- It's a little quiz time for you this morning.
All right, we talk about big snakes a lot, right?
And how many big snakes do we actually have?
I'm not talking about quantity, but species of big snakes.
We have Ivy, the gigantic Anaconda.
She represents one of the giant snakes, right?
And what other species represent giant snakes?
And of course we have Burmese pythons, right?
One of them, of course, being Jeffrey,
who's in shed right now.
But looks absolutely, oh don't be mad at me Jeffrey,
of course, when they're in shed,
they get a little bit cantankerous
because they can't see really well.
But of course, Jeffrey one day could get 18 foot right?
We know anacondas are the heaviest body snake on the planet
getting as much as up to 300 pounds.
Well, these guys certainly won't get 300 pounds,
but they can certainly get 18 foot and up to 200 pounds.
But again, that's two of the big giant snakes that we have.
Like my girl, Lucy here.
Hey Lucy, are you in a good mood today,
are you in a bad mood?
What do you got going on today?
She's looking like she's in an okay mood, but of course,
Reticulated Pythons represent some of the giant snakes.
So we have Anacondas, we have Burmese Pythons,
we have Reticulated Pythons,
and now we even actually have Rock Pythons, yeah.
I mean, you look at this little monkey right here
and you don't think it's going to be a giant snake,
but trust me, one day, this can be
an 18 foot plus giant snake.
It's the largest Python on the continent of Africa.
That's right, these guys get absolutely amazing.
And I love them to death, I mean,
this one's absolutely a beauty.
And of course we have it's boyfriend,
the patternless Rock Python too.
That I absolutely love to death.
Again, one day these guys are going to be
at the rep term and they're going to be absolute giants.
But with that being said,
everyone kept saying we were missing one.
And that species happens to be in these boxes right here.
So, what do you say we go ahead
and open up and see what we got.
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So let's just go ahead and check out what is going on here.
I am pretty excited about this!
Our buddy, Matt,
which is actually a mod on our podcast,
which ironically enough is going to be here
in the next couple of days and on the podcast.
So if you haven't checked out the podcast,
link in the description, check it,
you can definitely check our podcast out.
I appreciate it.
Well, he said, hey, I've got a couple of animals.
That would actually, oh my gosh, they are beautiful.
Whoa! Started coming out, okay.
Now, these guys sometimes can be a little bit crazy.
I don't know what the actual temperament on these guys are,
but these guys are known as being kind of face biters.
But yes,
another species of snake that is considered
one of the giants.
And that of course is the Scrub Python.
Now, the actual largest ones are in Australia,
which is called Kinghorni.
But these guys are actually from the (indistinct) per region
and more specifically the Bird's Head Peninsula.
But these again are Scrub Pythons and they can get large.
So we've already had all of the giant snakes, right?
With the Anaconda, the Reticulated Pythons,
the Rock Pythons, the Burmese Pythons,
and like I had mentioned, a lot of people are like,
you need to get Scrubbies if you want
to round out the giant snakes.
And you know, the truth is,
is that these will get a little bit larger
than say a Carpet Python, so a Carpet Python
gets pretty big, but like I had mentioned
the Australian Scrubbies can get 15 foot
and they are a pretty giant snake.
Now, typically the Indo ones don't get quite as large,
but they certainly can still get 9 to 12 foot in length.
So this could potentially be a pretty large animal.
And he actually sent us two females.
This happens to be one of them here.
And this particular one is named Sublime.
So we're definitely excited that we have two females.
We're definitely going to be on the search for a male
to potentially try to breed these guys one day.
What do you say we open up the next one?
So Sublime was an absolute beauty
and there are some variability and polymorphism within this.
So I have no idea what this one's going to look like.
Let's take a look right here.
Ooh, this is pretty too.
Looks like it's a little bit smaller,
so it's not quite the same size, but oh well it's similar,
just a little bit smaller,
but pretty much the same type of look again,
same locality adversary.
And again, sometimes they'll call these guys
Barneck Pythons and you can see why
they have that bar right on their neck.
So they can be called Scrub Pythons, Barneck Pythons,
Amethystine Pythons, nevertheless, beautiful snakes.
Absolutely so happy that Matt donated them
to the reptile zoo.
Definitely going to be a great addition.
And like I said, sometimes these guys
can be a little bit cantankerous.
These particular ones seem to be super, super docile,
which is a big plus.
Now you've got to remember,
they have been cooled down, they've been traveling.
So once they heat up, who knows what's going to happen,
it did pee on me a little bit.
That's part of the deal, right?
So we're going to go ahead
and get an enclosure all ready and set up for these guys.
We already have something picked out
and I think they're going to absolutely love it.
'Cause these guys love to climb
and they are absolutely great display animals.
Not sure if they're going to be able to be pulled out yet
for the public or not.
We'll have to give that some time to make sure.
But in the meantime,
I am so happy that we now have all
of the giant snake species.
So this is the enclosure that we're going
to actually retrofit, it's already pretty close
in a lot of foliage, some stuff for them
to climb a ledge over there that they're
going to absolutely love.
But we're probably going to want to add
some more branches, right?
Because they love to be in trees,
so we're going to add some vine, some branches,
stuff like that, get it all ready.
Of course, Jessica is the master of this one.
I think Bruce is going to help.
So I'll let them do their magic.
And then we'll go ahead and release those animals
into their new enclosure.
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And this is the part that I love the most.
The enclosure looks great,
Bruce and Jessica did a great job.
I think these guys are gonna really be happy in here.
And this is the big one.
This is actually Sublime here.
So I just go ahead and get it out, here you go, bud.
And we'll just let it go ahead and adventure
into its new enclosure.
Again, you guys know I love releasing animals
into new enclosures.
I think they're just going to really love it.
Again they've got the basking spot way up there.
They can hang out if they want to get warm.
That's about 92 to 95 degrees
and then they have the cool spots over here.
They got places they can hide in the trees.
They're going to be amazing display animals.
So that's one in, let's go ahead and put Dublin in.
And again, I can not get over how absolutely gorgeous
these animals are, come on, bud, over here.
And there they are.
The two beautiful Scrubbies in here.
Absolutely amazing.
Again, just going to kind of sit back
like we always do and spend a little time
just watching them, making sure that they settle in good.
I'm really curious, you know,
just like I am with every animal we put in any enclosure,
like where they're going to like,
you know where it's going to be their favorite spot
because they always seem to pick favorite spots.
So it's going to be really cool to see
how these guys kind of cohabitate together.
You guys know that typically we keep
one snake per enclosure.
This time we're going to try to cohabitate them,
but we'll keep a close eye and they should be
completely fine with the two females.
And eventually, hopefully we can get a male
and maybe breed these guys.
That would be absolutely amazing.
But whoo man, I tell it, these are beautiful.
So thank you Matt for sending them to us.
We're going to take great care of 'em
And again, he's going to be here in just a couple of days.
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(indistinct) (water falling)
- Down here with Jessica and you guys know
that my tales of breeding Boas have not been very good.
Well guess who's taken over Boa breeding this year, Jessica!
- Hopefully we have some success this year.
We'll see.
- I think that she's going to have better success.
Here we are in the beginning of September,
she's already going to pair,
which is smart because I usually don't pair
until like December and then it's just too late.
Interestingly enough, what do we have here?
- He's a Pastel Jungle Motley Passat Colobino.
- Okay and we're going to breed him to.
- A hypo female.
That's a hundred percent (indistinct) colobino.
- So, we could potentially produce, you know yeah
like Sunglow, Motley, Cole, Albinos.
- We'll for sure have some Motleys and maybe some Jungles.
And yeah. - Yeah, that's right.
The Jungles exactly.
Whole bunch of different stuff like that.
And believe it or not,
you might look at a male this size and say,
that's just too small to breed.
Believe it or not smaller males,
this size actually are pretty better than the bigger males.
So-
- Yeah 'cause we have this guy here,
is our other option, he's a coffee male,
but, Cole male,
but he's a lot bigger and I'm not sure
that he'll actually breed her.
- Yeah, seriously,
when I went to Jeff Ronnie,
he's one of the best Boa breeders out there.
All of his males were about this size.
I could not believe it.
So, let's go ahead and take a look
and see which female we're going with.
- She's kinda feisty to be honest with you.
- She's a little feisty girl?
- She's actually bit me before yeah.
(both laugh) - Be careful.
So, again, she is a hypo,
so she's a little bit smaller
because it's from a smaller line.
So, we're going to put them together
and just see what happens.
I mean, nothing's going to happen right now,
but I'm excited about the fact that we actually
have male Boas in with female Boas in September,
which has never happened before.
And this year I can blame Jessica
if we don't preach babies.
(both laugh)
- Well I hope not, I hope we actually get some babies.
- I think we will.
Jessica is way better than I am at this stuff.
All right, keep me posted.
- Awesome.
- (indistinct) what are you doing?
Nope, come back, you owe me 69 cents.
(running sound) Come back there.
- This of course is Chicken Nugget,
the frilled dragon that is absolutely wonderful.
And so tame.
Now, everyone always wants to see them frill right?
And the truth is,
is that they only frill when they feel
kind of in a defensive posture right?
And they really aren't afraid of much,
but I will tell you this and I don't wanna
stress him out too much,
but it's pretty cool to see
when they get around monitor lizards like this,
they typically will frill up.
If you see-
Oh look at that! Look at how cool that is, a threat display.
That is absolutely wonderful.
Who, and every time I put him back by Waffles,
of course he'll fill up.
And he does the same with Elvis.
The truth is is that in the wild monitor lizards
may actually eat these guys.
So this is definitely a threat.
So I don't want to stress him out anymore,
but I wanted to show you how cool it is
when you see that
threat display, that is absolutely amazing.
I'm so sorry buddy.
I promise I'll never let anything happen to you,
but aren't they absolutely wonderful.
- So our friends over at the gas station, Bill and Sally,
you know, we see 'em every day.
We buy her little conveniences from them.
So I figured that were going to surprise them
with our Armadillo Burlow.
He's taking a little nap.
Oh, come on Burlow we're going on a little adventure.
Look he ran right out, he's just like, yes,
(indistinct) let's go, wrong way, over here.
Oh wait buddy.
Oh man they're not the brightest.
It's time to go play, time to go play.
Brushes your little butt off.
So we don't get the gas station dirty.
We're going to go surprise some friends.
(door opens)
Hey dude!
I got an Armadillo for you, man.
- My god!
- Yeah you could pet a look at him.
He's so cute.
- Oh my god.
Oh, now I'm not afraid.
- No, he's just a little Armadillo.
He's so cute, we just got him.
Hey buddy, he loves to get little cuddles and stuff.
- Oh my goodness.
- He's (indistinct), he's like a dog.
- [Man] Look he's like a little baby.
- He's a little baby.
- My husband's infatuated with those.
- Really?
- Showing him something on Pinterest the other day.
Would you mind if I took a picture of him
- Oh no, do it. so I can show my husband?
- Look at that.
That is just amazing.
- You like scratch your brain?
(laughs)
Yeah you do.
- See you guys,
oh, we got some more people.
You want to say hi to an Armadillo bud?
(kid cheers)
- That's so cool.
Hi! - You wanna touch him?
- No.
- That's so cool! - Thank you.
- Yeah, no worries, have a good one!
- [Woman] Thank you you too!
- There we go, spreading the word.
Armadillos.
Hashtag,
I don't know.
We were not taking him into the gas station
and showing all of the customers.
(guy laughs)
This is so much fun.
Thanks Mike.
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