- I discovered some amazing things about these reptiles.
I'm about to share it with you.
Interestingly enough, with an Anaconda like Ivy here
they'll typically do what they call breeding balls
which basically is this mass of snakes that'll breed.
One female will actually have sometimes
up to 12 males breeding it at the same time.
- Sounds like a good time, am I right? (laughing)
- Obviously only one can breed it.
With Ivy, we only had one male,
and it actually worked.
Snakes have meant different things throughout history.
The Egyptians would actually look at snakes as royalty.
In most parts of the world,
ball pythons are called royal pythons.
The Romans thought that snakes meant eternal life.
In Hindu it actually means love and passion
and can actually mean the duality between good and evil.
- I believe some of the snakes are so cute and adorable,
and they're squishy.
- Fewer than one in 375,000 people actually get bitten
in the United States by a venomous snake.
And with treatment one in 50 million people actually die.
So you actually have a better chance of getting hit
by lightning by nine times
than actually dying from a snake bite in America.
- We have a better chance of getting dates tonight.
- Yeah.
- The rarest snake in the world is called
the St. Lucia Racer.
There's only 18 to 100 left in the wild.
70% of all snakes actually lay eggs.
The other 30% actually have live young.
And in most cases, the reason
that that 30% have live young is
because a harsh climate that they're in
and that the eggs probably wouldn't hatch.
- Why dude?
- It's not my job.
- Some people don't even realize that most of the snakes
that they truly like give live birth.
For example, our girl Ivy here, is said to
give live birth in another month or so.
Lots of babies
- Like 40 something.
- 25.
- Way more.
- And even our girl Cupcake, the Columbia Red Tail Boa.
- Even garter snakes give live birth.
- That's not even a garter snake.
- That's not a garter snake. - That's a gopher snake.
- Oh. - This is a garter snake.
- The black mamba.
I've certainly had my run-ins with black mambas.
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- (laughs) This is awesome.
I love this.
That's, that's it.
Oh my gosh.
This is fantastic, Mike.
How to handle it as safely as possible.
That is absolutely incredible.
And look at this guy, he's still fired up a little bit.
They're the second longest venomous snake on the planet
and the fastest snake.
Can be clocked up to 12 miles an hour.
Woo. I wouldn't wanna try to outrun one of those.
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- The average human can run eight miles an hour.
So we're definitely not beating that.
- Not at all.
- I shouldn't have ran.
- Some desert dwelling species
like Sambos and other rattlesnakes that come
from really harsh environments.
But ooh, this guy's an angry little dude.
You're okay, little buddy.
They'll actually hibernate during the summer.
Instead of in the cool months.
It's actually called estivation.
It's just because the summer heat is so harsh
that it's almost impossible for them to survive.
- So most things actually brumate or hibernate
in the winter like this, the bull snake, El Toro.
They're from Georgia and Southern-
- California.
- No.
- Texas?
- Texas.
- California
- Never eat soggy waffles.
They're from the Southeast part of the United States.
- Texas.
- So it gets cold
- California.
- Oh God.
- There's a lot of different sized snakes in the world.
Of course the articulated Python.
That's the longest snake in the world.
But believe it or not
the shortest snake in the world comes from Barbados.
It's called a thread snake.
And it's only four inches long.
- I don't know, man.
It looks about eight inches to me.
- Just get the snake out.
- All right.
So we definitely don't have the world's smallest snake
but we have lots of the world's biggest snakes.
Ah, so this is Gemma.
- Gemma
- Articulated python.
Currently 16 and a half foot and 135 pounds.
- But you know Mike, he exaggerates.
So it's probably a little bit under that.
- No, that's actually what she is.
- I don't know.
- Your dad measured her, too.
- Oh, well that ain't no help.
- That doesn't mean anything.
- Big snakes.
- You guys know that my favorite venomous snake
in the world is the king Cobra and I've certainly
had some fun with them, including kissing one, one time
in Indonesia.
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And they are the largest venomous snake in the world.
Can get up to 18 foot long.
And their venom yield is so large
that they could kill an elephant.
- But can it ride a bike? - Can it juggle?
- Can it bungee jump?
- [Both] No, I didn't think so.
- Snakes actually don't have eyelids.
They have an eye cap.
That's actually called a brille.
And that's what protects their eyes from things
like sand and dirt so that they can keep them protected.
- So I think I have too much eyelid.
- Because snakes eat giant meals,
they can't suffocate while they're eating
for sometimes up to 45 minutes.
So what they do is they actually push their trachea out.
It's called a glottis
so they can breathe while they're eating giant prey.
When I used to breed Burmese Python
I had the largest clutch of eggs
that I'd ever had during my producing.
And that was 98 eggs, just shy of a hundred eggs.
How incredible is that?
But believe it or not,
the slowest production snake is called
the Arafura filesnake.
And they only produce one egg every decade.
- Wait, what?
- That's right.
One egg, every 10 years.
The word snake actually comes
from the Indo-Proto European term
which would be crawl or creeping thing.
- No, no.
I heard that it comes from the word leap.
- I thought it came from the word sleep.
- No, it was from the word seep.
- I thought it was sap.
- And then weirdly enough, the word serpent comes
from the Indo-Proto European term,
which would be crawl or creep.
While snakes don't have outer ears or eardrums
they actually use their skin,
their muscles can, and even their bones to sense vibrations.
It sends those vibrations
into something that's called an inner ear.
So those vibrations are the way that they actually
can hear noise in the external world.
- Don't they listen to Barry White?
- I'm thinking more rock and roll.
- I think he's more of a Manelo fan.
- Nah, Ozzy Osbourne.
- Ooh, I got it.
He listen to Whitesnake.
- Oh, yeah.
- All right guys.
Just like Brian was saying.
Lot of snakes,
no snakes, actually.
Not, not a single snake has eyelids.
But Vlad here, looks like a snake, is not a snake,
is a legless lizard.
He has eyelids.
Agh! Okay, I can't do it.
I cannot take him out.
I can't do it.
I can't take him out.
- Do at least like a couple more tries.
- I can't. If I just pick him up, will he bite me?
He is striking.
I can't do it.
Mike, you gotta help me, please!
- You got it, Mike.
- You got it.
- All right, all right.
Give it to me.
All right guys, if you take a look- Mike! Mike!
- Remember he has ears.
- Oh, yeah.
Mike, turn it around, now.
Eyelids.
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- The death adder from Australia
is the fastest striking snake on the planet.
They can go from a sitting position to strike,
envenomation, and back to a striking position
in .15 seconds.
- So that's almost- (laughs)
You hit me.
- Whoa.
- That's almost equivalent of a human eye blinking.
By the time that your eye closes
that snake would've latched on, envenomated you,
let go, and back into that striking position.
Almost that quick.
- I'm doing it with my eyes closed.
- The inland taipan from Australia
is the world's deadliest land snake.
I've had the pleasure to muck with them.
Taipan, the deadliest land snake on the planet.
Now the inlands are actually typically
a little bit more chill than the coastals are.
This guy would pack quite the punch.
Again, drop for drop, the most potent land venomous snake
on the entire planet.
And their venom sack holds enough venom
to actually kill 80 people.
Some snakes, including this Dominican mountain boa
actually have the ability to poop whenever they want.
Basically excreting musk type of thing.
But what this does, it makes 'em so stinky
that a predator literally doesn't wanna eat 'em.
It's a really weird, bizarre defense mechanism.
- I've been concocting my own musk clearly.
- Yeah, you ain't kidding, bro.
Those protein farts?
- Woo.
(guys talking quietly)
- Opening up the-
(farting sound)
- Oh, oh! Dude!
What, what is that?
- The fear of snakes is actually called ophidiophobia.
Believe it or not,
one-third of all humans actually have this.
Meaning there might be this like inert kind of built
in nature where we're afraid of snakes
maybe for protection.
But look at how cute that snake is there.
There's no way that a third of the population
should fear such a beautiful animal.
We've got our work cut out for us.
- So some people like Mike here, actually,
have arachnophobia,
and that's actually the fear of spiders.
Mike, hold that.
You got it.
While Mike's suffering with that.
Some people have trypophobia.
That's actually the fears of holes and patterns.
So as you see, Noah, he doesn't like that.
- Snakes actually evolved from four-legged animals
about a hundred million years ago.
And interestingly enough, boas and pythons,
right down here,
you can see these two little things right there.
These are what they call vestigial spurs.
And those are basically remnants of legs.
- I heard snake have spurs, which are basically
little legs.
- You know what we'd do if we had little legs?
- What would we do?
- We'd walk funny.
- Show me.
- And you can't take big steps.
- Snakes can live
on every country on the planet, except for Ireland, Iceland,
Greenland and the north and south pole.
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