- This is my giant anaconda, Ivy.
Not too long ago, she had 41 amazing babies.
Today, we're gonna find out if we reintroduce those babies,
will she still keep that motherly instinct?
Now, interestingly enough,
ball pythons have a maternal instinct.
See what's happening here with this spider calico,
it has bred to a ripper male,
which is this killer leopard clown,
but you can see that maternal instinct
is to actually wrap around the eggs.
Now, a female like this will literally wrap around her eggs
the entire 60 days of incubation in the wild.
We actually take 'em off the egg.
Got one little slog egg here,
actually a kinda weird, what is that?
That's kind of unusual,
but it does look like the rest of the clutch looks beautiful
and I cannot wait to see what hatches out.
The calico stuff mixed in with the clown stuff
gonna be absolutely a ripper
but they wrap around them to protect the egg,
not only from predation,
but also to trap humidity as well.
The thing is is as soon as the first baby pips out,
female crawls away, and that's the end of it.
This clutch was 2, 4, 5 eggs.
But with Ivy, will she actually remember her babies
and have that motherly instinct?
I'm not sure, I'm gonna have the boys
go fetch a whole bunch of her babies,
but there's a catch.
For the rest of this video, you guys have
to take care of this egg like it's your baby.
If for some reason you drop it,
you both have to go out front,
in costume and advertise for the Reptarium.
- What?
- Don't drop it.
- Go get my baby anacondas. - Oh, my!
- Gotcha.
- I haven't even met the baby.
- It's named Clarence.
- Clarence.
- Do you wanna meet Clarence?
- Oh, it's beautiful.
- [Jay] Where's should I put Clarence at?
- Just bring it with us.
- You can't just leave a baby unattended, man.
Come here, Clarence.
How many anacondas do we need?
- [Employee] All the males, or all the females.
You guys have to argue. - All of 'em?
I only have one hand.
I gotta take care of this baby.
(Jay laughs)
Come on, man. - Oh, sorry.
- We don't have all day.
- Can we make sure this fits?
- It fits.
- Interestingly enough, crocodilians
like salty albino alligator here
have an amazing maternal instinct.
They'll actually nest up
and lay their eggs and then protect that nest.
You don't wanna go up on a crocodile nest with a mama.
And then after the baby's hatch
they'll actually pick the babies up gently
with their mouth and actually take them to the water.
And then for some time, for up to months after,
they'll actually protect the little baby
that's oftentimes when you hear little crocodilians
like alligators, do that little chirping sound.
That chirping sound is actually called the "Ma",
like, "Hey mom, I'm in danger.
Come and help me."
It's amazing, the maternal instincts on crocodilian.
- You want male or female?
- The males?
(plastic crashes)
I almost just dropped the egg. - Oh, my God.
Can we leave Clarence somewhere safer?
- Here, I'll place Clarence on the ledge.
Don't move.
We have to pick the males 'cause they're nicer.
Let's go.
One.
Whoa, we're already striking.
- [Jay] Two.
Stop it, just get the snake.
- [Noah] Three.
Oh man, they're mad.
(Jay screams)
- [Jay] Four. (Jay screams)
Okay.
Nine. (Jay screams)
- [Noah] Ah, bit my ankle.
Oh, God, oh man.
(Jay screams)
- I don't want get bit anymore.
- You already got bit? - Yes.
- I can't take this.
- Maria, will you get this snake for me?
- Let me show you how
it's done again. - Okay.
(Jay screams)
- Wow, what are you baritone?
You devilish bastard!
How many do you need, dad?
- That should be good.
Now Burmese pythons have an amazing maternal instinct.
That's really rare that snakes do this.
They not only coil around their eggs much like ball pythons,
but they do something that's called thermal regulation,
where basically they'll twitch their muscles in their body
in order to actually increase or decrease
the temperature of the eggs.
Most snakes that wrap around their eggs
are basically just protecting the eggs.
These guys are like little incubators.
They actually can raise the temperature
if for some reason, the temperature drops al little bit.
It's unique to Burmese pythons
and only a couple other species on the entire planet.
And they will stick with their eggs
the entire 60 days,
they won't drink, they won't eat.
They won't do anything.
Burmese pythons are great mamas.
- Come on, Noah.
- I'm coming.
I feel like we're missing something.
Noah. - What?
- [Jay] Where's Clarence?
- Clarence!
Clarence.
- No!
- Clarence.
- I think he's okay. - Oh, okay.
- Oh, you guys made it.
- [Noah] Yeah, we did.
- How'd it go, the egg's still?
Now that's the same egg, right?
- This is Clarence.
Don't offend him.
- [Noah] Yeah, and get their name.
- How'd the anacondas go?
(Jay screaming)
- The first thing I wanna do is just literally
open up the bin of baby anacondas and put 'em over by her
and see if she has any reaction to it whatsoever.
- Ivy, take a look at your babies.
The babies are more interested in mama
than she is in with her.
I just wanna see, what we'll do after this.
If she doesn't show any interest
is we'll actually put 'em on the ground
and see if maybe that will do something, but let's just see.
She's always so curious about everything.
- [Noah] Oh my goodness, it bit her mom.
- Now she's starting to smell.
She's curious.
She's going like, "What's going on?"
This is what I was really interested in seeing.
- Oh my goodness.
- Isn't this cool?
- [Noah] She remembers them.
She knows.
- [Brian] She's looking down.
She's actually smelling.
- [Noah] She's going into it.
- I don't know what she thinks.
That's your babies, Ivy,
isn't that freaking cool?
Well, I don't know how excited she was.
She seemed to have some interest and now she's going away.
Now I think the best thing we can do
is put all the babies on the ground with her
and see if she actually does anything that way.
Ouch!
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
They're so fast.
God, they're biting.
(Brian screams)
- [Noah] They're so fast.
(Jay screams)
- I'll be honest with you.
I really thought that she was gonna be much more interested
in her babies than she is.
She's definitely sniffing this one.
It's an interesting thing.
But the rest of the babies
are just crawling all over the place.
- [Jay] Noah, what are you doing?
Oh my God.
- I got a anaconda.
- Oh, my God, they're everywhere.
- [Noah] Oh, my goodness.
(Jay screams)
- Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
What do you guys think?
- She doesn't care.
- It doesn't seem like she actually has
any reaction to it whatsoever.
She's just cruising around,
I guess that means that the maternal instinct,
after a month,
is probably not very high
because she doesn't seem to be interested at all in them.
She's crawling around just like she doesn't even care.
I almost wonder, does she even know
that these are her babies?
Maybe at this point she realizes her job is done
and she's moving on.
Nevertheless, I think it was still really cool
to introduce these babies to her
and see what was gonna happen.
- I think it's awesome.
Dad, you got an anaconda in the crevice.
- I got it.
All right, guys,
let's put these guys back in the tub, all right?
- I'm trying to see if Noah has maternal instincts.
- I do, look at the fatherly love I'm giving them.
- Don't lose any of my baby anacondas.
(Noah screams)
- It got me again!
- Do you know how many you guys brought?
- Were we supposed to count?
- Ow!
- [Noah] Oh, wow.
- He got me, it's good.
- I don't like this anymore.
Crap, every time I put one in, one gets away.
- Dad open it.
Dad, dad, dad, dad, dad.
- I'm just gonna lose two more.
- Guys, I have an anaconda problem.
- Whose idea was this?
- Yours.
- Has anyone saw my giant anaconda?
- Jay, Clarence is bleeding.
I think he got bit by an anaconda.
- You had one job.
- Now you guys get to put
the baby anacondas back in their enclosures.
- What?
- It's a pretty interesting time to see
the monkey-tail skinks or the corucia zebrata
actually going through a shed.
Within one day,
all of this shed will actually be gone.
It's something that I rarely see
and they happen to be pretty amazing
paternal and maternal instincts with these animals.
Believe it or not, they only have one live baby,
sometimes twins, once a year,
maybe even every other year.
But the interesting thing is that baby
is actually raised with them in a family unit
and they start a community
and other animals in that community will actually take care
of the baby as well.
This is cool to think of a reptile
that is looking after their young,
not only for the first year
but sometimes for several years,
whereas maybe, perhaps a male
that needs to find his own pride, so to speak,
has to eventually leave the community
and find his own community and start all over over.
But that is just super cool.
- That one looks like it's ready to go.
- Just pick one, I can't leave the bin open for forever.
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
(Connie screams)
- Sorry.
- Oh my God, Connie. (Connie screams)
You're ridiculous.
Pick up the anaconda. - He wants to bite me.
- Yeah, it does wanna bite you.
Can we talk about something real fast?
You know why it wants to bite you?
Like this, just go in there and pick it up.
Have you watched your snake handling Brian Barczyk video?
- Yes.
- Snake handling number seven, handle with confidence.
- Ow! Okay, it doesn't hurt that bad.
It doesn't hurt at all.
- Just like that.
- All for nothing.
- Inducted.
Let's put these babies away.
- Let's get Jake and Chris.
- The hell?
Should I put these anacondas back?
- Yeah.
We could just put these- - I wish we could just.
- Oh, look who decided to show up.
- Weren't you guys? - How?
There I was counting the fish in the fish spa
and all of a sudden I have anacondas.
- What, you never heard of a little magic?
- Chris, get the anacondas,
you're losing them already!
Oh my God.
- [Noah] There is a rule.
- You're doing great.
One.
- Jake, what are you doing?
- I'm supervising.
- Put the baby anacondas away.
- I'm helping. - This one's falling.
- When it comes to colubrids
like this beautiful albino scaleless corn snake,
this is a clutch she laid about six weeks ago.
It's gonna be hatching here anytime.
They basically just find a root area
or some moss, trunk of a tree.
They find something that's
actually gonna have some moisture
so the eggs can have it,
hopefully some protection from predation.
Once they lay their eggs, they peace out,
they don't actually protect their eggs.
They don't have anything to do with their eggs at all.
Lay the eggs, maybe rest for six or eight hours.
Get on their way
and let the eggs and the babies fend for theirself.
- Jake, you got none.
- [Jake] Not nice.
- Jake, you're fired.
- [Jake] Hey, what?
- [Jay] I'm supervisor.
(overlapping conversation)
- You ever heard a lumberjack scream?
(overlapping conversation)
(Jay clapping)
- [Jake] Maria, stop it.
Maria, go away, Maria stop it!
Ow, my God.
- [Jay] And it got you again.
- Hey, JJ, where's Clarence?
Clarence! - Clarence!
- [Noah] We gotta go get Clarence.
- [Jay] Noah, we gotta get clearance right now!
Who's Clarence?
- I don't know, man.
I had him right here.
Ivy.
Ivy took...
No way, dude.
No freaking way.
I'm going in.
Watch out, Verde.
- Dun, dun!
That's Ariana, by the way.
Noah, get Clarence!
- I got it!
I got it!
(Noah screams)
Clarence!
No!
This is bull (digital sounds).
Ariana!
This is mayhem!
Dad!
- I don't think that he realizes
that it's 90 degrees outside
and we have to stand out on Van Dyke.
- It was horrible.
Look at it.
Look at that booboo.
Look at that.
- Guys.
Guys!
Did you hear what happened with Clarence?
- I don't know who Clarence is.
- Clarence is dead now.
He's no longer.
- He was so nice.
- I loved him.
- You killed him.
- With love.
- What's interesting is, take humans.
There's an extreme maternal instinct there,
right, Laurie?
- Yeah, very extreme.
After 22 years, I'm still taking care of our kid.
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The cops are here.
- [Cameraman] Already?
- The cops are here. - Again?
- Consequences.
Can't break that egg.
What did we learn?
We definitely learned that Ivy had maternal instinct
when she first had her babies and seemed to be very curious
that we were taking away.
But after a few weeks, she seemed to lose that
maternal instinct.
They seem to not care whatsoever.
You know what, speaking of not caring,
I don't care that this video's over.
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Remember!
- [Jay] My anaconda don't want none
unless you got buns hun.
(employee laughs)