- I've got to take this girl out and be a little bit more
gentle with her because she is almost gravid, right?
So let's go see what she's got going on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa that was not, whoa, whoa!
Whoa!
What in the world is going on?
Gemma?
What are you doing girl?
Hah!
What are you doing?
Whoa!
Can you believe that right now?
I have never seen that before.
That's that gravidness with her? She's like,
don't muck with me.
See if we can get her without getting bit. Come on, girl.
Whoa! Whoo, that was close.
Ooh, doggy! Okay girl. Whoa. She is just on fire right now.
I tell you what? Come on, girl.
You're okay. That was a close one right there. Whoo.
I gotta be careful guys. Come on girl. Come on,
come on, whoa, come on, get her when she's, whoa,
no, she's not to let me get in to her.
This is Matilda, the Aldabra tortoise.
That's almost 150 pounds, only 16 years old.
Believe it or not, this is the longest lived
land animal
on the planet. The Aldabra tortoise living over 200 years,
sometimes up to 250 years.
Can you imagine that? Matilda 16 years still has 200 plus
years left to go. And she is absolutely
an unbelievably stunning animal. And people ask me
all the time, how long do reptiles live?
Now, one of the shortest lived reptiles
that we actually keep, and this girl is
a feisty monkey is actually the Veiled chameleons.
Females typically only live like four, maybe five years
at the most. And males oftentimes only
go five to eight years, believe it or not.
Now there can be exceptions to the rule for everything that
we're going to be talking about today.
But definitely this girl is absolutely crazy.
What is wrong with you? You silly monkey. She's upset.
Maybe that's what's taken years off her life or stuff like
that. She's got to start to calm down and get a little zen.
You know what I mean? But unfortunately, chameleons
can be amazing, but Veiled chameleons
are pretty short-lived. Now, not all chameleons
are short-lived. To be honest with you,
there are some that can live well into their twenties.
And even older than that, like take, for instance,
the Panther chameleons, they're typically a 10,
sometimes even 12, 13, 14 year old animal,
so they can live a lot longer.
And then the bigger ones like Meller's chameleons
and Parsons chameleons can live well
into their twenties sometimes even closer to 30 years old.
So not all chameleons are really short-lived, believe it or
not there's even some species that are shorter lived
than the Veiled chameleons. Nevertheless,
they are truly amazing animals, moving on to the next animal
that doesn't live as long as I'd like, to be honest
with you, because they are so incredible,
of course would be the Bearded Dragon. You know,
the truth is,
is typically Bearded Dragons are probably 10 to 12 year old
animals. Although we have Fetty Waps, still over at
the PHB offices that I think is going in
on close to 15 years now. So they can certainly live longer.
And I've heard people that have had them for close to 20
years, but the average lifespan is probably
somewhere between 10 and 12 years.
Ooh, look at this snake right here.
I tell you what, whoa, it's absolutely crazy.
Now most Kluber snakes.
Of course this is an African Egg Eating snake and it is
definitely not happy today. There's no doubt about that.
Most Klubers are typically maybe a 12 to 15 year animal.
Some will get into 20 years. You know,
there's no doubt about that.
We've had Corn snakes and King snakes that lived 20, 22
years, but a lot of them do live about 12 to 15 years in all
honesty and the Egg Eating snakes are no exception to that.
You know, they're an absolutely amazing animals and that's a
generalization, right?
I'm trying to give you guys an overall idea of how long
these animals live, right?
So some snakes can live longer than others. And of course,
some species of Klubers can live longer than other species
of Klubers. But in general,
speaking about 12 to 15 years is about the longevity of most
Klubers keeping in mind certainly some can live
well into their twenties.
Moving on to the New Caledonian geckos and really all of the
Leachies, the Chahoua's, the Crested geckos.
So I like that they make incredible pets.
I mean,
some of the coolest pets out there super easy to keep,
we know that you don't need that hotspot in there.
You can feed them the repachy or pangea food,
which is super simple to feed,
but these guys have some pretty good longevity as well.
Typically living well into their twenties. I mean,
it's not uncommon that these guys go 25, even 30 years.
So a Leachie gecko, a Crested gecko a Chahouha gecko,
a Gargoyle gecko are great animals, but keeping in mind,
if you're buying one as a pet,
you're going to have it for a good 20 plus years.
And I tell it, I'm happy about it.
As a matter of fact, I wish they lived 50 years.
Cause I love these guys so much.
Know it's going to live for
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Now Leopard geckos are pretty similar when it comes to the
new Caledonia geckos and they're pretty long lived well,
definitely 20 plus years.
I've had some for over 15 years now and they're still
rolling strong breeding and everything like that.
So a typical leopard gecko is a 20, 25 year old animal,
unlike the new Caledonia's.
And these guys do need heat though, which is really cool.
But if you're thinking about a pet lizard,
Leopard geckos are typically one of the ones that everyone
wants, because this is about as big as they get.
They're very easy to take care of. Again,
they do need a little bit of heat,
but once you have a really good setup,
they absolutely thrive. And like I said,
they are bulldogs and they live a long time,
which is really cool to think that this animal here,
that's only about four years old, his name is Mac.
By the way, he's going to be around for another 20 years.
Being a great animal ambassador here at the Rep Terror.
You know, Brillo,
my Armadillo happens to be about three months old.
I'm going to give you a little quiz right now.
And you go ahead and choose from the multiple choice,
how old do you think that Brillo is going to actually live?
And find out later in the vlog.
Certainly, everybody asks me how long do two headed animals
live? And the fact is is that obviously they
don't have the same life span in the beginning, right?
And what I mean by that is the success rate of a two-headed
animal, whether it's a steak, a turtle, a gecko,
whatever it is typically that first year it's a 99.9%
mortality rate.
It hardly ever make it past their first year.
Ben and Jerry is four and a half years old.
Once they hit adulthood like him and Chopsticks,
of course too, they'll live a full life.
Typically right now, a Cattle King again
can live 20, 25 years.
There was actually a two headed snake at the San Diego Zoo.
It was a Corn snake that lived like 27 years.
So again with Ben and Jerry only being four and a half years
old, we sure hope that he's going to live
at least another 15 years. And hopefully
if we get lucky another 20 years,
it would be absolutely amazing. So again,
two headed snakes the first year,
not so good, after that first year and they're start
to get to adulthood, they'll live a normal life.
And hopefully these guys will be around for a long,
long time. Then there's Monitor lizards.
Like my buddy Elvis,
one of my best friends here at the Rep Terror,
no doubt about it. And they can live pretty long.
I mean, Monitor lizards are pretty good animals.
You know, Elvis is only four years old right now.
And these guys can literally go up to 40 years.
Believe it or not, sometimes even a little bit longer
if they're cared for. The big thing about Monitor lizards to
keep them living for a long time is to not overfeed them and
get them obese. Right?
They go through something that's like a fatty liver disease,
right? So if you get a really fat,
which is really difficult not to cause they want to eat all
the time, you're always like, it's hungry,
it wants to eat, I better feed it some more food.
Right?
But the truth is is you gotta make sure you pull back on the
food. You also gotta give it lots of variety.
We don't want to give it all rodents.
You want to give it all red meat.
You want to give them some bugs.
You want to give them chicken. You want to give them fish.
Lots of variety. The more variety,
give them the more healthy the animals actually going to be.
The longer it's going to actually live.
If your Monitor is walking around,
his belly is just dragging and can't lift its legs up
probably too heavy.
You want it to be able to lift completely off the ground if
at all possible and walk around.
And that's a healthy Monitor lizard.
And if you've got a healthy monitor lizard,
they're going to live 30, maybe 40,
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And then of course there's the pythons, right?
And of course, Gemma here just came out of her shed.
Now we're hoping that this is a pre-ovulation shed.
We know you've got follicles, we've seen Knight
actually breed her, but she kind of blew her cage
up and she has some stuck sheds. So I'm gonna
go ahead and pull her out,
get her into a soak so we can get all of that shed out and
make her look nice and pretty. Now, if everything goes well,
a pre-ovulation shed usually means that maybe two to
three weeks from the time that they pre-ovulation shed,
they'll actually ovulate.
You can see she's starting to distend right here.
That's where it's going to be.
It's going to look like she actually ate like,
I mean like a giant pig. She just like ovulates really big.
That only last about 12 to 18 hours.
And then she goes back down and then those eggs actually
drop from the ovaries into the entire oviduct right.
And they start to grow and grow and grow.
And then over the next 30 to 40 days before she's actually
going to lay her eggs,
it's going to grow to these big size eggs that Articulated
pythons have. So fingers crossed.
It actually took this year.
We're going to get fertile eggs from Gemma.
That would be absolutely incredible.
But for now I've got to take this girl out and be a little
bit more gentle with her because she is almost gravid.
Right. So let's go see what she's got going on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, that was not, whoa!
Whoa!
What in the world is going on?
Gemma?!
What are you doing girl?
Hah!
What are you doing?
Whoa! Can you believe that right now?
I have never seen that before. That's that gravidness
with her. She's like, don't muck with me.
I don't want to be mucked with and that's right.
So I've got to be a little bit more careful with her,
holy cow. Wow. I don't know what to
do here, guys. I'm going to go ahead
and just try to be a little cautious
here. She's gearing up for another strike right now.
Come on girl. It's okay.
She is the tamest snake that I've ever had
and for her to act this way is absolutely crazy.
That's certainly telling me she's gearing up
for an ovulation see if we can get
her without getting bit. Come on, girl.
Whoa! Whoo, that was close.
Ooh, doggy!
Okay. Girl, whoo she is just on fire right now.
I tell you what.
Come on, girl.
You're okay. That was a close one right there.
Whoo! I gotta be careful guys.
Come on girl. Come on, come on, whoa, come on.
Gotta get when her when she's, whoa!
She's not gonna let me get in to her. Wow.
What a trip guys. Huh?
Come on Gemma. Think we got her now guys. Whoo!
It's certainly different than Gemma usually is.
That was quite interesting. Let's get her in her water here.
Get her into some soak, get her in here
now Python like Gemma.
And this goes for ball pythons and most pythons, you know,
25 years. It's an easy thing for them.
Right?
And some can live literally up to 40 years with some records
being over 50 years.
But wow, I tell you!
That's crazy. Gemma is usually a baby doll.
I mean, you can do anything with her,
but that's what happens. They get gravid.
They change, they're now protective mothers, right.
The hopes are, is that after she lays her eggs,
she's going to go back to the old Gemma. Right?
Because we don't want that.
That was a little bit too close for comfort. But yeah,
pythons live a long time, but whoo doggy!
That was a lot of fun, wasn't it?
Tons of people ask me how long Sloths live.
Obviously Drogo just turned four a few months ago.
Believe it or not. We're almost at a year since we got him.
I think in a week or two is actually the year's day that we
got my guy, Drogo. And I can't imagine life without him.
He's such an interesting, cool animal.
Drogo, I love you so much.
You're such a good animal. But again, people are like,
how long do they live? Well,
fortunately they'll live 20 plus years. You know,
sometimes even up to 25 years,
now on rare occasion into the upper 20. So again,
four years old, we've got a long way to go.
And one of the things I might have mentioned in the past is
that we always try to get kind of younger animals here at
the Rep Terror then wait for the next 10, 15, 20 years.
They're going to be animals like Drogo and Salt and Bella
and all my other animals.
They're going to be here for people to really get to know
and for us to work with and continue to socialize for a long
time. So yes, sloths are amazing and yes,
they do live a good long time.
So Drogo is going to be with us for, hey,
maybe another couple decades.
Another super popular animal here obviously is Salt
and of course Pepper, him and my guy, RJ, right?
RJ is about 12 years old.
Now these guys are a little bit over two years old now and
you wonder how long they live. Well,
these guys aren't dinosaurs.
So they've been on the planet for like a hundred million
years, but they don't live a hundred million years,
but they do live quite a long time in captivity.
They've been known to go up to a hundred years.
That's right.
Very typically 75 is pretty average for them and up to a
hundred is possible. So think about that.
98 years from now, this girl may still be around.
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Now we get into red foot tortoises.
Now, we already talked about Matilda living 200 plus years.
Well, not all tortoises live that long, Red Foot tortoises
are typically like a 50,
maybe possibly a 75 year animal,
but these guys are under 10 years old.
Our youngest ones are only like five years old. So again,
they've got a long, long way to go.
Redwood tortoises are amazing.
And the thing that's nice about them is that I love Matilda.
I love Giant tortoises,
but these guys are almost full-grown now could have barely
get any bigger than this,
but they're going to still live for another 40 to 60 years.
I mean, how cool is that?
Tortoises are definitely some of the longest lived animals,
but again, not all of them live 200 years, but hey,
75 years, but that's still a long time.
So if any of you guys said B. 25 plus years,
you're a hundred percent correct. That's right.
Brillo being only three months old is going to be with us
for a long, long time.
And he is absolutely adorable.
And, of course there is Bowzer.
Look at this beastie animal right here. Of course,
an Alligator Snapping turtle.
He's about 42 years old now and he's about 120 pounds.
Now this animal can literally get up to 200 pounds and just
like Matilda can live up to 200 years, now,
I got to tell you,
there's the story that goes around all the time.
And oftentimes even in the back of Bowser,
there's a little hole in his shell,
just like this big. What happens is sometimes when they grow
they'll have little holes.
So a lot of people with giant old Alligator Snapping turtles
will tell the same story. You guys may hear it.
Or you may hear this in the future.
They'll say that hole is from a musket ball that came from
the Civil War and every single person I know that has a
Giant Snapping turtle seems to say the same exact thing.
Now I'll be honest with you.
I don't think that any Alligator Snapping turtles have
muscular balls from the Civil War, but it's a great story.
One of those urban legend, one of those wives tales.
And I'm sure if you listen long enough and you go enough
places, you're going to hear it.
And then you'll think back to this video and say, oh my God,
Brian was right. But yes,
they are animals that can live up to 200 years.
And back to my crazy girl, Gemma,
let's hope she's in a little bit of a better mood than she
was before. That's for sure.
I'm just going to go ahead and get a little bit of skin off.
It's coming off really nicely.
She's going to look absolutely beautiful when all of this
skin is off and see after a good soak is coming up really
good. And she's back to her beautiful self,
but definitely going to have to keep an eye during this
whole period of her ovulating and kind of growing
follicles and just her attitude is just going to be a
little bit different. And that's that hormone, you know,
that's what happens. Gosh, she's such a good snake.
She's usually great about getting back in the cage,
but today not so much, there she goes.
And as she's crawling through,
I'll just go ahead and just get all that shed off of her
looking how beautiful she looks.
That's just absolutely soothing as could be one last little
area here. That's got shed on it and that is it.
Oh, look in the last bit of the tail.
One last little bit. Come up.
Can we get this last little bit?
Woo. Here you go, girl.
All right. She's good.
So there you have it. My girl Gemma,
not in the greatest mood,
but now you guys know all about how long animals live here
at the Rep Terror. And maybe this will help you guys out.
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