(upbeat funk music)
- Come on super, whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There we go.
My lizards are actually trained to go after a blue ball.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa .
Can they tell the difference between different colors?
We're about to find out.
- That's never gonna work.
- I think it's gonna work.
- The question is can they identify the difference
between a blue ball and a red ball
or are they just going after a ball?
Now we know reptiles can see really good color.
Now the question is, can we train them to go
after a blue ball and a red ball
when want them to go after a red ball?
Let's give it a try.
Come on buddy.
And again, that's the blue ball.
He's always used to the blue ball.
He's targeting on this ball.
He knows there's food and he's gonna go wherever
that blue ball is, I treat him with food.
Now let's see if he goes after the red ball the same
as he does the blue ball.
He's kinda going after it, but not the same.
Now I'm gonna take a blue ball and a red ball
and see which one he goes after.
Elvis.
Definitely going after the blue ball.
Let's kind of reset him for a second.
- It's working!
- He's continuing to go after the blue ball.
So there's no doubt that he tells the difference
between the red ball and the blue ball from that experiment.
So now the idea is that we have to every time
we offer him a blue ball, we say blue, blue, blue.
And whenever we do red, we do red, red, red.
Hopefully in time, he will actually go
after the verbal command
and know the difference between the two different colors.
Now this is gonna take some repetition,
blue, blue, blue.
And every time that I'm gonna offer him food from now on
with a blue ball, I'm gonna say blue, blue, blue.
I'm gonna do the same thing with red.
You can see he's not as interested in the red ball,
red, red, red, red, all right, there we go.
Isn't it interesting how he's super excited
about the blue ball, but he doesn't understand
that the red ball is food yet,
so we have to continue to reinforce that.
And in time, hopefully he will decipher
between red and blue.
As much as I like training reptiles,
I think these guys need a little training starting
with Butterscotch.
- No.
- Couldn't even get that one year right out.
- And she's up off.
- You wanna grab a hooky?
- I wish we had cookies. I just ate one.
Chocolate chip. It was so good.
(piano music)
So we're gonna do some training real quick.
- Yeah.
- Watch your face. Well, this is fun!
- [Man] Dude she's totally trying to fight that.
- Oh my goodness.
- [Man] Now she should be out of food mode.
- I just love her a lot.
- Michael J. Wilson.
- That's not my middle name.
Get her by get her by.
Why is she so strong today?
Brian doesn't know what he's talking about.
We got this under control, right?
- Yeah.
- That was crappy, ah?
It's okay.
Look at her. She broke the lock.
- You've got a bee on your back.
- Ah?
- You've got a big bee on you.
- Where? What size is it?
Ooh, no, no, no.
- Watch out, it's just trying to bite, it's trying to bite.
- Whoa, whoa.
- [Man] Oh, it's in your shirt. It's in your shirt.
- I think it fell on your shoes.
- Woo hoo hoo!
- In your shoe? Where are they?
- Oh, they're all over you.
Where did they come from?
Where were you?
- I was outside.
- Oh, were you in like a bush?
- No. Oh, so many--
- Take your shoe off.
There's so many bugs on your back, dude.
Look at you.
- That's messed up there.
- So many bugs your shirt.
Oh my God.
- Where is it?
- They're all on your back, dude.
- I gotcha.
(slaps)
- Ow!
- That one needs to get (indistinct).
(laughs)
- That's that funny?
- What? - I don't like that.
- I think it's in there.
- There's actually something on me?
- Yeah. I just got three bugs out the shoe.
- Dude. You gotta go take a shower real quick.
- All right, I'm going home.
- So how'd it work out?
- Actually. I think it worked out pretty good.
We definitely established that Elvis
can see the difference between colors.
Now, can we get him to actually
go after individual colors, that's yet to be seen?
- See I told you it was gonna work.
- It's working.
Can't believe it's working.
- So there's no doubt
that Elvis actually identified the difference
between blue and red.
He was really energetic about going after blue
with the blue ball and not so much with the red ball.
And then when we actually offered both of them
he always went to the blue ball.
That's pretty interesting how the big question is
can we actually verbally command him
to go after blue and red.
That's gonna take time
- Mike, thanks for the slowmo, are you okay?
This is normal time for Mike.
- I sped that up a hundred speed.
- No you did not.
- Mike, Mike, what are you grabbing?
- It's Windex!
- Okay.
- [Man] Two hours latter.
- And only one glove for me.
- Whoa!
- Oh, my, what is wrong?
- Oh, leave me alone.
- You can grab that poop. Oh, okay.
- Better use your glove.
What do you want me to do here?
I'll clean the outside of the glass.
- What are you doing?
What, what you doing?
- Oh, the glass is closed.
- Well, who did that?
- You did.
- Oh, I got a big one.
- Let me see.
- Oh, that's a nice size turd.
- It's like styrofoam.
(indistinct)
Are those chemicals safe?
- Yeah. It's vinegar.
- Do the inside.
- I got an idea.
- Now the training's going great.
We're still working on Mike's speed.
It's still training.
So I'm gonna give him some benefit of the doubt
but if he doesn't pick it up soon
we're never getting outta here.
- Can you shut up?
- Most reptiles are what they call Tetrochromatic.
- Tetrochromatic. Gotta be...
They're coming out with the new Tetris game?
- Tetrochromatic?
Tetrochromatic. What does it mean?
I'm pretty sure it's that video game
where you stack blocks, right?
- It's Tetrochromatic.
Meaning that they actually have four cones to see
humans actually only have three cones to see,
red, blue, and green.
So these guys can actually not only
see the same rainbow color that we can see
but they can actually see additional colors 'cause
of their Tetrochromatic nature.
Well, you guys definitely need to bulk up
as far as strength goes.
So I think you guys need a little exercise time.
- Definitely not.
Ah!
- Squeeze that glute.
- Yeah.
- Touch your ankles with your butt.
- I'm not that flexible!
- Arrrrrg! Flex the core!
(fart noise)
- Oh, I think I farted.
- Yeah.
- So I'm here back at the shop.
I know I'm not here a lot lately, but because I am,
I get to collect a few eggs instead of Brian.
I'm gonna start with this girl here.
Ooh. It actually looks pretty nice.
So this is a head (indistinct) scaleless.
Read to a scale of scale.
That's exciting.
'Cause we should get definitely scaleless out of here.
And it's actually surprisingly a good clutch.
Some of these, we get better fertility than others.
This girl's actually good.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
I'm gonna say 12 on that one, which is not bad at all.
She's a good size girl and that's a good size clutch.
- But interesting enough,
crocodilians have been really known, not only to color
but also verbal trained very well.
They'll come to their names.
They'll come to a certain cue.
We use a popping sound for these guys.
But let's start to train these guys with color
as well.
- These animals are gonna get so smart,
they might take over.
- She already knows there's food coming.
Now this is gonna take a little bit of time.
So what I'm gonna need to do first is establish the fact
that there's a blue target.
She's never been targeted before.
So I'm gonna start with this.
So blue, blue, there she goes.
Now if I start to really do this often, blue,
nope, nope, nope, blue.
There you go girl.
Now I'm gonna go the opposite. Whoa!
Nope, no, come on, this way.
Red, nope, no, red.
Red. Red.
And this is gonna take some time.
I'm gonna put these two down here now,
just see if she'll actually target on them at all.
Most likely not this early, but if we do this every time
just set them down like this and then we start going,
blue, blue.
And you can't reward them unless they do the right thing.
Right? So, blue. No, blue.
There you go. There you go.
Up there, that's the reward.
- Whoa, did you see that?
That was awesome.
- All right, Mike, next exercise curls.
Training's only 30%. It's all about diet.
Take me through your daily routine.
What do you usually wake up?
Eat, blah, blah, blah.
Just tell me about.
- Yeah. I typically wake up, you know at 6:30,
you know, I usually crack open Klondike.
- Klondike, at PM, 6:30 PM?
- No, no, no. AM, that's the time I wake up.
- Okay.
- Then I come to work.
- Squeeze feeling the bicep contract.
Get that nice squeeze down.
Slow and control.
- Oh yeah. Continue with the diet.
So when I get to work,
typically either like four hot dogs or like six lunchables
at all.
- Six?
- Yeah. It's all defense.
Maybe with a milkshake or something in there too.
- Like a protein shake?
- No, like milkshake.
- How's your blood pressure.
- Ah, it's great.
I feel my pressure all day. Every day.
- You can feel it?
- Oh yeah, my heart beats.
That means I got good pressure.
- I'll do the same thing here.
Red, red. No red, red.
There you go.
Now over time, it's actually gonna start working.
This is gonna probably take us a month or two to get it
but I think we could get it to where she'll go
to blue and she'll go to red every single time.
One last training piece for her.
Blue. Nope. Blue blue.
So I'll kind of keep you guys posted on this.
I think it's gonna be absolutely amazing.
If we can actually train our alligators
and our monitor lives to go after this, so--
- She's totally gonna get this one pretty quick.
- I think it was a successful first training.
- No, this can't be, this can't be, this is revolutionary.
Next exercise. The constricted chest press.
You gonna wanna feel it right there.
Down. Squeeze!
- Ooh.
- You're gonna have to earn that ice cream today, boy.
What you feel like you're failing, 17 more.
I'm not going to eat Klondikes today! Say it!
- I'm gonna eat Klondikes today, say it!
- No, I'm not gonna eat Klondikes today, say it!
- That's totally fine if you do that.
But I'm eating Klondike bars.
- This is never gonna work out.
- My next clutch I'm really excited about,
albino Hondurans.
We've worked with them for years, but it's been a while,
'cause we raised a new group up.
This is a beautiful clutch.
Oh, look at that, like Christmas.
That is perfect!
2, 4, 6, 8 big beautiful eggs.
This is a beautiful girl.
And the exciting thing is too is we've got two
gorgeous males.
So we've got a super nice tangerine male.
And this tricolored one, so hard to say,
we'll know once the eggs hatch, which the dad is
but either way you can't lose, they're gonna be gorgeous.
- This one's all about the pulp, Mike.
Feeling it? Squeeze!
- I'm feeling it.
- Squeeze, squeeze, hard.
Who's my little dare king?
I am!
Who's my little dare king?
- I am!
I said who's my dare king?
- I am!
- What the heck is going on here?
- Wait, I'm trying to get my pump.
Dad said we got a bulk.
- We gotta get (indistinct) just like he is.
- Put those animals away and get back to work.
- Five more reps.
- Five reps your head.
- It's gonna take time to get to where we wanna go.
But I think it was a really first successful training
session for both Elvis and (indistinct).
I think in no time they're gonna actually get it.
Let me know in the comments,
If you think we're gonna actually be able to do this.
Just think about this.
When we're open at the Rep Terra, if one person holds blue
and one person holds red and I say red and the animal runs
over to that person, then I say blue runs over
to the other person.
How amazing is that's gonna be so comment down below.
If you think I could do that.
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- It's crazy, man. It actually works.
- Ready to go down, ready to go down.
- Can you take me to the hose?
- Yeah, I got you.
- Hey Jake or Chris whoever in this room,
get that hose from you? Is it on?
- Yeah, it is on.
You can probably tested by point it at Mike's face.
- Oh!
- Sorry.
- Don't get the electricity go away.
- Right, right, right, forward, forward, forward.
- This training's going great.
- Faster, faster, faster.
- I don't wanna slip on the floor
'cause then we both go down.
All right, we're good.
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- Jesus!
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