- I just got a call Crocodile Kyle
down at Primitive Predators,
and he said, I have to come down to Florida
'cause he has a couple animals I have to meet.
- Hey Brian, how you doing?
- Kyle, what's up, man?
- I got some pretty cool animals for you to check out.
- All right, dude.
I'm down.
You know I'm always ready for an animal adventure,
so I'll see you soon.
- See you soon.
- So I guess we're heading off to Florida.
- This is my turn to move to Florida.
I mean, it's literally snowing and it's April.
(festive music)
- Okay guys.
Just another 1200-mile trip ahead of us.
We'll be in Florida.
- Not again.
- So the crocodiles I wanted to share with Brian
are these incredible Piebald Nile crocodiles.
Super, super rare crocodiles.
Only a handful supposedly in the world.
Couple right here at the facility.
- So I saw the picture on Instagram
of what these guys posted,
but it was kind of just an eye of a crocodile,
and then white scalation.
I have no idea what this crocodile is gonna be,
but it has to be really cool.
They're so excited to invite me to drive
all the way down here.
As far as the white snake,
you know, I have an idea
that it might be a white king cobra.
I'm not sure, that's just my initial thought process.
Hopefully, I'm right,
because that would be absolutely epic.
- So the next animal we're gonna surprise Brian with.
We're actually gonna have to trick him on this one
'cause I posted something on Instagram
and I think he's catching on to what that snake is.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna show him
this leucistic cottonmouth, which is a beautiful snake,
and we're gonna make him think
this is the one from Instagram.
When in reality,
it's actually this blue-eyed leucistic king cobra,
the largest venomous snake species in the world.
This snake that's pure white with blue eyes
has the potential of getting 15 feet long.
Look at how beautiful this is.
I think Brian's actually gonna freak out about this.
- So if it is a white king cobra,
it would be absolutely amazing.
And I had the opportunity to actually be there
just a couple days after Kevin McCurley at NERD
ended up getting Lilith the white king cobra,
and she was an absolutely beautiful animal to work with.
This is legitimately the white rhino of the snake world.
And the fact that this animal
lived to adulthood in the wild
gives you an idea what a badass it is.
- [Kevin] She bit the wall.
- Oh my God. - And then she did this thing
where she goes for you, and she goes stab, stab, stab, stab.
This is the snake of my dream.
- [Brian] That animal has turned into like, Satan.
- [Kevin] But when a king hits you,
it pumps you with so much volume of venom.
That's what makes it deadly.
And they say a king cobra bite could kill an elephant.
- She's literally psycho. - She's like--
- Want you, want to kill you, that kind of.
(dramatic beat echoing)
- There's no time like the present.
Let's get into it.
Uh, go ahead.
Everybody going?
We're going? - If you want him here.
But remember everything I just told you.
- Oh, I remember.
So just take all your snake sense and light it on.
- Oh my gosh.
She is a beauty, isn't she?
The thing about king cobras, as you'll see with this one,
is they'll do these mock charges on you.
Oh, she's a long snake, man.
Oh my goodness gracious, whew!
(intense music)
Look at this snake, guys.
Growl!
You'll kind of just see that mock charge right there?.
That's something that you won't see too much
from other cobras.
This is what I was talking about right here.
This is my dream.
She is so much more gorgeous
but see, she'll come up and she'll actually come towards me.
That's one of the things you've gotta worry about with Kings
is that unlike most cobras,
they will just, kind of bluff like this.
She'll actually mock charge you.
And I hate to say it, but this is the snake of my dream.
I'm not gonna lie to you right now.
It's worth everything to mess with this animal,
I mean, because this is unbelievable.
She could come all the way to here with me no problem
if I mess with her too much.
Just lived in the wild.
Can you imagine this animal actually living in the wild?
Oh my God.
It's all right, girl.
You're all right, baby, you're okay.
Whew!
Tell you what?
He said, I'm super calm when I'm around an animal like this
because being hyped up and full of energy is a bad thing.
You gotta always be extremely aware
of everything this animal is doing
and be aware enough to get away from it, just like that.
One of the coolest things I've ever seen in my entire life.
I mean, this is top three
animal experiences of my life, right?
Guys, can you believe this?
Oh my gosh.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I mean, you would've died
if you ever gave this opportunity away.
Since then, unfortunately, Lilith has passed away,
which is a huge hit for Kevin, and certainly, me too.
I love that animal.
It was such a bummer.
So if Kyle and Ryan actually have another one of these ones,
it's gonna be absolutely amazing.
Not sure that that's what the case is,
but I know they love king cobras.
It's gonna be something really good
because they always have amazing animals.
So I mean, if I was gonna guess, that's my guess.
(dramatic music) - It was at this moment.
(dramatic music)
There we go.
(dramatic music)
That's why we keep paper towels.
- I can't believe she...
- Yeah, we don't want anybody pulling their teeth,
but that is, so that's always good to see,
that like, you know, it's a nice, clean in-and-out.
- Let's check out the footage.
(dramatic music)
- Here, yup, there you go.
Right here, right here.
Poopy, I'm a poopy.
♪ Poop, poop ♪
(dramatic music)
- There you go.
Well, that was a little closer
than I thought it was. (man chuckles)
- Yeah.
- So we're back in Ohio,
and we actually took a little grief last time
from you Ohioans, so we did some research,
and it turns out that Ohio is actually known for...
(upbeat music)
And 15 hours to go 'til we make it to Florida.
(laid-back music)
Here we are again, back down in Florida
to Crocodile Kyle's place
to find out what they brought me down here for.
Better be a white king cobra.
So I came all the way back down to Florida,
to my buddy Kyle's place,
and of course, Ryan is here with me.
Listen, I came a long way.
You have something really special.
Let's see 'em.
Let's... - Let's do it.
- Are you guys gonna tease me?
You guys gonna tease? - Is he gonna do it?
- No, we'll do it. - We'll walk you
right over there. - Okay.
- We got a couple-- - Here we go, guys.
- Things for you today. - Got a couple things?
Wait a second.
This is gonna make this trip really worth it.
So this is gonna be amazing.
So, of course, you guys,
if you didn't see the last video I did,
I'm gonna put a link in the description to that.
Also linking the description to these guys
and all their social media.
Go follow 'em over @primitivepredators.
So, guesses.
What are they gonna be?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Any hints?
I'll tell you one thing for sure.
It's a crocodile.
Okay, I'm at a crocodile.
Okay, I got it.
All right, let's go check this out.
- We have Nile crocodiles.
- Uh-huh.
(gasps) - Piebald.
- Get the heck outta here.
Are you kidding me right now?
What in the, are you kidding me?
Where in the heck did you guys get?
- Straight from Africa.
This was an absolute ordeal and a half,
but they're here today, and we have a pair.
- [Brian] We got a pair of them?
- [Kyle] So that's the boy, and that's the girl.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- [Kyle] She's got a little more higher white.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
So...
- You look, watch, she'll come out.
He's got a complete white lower jaw.
And what's crazy about the Piebald
is when they open their mouth,
their mouth is pure white.
- [Brian] Pure white, oh my gosh.
- [Kyle] Come on, come on.
- [Brian] You can see the white on his jawline.
- Come on. - My gosh.
- Look at his tail, too. - Oh, and look at, yeah,
look at the white all on his tail.
- [Kyle] Isn't that crazy?
(Brian gasps)
- [Brian] Oh my gosh!
- [Kyle] Look at her eye.
You see that? - Oh!
It's a totally different color.
Totally different color.
Oh my gosh.
- [Man] Was it worth driving here, bro?
- Oh my gosh.
(Brian stammers and gasps)
They have a couple surprises for me,
and this is all,
this was worth the trip just to see this.
I have been obsessed with pied alligators forever.
I have never seen or even heard of,
oh my God, look at it go, look at it go.
I've never even seen her heard of crocodiles that are pied,
let alone Nile crocodiles.
I mean, wow.
That is amazing.
So, this is the girl here.
- This is the girl.
So that's the thing is, it's my favorite morph
with my favorite crocodile species.
- Oh my. - These animals mean
the absolute world to me.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- It's an incredibly exciting project,
and I'm really hoping it proves out.
- [Brian] Oh, it will prove out.
There's no doubt about it.
And these guys are moving over to the other place?
- Yes, yeah.
I think, you know, for optimal results,
I think it's best to move them over the greenhouse.
And also who knows if that white part
has a tendency to sunburn?
- [Brian] Oh, sunburn.
- What we can have is 50% shade cloth
so it'll reduce the UV exposure.
Just safer for them and quieter as well.
- Oh my gosh.
All right, guys.
I'm flipping out, man.
I'm on cloud nine right now.
I'm excited.
They're not even mine and I'm excited.
(Kyle laughs) I mean, my gosh.
That is ridiculous.
Okay, yeah, I didn't expect this one.
I would've never called this one in a million years.
So this is pretty absolutely epic.
Well, those pied Neil crocodiles are absolutely incredible
but they tell me there's another animal
that I'm gonna be absolutely freaked out by.
So I don't even know what to expect.
The Pied Niles are enough for a trip for itself.
Let's see what else they have for us.
Little bit of advice.
Whenever you're in with a venomous snake,
always cover your eyes.
Tell me when I can look.
- [Kyle] I'll come right here.
Let Brian see it.
Hi, Brian.
(intense music)
- [Brian] Can I look?
- [Man] Look at this.
This is amazing. - Baba!
What the heck is it?
So it's, hang on a second here.
It's obviously a leucistic pit viper of some sort,
but I can't tell because there's no pattern!
And I love white snakes with blue eyes.
It's incredible.
Is it a cottonmouth?
- It's a cottonmouth.
- Oh my gosh.
It's a leucistic cottonmouth.
Are you kidding me right now?
That is absolutely wonderful.
They crazy?
- Oh my,
look at this. - Beautiful blue eyes.
- Oh, holy cow.
This thing is...
Oh, wait a second here.
What do we got here, guys?
What do we got here?
What? (stammers)
You're double doing this on me here?
Don't kid-- - Brian.
- What do we got?
- This is a leucistic king cobra.
- Get! (Ryan laughs)
I messed with him earlier 'cause he guessed it.
I was like, that would be really cool if we got that.
- [Kyle] You played it all well too.
I thought for sure-- - Get!
There's a, oh my God.
I'm gonna have a heart attack here.
We have a leucistic cotton mouth and a leucistic king cobra.
Can I at least touch it?
- When I hand you the hook,
just be really smooth with it.
And it will bite.
It's very defensive while caught,
but over the last five months,
I've really worked with this animal.
When I first came in, it would hood, musk, try to bite.
Now, as you can see, it barely hoods.
And that's just from-- - Oh my gosh.
- Little interactions with it,
making sure that it knows we're not a threat.
I'm not stressing it out.
Honestly, we really haven't handled this animal too much.
- Well, I'm not gonna mess with it much,
but we have a leucistic king cobra,
and a leucistic cottonmouth.
Unbelievable.
This is like a dream come true for me.
It's a day I will never forget.
Unbelievable.
I'm gonna hand this back to you
because it's your little baby.
Oh my gosh, guys.
- [Kyle] Isn't that little guy incredible?
- Oh my gosh.
I, literally, dude, I almost fainted.
I swear to gosh.
I mean, when these guys dropped
this leucistic king cobra on me, like, who-a-bam!
Oh my gosh.
Dude. - As you can see,
no stress at all.
- It's, what? - This snake's just
flicking its tongue, checking things out, not even hooding.
The big thing with king cobras is they stress very easily
and stress can lead to a lot of other issues
that tend to kill babies.
It is a wild cotton snake. - And this is a snake
that wouldn't touch, what, yellow rat snakes?
- Yeah, they only eat,
corn snakes wouldn't touch yellow rat snakes, black rats,
nothing else besides corn. - Addicted to corn snakes,
would not touch yellow rat snakes.
- Oh. - And now, it's rodent feeder.
- Yup. - Oh my gosh.
- And that's just a lot of work with it.
- There's very little times in my life that I'm speechless,
and I'm speechless right now.
I am literally speechless.
I mean, so worth the drive back down here.
So worth the trip.
Wow, liar. (Bryan laughs)
Fucking liar. - You little
lie ball, fibber! - I had to convince you.
I think I got you good, though.
- You really pulled it off
'cause I looked at your face when you did it.
And I was like, oh, he's serious.
It's not a king co.
(chuckles) He lied to me.
So, interestingly enough,
this guy has it's winter color still,
which is that dark color.
And then the summertime, it actually lightens up.
And obviously, that's because in the winter,
it's gonna get a little colder in that darker color.
It's gonna absorb the sun more,
which makes it just a little bit better
for the ectothermic animals.
And in the meantime, in the summer,
it lightens up to this beautiful golden brown color,
drop for drop the most potent land venomous snake
on the entire planet: the inland taipan.
That was absolutely amazing time
to meet those in incredible animals.
Those Pied Niles are unbelievable,
and that white king cobra, oh my goodness.
It was so worth this trip.
There's no doubt about that.
But hey, we gotta get back to The Reptarium,
so let's get on the road, get back to Michigan.
- So jealous right now.
I've gotta go down there and check it out.
I mean, Kyle, dude, you gotta hook me up,
but either way, man, like, I mean, I'm the cobra guy.
I have always loved elapids,
but cobras have always been my huge, huge, huge fascination,
and to see an actual leucistic king cobra in real life,
oh my God, that'd be so cool, man.
Ah!
- And we're back here at The Reptarium.
This isn't exactly a leucistic cobra.
It's just a leucistic Texas grass snake,
but that was absolutely incredible.
And it's so cool that I had the opportunity
to meet two of the only leucistic king cobras.
I think there's one in Indonesia, but they are super rare,
and that's the only one here in the United States.
That was absolutely amazing.
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Ryan lied.
Did I not guess?
I said leucistic king cobra, and they said no.
He lied to me.