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- Guys, I am excited. I'm here with Tyler Nolan.
Of course, I have been excited to come down
and hang out with you for so long.
It's great to see you brother,
and, of course, you have one of my favorite snakes,
of course, the Eastern Indigo Snake.
This is ridiculous. Absolutely amazing.
So, of course, they're from Florida,
but I can't have 'em without a permit.
I'm gonna work on that though.
- I can't have 'em without a permit either.
- [Host] Oh yeah. You gotta have a permit too.
- Yeah, nah, yeah.
They're threatened and they were endangered.
- [Host] Yeah.
- Then they're just protected.
- [Host] Yeah. Now they're just protected, yeah.
So, that's an absolutely beautiful animal.
And if you look around here,
not a lot of animals like this,
that you just pull out and play with.
Most of the stuff here is got
a little bit more of a consequence,
but you have a great place here, dude.
I mean, this is so beautiful.
Every enclosure is beautifully kept.
Absolutely amazing.
And like I said, I've been a fan of his stuff
for a long time. I'm gonna put a link in the description,
go show him some love because he's amazing,
and we're just gonna look at a bunch
of really cool animals. What do you think?
- I'm down.
- [Host] Let's go.
- This is Rusty. He is my-
he's only a year and a half old.
- [Host] Only a year and a half.
- Oh, man. He's in shed!
- [Host] That's okay. He's still beautiful.
- [Tyler] Oh, I was hoping he wasn't gonna be
in shed when you guys came.
He's gonna be all, like, cloudy and can't see.
- [Host] Oh, but he's so beautiful.
- [Tyler] And all anxious.
- [Host] Now is this a Malaysian then? Or...
- [Tyler] Yes, he is a Malaysian,
and he's normally way lighter.
He's actually very orange normally.
But as you can tell, he's deep in shed right now,
so, he's very dull.
- [Host] I know. It's okay though.
- [Tyler] Still, I mean, for a year and a half old Cobra,
- [Host] That's amazing.
- Yeah, he's literally eight Cobra right there.
- [Host] Eight foot already!
I know this thing is one day gonna be 13, 14 foot,
so that's impressive.
- [Tyler] He's no, he's no Kevin right now,
but he will be.
- [Host] No, but he's gonna be.
That's a beautiful snake.
I tell you what, love it.
The shame he's in shed,
and of course because he's in shed, he can't see,
so he's gonna be a little bit more flighty as well,
because of course he can't really see what's going on.
and that shed cycle will last, you know,
seven to ten days, something like that,
but still an absolutely gorgeous snake for sure.
Look at that beautiful monkey.
- Mr. Kilo!
He's always a favorite.
You always want to make sure you stay nice and careful.
You know what I mean?
- [Host] Yeah, of course. Look at that.
Hoo!
- This is Kilo.
- [Host] What a beauty, huh?
- [Tyler] He's a very handsome man.
- [Host] Exactly. It's a leucistic monocled cobra,
absolutely amazing color mutations. Love it.
Course, you know, we have Jasmine,
the leucistic monocled cobra.
Hoo! Look at that.
Again, very predictable.
- He's like Dad! Who are all these people, man?
- [Host] Oh gosh. Look at how beautiful that is.
- Yeah, he's a great snake, actually.
- [Host] Oh my gosh!
- [Tyler] He's not bad at all.
- [Host] No, he seems pretty well behaved
to be honest with you, and a lot of them are,
I mean,
some monocles can be a little bit of a turge,
but these guys are, you know,
most of 'em are pretty decent,
especially when you know what's going on,
and like I always talk about,
like I've talked about with everyone is that
guys like Tyler have been doing this for so long.
So please don't think that because Tyler can handle stuff,
you should go out and handle stuff.
I mean, it's, I mean, he probably has tens of thousands
of hours of snake handling
before you can get to know the behavior and mannerisms
of these snakes so that you're protecting yourself, right?
So, so--
- And it's personally like every snake in here is different,
right?
Like this thing acts completely different--
I have another leucistic monocled that
she will try to murder you the whole time.
- [Host] Right. Exactly.
- Like it is totally different animal.
- [Host] Exactly, and that's a big thing too, right?
Like I'm sure that Tyler wouldn't go to another collection
and handle this freely,
because he doesn't know the animals,
but this is a-- I love seeing guys like,
like Tyler and Chandler that are so adept
at handling snakes like this.
It's a pleasure to see,
and it's something that I absolutely marvel at.
- [Tyler] This is Gabby.
- [Host] Hi Gabby, the Gaboon viper.
- [Tyler] The Gaboon viper.
- [Host] How original.
- Super original!
(Host laughs)
- I'm very good at naming animals.
- [Host] (laughs) Nah, I'm just messing with ya.
I love it though. I mean, there there's still nothing
like a good Gaboon viper.
- [Tyler] Yes! They're awesome.
Literally, when I got into venomous snakes, bro,
like this is just one of the staple venomous,
that is just like such an impressive snake,
just like their head, the pattern,
the horns on their nose,
just everything about this snake is just-- it's badass.
- [Host] It's unbelievable.
I mean, like I always say that it's like it was painted.
This is truly living, living art and of course amazing.
So, and you guys know, I don't have to tell you
because I showed you recently,
they have the longest fangs of any venomous snake.
We showed you the little hypodermic, you know,
needles that they have.
It's just absolutely amazing.
Wow! Look at that snake.
- [Tyler] Yeah. Her fans are probably
an inch and a half long even at this size.
- [Host] Yep, and they can go up to two inches.
So you can only imagine just--
but it's a snake that looks like you could just handle it.
- [Tyler] Yeah.
- [Host] Like a boa, you know, it just--
it lulls you into that sense of like,
I can handle this snake. It's not even bad,
but you do not--
- I probably could, but I just wouldn't.
- [Host] (laughs) Yeah, you wouldn't.
- This is just one of those snakes where like the monocles,
like handling that snake is a little bit different.
This snake strikes so fast and they don't really telegraph,
like a cobra for example, they're gonna hood up
for the most part before they bite.
A Gaboon viper is just gonna bite.
- [Host] Yep, and they spring.
- So fast.
- Yep. They can just go from like,
I'm here to biting you immediately.
And so yeah, smart not to free handle this guy.
- Yeah, they're beautiful though.
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- Blue insularis.
- [Host] Those guys are really cool.
Oh my gosh. Yeah.
To see adults and to see 'em this big and just all together.
(laughs) I mean, I think this will be the only time
in my life I'm gonna see someone hold
three blue insularis together.
(Tyler laughs)
- [Host] So that's pretty impressive.
- They have such cute little faces though.
- [Host] They are ridiculous.
- [Tyler] They're just checking everything out.
- [Host] They are ridiculous.
I see you've got some little ones over here too, so.
- [Tyler] Yep.
Yeah, this big one is the mama
to that little guy right there.
- [Host] Okay.
- And then these other two came from McCarthy.
- [Host] Oh, okay. Gotcha.
- [Tyler] Yeah.
- [Host] Wow, that's cool. Look at those.
I mean that is like...
it's, you know, a blue snake is ridiculous,
I mean, it doesn't even make sense.
Look at the face, the eyes.
I mean those red eyes, oh!
Tell ya about ridiculous pit vipers. Absolutely.
Still gotta be one of the favorite pit vipers
on the planet for sure.
- [Tyler] I need yellow ones.
- [Host] Yeah, yeah. One wants yellow ones, right?
It's weird right, it's like, you know,
blue ones are so amazing,
and then everyone that has the blue ones
wants the yellow ones, which is amazing too.
- Put them together, you know,
the blue and the yellow, and then have a couple greens.
- [Host] Oh my gosh.
- [Tyler] You know?
- [Host] Yep.
- [Tyler] So cool, and then their red tails,
you see that?
- [Host] Yep, it's beautiful.
- They flip those things in the wild to attract their prey
and just snatch 'em.
- [Host] Just so you guys know,
these are actually what they call hexarmor gloves,
which are bite proof gloves, basically been proven
that snake bites won't bite through 'em.
So it's not like he's just got a pair of gloves on
that he's holding pit vipers.
- I've had cobras chew on these things.
- [Host] Yep, so just so you guys know,
that gives you an opportunity
to get up and close with things,
and people that might have an allergy to venom
or something like that for precaution use the hexarmors
just in case, right? So.
- [Tyler] Yeah. Dino uses 'em all the time.
- [Host] Yeah, all the time.
- Even when he's using snake hooks and stuff,
he's got gloves on.
- [Host] Just in case.
- Which is smart, 'cause he has a venom allergy.
- [Host] So these are unbelievable.
I know I said the blue insularis are amazing pit vipers,
but these guys are actually Mangshan vipers.
Dude, these are ridiculous.
- So cool, bro
- [Host] Now do you have a pair? Is it just--
- Yes, I do have a pair.
- [Host] Oh my gosh. They've got a ways to go,
'cause these guys do get pretty big,
so they are super springy.
- Super springy.
- [Host] So, but wow.
Again, these guys are native to China,
you know, very few of these guys in the country,
and very few people have ever bred 'em.
I think actually, someone, did you see that?
Someone just produced, right?
A zoo just produced--
- Right, and Tom--
- [Host] Tom has, yeah, he has bred.
- --has them locked up a few weeks ago also.
- [Host] Exactly. So I mean,
it is rare to produce these things,
but oh my gosh.
But then again, they'll get pretty big, you know,
these guys will get six, seven foot long,
and real girthy animals, unbelievably,
not a whole lot known about 'em to be honest,
so we're just kinda still figuring 'em out,
but you can see the way they act.
You gotta be very, very careful. So--
- [Tyler] Yeah, they just freak out.
- [Host] Yeah. They just freak out. But wow.
- [Tyler] They go from zero to a hundred real quick.
- [Host] Oh my gosh.
- But as adults, they chill out.
- [Host] Right.
- Like Tom has adults that I have videos on my phone
with me holding this thing around my neck.
You'll relax, boy.
You can't be killed. Can you be trying to kill Brian?
(talking over each other)
- What kinda guest-- hey, I'm just a guest!
Leave me alone! (laughs)
- Fast!
- Next up we have some eyelash vipers.
- Yellow eyelashes.
- [Host] Oh my gosh. These guys are amazing.
So what is this, a pair here or--?
- [Tyler] Yup. Pair, Costa Rican locale.
This one I've literally raised from a teeny, tiny,
tiny, little baby.
- [Host] And they are small,
and they're tough to get to eat.
- [Tyler] Tiny.
- [Host] What do you get to feed when they're that size?
- Even the baby insularis,
I have everything when I get them in or when they're babies,
small frogs like reed frogs, things like that,
they love reed frogs, and then after that lizards,
take the reed frogs, scent them with the lizards,
and then lizards to pinkies.
- [Host] Wow.
- So it's a little bit of a process, but...
- [Host] It is, but wow.
That's pretty impressive to raise them up like that though.
That's amazing.
- Yeah, now they eat hoppers.
They both just slam down rodents, no problem at all.
They never refuse. They're both awesome.
The little guy's the male,
and this is my female right here.
- [Host] Right. Now are they sexually dimorphic
where the male's always smaller then, or--
- I mean, even with the insularis,
the females are always larger, you know,
and then the males are kinda like a smaller,
more slender head, slender bodies.
I mean the male, you can see him,
the pinks on him and it's really cool.
- Yeah, it's almost like lavender is coming through.
Absolutely stunning. Eyelash vipers are ridiculous.
- Yeah. I love them.
Another one of the like super iconic venomous
when I was a kid, I was like, I need those in my life.
- [Host] Yeah. Exactly. (laughs)
Everyone needs those in their life.
Oh my god.
- Eyelashes are awesome. Especially the yellow one.
So these guys were actually produced by Tom Crutchfield.
- [Host] Oh really?
- Yep. Back in the day.
They're eastern diamondbacks crossed with canebrakes,
called a bat wing rattlesnake.
- [Host] Wow! I didn't realize these were canebrake crosses.
Wow.
- [Tyler] Yep. These are crosses.
- [Host] Holy-- Is that what makes 'em bigger? I mean--
- I don't know.
- [Host] I mean, I think canebrake would make 'em smaller,
right?
- They're both gi-- they're gigantic.
- [Host] Oh my gosh.
- They're big. Bat wings, man.
- [Host] So they're called bat wings.
I've never even heard of it.
See, I didn't even know.
I'm learning something new here today with everyone else,
so, wow. That's amazing. And... wow.
- [Tyler] Same with the Borneo bateaters.
There's that's also a Tom Crutchfield thing.
- Yep. They're retics slash Burmese. Yeah.
- But they came up with the names kind of as a joke,
and then they stuck.
- [Host] They stuck.
Well, I like these guys, that's for sure,
they're very beautiful.
(snake rattles)
- Ooh! Silly monkey.
Oh my gosh.
I tell you what, that is--
These are some impressive snakes right now, guys, and--
and again, holding that one like that,
like a Burmese Python is insane, but I love it.
I love that you know the animals so much, you know,
that's what makes you so cool, so wow.
He's actually really chill too.
Again, I've got the book because I don't know the animals,
and I'm not willing to do this at that point.
But even that-- this book is ridiculous.
I mean, it's like, she is so heavy.
These are great, dude. I love 'em.
- Yeah. She's, I think she's 16 pounds,
and he's 20.
- 20 pounds of a rattlesnake.
- Yeah.
- That's ridiculous.
- They're massive.
- [Host] Wow.
So we've seen a ton of really cool snakes today with Tyler.
Very impressed. I love it.
Thank you so much by the way.
- Of course.
- [Host] But we're gonna end it with some lizards.
That's right. You guys know I love (indistinct),
and these guys are amazing.
- We gotta do this fast 'cause they're hungry.
- [Host] They're hungry.
- And they're crazy.
- [Host] They're gonna be crazy.
- This way, this way, c'mon.
- [Host] He's like ohhhh, get it!
- Ready? (laughs)
- [Host] Go like this?
There we go.
They're like ah! Gimme the food.
Now she just laid eggs recently?
- Yeah, she just laid eggs the other day.
They're all no good.
- [Host] Oh no! And then you--
- [Tyler] Second year in a row, no good.
- Well, we have a girl that's about to lay.
I'm praying she's gonna have good eggs.
That will be disappointing if not, but so how old are they?
- Drogo is seven and she is nine.
- [Host] Seven and nine.
- [Tyler] Yep.
- [Host] Oh my gosh. They are absolutely beautiful.
I tell you what, what an amazing time.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this.
Like I said, please do me a favor,
go over to Tyler's channel. Show him some love.
Trust me, he's a great guy, got great animals, great heart,
and I really, really appreciate being down here.
So thank you so much.
If you did enjoy this video,
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That would mean the world to me.
Have an absolutely wonderful day, reptile army.
Remember be kind to somebody. Go show him some love.
I'll see you guys in the next one.