- Today, I'm gonna be busting 50 reptile myths in 50 hours.
All lizards have legs.
- Hey Mike, you want to get that for me?
- This one doesn't have legs.
- And, honestly, there are three species that have no legs.
- No legs.
- All snakes, I guess including a two headed snake,
are venomous. - What?
- But, Helen's not venomous.
- Not that I know of.
- Fact is, there's about 300 species of snakes on the planet
and only about 600 of 'em have any venom at all,
with only about 200 of 'em being significantly venomous
to harm a person.
- That's not even half.
- I don't know how to math, that's not even a quarter.
(metal creaking)
- Snakes can hypnotize you with a stare.
- You're getting really sleepy. You wanna quack like a duck.
(Mike imitating a duck quacking)
Quacking. Turns out, that's actually not true,
you can't get hypnotized by a snake.
(Mike hissing)
- Bald pythons don't need to eat ever.
- Well, how do they survive?
- That makes no sense.
- Exactly, all animals need to eat,
and ball pythons certainly eat typically once a week.
That's like me not having ice cream for four days,
I'm just dead.
(rocket engine blasts)
- The only thing lizards eat are flies and other insects.
(upbeat music)
- Obviously that's not true,
'cause our buddy Tabasco loves his veggies.
- Only venomous snakes have teeth.
Well, this isn't a venomous snake right here,
and I can assure you this one has teeth. Ow!
Yeah, they have about 200 teeth.
- Just prove to you.
- This is Nightberry's tooth.
- A python, non-venomous
- Non-venomous.
- Some snakes are vegetarian.
- That's just stupid.
- Don't get my hand.
Oh my goodness, he's gonna grab my hand.
Woo!
- Look at that. That's how it's done Mike.
- Sweat. (they laugh)
- All snakes have to eat live prey.
I think we just proved the point.
- All our snakes at the zoo, eat frozen, thawed.
- Not live.
- You get warts from touching a toad.
- I gonna look like a witch.
- [In Tandem] Mm - Witches.
- The truth is you don't get warts
from handling toads or frogs.
- Tomorrow we're coming in, and our cheeks look like this,
you know.
- All toads and frogs are poisonous and kill.
The truth is all toads and frogs do have a little bit
of poison venom gland, but they're not dangerous to people.
There's only a few species on the planet
that have enough toxin to actually affect people.
- (he slurps) Thank goodness.
- You could spread slime on a turtle
to make 'em a Ninja Turtle,
I'm not even gonna respond to this one.
- You have to have a rat and four turtles
(hands clap) Ninja Turtle.
- Can't forget the pizza!
- Nice.
- All turtles and tortoises only need
one leaf of lettuce per day to survive.
Right Matilda?
- [Turtle Character Voice] That's not true,
I actually can eat seven or eight
entire heads of lettuce per day.
- Back to this guy, that's biting me.
It says a kingsnake bite isn't venomous,
but it will make you sick.
(vinyl record scratching) - It let go,
and I feel just fine.
It's totally okay to carve your name
in the shell of a tortoise.
- Stay still, stay still.
- (record scratches) Guys, the tortoise shell
is attached to its nervous system,
so if you actually carve your name into it,
it's gonna hurt the tortoise,
not to mention, get infected, and potentially die.
- Aw. - So no carving?
- How do we remember their name?
- I can't remember.
- It's okay to drill a hole. (drill whirs)
- What are you doing?
- You could drill a hole in the shell of a tortoise,
and then you actually hook a chain to it,
so that way it doesn't run away.
- Uh huh. - That makes sense.
- No, actually again, attached to the nervous system.
Don't drill holes in tortoises
and don't mess with their shell.
- [In Tandem] Shell. Yeah.
- Reptiles only grow to the size of their enclosure.
- Jeffrey, how do fit in that stuff?
- Grow buddy, grow.
- I don't know, man.
- I think he might need a bigger tank.
- Yep.
- The truth is reptiles are gonna grow
no matter what size enclosure they're in.
Trust me, ask any reptile rescue about that.
As for now, Jeffrey can go back into his large enclosure.
Reptiles are inexpensive and make great pets.
While they do make absolutely incredible pets,
the truth is, a lot of 'em are very expensive,
an animal like Neil here, is over $5,000.
- $5,000!
You know how many McDoubles I could buy with $5,000?
- How many ice cream cones we could buy?
- 27,000.
- Something like that. (he gurgles)
- Reptiles need friends.
- I need a friend (he cries).
(rain falls)
- The truth is, there are some reptiles
that do stay communally but the vast majority of reptiles
are solitary animals in the wild,
they really have nothing to do with any other reptile.
- Reptiles are stupid.
- That's actually false
because science has proved that reptiles are super smart.
- Way smarter than Mike.
- (Mike laughs) Yep.
- And the more we learn about reptiles,
the smarter they become.
- And we become.
- Hm, don't get too far ahead of yourself.
- Which brings me to my next thing,
which is reptiles cannot be trained.
Woo! There you go, buddy.
Obviously he's been trained to follow a ball for food.
- Light is stressful to nocturnal animals.
And you can't get much more nocturnal
than the giant leaf-tailed geckos.
Look at those eyes right there,
the truth is that yes, light actually does affect them,
they prefer to be in the dark
but they're also out sunning sometimes during the daytime.
So most of the time
light isn't that bad for most nocturnal animals.
Think of it this way, cats are nocturnal.
A coachwhip snake will actually use its tail
to beat someone to death,
then stick the tail up their nose.
- What?
- Hoopa, hoopa, hoopa, hoopa.
(snake hisses) - You gotta be dead Mike.
- It tickled. (Mike laughs) Go ahead.
- The hoop snake will actually stick his tail in its mouth,
and roll after you, chasing you.
- Is there even such a thing called a hoop snake?
- Sounds like a bunch of hoopla to me.
- Me. There's actually not a hoop snake,
this is complete legend and lore.
- Hoopla. (brick knocks)
- (Brian grunts) When a snapping turtle bites you,
they will not let go until they hear the roar of thunder.
- That's so stupid.
- Insert something about Thor.
- Thunder.
- A lot of giant snapping turtles
will actually develop holes in their carapace,
and oftentimes people say,
that they're so old, that it was a hole from a musket ball,
from the civil war.
- And they're all lying,
but ours actually got hit by a musket ball.
(explosion bursts)
- Somebody got the floor wet.
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- Shh.
- Sprinkling sulfur in your yard will actually repel snakes.
- Sulpher, sulpher, sulpher.
- I'm like St. Patrick (Mike laughs).
- The truth is there's no actual repellent
that you can use to get rid of snakes in your yard.
They sell a lot of 'em, but none of them work.
Snakes can't see red light.
- He can't see any light.
- There's actually been research recently
that actually shows that reptiles
can have a larger spectrum of light than actual humans.
So yes, reptiles, can't see red light.
- Green light.
- Albino reptiles shouldn't be in the sun
because it can hurt their eyes.
Now this is a partial truth, to be honest with you,
'cause they do have more sensitive eyes,
but depending on the type of albino, it can be more severe.
With albino alligators,
I try to keep them out of direct sun.
- Albino alligators can get sunburn too.
- Reptiles can actually die if they don't have heat,
even for just a couple hours.
- [Automated Voice} That's not true.
Why don't you tell 'em Brian?
- Reptiles like turtles like, red eared sliders
and a ton of other animals come from cold climates.
And when it starts to cool off,
they actually go into a more brumative state
so they can go months without heat.
A snake like Ivy, the green anaconda
could get up to 30 feet.
- No more like 29 and a half.
- The truth is the record snake was just over 25 feet
and there's never been a snake over 30 feet, ever.
As a matter of fact, Theodore Roosevelt
offered $100,000 for any snake over 30 feet,
and no one ever claimed that prize.
- My.
- Snakes of any size can and will kill humans.
- Even one like this size?
- The vast majority of snakes will not kill people.
Although it's a very rare thing
that a non-venomous snake kills somebody.
And here in America,
there's only been a couple cases in history,
of non-venomous snakes ever killing anybody,
no matter what size they were.
Reptiles made great pets for boys, but not for girls.
- What the heck is that supposed to mean?
- The one big change in the reptile keeping hobby
is the fact that there's probably almost as many women
keeping reptiles as there are men these days,
so that is a complete myth.
Komodo dragons, aren't venomous.
After many years, there's actually research done
that they do have a venom gland
that actually can actually excrete venom,
fact is Komodo dragons are venomous.
(whip snaps)
Snakes are evil.
- That's not true. Most snakes are puppy dogs.
- Well they're actually snakes, but they are really nice.
- Do snakes have bones?
- Nope. - Yep.
- Well let me settle this,
snakes actually have a bunch of bones,
they're all ribs and spine,
they usually have a couple hundred ribs.
So snakes do have bones.
- You win some, you lose some.
- He didn't know what he was talking about.
- I just started here.
- Snakes can live ethically on a vegan diet.
- No. Humans can barely live on all vegetarian, vegan diet.
- There are no vegan or vegetarian snakes,
all snakes are actually carnivores.
- Isn't technically the eggitty snake a vegetarian,
'cause vegans doesn't eat eggs, but vegetarians do.
- I said vegan Mike.
- Here we go. - Here we go.
- Tortoises can't feel their shell.
- Their spine actually runs all the way down to their tails
so they can feel every little movement that we do.
- She loves scratches.
- Scratching the booty.
- Snakes are just lizard without tails.
- Vlad's a lizard with no legs.
- No legs.
- While snakes did evolve from a lizard type of an animal,
they are basically as closely related to a lizard
as say a bird is to a reptile.
Physiological part of a snake
is wildly different than a lizard.
Releasing your pet reptile into the wild
is a great way to humanely get rid of 'em.
- [In Tandem] That sounds like a dumb idea.
- That's right, it is a dumb idea,
never ever release your pet, no matter what, into the wild
because it can become an invasive animal,
and that is a major problem for the ecosystem.
Chameleons change color to blend in with their surroundings.
- Nope.
- Not see through like water.
- This one kind of matches.
- Yeah, it does.
- The truth is
chameleons can actually lighten or darken the hue
of the colors that they are,
but they can't change radically.
It's basically a interlacing guanine crystal
that tightens or loosens
that actually changes the hue of the color they are.
So this animal can never turn green,
or purple or any of those other colors,
and certainly not plaid.
All reptiles, especially turtles, give you salmonella.
- Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike,
lick it, lick it, lick it, lick it, lick it, lick it.
- I'm not licking it.
- Why?
- I'm not getting salmonella.
- You don't want salmon vanilla?
- I like salmon and vanilla.
- Fact is you have a better chance of getting salmonella
from the chicken you ate last night than you do at reptile.
People have fallen into a nest of cottonmouths
and been bitten to death.
- Are there even nests of cottonmouths?
- While cottonmouths will sometimes brumate together
in larger groups,
it's very rare to have a nest of cottonmouths
and certainly there's never been any reports
of anyone falling into that nest
and actually been killed by 'em.
- Oh thank goodness.
- Rattlesnakes are being introduced into areas
to reduce the turkey population.
- I'm not gonna have that big juicy turkey for Thanksgiving?
- Yeah. That really puts a damper on our plans Mike.
- Seriously.
- There are no current programs
that are introducing rattlesnakes to anywhere
to control any population.
If a snake is small, it has to be a baby.
- That's not true at all,
because this is only a handful of months old
and it's probably about three feet long.
- The truth is there's all kinds of different snakes,
there are some snakes
that only get four inches long as adults.
- Looks more like six inches to me.
- There's a saying that says
red next to yellow is a deadly fellow
and red next to black is a friend of Jack.
Now this only pertains to North America
and in particular the coral snake,
the problem is in other countries besides North America,
there are snakes that red touch black
that are still venomous,
so that saying doesn't work around the world.
Some snake species actually have poisonous breath.
Yes, it's true.
The fact is that is absolutely not true,
no snakes have poisonous breath,
but I am worried about Noah.
A snake that won't eat,
maybe planning an escape to kill its owner.
[In Tandem] Bump, bump, ba.
And obviously that's just not true,
some snakes do go on some hunger strikes,
all pythons are notorious
for sometimes going as much as 12 or 14 months without food
but they're never planning to kill their owner.
Releasing a kingsnake in the wild
will deter rattlesnakes from coming into that area.
Although kingsnakes definitely do eat rattlesnakes,
they won't deter the local populations of rattlesnakes
from coming in,
but they will occasionally eat one of 'em.
- These things just keep getting dumber and dumber.
- Dumber and dumber.
- Me?
- A snake can only strike from a coiled position.
Woo. We can see,
this snake will strike in any position at all. Woo.
This is definitely a myth busted.
Turtles and tortoises can actually climb out of their shell.
- Like a hammer crab.
- They do it every night.
- Every night, I don't think so.
These guys are born with the shell, they grow with the shell
and they die with the same shell,
never being able to climb out
because it's attached right to their spine.
And you know what? I think that's the last bit.
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Remember be kind to someone,
and I promise, I'll see you in the next one.
- Then what do I see every night?
- Not a turtle.