(funky music) - I'm down here in Florida
visiting my buddy Crocodile Kyle.
And you're not gonna believe this place.
Kyle loves his crocodiles.
You are not gonna believe how much
even just this one, crocodile enclosure costs.
- Each enclosure cost me $350,000.
(cash register dinging) (explosion)
You're looking at a freaking Lamborghini, right there.
- And he has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and I'm no mathematician,
but I think that that is over $1 million dollars.
And that's just in this facility,
and that's just with those five enclosures,
and we're just getting started.
- Growing up in the Steve Erwin era,
when he was all over TV.
Not only was he showing how amazing animals are in general
but obviously his pinnacle was the crocodile
and saltwater crocodile.
So I fell in love with crocodilians.
- This enclosure is extremely special because
of there are Nile crocodiles in here
but not just adult Nile Crocodiles.
What else is in here?
- Baby Nile crocodiles with their parents.
- So you literally naturally
let them breed in this pond,
they hatch and they're in here.
- Yes. Start to finish.
So they bred in here,
She laid her nest on the bank back there,
eventually hatched,
And she actually went over there, climbed up
grabbed the eggs in her mouth,
poured them into the water,
just like she'd do in the wild,
and split them open and the babies swam
out of her mouth.
- And now she's raising them up.
- [Kyle] Oh my God.
- And is this like your Zen place or what?
- Oh my God,
to allow one of the largest species of crocodiles
in the world to grow outside naturally,
grow their babies outside naturally
in a very natural setting.
- This is so cool, man.
I tell you what I'm geeking out
and these amazing green houses,
believe it or not
are decked out with a bunch
of cool tortoises and then eventually gonna have
some crocodilians in.
Each one of these greenhouses costs
about $500,000.
(cash register dinging)
- Coming down to Florida,
obviously there's reptiles everywhere.
So many exotic animals.
And with that though,
the epitome of Florida reptiles is
the American aligator.
I pestered my mom, when I was eight years old
I found a South American Caiman,
in a local reptile store.
And unfortunately he told my mom
that they're extremely dangerous,
far more than crocodiles,
which being an eight year old,
I can only argue so much with my mother.
And I lost that battle.
A span of two years of arguing to finally get
my American alligator when I was 10 years old.
And I still have her today.
Here she is my first alligator ever.
I've had her for over 20 years now.
- And this is the animal
that started Kyle's passion for crocodilians.
And look at what it's got to the conservation
that will happen outta this place is amazing.
All because of this one, alligator.
- I set crocodiles up,
and crocodilians up,
in general in Pennsylvania,
came down here and set up my old facility.
That's now the sanctuary.
Set that up thinking,
'Oh, I know what I'm doing.
You know, I'd set it up this way
indoors in Pennsylvania
for so many years, it worked great.'
Now I was dealing with all the elements:
Cold, the hurricanes,
rain, crazy rain conditions.
There was a lot of trial and error
with these ponds,
And yes, they're incredibly beautiful
but there's so many areas that now I wanna renovate
and make perfect for the animals,
because they don't deserve
anything but perfection.
- Cuban crocodiles are the most athletic
of all crocodiles.
Wanna see how fast they can run?
(water splashing)
- Oh my gosh.
(laughing)
- Isn't that crazy?
How they like, she ran
and then jumped straight up.
- Obviously with these costing,
you know as much as Lamborghini,
each enclosure, that's expensive.
That's a lot of money.
Biggest thing is time.
Spending three years before even
breaking ground on these enclosures,
trying to perfect these.
Ton of work that I figured out
how to do it much faster,
build it much faster,
build it much more cost effective,
and much better for the animals.
That's what I'm doing at the sanctuary.
- Now these enclosures at the new sanctuary are definitely
a lot more cost effective, but still extremely expensive.
Each one of these is actually about 50 to $70,000.
(cash register dinging)
Albeit about 20% of the cost of the other facility.
And the best part is is that the lessons that Kyle actually
learned from the other place,
not only reduced the price
but also these enclosures are actually
even better for the crocodiles.
And that's what matters to Kyle.
So, what do you say we count how many he has?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Guys.
(panting)
There's 32 of them.
32 times, 50 to 70,000.
Well that's another maybe
1.5, 1.7 million dollars.
- Doing a lot of new stuff in the future.
Like rescue alligator programs,
full blown vending at reptile shows.
So I'm only one person.
I can't just spread myself so thin
financially, time wise,
that we need to have a support group to take care
of everything that I've built here.
- Kyle put a tremendous amount
of his own money, time, and energy
into this amazing place.
But now it's a 501C3 not-for-profit.
So it's time for it to self-sustain itself
and really work towards conservation.
All in all, between the land
the enclosures, the crocodiles,
everything that's going on here.
It's about $10 million worth
of Kyle's money put into this amazing place.
I tell you what.
I couldn't think of a better way
to spend my money.
- Donating to J.A.W.S which is
the Jupiter Alligator and Wildlife Sanctuary.
The reason I showcase alligator is
because that's what I'm most compassionate
about is rescued alligators
in the Northern states where I grew up,
you know a lot of people
can buy these small alligators
and very, very few people
are able to put so much time and energy
into these animals to give them what they deserve.
I wanna set up a program obviously to bring them down
give them these kind of homes forever.
Donating to the sanctuary will help that tremendously
but also, you know, supporting our YouTube
supporting our Patreon,
all of that goes back into these animals.
Every dime goes back into these animals
and gives them these incredible setups.
We're gonna have private tours that you can come
and see these incredible animals in person.
And that again goes back into the animals.
(jazzy music plays)
- Guys. This is an absolute treat right here.
This is interesting too,
because most venomous land snake, the inland taipan.
Though, interestingly enough,
this guy has its winter colors 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
and that darker color is gonna absorb the sun more
which makes it just a little bit better
for the ectothermic animals, right?
And in the meantime, in the summer
it lightens up to this beautiful golden brown color.
And again, this guy would pack quite the punch.
Again, drop for drop the most potent land venomous snake
on the entire planet, the inland taipan.
Absolutely wonderful.
The good news about these guys is
that they typically don't really like to bite that often.
So you're actually in pretty good shape with this.
Now, coastal taipans,
that are like the third
most venomous snake on land
are much more willing to bite,
and are much more 'whippy'.
This one is actually really well-behaved
and an absolute beauty.
Whenever I get a chance to mess with the taipan,
I'm gonna do it.
This is an unbelievably gorgeous animal.
(jazzy music continues)
That is a gorgeous snake right there.
Wow. A little bit bigger than the one that-
- Yeah.
- So this is a Bushmaster.
One of the most incredibly beautiful
pit vipers in the world, if you ask me.
I mean just a big snake,
just unbelievable.
Yep. They definitely,
you gotta be careful because
the thing can spring a long way.
So, you might think that
I'm out of the danger zone here
but the truth is is that these guys have such
a long kind of springy strike.
You have to be really careful of them.
But tell me a little bit about this, Ryan.
- So this is actually a South American Bushmaster
This is Lachesis muta.
This is the largest species of Bushmaster
- Really?
- with capability.
- Even bigger than the black heads?
- Oh yeah. These guys can get 12 feet long.
- 12 feet long!
- Yeah.
Where the black heads are typically
around the eight foot mark.
- Oh my goodness.
- And she's only two-
just approaching two years old.
Just so she's still a baby.
- She's a baby.
Oh my gosh.
Look at how beautiful.
I mean the color in this one is one of the prettiest ones.
So are the South American ones like this,
I mean, typically more beautiful?
Because-
- I think so.
They're a little bit more rusty.
- Yeah. They're like rusty orange color
Instead of like, that tan color.
So wow. Unbelievable.
Look at the head on that thing. Just super.
And see how just intelligent that thing is. Oh my god
- These guys are extremely bad bite.
I mean, even with anti-venom
there's still like an 80% fatality rate.
- Yep.
(jazzy music continues)
(crocodile crunching meat)
- Thousands of hours trying to figure out
how to do ramps better.
I've always wanted to try to stay away
from concrete as much as possible.
And with these wood piles,
they're really nice.
But again, with my Achilles heel that you know
the whole bottom is natural, but the ramp is not.
So that's what I implemented over at the sanctuary,
how I can do a natural ramp,
that it's sandy, they can dig it up,
they can have fun with it
but it's still gonna hold its overall shape.
So it won't get eroded
and diminish the quality for the crocodiles.
(explosion)
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