- Dev is back with his King cobra, Taco,
but we're here for a reason today
and what we're doing today, guys, is extremely dangerous.
I've been doing this for 35 years with venomous snakes,
so I don't want you to think that what we're doing
is easy; doing this is definitely scary.
We're gonna do a King cobra gender reveal,
we've got some other venomous snakes
we're gonna sex as well.
And make sure to stick around because later on,
we're actually gonna be doing a Spitting cobra sexing
as well; is gonna be fun.
What we have here is actually some Midwest tubes
and what you do with these animals so that you're safe
is you put 'em in the tube so that when you're sexing them
they're actually trapped in the tube
and can't actually bite you.
First thing we wanna do is get the right size tube.
- Again, do not try this at home.
Another King cobra or any venomous snake at that;
me and Taco have built a bond.
As you can see, he's completely trusting of me
and everybody that is around, so do not try this at home.
- That is one absolutely crazy relationship
that he has with this King cobra.
So I'm sure she's not gonna like this,
but what we're gonna do is just get her to kinda crawl
into this tube, just like that.
Now you can see she's basically- op, she crawled back out.
Not happy, that's all right.
Try to get her to crawl in, there we go.
Now she's crawling in.
Now, she's completely safe.
Now we wanna keep her right about there.
So her face is in towards this end of the thing
and we can actually get to this tail.
I'm gonna use these RedLine science probes right here
and I'm gonna actually show you exactly how to sex a snake.
So what we have here, guys, is we actually have
the hemipene pockets right here.
This is what they call the anal vent
and the hemipene pocket's here.
If this probe goes in deep, that means it's a male,
if it goes in shallow, it means it's a female.
I tell you what, it looks to me like this is probably
a female just from looks, but it's hard to really say.
So I'm gonna just very gently go in here
and try to get into the hemipene pocket
and I'm gonna kinda work it over, work it through.
And just go it and I hate to say it, guys,
Taco is a boy.
(dun-dun-dun dramatic music)
(Dev laughing) Taco is a boy, Dev,
what do you think, man?
- I'm still happy with him, it doesn't really matter.
Like I just wanted to be sure that the sex of the snake
was the right sex before I decided to get a pair.
- So now what we need is we need a female King cobra
to match up with this absolutely gorgeous male.
I always say she, she is now a he,
(Dev laughing) he is absolutely gorgeous.
You can see that probe went in all the way to there
and could have went in even deeper to be honest,
but the taper was getting a little bit much;
I didn't wanna push too hard.
Definitely went at least seven or eight subcaudal scales,
which are the scales on that side of the vent;
that's where the hemipene pockets is.
Meaning that Taco is a boy,
but we still have a bunch of other snakes to sex.
And by the way, do me a favor.
I mean, this is a dangerous thing we're doing here,
smash that like button for me, right?
And what we have here is actually a Bushmaster.
This is the largest Pit viper on the planet,
these guys can literally get up to nine foot in length.
They are definitely potent, they are bouncy,
they are crazy, they strike in all kinds
of different directions;
definitely an animal you do not wanna get bit by.
Thankfully this is a small animal here
and we've got a tube that is probably gonna work.
I'm just gonna go ahead and do the exact same thing,
probably not gonna be super-happy about it.
Gotta get it to climb through.
In all an exercise in patience, guys.
We coulda probably went down one more tube if we wanted to,
size, 'cause it's gonna be able to pull out pretty easy.
There we go, now it's climbing.
Nope, now it's going backwards.
And right now I'm pretty safe.
I don't have to worry 'cause it can't strike
outside this tube, right?
There we go.
Now I can keep it just like this,
it's a hundred percent fine.
I'm gonna go with a much smaller probe on this one
and my guess is- as a matter of fact,
I'm even gonna go smaller than that
'cause this is a very small animal.
My guess is this is a female because of the short tail
and sure enough right there, we see it is a girl.
And oof, I tell you what, just having a tail of a Bushmaster
in your hand is a little bit freaky.
I'm gonna just let it climb right on out.
There you go, op, it's out.
The thing about Bushmasters, even this size,
it can strike about two-thirds it's body length.
You have to definitely be careful,
but what absolutely gorgeous animals, dude.
I mean, how long have you had her?
- A couple weeks.
- A couple weeks, I tell ya,
Bushmasters are awesome animals again, really beautiful.
As it gets older, it's gonna turn more of a tan color.
Lots of blacks coming through, heavy contrast,
just absolutely gorgeous.
Look at that beautiful Pit viper head than it has on it,
you can just see the intelligence in his eyes.
I mean, this is awesome, man.
Thank you so much for letting me mess with your Bushmaster.
- Oh yeah, no problem.
- Oh my God, incredible.
Again, guys, we're coming up here,
we're gonna do a few more things.
We're gonna have a Spitting cobra,
that's gonna be absolutely amazing;
time to get some eye goggles on.
Let's do this.
We have this beautiful Indo China Spitter right here,
starting to do a little bit of a display on us here.
And this is when they typically spit,
when they're like this.
You've gotta be a little bit careful,
but this particular animal is actually pretty chill.
Now the downside is is when they're hooded like this,
it's a little bit hard to get 'em in the tube, right?
So what we don't wanna have happen is that,
and again, I'd be very surprised if she spits
because I've known this animal for a little bit
and it's actually very, very docile,
but we definitely wanna get it to the point
where she's not gonna strike and kinda go into this tube.
So you can as she's flaring up,
that's not gonna happen, right?
So we need to just kinda get her to come down for us
and kinda move forward and then just get her to go.
That's all right, that's okay girl.
Whoop, she is fired up today.
It's okay girl, here we go, come on.
All right, and sometimes you just gotta be patient
with this stuff.
There we are.
Get it going this way.
(Brian speaking indistinctly)
- [Voiceover] It was at this moment that he knew
he (squeaking) up.
- There she is.
There she is, that's where we want her.
Now we wanna just keep her here,
if you wanna hold her that way.
And again, you always leave a good amount of space
at the end of the tube and we can go ahead
and just sex this animal up right here.
Again, that pocket is right there.
I'm going real gentle.
(cobra hissing)
Definitely not happy,
you can hear it hissing a little bit.
(cobra hissing)
Right now, it's looking like it's gonna be a girl,
but we're gonna do both sides just to check,
'cause sometimes one side- op, this side got buried,
so, okay.
This is actually a boy.
We can let it back out real quick, let it go.
So what happens is sometimes one side...
Whew, come on baby.
And I'll tell you what, after you sex a snake like this,
they definitely get extra, extra angry at you for sure.
Who wants that going up their rear end,
you know what I mean?
But the fact is is that sometimes one side-
it's okay, boy, you're all right.
Whew.
Oh, it's a little pistol.
Sometimes you'll probe one side and it just has a little bit
of restriction on it, right?
And it's just kinda in that position where
it doesn't actually go in there, it's just pushing back.
So you always wanna probe both sides if it doesn't go deep,
just to make sure that you know if it's a male or female.
We have a male Spitting cobra here,
absolutely wonderful snake.
I mean, this thing is unbelievably beautiful.
It's really showing for us well today.
Last couple times I messed with this animal
it didn't really show too much for us,
so it's really something else.
Beautiful, beautiful hood on that snake, look at that.
Sexing some amazing snakes today.
Always gets your adrenaline up, it's absolutely amazing.
Love working with these animals, absolutely beautiful.
So we'll go ahead and get this little monkey back.
And now we know the difference; we know Taco is a boy,
we know the Bushmaster is a female
and we know the Spitting cobra is a male.
Mike, are you a cobra expert now?
- [Mike] Not an expert, but I love 'em.
- [Brian] They're pretty cool.
You feel pretty comfortable,
it's all about being calm, right?
- [Mike] Yeah.
- [Brian] You know, see how a lot of people,
once an animal kinda crawls up that hook like that,
they'll start to get real nervous
because it's getting close to their hand.
The fact is is that you're really calm,
deliberate with your movement,
you're not stressing the animal out because you're like
jerking around.
You look like you're pro, dude.
- You just feel like you're in your element.
Like people always say like, "Why do you do it?"
Just there's no feeling like this, ever.
- [Brian] Those cowboy boots are gonna help you too.
- Yeah, yeah.
She can't get up 11 inches of my leg, you know?
- [Brian] It's absolutely amazing.
Can you imagine, the king of all snakes right there,
King cobra.
- [Mike] It's just so pretty.
- [Brian] So beautiful, right?
- [Mike] She's awesome.
- Not only do we have some amazing venomous snakes,
but my buddy here brought some cool animals as well.
And you may say like, "All right, it's a Cow Retic,
Brian, you have a couple Cow Retics."
But this isn't just a normal one, right?
Tell me a little bit about it.
- No, this is a 34% Super-Dwarf Cow Retic.
- Wow.
- 34% Kalatoa blood and also 12-and-a-half percent
Jampea on top.
Far as I know, the smallest Golden Child Cow Tiger
in existence right now.
- And yeah, and it's got Golden Child in it as well,
so that's pretty cool.
So again, Cows typically get, you know, 12 to 15 foot,
something like that; this one's probably, what?
Maybe gonna get eight to 10, if that?
- He's about three right now.
- About three, so maybe not much bigger.
I mean, that is amazing to have a Cow Retic this size.
And then this little monkey here is incredible,
tell me about this.
- This is about a two-and-a-half-year-old
and this is, as far as I know,
the smallest Super-Dwarf Phantom,
along with her clutch mates, in existence currently.
She's 50% Kuwaiti, 25% Maidu
and 12-and-a-half-percent Kalatoa.
- [Brian] Wow.
- And they are a adaptable pair,
and so you could produce super-fans out of this,
more Golden Child Cows.
- And you gotta remember,
when you produce Cows out of this pairing,
they're gonna be way, way smaller, even again.
So eventually we're gonna get a Cow that stays this size,
which is gonna be absolutely ridiculous.
You guys know I love Reticulated pythons,
but sometimes the giants, you know,
they can be a little bit hard to deal with.
Take a look at these beauties here,
these are actually Neotropical rattlesnakes.
How old are these guys?
- [Owner] Probably would say maybe two months old.
- Two months old, (chuckling) unbelievable.
I love the Neotropical, they're one of my favorite
of all the rattlesnake.
Kinda look a little bit like a Diamondback,
but yet they still have a lot of times striping on 'em;
just absolutely wonderful.
Dirty, dirty venom,
definitely don't wanna get bit by these guys.
And they're pretty chill,
I was expecting these guys to be jumping around like crazy.
- Nah, it was like I said, it's just when they're sitting
in the tub, they like get all freaked out,
so they'll move around real sporadic.
But once they're out, they're actually pretty
relatively chill. - Oh my gosh,
look at those two.
Just absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous animals.
I mean, I can't imagine being a rattlesnake breeder
and then one day waking up and just having a whole like,
10 or 12 of these little babies just sitting around.
- I'm hoping that my Eastern Diamondback
dropping a litter here soon.
- Oh my gosh, that's a cool thing.
I mean, again, venomous snakes aren't for everyone,
you definitely need to be, you know, seasoned.
You need to do a lot- talk about doing apprenticeships
under people, that way you know what you're doing.
But wow, when you actually can become a good venomous guy,
there are some beautiful, beautiful specimens out there.
I love these guys to death.
Again, guys, I wanna reiterate two things;
number one, what we did here today is dangerous.
I don't want you guys trying this
unless you've had many years of experience.
The other thing is is that Dev has a really crazy
relationship with this King cobra.
Something that I don't suggest most people
because it takes unbelievable amount of time
and energy to put that type of trust in it.
I personally always use a hook,
but I tell you what, Dev is amazing with this animal.
I'm gonna do all his links in the description
if you go out and go check him out.
Thanks, Dev, for bringing your amazing stuff
and your friends.
Thank you guys, you guys are amazing.
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