- So of course guys, what we have here is an Inland Taipan,
the deadliest land snake on the planet right here.
And I do not want him to get close to me,
I'd like to get a little bit further down,
but of course, these guys are absolutely amazing.
Now the Inlands are actually typically
a little bit more chill than the Coastals are,
but look at that animal right there; absolutely wonderful.
And again, they actually will get a darker look
in the winter time and get a little bit lighter look
during the summertime.
But again, the number one deadliest snake on the planet
when it comes to venom actual potency.
But thankfully there's not a lot of bites
because these guys aren't quite as willing to bite
as say, the Coastal Taipans that are like, number three.
So you have a lot more bites from the Coastal Taipans
than you do the Inland Taipans, but drop for drop
there is no other land snake that is more deadly
than the Inland Taipan right there.
I mean, what an absolutely beautiful snake
and always a pleasure to get to spend a little bit of a time
with an animal as amazing as this.
I mean, take a look at how beautiful it is.
Wow, I tell you what, that is unbelievable
and I'm so happy that I had a chance to spend
a little bit of time with such a majestic animal.
I mean, it's just absolutely gorgeous, wow!
And again, it's just absolutely wonderful, guys.
I mean, I love this and it's been a long time
since I've had an opportunity to mess with the Taipan
and I am over the moon happy about it;
what a gorgeous snake.
Last stop on my trip and then we are heading back home.
And, of course, it's Smith!
- Whaddaya doin'!
- The second loudest person in, well, maybe the first
loudest person. - What a minute, second?!
Second?! Wait a minute!
- Normally I give him a good run for his money,
but from all the yelling of Crop Fest, I can't do it today.
- So obviously we have our (indistinct) in the house.
- Let's go feed the Lemurs, let's go look in the hot room,
let's go look at crocs; there's so many things to do,
I don't know where to start.
- I think he's a little excited.
(all laughing)
The morning coffee kicked in,
Cuban coffee. - Cuban coffee,
Cuban coffee, five of them a day, only five,
five, five minutes to Cuban, five minutes til Cuban.
Okay, let's go.
- Let's go, we'll have a good time.
All right, so now we are in Robbie's venomous area.
There was a few non-venomous animals in here,
but first off, these Green Mambas are crazy, Robbie,
I absolutely love 'em to death - I love Mambas.
but we are about to see, of course,
the king of all venomous snakes.
You guys know I love King Cobras,
it's one of my favorite snakes on the planet,
I've told you that a million times.
And this one's got some size on it, oh little guy there,
look at this guy; ooh, doggie.
Wow, look at him right there.
Wow! - [Robbie] He's spunky today.
- [Handler] Yes, he's very spunky.
- [Brian] Look at you, look at you! That's amazing.
(whispering) Come on, buddy, come on.
- [Robbie] He's got nice oranges in him he just shed--
- [Handler] Yeah, he just shed.
- And again, when these guys a-hood all the way up,
I mean, you're looking at two and a half, three foot hood.
And just look at that snake, I mean, who couldn't be in awe
of that snake right there? Those big, gigantic head scales,
can see how just intelligent the animal is,
just thinking the entire time.
Just giant, obviously, the largest venomous snake
in the world.
And it deserves the title of King,
because it is absolutely ridiculous.
(whispering) Come on, bud.
Oh, wow.
- And he just wants to move, he's nice and warm today.
- [Brian] (whispering) There you go, there you go.
(gentle music)
(Brian exhaling)
Wow.
Ooh! That's power right there.
- He's one of my favorite snakes in this, man.
- [Brian] Oh, I can imagine, it's absolutely gorgeous.
This is an impressive animal right here.
I mean, when I first walked into the room,
I thought that this was a Black Dragon; you know,
(dragon hissing) the Asian Water Monitors,
but this is actually a Roughneck Monitor
and I have never seen any anywhere close to this size.
I mean, typically they're like, (chuckling) half this size;
I didn't even realize they got this large.
And it's talking to me a little bit, but I'm not really
that worried about it, it's not a threat display
or anything like that right now.
I'm not gonna get close to its mouth,
I mean, it's tongues not really coming out
with that long tongue-flicks like you really want
when you know that you have a Monitor lizard
that is a little bit calm.
So right now, it just, it doesn't know me;
I mean, it's just saying like,
"Hey, I don't know who you are
and I'm a little bit stressed about you handling me,"
But I'm just gonna give it the respect it has
and actually admire it.
And again, those differences between a Roughneck
and an Asian Water Monitor is pretty significant,
but you can see that rough neck on him right here.
(dragon hissing) That's the namesake, right?
And these guys, like I said, typically get about
half this size, where of course the Black Dragons
are gonna get five, six-foot or something like that.
But now, there's those tongue-flicks I'm really looking for.
And again, he just wants to kinda see what's going on.
We'll set him down and now he's starting to feel already
more comfortable.
See how immediately, those tongue-flicks
start getting longer, more inquisitive,
and now he's not as kinda fired up where he's like,
"What are you doing holding me?" And stuff like that.
This is, you can see a very, very docile animal
and just absolutely wonderful but, (laughing)
an absolute giant.
(snake hissing)
- [Robbie] Like this. - [Savannah] Oh my goodness!
- [Robbie] And I'm using the hook to support his body
and then also holding his body.
Now, these guys, oh don't!
- [Savannah] We have to give him
a chance. (laughing) - There we go.
These guys are one of the fastest-striking snakes
in the world. - [Savannah] Really!
- [Robbie] And this on is actually 26 pounds.
- The crazy part is, it looks like a big-ol caterpillar.
- Yeah, they do. - They don't look like
a big 'ol snake that might getcha.
- Now if you watch this, you wanna see something
really cool? They do something called caterpillaring,
where they'll straighten out their body
and their scales will actually move
like a caterpillar's feet and go straight across the ground.
In Africa, these guys are responsible for more bites,
them and the Puff Adders, than any other venomous snakes
because of the fact you can't see them in a leaf litter
and people walk around barefoot; they step on 'em
and the snake turns and bites them.
(snake hissing)
- [Savannah] What are the little things
coming out of the front of its face,
like the little horn-looking things?
(snake hissing)
Rhino Viper has 'em, right?
- [Robbie] Well they're related to the Rhinoceros Viper.
- [Savannah] Okay.
- [Robbie] They're all in the Bitis family;
the Puff Adders, the Gaboons and there's Dwarf Bitis,
several different Bitis.
- [Savannah] I'm glad he didn't Bit-us!
(all laughing)
(gentle music)
- They can strike you backwards, sideways,
every which way you can imagine.
- [Handler] It's intense to watch him bite a rat.
- [Savannah] Yeah, 'cause they'll flip upside-down,
like backwards.
- [Handler] And they'll do it so fast it's ridiculous.
You'd think since they're kinda chunky they'd be slow,
but they're 100 percent not.
- It's just amazing, the difference between
the strike between these and a Russell's Viper.
Everyone always thought Russell's Vipers
was one of the fastest, which it is,
but the Gaboon and the Puff Adder are much faster.
- Of course, these are Ring-tailed Lemurs
and of course, we had just recently just saw
the black and white Ruffed Lemurs;
these are the Ring-tailed.
So you have to be a little bit more careful with these guys,
they're a little bit more touchy,
but you just kinda pay respect to 'em, right?
As long as you are giving them their space and you're giving
them treats, they actually like you, right?
And you just don't wanna kinda go after 'em
and stuff like that, as long as they know you're friendly,
they're fine; here ya go, bud.
- I put all the bananas on my hat.
- And of course these are the Lemurs that people
typically think about when they think about Lemurs,
is the Ring-tailed Lemurs; hence the movie "Madagascar"
and stuff like that, but they are absolutely beautiful.
I mean, again, same thing, they've got that same pre-simian
type of claws and absolutely just amazing animals,
wow. - That's very good,
you knew that they were pre-simians.
- [Brian] Yeah, exactly.
- What are pre-simians?
- [Brian] Are pre-apes.
- Exactly, the oldest classification of primates.
- [Brian] Exactly, yup, exactly.
It's amazing.
- Did you know they actually have fossils of these guys,
way back when, when they had like the Elephant Bird
and all that? - [Brian] Right.
Really? - Yeah.
They had fossils of Lemurs.
- [Brian] Your hat got knocked off, Savannah.
- 'Cause I put bananas on it.
- [Brian] (laughing) 'Cause you put bananas on your hat.
Come on up, guys.
- Did you know that they have a second tongue?
- [Brian] I was just gonna tell you that.
I just learned this little thing not long ago.
- Now see, if you watched Swamp Brothers' "Get Swamped",
you woulda learned that a long time ago.
- [Brian] Oh my God, see that? I didn't know.
- What's the second tongue? - The second tongue
is a small V under their tongue and it acts as a comb,
so when they're grooming each other, it actually pulls knots
out of the fur and everything. (Savannah laughing)
- [Brian] That's cool, right?
- And it's like a little comb!
Savannah, you should have one on your shoulder constantly!
- [Savannah] I don't want a secondary tongue.
- You don't need a secondary tongue,
you need a Lemur sitting on your shoulder
to groom your hair! It'd be having your own personal
hairdresser with you 24/7!
- [Brian] Here comes another one in the distance.
- [Savannah] Here comes somebody.
- [Robbie] Come on, good boy, come on.
- Wow! Look how pretty.
So the reason that this crocodile is this color
is because of the iron in the water out here.
- No no, shh! Shh! This is a special orange crocodile.
- [Brian] It's an orange crocodile.
- It has nothing to do with the water,
this is a special morph! (Brian laughing)
- [Savannah] It's really not. - [Robbie] It's really not.
- [Brian] You don't have to go.
- [Savannah] Stay here with us!
- [Brian] (quietly) Buh-bye!
- (voice breaking) Crocodile, come back!
(Brian laughing)
(laughing) I guess she told me.
- You guys remember Blondie, from Gatorland,
that beautiful Nile crocodile?
Well, we're going in with her daughter?
- Marilyn.
- Marilyn, her daughter,
and you said that it's kinda look similar?
- She's very similar and she acts about the same.
- Oh, cool, I love it, that sounds really good.
But what I do see over here are a bunch of Cubans.
- [Robbie] Ricky and Lucy.
- [Brian] Ricky and Lucy,
and they're right at the fence here
saying, "Oh, are we gonna get fed today, too?"
Of course my favorite crocodile of all...
Look at them, just so smart, they're just standing there.
They're waitin'.
- And they're ready.
- [Brian] They're ready.
- Look how those hind legs are pulled up
and they're in that position
(dramatic whooshing) to hop.
- [Brian] So this is the boy that's gonna go
with the daughter of Blondie.
- Right. - [Brian] And yeah,
like you said, this is super-high yellow; really beautiful.
- Like I told you, Marilyn is a bit crazy...
- [Brian] Perfect.
- Her mom happens to be Blondie, so you know how that goes.
- I love Blondie. - Not that blondie,
the Blondie at Gatorland!
- [Brian] Oh, okay, I gotcha now.
- [Handler] She is the blondie at Gatorland!
- [Brian] She is the blondie at Gatorland.
- Okay, the Blondie with four feet and a tail.
- [Brian] Just remember, you don't wanna be in front
of Savannah, be behind Savannah.
- [Robbie] Don't be behind Savannah, she'll run you over.
- [Brian] Yeah, she will-- - I will, I will.
I have run over Brian, I have run over Robbie...
I've run over (laughing) Z-Dog,
I've run over several Gatorland employees.
- Come on, up! Let's go! Come on!
(gentle music)
Up! Come on, up! Come on, all the way.
Come on, up! Up!
(whooshing) Ooh, good boy.
- [Robbie] She'll shoot up.
- [Savannah] Come on, crazy girl!
- [Brian] Oh, she is pretty, isn't she?
- [Handler] Marilyn! - Female Nile
is coming right now, she knows food's coming,
she's coming across the pond and she is really,
she is beautiful, man.
- [Robbie] She is, dude, she's awesome.
Like, "No, no, let me get there!" She's hauling--
- [Brian] Yeah, she's going fast now.
- [Handler] Come on!
Let's go, up! You want it, hurry up.
Pick it up, pick it up, good boy.
All right. - [Savannah] Wow,
that is a beau- oh! Stepped on your face!
That is a beautiful crocodile, Robbie.
- Come on, Marilyn.
(footsteps crunching) Come on, Marilyn.
Come on! Come on, Marilyn!
(footsteps crunching)
(gentle music) Come on.
Come on, Marilyn, let's go!
Oh! - [Savannah] Oh no!
- [Robbie] Got too close.
- Come on, girl, let's go, come on, Marilyn.
(water splashing) Come on, Marilyn.
Come on, Marilyn. - [Savannah] No, ma'am.
- [Handler] Hey! Hey, hey. - [Savannah] No, ma'am.
- [Handler] Over here, focus.
Good girl, all right.
- [Savannah] Yo! She ate that so fast!
(ground crunching)
- [Handler] Pick it up. (jaw popping)
good girl.
All right, water, go on!
- [Savannah] She looks good, Robbie.
- [Brian] She's beautiful.
- And today's a cool day, it never really heated up,
so she's gonna be a little bit darker,
but in the summer she is so yellow.
- [Brian] Yeah, that's a beautiful animal.
(footsteps crunching)
(water splashing)
(bird screeching)
They love the little squishy squish.
- [Handler] Yeah, they want butt scratches.
- [Brian] I know, we did that with a giant tortoise there
a couple days ago.
- [Handler] Oh really?
- [Brian] Yeah, like a big like 560-pounder, you know?
And it did the same thing.
- [Handler] I couldn't imagine seeing one that big do it,
I've seen the small ones.
- Of course, these are Radiated Tortoises here,
some of the most critically endangered tortoises
on the planet, so how many do you guys have here?
- [Handler] Three. - Three of 'em?
Of course, you know, that shell is attached
to all of its nerves and stuff like that;
his ribs, his spine and stuff like that,
so he feels that and oftentimes tortoises really love
that scratch, you know? I mean, they actually,
it's a cool thing, right? (laughing)
- And a lot of times you'll enclosures with like,
brooms attached to the side and they'll just
rub up against it, yeah.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
- Check this out, it's a baby Cuban, this year's.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, this is one of this year's babies?
- This is one of this year's.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Robbie] Dude, you are actually holding
one of the most critically endangered crocodile species.
- [Brian] Yeah, unbelievable, I love Cubans.
- And my favorite species.
- [Brian] Yeah, they're my favorite, honestly,
they always are, they always are.
Wow, that's amazing, little baby Cuban crocodile;
how frickin' cool is that?
- They start out like that
and end up like those big ones you saw.
(Savannah baby talking) - [Brian] So crazy,
so athletic, that is amazing.
I didn't know you had hatched them, that's awesome.
This is, what, your third year?
Or fourth? - Fourth.
- [Brian] Fourth year in a row, wow that's amazing.
- I bred them when I had Gatorland's over here before.
So this is like, the sixth time I've bred Cubans.
- [Brian] Wow, that's amazing.
- We're gonna show you someone else that you met
when I first got him from Gatorland.
Max is the Nile that Gatorland gave me--
- [Brian] Oh, I remember, that's right!
This was just a tiny little thing.
- Not anymore.
- Max isn't so tiny anymore. - [Brian] Oh my goodness,
that's amazing. - [Robbie] Aren't they?
- I don't know, I've always had,
I guess for the fact that I've been able to catch them
in the wild made the- there's just something special
about it and I'll tell you what, a giant Nile crocodile
in the wild crossed me; it took five of us just to drag it
on land, that's how big it was, it was ridiculous
and absolutely amazing animals for sure.
Wow, it's beautiful.
Look at those teeth.
- [Handler] They're very sharp.
(handler laughing) - [Brian] I can imagine.
- [Handler] They are very sharp.
- [Brian] Can you show me?
- No. - Uh, yeah,
here, hold on. (Brian laughing)
We also hatched baby Yukari Caiman.
- [Brian] Oh my God, Yukari, so cute.
I love the little short nose on the Yukaris
and obviously that little--
- The Ocelots? - [Brian] Yeah, yeah.
Oh, they're so cool.
- And then on the Yukaris, you get the distinct bands
on them; every single one in that clutch hatched.
- [Brian] That's amazing.
- It was 100 percent hatch rate on that clutch,
which is totally amazing.
- Yeah that's awesome.
Well it's been an absolutely amazing journey
seeing so many amazing animals, met incredible people.
I hope you guys enjoyed it, but for now,
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