rattlesnakes, of course,
is that they have live young.
You know, they're just, I mean,
how many babies would a Uracoan have,
do you have any ideas?
- They have, I think, 12-15.
- 12-15? - A decent sized litter.
- Could you imagine 12-15 little baby rattlesnakes?
And this is a pretty big one too.
- Cool thing about this snake too,
look how confident it's being.
- [Bryan] Oh, it's so confident.
- [Tim] It's not rattling.
It's not freaking out.
It's not striking.
There's pure confidence there.
- [Bryan] Oh, it's such a beauty.
I tell you what.
Thank you so much for the treat to see this guy
'cause I'm in heaven.
- It's my favorite.
- [Man] I haven't seen that snake for awhile
and I'm just like damn.
- [Bryan] It's beautiful right?
- [Tim] Imagine a camouflage if that was out in the wild
blended in, laying in a bunch of leaf litter.
- [Man] Oh, I wouldn't see it at all.
- [Tim] Yeah, you probably would not see it.
You'd hear it before you saw it.
- [Ma] Yeah, for sure.
- Man, that's crazy dude.
- [Bryan] Dobrik, what do you do here?
- Uh...
(crickets chirp)
reticulated pythons.
- [Bryan] reticulated pythons like what?
Like babies?
- We got all these four foots right here.
So these are the biggest animals
we have in this room, biggest enclosures.
And then we have our CB70s, which are usually
like year old animals,
and then we got all our cute little babies,
some of which, these ones are
tend to be the this year's babies,
and then we have our animals that are still,
that have gotten a little bigger.
you know, the great eaters and everything like that.
- [Bryan] You have a lot to do then, man,
you got a lot going on.
- Yeah you know, I mean, I don't--
- Stop talking, get back to work.
- I don't think I have enough to do, honestly.
I mean, I'm just kidding.
Just kidding.
- [Bryan] Maybe you should start
a vlog on the internet,
I hear that it works out well for you.
- Man that's crazy, dude.
Rob, this thing is ridiculous. - Super cool.
- I mean, it's I've never seen, I've seen pictures of 'em.
But, I've never seen one in person.
Of course this is a Azanchtic water monitor.
And you guys have a few of these, you said.
- Yeah, yeah.
We are working with a small project lease
trying to get them into our breeding program
trying to breed them into the albinos
to make some double head snows,
and exciting stuff like that.
But it's just such a striking animal because
you know, your typical water monitor is gonna be
black and yellow, but when you remove
that with the Azanchtic,
you just get this nice crisp, white and black.
Just a super--
- It's like newspaper print you know what I mean?
It's ridiculous.
- Yeah, it's so cool
- And of course this is an import here,
so you can see it's not quite as habituated
as these guys get into second generation,
third generation, you're gonna start
seeing them calm down a lot more,
but nevertheless.
You said you produced one baby last year?
- Yeah, one baby last year and we're
looking at pairing up,
we have our adult pair paired up right now.
So we're hoping that this year
we'll get a better luck with production
because they're still a little bit young
when we first paired them up,
so we only got the one baby,
but this upcoming season
we should have a whole bunch more.
- Yeah, can you imagine snow monitors?
I mean, this just unlocks an entirely
different color pallete.
You can bring them into t-negatives, t-positives,
get them into sulfurs, get them into...
Yeah, oh my God there is gonna be
Yeah, cause the sulfurs are gonna be more white.
- Yeah - Just more extreme.
Really cool, I'm glad that I had an opportunity
too see something this awesome here.
Man, that's crazy dude.
(door slams)
- [Woman] Erm, do you know what.
(snake hisses angrily)
- Woo! Dog, that is a snake right there.
Now you see a lot of Gaboon vipers,
and I certainly have seen a lot of 'em.
But this one is big, it's beefy.
That head on it is ridiculous,
and it is gorgeous dude.
How long have you had this one?
- [Tim] Oh, I've had this snake almost 10 years now.
- [Bryan] 10 years.
And just look at the head on that thing,
I mean, that is incredible.
Of course, Gaboon vipers have the longest fang
of any venomous snake,
and the thing that you gotta be careful about
of course, if you're ever needing to milk this,
or something like that,
is they literally will push their fangs
right through the back of the mouth.
So a lot of times, when you've got them necked
in order to milk, you have to be very careful,
'cause they can push those fangs
right through and actually bite you.
Oh my gosh, it's absolutely amazing.
And again, these guys are unbelievable ambush hunters
as you can see.
In the leaf litter, and I've been down
in some areas in Africa where
you literally, you couldn't see these guys.
They blend right in with the leaves,
and they're ambush, so that when
something comes by, prey comes by
or, unfortunately, when a human comes by
steps near it,
it's gonna strike.
And they are lightning quick.
One of the fastest striking snakes
on the planet, for sure, so.
Oh my gosh, Tim, this thing's so cool.
(snake angrily hisses)
- [Tim] It's amazing,
and it's a very confident animal,
If you notice, it's not panicking,
it's just, it's giving you a growl.
Saying, "Hey I'm here."
Every now and then it will do that
tilt, tail, head tilt and stuff.
But it's not a really striky animal,
or a really explosive animal.
It just says, "Hey, I'm here, don't touch me,
I'm gonna sit here and talk to you."
- [Bryan] Just look at the body
- [Tim] Look at it just swell up and the body
- [ Bryan] just completely,
just pushing all the air out of the air sac,
making that unbelievable hiss.
I mean, it's crazy how majestic that animal is.
And I've said it a million times that
you know, from venomous snakes
Gabbys which one of the animals that really kinda
got me going when I was young.
And I've never owned one,
I had one in my possession for about 30 minutes,
and I panicked because I was a kid,
and I was like I gotta get rid of this.
So I called up a friend and he came and got it,
'cause I was a little bit too young for the thing,
but nevertheless, I loved these guys.
Hopefully one day I will have Gabbys,
because I love them so much.
Again, another live bearing pit viper.
So, unbelievable.
- With giant litters.
Gigantic litters.
- Gigantic litters.
Well you can see how big that snake is.
Hefty.
It's gonna pop a lot of babies.
- And that's not even a big one.
This one's a male but the females
I mean, they can get five, six feet.
Typical not to see 'em that big,
but they can get that big.
Typically the ones you see in the pet trade stuff,
this would be a good sized animal.
- Yeah, very good sized animal.
Again, that head is ridiculous.
- Very big impressive head.
And, I'll have to get one of the fangs to show you,
but this snake has shed its fangs a few times now,
and they're a good solid inch.
That's an impressive fang,
especially when you compare it to like,
the Western diamondback.
Which is a five to six foot animal,
who he's also shed his fangs and I have some of them,
and they're probably 3/8 of an inch long.
Compared to an inch and an eighth (chuckles).
- Oh, gosh.
Unbelievable.
That's cool man.
I love venomous snakes guys.
It's been a pleasure hanging out
with some of these guys today.
Unbelievable.
Man that's crazy, dude.
- [Tim] This fang here is from our five and a half
to six foot Western diamondback rattlesnake,
Which is a big animal.
This is maybe coming up on three,
maybe a little over three if not a complete tail.
That's his fang he shed two weeks ago.
There is a huge difference in those fangs
over the length of the snakes
- [Bryan] Crazy.
Man that's crazy, dude.
We're all gonna die.
(laughs)
So Kevin, tell me about these little monkeys.
How old are these little baby kings.
- Yeah these are so, they're coming up
to being yearlings.
- [Man] A year and a half.
- [Kevin] So they're actually over a year now.
- [Man] It's a year in September.
- [Kevin] Okay.
So these are some captive bred King cobras.
- Much nicer disposition huh?
- We're raising them the health of them is just spectacular.
They're obviously wonderful education animals,
plus, good breeding stock.
And we've done a fair bit of socialization of these guys,
so it makes them not as dramatic
- Right.
- To show off in a video because
they really are smart, and they've basically
come to understand that we're part of their world
and we're not a bad thing.
So they've never had a bad experience with us.
- Right.
Yeah you can definitely see it.
Now, are these rodent eaters?
Or do you still have to feed--
- These are actually still my supply of stillborn
babies and eggs and stuff like that.
We're still at that point.
We're gonna start doing like, rolling things in sheds
and everything like that.
But we've been kinda putting them on a growth spurt.
One thing I did notice,
because I have a big adult male King cobra,
who eats rodents and snakes.
And I noticed, I kinda believe that it is probably good to
include snakes into their diet.
- Right.
- Essentially just rodents because
I think they digest them differently.
- [Bryan] There you go, look at that
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Kevin] So we've caught her attention.
So, hog nose.
Eastern, Western or what not,
will raid turtle nests.
So we're looking, we're watching turtles nesting
and we're finding hog nose in the nests.
- [Bryan] In the turtle nests?
- [Kevin] Yes, and they are eating the turtle eggs.
So then if you caught a hog nose
and it gets upset, it throws up an egg.
(laughs)
- What?
- So I know that for a fact.
I was out, yeah, up in Minnesota.
- Man that's crazy, dude.
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Me and Will are just gonna play around a little while.
I hope I'll see you tomorrow.