- Today, we get to sex all these little baby anacondas,
but- ow ow ow!
They are certainly- ow!
They are bitey, but the fact is we need to know
if they're male or female
because females are a little bit more sought after.
They're also a little bit more expensive.
Look at how beautiful they are.
It's gonna be a bad thing because I've got
40 baby anacondas and they're gonna be
bitin' the heck outta me as I sex them,
and basically what I'm doing
is averting the hemipenes right here. Just like that.
(ding) That happens to be a boy.
Phew! It's gonna be a tough one.
I'm gonna be a little pin cushion today,
there's no doubt about- ow!
Ow, right on the tip of my fingers! Oh my gosh.
Little anacondas have
(ding) such big teeth.
Another boy, uh oh. We got two boys and no girl.
So far, not starting out the way I wanted to
and I'm gettin' bit like crazy.
Already startin' to- look it, I'm bleeding!
Oh my gosh. Let's see what we have here.
(ding) Another boy!
Oh my gosh. Let's hope we don't have 40 boys.
That would be- oh, get back in the tub, bud.
Get back in the tub.
(snake thuds) Ow! Oh my goodness gracious.
This is absolutely gonna be terrible.
Three in and I'm already bleedin' like crazy.
Look it, we've got our
(people cheering) first female here, yay!
It's a little baby Ivy.
Look at how gorgeous she is and this one didn't bite me.
(laughing) All right, movin' on.
Woohoo! Ow! I'm your friend.
As soon as I work with these guys a little bit they're
(ding) definitely gonna be
much more docile. Another boy.
We're definitely trending in the wrong direction here
when it comes to males and female.
Like I said, that could turn around.
We could roll off five, six, seven females
in a row in no time.
I sure hope there's a lot more females than males.
(people cheering) Another female!
What are you doing? You're climbing out, little girl.
Come on, little monkey.
Maybe all the girls are gonna be really tame
'cause I haven't been bit by any of the girls yet.
(snake thuds) Oh! (laughs) Woohoo!
This is a little feisty monkey right here.
Let's see if this is a boy or a girl. I'm not sure.
Ah, we got another girl
(people cheering) who's about to bite me
any second. Do it. Don't do it.
Okay, so we're starting to even up a little bit
as far as boys and girls.
Like I said, I'm actually hoping that there'll be
more girls than boys, but I am just over the top happy
that I have whatever I have.
(people cheering) Another girl, yay!
Look at how beautiful these little monkeys are.
I cannot believe that we have
40 baby anacondas. Whoop! Whoop!
It's okay. It's okay. Whoa!
Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
Come on, calm down, little monkey.
I just hate- oh my gosh, look at its mouth
it's just wide open. It's-
Ow! Ow! Oh my gosh. What I do for these animals.
And like I had mentioned,
(people cheering) you roll off a bunch
of females in a row.
We've now done four females in a row.
Get in there girl. Don't bite me. Come on.
Oh. Phew! Phew!
(laughing) It's a dangerous job, guys,
a dangerous job in America right now, sexing anacondas.
(people cheering) Another female, awesome!
We're pickin' it up. Oh, get yourself, get yourself- Ow! Ow.
Okay. I'm okay.
You know, I promise these guys are gonna mellow out.
I'm gonna start handling 'em because you might ask,
what am I gonna do with these right now?
(people cheering) I'm actually gonna set 'em up
individually, we're gonna get 'em feeding,
then we're gonna find homes for the majority of 'em.
As many as I can keep, I possibly can,
but it ended up turning out pretty good.
Looks like we have one, two, three, four males
and six females outta the first ten.
Like I told you, sometimes the odds turn around.
That's pretty awesome. All right, here comes the next 10.
Look at my hands already. Little pin cushions. Oh my gosh.
(ding) This is a little boy
right here. You're a good boy, too.
Didn't even bite me one time. There you go, little monkey.
I am still over the moon excited
about the fact that we produce anacondas.
I mean, how freaking
(ding) awesome is that. Another boy.
Darn it, both times we started out
kind of in the wrong way as far as boy to girl ratio,
but we still have- Ow!
(Brian's scream echoes)
Ow! Ow! What are you doing? Leave me alone!
(people cheering) I love you. I love you.
I don't want you to bite me anymore.
Oh my goodness, that hurts.
That's definitely not fun at all.
Guys are pretty big and they hurt like you can't believe.
Ow! Come on, come on.
(ding) Okay. Another boy.
So far, we had one boy and three girls in this batch of ten.
Looks like we've got
(ding) another male here,
but at least he didn't bite me, which is good.
So far, we've sexed about 17 anacondas
and I've only been bitten by about 15 of 'em.
Let's get some more females here, come on, guys.
(ding) Nope. Looks like another
little boy. These are little pistols, I tell you what.
Okay, here we go. Looks like maybe a girl here.
(people cheering) Don't bite me. Phew!
The more I get bit, the more I don't wanna get bit
'cause they do hurt, you know.
They're just little babies,
(people cheering) but they're big babies
and they rapidly have big teeth for little tiny babies.
And again, as I'm sexing these animals out,
basically what I'm doing is averting the hemipenes, right?
Those little things- Oh, don't you bite me.
Don't you do it. Don't you do it. I love you.
So, what happens is that in the base of the tail,
and I think this is actually a boy, so I'll show you.
Obviously, in the base of the tail,
those two little things that popped out,
those are hemipenes. Those are the male genitalia.
So, we've got one more in this batch.
I think we are about even, maybe a little bit heavy males
on this batch so far,
but let's hope we end with a female here. And we did.
(people cheering) We are officially
20 anacondas in. Okay, onto the next, guys.
I can just tell it wants to bite me. I can just feel it.
Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it.
Don't do it. Don't do it.
(people cheering) Female. That's a good one.
Started out good, didn't get bit.
Got a female. You stay right there!
I don't want to get bit anymore, Mama. Please help me.
(ding) That's a boy.
I don't normally mind getting bit,
but when you get bit by 40 anacondas
it gets a little old.
(ding) You get to a point
where you're like, "Okay, I've had enough!
I don't wanna get bit anymore."
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I still have 17 or 18 anacondas to go,
so I have a long way to go here,
but it's really important
(people cheering) to find out what the sexes
of these guys so I can figure out who would I wanna keep
and what I wanna sell
(people cheering) because it's gonna be
really important for me to find good homes for these.
Not everyone should own a green anaconda
so it's gonna be really important for me to-
Ow! Woo! All right. I'm good.
So, it's gonna be really important for me to know...
(people cheering) Oh my gosh,
it's gonna bite me, I know it.
(snake thuds) Ow! Okay. Okay.
Guys, we're almost 30 in,
we've got just a handful more to get through the next 10.
Whoa! Yep. Yep.
(ding) And that's a boy.
Just a few more to go and then I only have 10 more to go.
Okay, come on. Three more to go.
Oh good, oh jeez, oh boy, it's...
Man, I tell you what, I thought these would be tame.
I really did. I thought because
(people cheering) Ivy is so mellow,
that these guys would actually be as mellow as the mom,
but I was mistaken.
After we handle them a little bit,
hopefully they're gonna mellow out.
Okay, we've got a couple more girls,
(people cheering) that's good. Good way to end.
This one, one last one.
Come on, be a female and don't bite me.
I appreciate you very much.
(people cheering) And it's a girl!
And look at how beautiful she is.
I love you, little monkey.
We're officially three quarters of the way through.
Only 10 more baby anacondas to sex.
I don't know how many more bites. I'm gonna probably say 20.
You can see they're actually startin'
to go into blue a little bit,
so they're startin' to actually go into shed,
which means that after that first shed,
they're gonna absorb the last of the yolk that's in 'em
(ding) and then they're gonna
hopefully start eating. Now, baby anacondas can sometimes
take a while to get started,
so sometimes, it could take you three, four months
to get the animals going,
which is just part of what we're gonna have deal with here.
(people cheering) Got another girl.
We got another boy before that.
So far, I haven't been bitten this time,
which is pretty awesome. Ow!
In the end, I'll count how many males or females.
(people cheering) Got another girl, yay!
I'm happy about that.
That way we know what the ratio is. Another girl.
(people cheering) I'm liking this,
but I feel like I've got 1,000 needles
(ding) in my hands right now.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Put that one away.
Ow! Right in the fingertips!
The fingertips are the worst!
(ding) Uh oh, another boy.
Ow! Got me in the thumb.
It's another boy, got three more to go.
Let's have all three of 'em be females please,
please, please, please.
(people cheering) All right, we got one female.
That's good. Got two more.
Uh oh, this one looks like it wants to bite.
Don't bite. Don't bite. Don't bite. Don't bite.
It's just nuzzling up on me right here.
(sighs) All right, here we go.
Come on, be a girl, be a girl, be a girl.
(ding) Nope. It's a boy.
One last baby anaconda to sex out.
Oh my gosh. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it.
And the last one, at least, is a female.
(people cheering) I'll go ahead and
count these guys up.
Oh my gosh, I'm like a pin cushion here, guys.
- That alone was justice for you breeding and producing.
- I loved every minute of it. - You got
40,000 anaconda bites. That's the paybacks for what you did.
(woman talking indistinctly) - I'm on cloud nine.
Look it, these are all little souvenirs.
- And I'm so happy for you that you got what you deserved.
- I'm happy, too. Time to count these guys.
This is gonna be a little tricky.
All I have to do is count the females
because, of course, we know there was 40.
We can actually subtract how many females from the 40
and we know what our ratio is.
So, first we've got one.
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get bit a bunch, too.
2, 3, 4, 5,
6, ow! 7, 8,
(Brian grunting)
9, 10, 11. We got 11 out of the first 20.
Now I gotta get 'em back in here.
Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Ow, ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
All right, that's all right.
Yeah. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch, ouch, ow.
Okay, let go, let go, let go, let go, let go.
Ouch, ouch, ouch! Let's go. Let go. Let go. Okay.
(sighs) 11 so far, we're doing good.
12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18.
It's like that game of monkeys.
There's 19, 20, which means we have at least 20 females.
So, we have 23 females and 17- ow!.
(drawer sliding)
I'm done. Please, can I stop now?
Now I just gotta get these guys all back in
and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set these all up
individually into their own enclosures once I get this done.
Okay, here we go.
(drawer slides) Phew!
23 females, 17 males, not bad. About a hundred bites.
I still have to set these up individually,
so I'm gonna get bit more. That should be fun.
So, we're basically setting 'em up real simple.
We want 'em to kind of be really aesthetic
just till we get 'em feeding, then we'll kind of,
well, number one, fine homes for 'em,
and number two, we'll move 'em up to something
a little bit more, you know,
with bedding and some hides and some climbs.
For the meantime, we just really wanna
get 'em in here, get 'em set up.
This way, we can also start handling 'em,
which is gonna be really important
to start calming these guys down.
I'm just gonna, hopefully,
gently put each one of 'em individually in their enclosure.
Oh yeah, this is already workin' out good.
Come on. Up you go. Okay, one down.
Trying to go with the ones that don't wanna bite me.
(calm music)
Two down and I'm puttin' all the females away first
and then I'll put the males away after that.
See, we became friends already, right?
I guess you gotta imagine that, number one,
they're a little bit like, "Hey, don't mess with me,
I'm still little," stuff like that.
They're always gonna calm down with a little bit of age,
and actually, I'm trying to avert their hemipenes
so I'm sure they're not happy about that, either.
It can't be a pleasant thing.
It's important to know what's males and females
so that that way I know what I have, number one,
and number two, I know when I do find people to take 'em,
they know if they want a male or a female.
Couldn't be more happy that we ended up
with six more females. Whoop, that one's not happy.
(laughing) Six more females than we did males.
So, that's pretty awesome.
I haven't been bit once,
so let's hope this trend keeps going
'cause I'm gonna be honest, my hands hurt right now.
(laughing) They definitely are sore
from those a hundred little anaconda bites.
You gotta remember these snakes
still have hundreds of teeth,
and at this size, it's actually surprisingly painful
'cause they have really kind of powerful bites.
Some snakes when they bite, like a ball python,
it's almost like they just love tap you
or something like that.
Anacondas, they seem to me business.
I am gonna bite you
and you're definitely gonna feel this one.
It's been a little bit of an- ow!
Okay, okay, okay. Ow! No! No, no, no, no.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Ow! Okay, okay. All right.
All right, this one's Jace. I'll mark J on this.
Okay. You're sittin' right here,
okay, Jace? - No.
- Ow, ow, ow, ow!
- [Cameraman] I think it's all right, man.
Try a different one.
- That one got me six times!
I'm just trying to put you away, bud.
Ow! This one got me, too. Ow, ow.
Let go, let go, let go, let go, let go. Ow, ow, ow, ow.
That first tub went really well.
Second tub didn't start out so well,
there's no doubt about that.
Oh my God, these are so- Whoa! Whoopsie. It's okay.
If I get a little bit of time with each one of these
where I can handle 'em a bit,
I think they're gonna calm down pretty quick.
I'm still over the moon, you know,
even though I'm gettin' lit up today, I am loving it, man.
This is what I live for, you know?
I'm on cloud nine right now playin' with baby anacondas.
I mean, how freakin' awesome is that?
We're almost through the females
and with the exception of a couple feisty monkeys,
they've actually been pretty good to me,
and this way we can monitor everyone that's shed.
We kept 'em all together and they started shedding,
we wouldn't know which ones shed and which ones didn't,
so keeping 'em individually
in a setting that's really simple,
we're gonna be able to really monitor
everything about these guys over the next,
you know, month or so as we're getting 'em eating.
So, we got the last two females to set up.
There you go, little monkey.
All in all, not too bad. Let's do the males.
Look at that, man. I mean, they're so beautiful.
It's just absolutely ridiculous how amazing they are,
even if they are bitey little monsters right now.
(laughing) Look at my hand. Is that just ridiculous?
I don't even know what to say. I mean, it's just crazy.
It's been a while since I've been bitten
as many times in one day,
it's probably since I was producing Burmese pythons
back in the day when I produced Burmese pythons.
They're bitey when they're babies like this, too,
and again, they calm down when they get older as well,
but when you're sexing the little baby Burms,
the same thing happens.
You just get lit up with a clutch of 30, 40, 50 of them
or something like that.
Definitely just part of what you have to go through
when you're working with animals like this,
but like I said, these guys will tame out.
Listen, Ivy is amazingly tame, Jazz was amazingly tame.
These are like F-5 generations,
should be really super docile animals
when they get used to people.
(laughing) A little bit of a challenge right now.
There you go guys. Ooh, don't.
Don't do it, don't- oh no!
(sighs) You know, I don't normally get bite shy
but now I'm kind of bite shy.
I'm like, "Please don't-" Ow.
Ow! Gosh, it got me really in a tender spot right there.
Don't do that again please.
Sheesh! (sighs) We're gettin' there.
We don't have many to go, guys.
I'm gonna need a nap after this, I'm not gonna lie.
In the go, in you go. Yeehaw. One last tub.
Then I can just come down
and play with these guys all the time,
you know what I mean?
Like, just open up one and just mess with it.
I'd like to spend about 40 hours a week
(laughing) just playing with these animals,
to be honest with you 'cause I want them to be
absolutely rippin' animals.
Down to our last four animals, but wait a second.
Do we have five heads? Nope, it's four.
For a second there, I was like,
"Uh oh, we might have one extra."
Ugh. Look at how beautiful they are.
None of- oh, I do have a extra.
So, I ended up with one extra animal,
which tells me one of two things: either I had 41,
so I'm gonna count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8-
(sped up voice squeaking)
40. Okay, next thing I'm gonna do is make sure
the animal in every tub just to make sure
because if not, we have 41 baby anacondas.
Get in there buddy. Oh yeah. I love you.
(drawers sliding)
Guess what guys? We have 41 baby anacondas.
So, strike the 40, we actually have 41.
So, we have 23 females and 18 males.
We counted them like three times before
and sometimes we're off. Here's our 41st baby Anaconda.
So, we ended up having 41 baby anacondas.
I'll be honest, I'm glad that sexing them
and setting 'em up is done.
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