- They come rushing out with their mouth open,
she wanted to try and eat me.
Oh my god, how awesome is that?
We literally hit six out of seven eggs.
We're getting to the end of the night here at the Reptarium
and obviously that's when Bruce loses his mind.
Oh my gosh.
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I am just in here with my girl Lucy and I tell you what
she is an absolutely amazing animal.
And you guys know that I've had kind of a up and down
relationship with this animal for sure,
but I tell you what if you just understand your animals,
always respect your animals,
you can really have an incredible relationship.
And we're gonna be doing something in the vlog here
later on that might send chills down your spine.
But to be honest with you it had me kind of thinking,
and Lucy is certainly one of those animals,
and the fact that if you have a relationship
and you respect these animals you can really
do some pretty amazing things with it.
And I tell you what, Lucy gets a little bit cranky,
and I realize that when she's definitely getting in
to like her ovulation follicle growth she gets super cranky
and we can't get in here and just play with her like this.
And basically why that is
is she becomes very defensive, right?
She's basically like this is my nesting area,
stay out, I'm gonna be defensive.
And what you have to understand is big snakes
or any type of animal really are gonna only attack
or bite or do whatever for a couple reasons.
They're either defensive because they're afraid of you
or they're hungry and they think
they're gonna eat you, right?
So if you can take away those types of things
you can have an amazing relationship
just like I do now with this absolutely gorgeous snake Lucy.
Now take my girl Ubusuku here, I talked about the fact
that typically it's defensive or food aggression
when it comes to really how you either get bit
or an animal is attacking, right?
Ubusuku is that animal that before when I
open up the cage like this and I was this close
she would come rushing out with her mouth open,
she wanted to try and eat me
because she thought I was gonna feed her.
In her mind every time we open that cage
food is coming, right, and she's ready for the food.
So what we did was we target trained her with the ball
on the end of the stick to know that that's when
food is coming so now when I open up this cage,
and I use this hook just like this and just kind of
rub her just like this.
She understands that food is not coming
and I can literally just pet this animal.
I mean just take a look at that.
I can literally pet her on her head just like that.
I mean that is absolutely incredible.
You gotta remember just three months ago
if I opened up this cage I was gonna get
a face full of teeth if you know what I mean.
And now a few months later just with some training
and the fact that I can take her to the point
where she understands that I'm not food,
I can literally come in here and interact with her
and literally just pick her up.
I mean you can see, look at this girl.
Unbelievable, I mean it's a completely different animal,
all we had to do was take away the fact that
she thought we were food and the food aggression
and she really opened up into this amazing animal.
By buddy Kevin over at Nerd always says that
you basically have different modes with animals.
You have defensive mode like I talked about,
you have food mode that I just talked about
with Ubusuku to take it away.
And then you have intelligence mode.
Right now Ubusuku is intelligence mode.
She's no longer afraid of me, she doesn't think I'm food,
and she's just gonna sit here and she's
intelligently thinking like what's goin' on, dad?
What's happening?
And I can come in and interact with her.
And you can almost do that with any animal over time.
Got a couple clutches that I need to cut right now.
This first one is actually a yellow belly to a pastel ivory
so basically what it is is I can get about 50%
on average should be ivory, but the pastel ones
have a little less pattern to 'em so they're basically
white snakes is what's going on.
So let's just go ahead and dive in.
A couple eggs have already pipped out and I can
already see they're white snakes so we have
at least two white snakes there but we'll take
a closer look at 'em to see if we can tell
if they're ivories or pastel ivories.
Let's go ahead and just jump into this first one.
Again everything in this clutch should either be
pastel yellow belly or ivory or pastel ivory.
So right off the rip we have just a normal yellow belly
right here, so, just the one single gene animal.
Let's move on to egg number two.
And again this might be a little hard to see
which ones are pastel ivories and which ones are just ivory
'cause there's very little difference in 'em
to be honest with you like I said
the pastel blows out a little bit.
This one here happens to be another white snake
and it is an ivory or a pastel ivory, I'm not 100% sure,
but it's a white snake, and that's absolutely cool.
And of course the ivories were the first real white snakes
produced in ball pythons, right?
Before the blue eyed leucistics or the black eyed leucistics
so as I'm cutting this egg I can see quite a bit
of purple and pattern on this animal
so I know this is a normal ivory because
the pastel ivory you won't see as much of that purple look
and they kind of blown out a little bit,
so that is definitely a normal ivory.
The other one that was already pipped out
I'll go ahead and cut.
And to me this one right off the rip looks like probably
probably an ivory too.
Again a lot of the purple and yellows like that
but until they hatch out you don't know 100% for sure
so so far we're doing really good.
Three out of four eggs were white snakes,
can't complain about that.
Let's move on to the next egg and look at what we got, yay,
another white snake, all right, again,
this one I think might be a pastel ivory
to be honest with ya.
I don't see a lot of pattern to it,
but again 'till they hatch out,
and really it's really minor.
What happens is that as they get older the pastel ivories
almost turn pure white whereas the normal ivories
will still have a little bit of a gray head pattern
and stuff like that, but.
Right through the egg I can see there's some darkness
in here so I know this isn't an ivory,
let's see if it's a pastel or if it's just a
normal yellow belly, yep just a normal yellow belly,
but still really cool.
Interesting we haven't gotten any pastel yellow bellies yet.
Last egg, let's see if we get really lucky
and get another white snake or what we're gonna get,
let's see what we got.
Aha, nope, just another yellow belly.
Again, no pastel, really interesting that we
didn't get any pastel yellow bellies, but that's okay.
So we got three yellow bellies and four white snakes
that are either pastel ivories or ivories, we're not sure,
but hey, it's a good way to start the day.
Excited about this clutch.
This was actually a clown that's het for ghost
bred to an albino that's het for clown.
So essentially what we can get is clowns that are
possible double het for albino ghost but the point is
I just hope we've produced some clowns.
In theory half these babies should be clown
but we'll see what happens.
I'm gonna go head and where should I go,
which egg, which egg, which egg?
I'm gonna cut this egg right here,
wanna start strong and end strong.
So hopefully this first egg is gonna be a clown.
What do we got, what do we got, what do we got?
Yep, we got a clown, yay!
It's always good.
I don't know why it's just a superstitious thing,
I always think when I start the clutch and I get a good egg
and I end the clutch and I get something good
it just makes me happy.
Regardless that would be a clown,
really beautiful by the way.
It almost looks like it's possibly a blade clown.
Of course it would be 100% het for albino
and possible het for ghost.
So these are clown 100% albinos, possible het for ghost.
Let's see if we keep our odds going, yes!
Two out of two, yeah!
I gotta love it that's absolutely awesome.
It would be amazing, remember that other day
we had a clutch where every single egg was an albino?
I'm not gonna get too greedy on you guys
but nevertheless I'm happy with the way it started.
Egg number three, let's see what we've got here.
(making trumpet sounds)
Another clown, yes, three for three!
All right now I will tell you this.
I've had this happen where I started with three eggs
and then the next four eggs are normal.
So I'm not gonna get too crazy yet so three for three
for so far let's head right into the fourth egg
and see what we have.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
four for four, yes!
Unbelievable.
So now there's only three eggs left
so I know I've beat the odds, four out of seven eggs
at least are clowns, again het for albino,
possible het for ghost, and who knows,
we've got three eggs left, we could hit 'em all.
Let's go ahead and see what we've got here,
four for four so far, up, we missed on that one.
That's okay though.
Four for five, I'll take it every day of the week,
that's for sure.
Two eggs left and these guys look like really beautiful
clown ball pythons too so I'm super excited about that.
Another clown ball python!
So we've got this goin', five out of six eggs.
Hoo come on, I told you I like to start strong
and I like to finish strong, so we've got one egg left.
Come on baby, let's be a clown, let's be a clown,
let's be a clown, oh my gosh.
What an awesome thing.
Let's see what we've got, and a clown!
Oh my god, how awesome is that.
We literally hit six out of seven eggs were clown.
Het albinos, possible het ghosts,
couldn't be more excited about that.
I tell you what, I've been killing the odds this year.
We've had a couple clutches that didn't work out
but for the most part it's been an amazing year of
production and of course the odds gods
have been in my favor.
The same certainly goes for Argimus Prime,
Noah worked really hard to train him for the ball.
And again he used to fly out at us.
Now he just looks at us really intelligently for sure.
Now we do have to start working on Chicken Strip.
You know Chicken Strip my boy back here
that's just kind of looking at me
is really chill in the cage but that animal
isn't necessarily food aggressive.
What it basically is is it's afraid.
We have to do things like the more we work with him,
the more positively we work with him the better it gets.
So when we first take him out it's probably gonna
be crazy, I understand it happens every time,
now he's starting to bite which makes it even more difficult
but then in the end if he's handling 'cause
he's a little wore out he's like well this isn't that bad.
The more we do that the better it is.
And with Chicken Strip it's not about food aggression
it's definitely about him being afraid of us.
So we have to break that.
Now listen I'm a reptile guy and I feel pretty
confident working with these reptiles behaviorally.
I'm not so much a spider guy.
That's when I acquiesce to guys like Bruce.
And I'm gonna be honest later in the vlog
the thing that we're gonna do I never thought
I was gonna personally do, especially being an arachnophobe
from before, even though you guys know that I've
gotten over that fear.
You know it kinda shows you that even animals
that the stigma is is that they're very aggressive
can actually work out so my heart rate's a little up
that we're gonna do this but it's gonna be
absolutely incredible.
In working with animals it's all about building trust.
I mean take for instance Salt here.
I mean she just kinda chills out with me.
We built that relationship to where you know
if I tell her hey I'm gonna hold you
and I don't want you to move she understand that
because she realizes she's getting something
positive out of it and it's just about building trust.
To put it in the most simplest terms,
think about if you have a dog, right?
You're hanging out, it's hanging out with you
on the couch, you're watching TV,
but then a stranger comes and it barks.
That's because the dog doesn't trust that stranger.
Once that stranger becomes part of the pack
or a friend, then it wants to hang out
and watch TV on the couch.
It's all about building trust with animals
and that's how you build the relationship
and ultimately you can really open up
these amazing animals' kind of intelligence mode.
You know the same is true with Bella, with Elvis,
I mean all of these animals,
whether it's Toothless up here or Perdida
or Snazz or Sunrise, whatever,
you know in someone else's hands that aren't
treating with respect and gaining that trust,
maybe they would be defensive animals
and they'd be biting as well.
Not to say hey these aren't great natured animals,
and I'm not trying to say like you should be afraid
if you don't know what you're doing.
What I'm saying is that if you build trust,
you understand your animals and you respect them,
try to get them into intelligence mode,
almost any animal could eventually have a relationship.
Listen if it's a lion or something like that
you're maybe not gonna go in there and touch it
although there are people that do that.
The fact is that you can still have that relationship
from afar, it trusts you, it's not afraid of you,
it's not gonna try to attack the fence,
so on like that.
And that's kind of how I feel about most animals
I mean look at Nova.
The frilled lizards are kind of known for
not being great handling animals.
But Nova comes down, he literally comes to the cage,
he wants to be taken out, that's because we've built trust,
we've built a relationship with him
and that's really what I'm so fascinated with
now at this part of my kind of animal career.
So guys take a look at this.
Now I'm gonna be talking low because of course
tarantulas can actually sense vibrations
and so on like that.
But I never though in a million years that we would
have this Goliath bird eating tarantula out.
I mean just take a look at how amazing it is,
I'm just gonna kind of let her crawl on me real quick.
I mean just take a look at how insane this is guys.
When we've had this animal for almost a year
and I never oh.
I never expected to be able to be handling this animal.
It just kinda goes to show you that even an animal
that is a little bit vilified and demonized,
the bird eater, an aggressive animal, can be respected.
But this actually all started from an incident
that happened last night.
We're getting to the end of the night
here at the Reptarium and obviously that's when
Bruce loses his mind.
[Crowd Member] There you go buddy, you got him.
- [Bryan] And oh my gosh, geeze,
what is going on over here?
- This is our girl here, our bird eater tarantula.
She looked like she was ready to come out today
so I figured I'd give her a little bit of exercise.
- [Bryan] That is, (exclaims).
That is insane dude.
- You wanna try and hold her?
- I got to.
- [Bruce] Let's do it, do it.
I'll just put my hands around you just in case.
- [Bryan] That is insane.
- [Bruce] There you go dude, she's all yours.
- Oh my gosh, this is the craziest thing ever.
- [Bruce] She hasn't even flicked hairs or anything yet.
- Oh my god, I have wanted to hold this spider
since the first day that we got her.
She is amazing, dude!
- [Bruce] Oh my gosh.
- [Bryan] She's crazy!
I tell you what when I saw Bruce was doing that
I said what is he thinking?
But look at this animal I mean it is so amazing.
- Yeah I figured honestly that after all this time
I get brought up all the time about the video
of me holding this guy the first time around
and I just had to pull it out again.
I just kinda had the temptation again.
- [Bryan] Oh my gosh look at just you can see
it's not nervous at all.
- [Bruce] Not at all she hadn't even flicked hairs,
she hasn't really done a lot of defensive posturing
or anything like that.
I was actually just trying to feed her but she wouldn't eat
so I was just like all right well I guess
it's time to say hi to you.
- Oh my god I'm blown away man, I tell you what,
you never know what's gonna happen here
at the Reptarium at night.
Didn't expect this to happen but I am really happy
you're a mad man but I love it.
That is amazing dude.
Oh my gosh guys.
I realize that was a bit extreme guys and I don't want
you to go out and be putting tarantulas on your face
or anything like that mainly because
they have urticating hairs that can actually
get into your eye.
I wanted to kind of make a point, right?
And that point is that believe it or not
even an animal that is sometimes vilified
and people think are mean and aggressive,
you can bridge that gap, gain its trust,
and have a relationship with it.
Bruce's worked hard with this spider and obviously
it's becoming very docile and able to be handled
without a lot of danger.
Now are we gonna take this animal and let
other people handle it?
Probably not any time soon.
But you never know what the future is.
In the meantime we wanna just enjoy
this incredible animal and kind of just
prove the point that again,
just because an animal is acting defensive
or food aggressive, you can get beyond that
just with some behavioral training.
And remember don't fear an animal, just respect an animal.
I tell you what guys, you gotta remember,
I was arachnophobe two years ago.
I wouldn't even touch any spider
and now they have a bird eating,
the largest species of tarantula on my face.
It's crazy, it's absolutely crazy.
My heart rate is still up, I feel kinda weird,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
It's almost like getting off a rollercoaster
or something like that.
My legs are a little bit weak but what an amazing animal.
If I can get to that point and us have the relationship
with animals like that, I tell you what.
Like I said my heart rate is up
but what an awesome experience that was.
I tell you what that was the vlog I didn't know
I was ever gonna make to be totally honest with you
but it is such great experience to think that
I went from arachnophobic to literally enjoying
handling something like that.
And again I always say my thing is about
don't fear, respect.
Get knowledge, don't be afraid of these animals,
but also respect the fact that they are animals.
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