Hey, good morning everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope you started your day as incredible.
I actually was walking by Night Fury,
the black reticulated pythons' cage,
and it was kinda hyper this morning.
We're open up later on tonight at the zoo.
So, we're gonna have to see what's going on
with this monkey here
because, I'm telling you what,
he was striking at the glass and stuff like that.
I'm gonna have to make sure
that he calms down
'cause we can't have that happening.
We're taking him out obviously.
So let's see what his little issue is for the day.
Don't you bite me.
Please don't bite me.
- [Camera man] It's gonna bite you?
- Don't bite. Come on.
Don't. Don't do it.
How do I get him out?
Don't do it. Don't.
- [Camera man] So scary.
- Oh gosh.
I can't get it to stop wanting to bite.
So much for the blue ball training.
Stop. Come on, Night Fury.
I have to give him my shoe now.
Stop.
You know, when you take the shoe out, you know....
Okay. So I guess Night Fury is not gonna come out today.
Back in your cage.
What in the world?
- [Camera man] Oh my God.
Brian
What do we do?
- Get him over...
This doesn't normally happen guys.
I mean, you know, it just really fired up to eat.
The downside is that we're trying to get, you know,
the downside is, is we're open for public tonight.
We definitely can't have him acting this way
because I don't know what is gonna happen
if we can't break him off this.
So I think I'm gonna have to somehow
get him out of this mode here.
I don't know how I'm gonna do it.
Maybe try to just take him out.
See what happens.
- [Camera man] You got a quick dodge though.
- I don't know, man.
This is sketchy
- [Camera man] Sketchy as all hell.
- I've never seen him so crazy
that I can't get him out of bite mode
no matter what I do.
He's just totally in food mode right now.
And he wants to just eat anything that...
and I can't seem to get him to stop.
This is very unusual
for a snake like this to go through this.
Come on Night Fury.
It's okay baby.
It's okay, now we're good.
Come on.
And basically I can just tell it's tension in his body
that he wants to still eat.
And it's not an aggressive thing at all.
It's just the food mode thing.
It just wants to eat.
Now it's got my hand.
- [Camera man] That was close.
That was almost dinner time for me.
I think if I can get him.
Oh, here we go.
Okay. Now here we go.
Let's see what happens.
Okay. I think we're okay now.
Yep. I think we're all right now.
Look at that.
Night Fury is my buddy again.
Tell you what, that was sketchy.
Dawgie, I tell you what,
Night Fury gave me a little run for my money there
and it was just a food thing, right?
For whatever reason
I couldn't get Night Fury out of food mode.
Normally just within a few seconds,
you can touch it, whatever, it realize,
all right, I'm not getting fed and it will let go.
But this time, it just kept going.
But as you can see, as soon as it's out of food mode,
it's a puppy dog, it's tame as could be.
And you know, it just ate like four or five days ago.
So I have no idea why it was so hyper today.
But you could just tell by the way it was going,
it was just ready to get me.
And I'll be honest with you guys.
It took all those years of experience
not to get bit on this one.
But nevertheless, I'm not mad at Night Fury
because he is an absolutely beautiful animal.
You know, when it comes to Night Fury, you know,
it wasn't that he's a mean snake.
It's just the fact that he was really food aggressive
and really snakes bite for two different reasons.
One can be food aggression where they just wanna eat.
And one is a defensive situation.
They're not really aggressive.
But recently someone just asked me about Amazon tree boas
and how to tame them out.
And the truth is, like Lucky here,
definitely isn't gonna be a tame animal.
And it's not that Lucky is necessarily a mean animal.
What it is, is very defensive
and there are certain species of snakes
that are just a little bit more like that, for sure.
I mean, and he is certainly one of them.
There's no doubt about it.
And that's not to say that, no,
Amazon tree boas can be tamed
'cause I've seen some tamed Amazon tree boas.
But most are kinda like Lucky here,
where they're just kind of a little bit cantankerous.
If you know what I mean.
And again, it's a defensive thing.
It's never an aggressive thing.
You know, I don't want people
to think that snakes are mean.
Because they're really not mean.
And like I said, Night Fury was just hungry.
What was weird is usually you can break
that hunger pretty quickly.
When he realizes there's not food.
This time, he just wouldn't break.
I mean, I couldn't get him to stop thinking
that I was a meal, but you saw as soon as I got him out
and he realized, all right, this isn't a meal,
he calmed down tremendously.
That is a food aggression.
It's not a mean snake.
It's not anything like that.
What it basically just means is that he wants to eat.
Now with Lucky here, different situation.
It's getting close to my face right now, for sure.
Come on buddy.
But as far as taming an animal like this, like I said,
it might be a little bit hard to do.
But, you can do it, just through socialization.
The more you handle it, the better chance of it taming out.
But I've handled Lucky for a lot of years
and it's never really gotten over it.
It's a defensive snake.
But it's also absolutely gorgeous.
You know, Noah has grown up around reptiles, right?
- Yeah.
- So I figure we'll do a little segment here
about Noah teaching you guys about reptiles.
Do you think that that's gonna work out well?
- If I have to teach,
I can't do it without khakis.
So, could you take this for just one second.
- Okay. So I guess Noah has to get some khakis on
to be able to....
He needs to channel his inner Steve Irwin.
Ah, now you're good.
- Now that I got my proper reptile acquired materials.
That didn't say, that didn't sound right. Yeah.
Now that I got my proper reptile
- [Brian] Apparel.
- Apparel?
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Now that I got my proper reptile attire,
let me teach you a little bit about my boy Irwin.
So he's got a blue tongue. Okay.
And that's because he eats only blueberries.
He eats nothing else.
It's a strict, raw diet of blueberries
which just taints your tongue
just like a Jolly Rancher would.
Now if you look back here,
you will see brown stripes.
That is not pigment or anything.
He just rolled around a poop earlier.
- That's not true either.
- The little eyes,
you may think that those are eyes, they're not.
It's just a fake.
They're actually blind.
Him tricks prey into thinking they have more senses
than they actually do.
- This isn't going very well Noah.
- And then their long arms
they use to grab birds out of the sky when they fly by.
Just for friends because they just eat blueberries
but they're lonely.
And that's about it. So.
- So now you know everything you need to know
about Blue-Tongued Skink.
We'll check back in with Noah
and continue your vast knowledge of reptiles.
- And remember, if you wanna be a reptile expert,
invest in khaki.
- I always get asked how Verdi is doing.
Of course, the little Anaconda.
And it's doing good.
As a matter of fact
you could see her poking her head out right now.
Cause she thinks, " Oh, am I gonna get fed?"
So I'm gonna go ahead
and feed my little monkey right here.
Come on, little monkey.
Come on, girl.
Here you go.
Wow. She got it. She grabbed it.
She's turning back.
Look at that animal right there.
It's so cool.
You know, again, little anacondas are so cute.
You know what I mean?
To think she's gonna get big one day.
It's almost hard to believe
because she grows so darn slow.
But as she's crushing food,
she's gonna continue to get better.
So for those you guys have been asking about Verdi
and how she's doing, she's doing absolutely wonderful.
She eats every time we offer her food.
she's just growing at a slow pace
but she's continuing to grow.
But like I've mentioned before,
anacondas, in particular females,
get about six foot
and then they explode.
You saw what happened with Ivy.
Within one year she went from six foot to almost 11 foot.
That's gonna be the same thing
that happens with Verdi
when she eventually hits the six foot.
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So we are open for the public here at The Reptarium.
Everyone's just kinda strolling in for the first hour.
We're actually gonna try to feed Lucy today.
And we're also gonna try to feed Butterscotch here
in just a little bit.
But we're gonna let everyone get settled in
for a few minutes first.
Looks like everyone is getting...
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Again, it may seem busy up front
but actually how it is,
we're only about 35 people, 20% capacity.
That way we can social distance
and we're all safe and stuff like that.
Of course everyone has to wear masks when we're open
but we're kinda just kinda having a good time,
getting everyone settled in.
We got a tarantula over here.
What do you guys think?
Alright, good job.
So it's gonna be a fun day.
A lot of times I love it when we're open at The Reptarium.
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All right. So we're gonna go ahead with Lucy
and see if she's gonna eat tonight.
Really not a hundred percent sure if she will.
But we're gonna do the best we can.
Wish me luck.
Again. Lucy, want some food?
There she goes.
She definitely took it.
So (indistinct) well.
Then sometimes when she's on this side of the cage,
she doesn't really wanna take stuff.
So that's pretty cool.
So, looks like everyone had a good time.
Hey, I live guys.
So, we'll go ahead feed Butterscotch here a little bit.
We'll come back and probably feed Lucy another one here,
a little bit later as well.
So, she could use a good meal.
All right. So what the deal is here, guys,
is that we're gonna hope that she's gonna come out to here
and she's gonna hopefully strike out at me.
Once she's done striking out at me,
I'm gonna toss the rabbit in the air
and she should catch it on the air.
In theory that's how it works.
But, we'll have to see what happens.
She's definitely a very excitable animal.
Come on girl.
All right, watch yourself. Hey
Hey, this way.
Okay, here we go.
(indistinct)
All right, there we go.
So, she'll take the whole off.
So we all made it guys.
Way to go.
So everything is going well so far.
We will feed Lucy one more time in a little bit.
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So just to give you an idea
of how it works here at The Reptarium these days is that
we actually allow 20% capacity people in every hour.
So every hour we cycle people through, right?
Now some people buy more than one hour
but for the most part,
we have people come in,
they spend an hour then they go out.
The next group comes in
and that happens all night for the five hours we're here.
So it's actually really fun.
We like it because people really get an opportunity
to spend an hour in an intimate type setting
with a small amount of people.
And with all the workers
they really get to see everything they want.
And at the same time we stay safe.
We have social distancing and all the other stuff.
So, it's good.
So, hour one is about done
and we're about to start hour two.
And the second group of people are coming in.
Again, they're gonna cycle in,
we're going to put bands on them.
They're gonna have a good time.
We're gonna feed Lucy one more time.
He's about ready.
She just finished up her rabbit.
So, we'll go ahead give this group an opportunity
to see Lucy feed as well
and not have a lot of fun tonight.
So guys, I wanna introduce you to Land in here.
He's my buddy.
He comes every single weekend and hangs out with us.
He's amazing.
He's so into animals.
What's your favorite animal here?
- I would probably say the Flamin' Hot Cheeto.
- Flamin' Hot Cheeto.
That's a good one there.
So I love this kid.
He's the best.
Okay. Here goes rabbit number two for Lucy.
So she's gonna take about 30 minutes or so to eat.
You're more than welcome to circle around
and just kind of check on her progress, whatever.
And she'll eat that whole thing.
And then afterwards, we just need a volunteer like you
to go in and clean up, all right?
Got Tiger Lily, the Brazilian Rainbow Boa out of here
just kinda having some fun.
Everyone's still over watching Lucy eat over there.
So, that's always an exciting thing I love doing.
Of course we got,
Lindsay has a little Peppa the Pig over here.
The hognose snake. Jeffrey's out over here.
Tell it. I love it.
I mean, it's definitely a great time.
Of course we've got some people down over there
for Salt over here.
So I think you're gonna go ahead
spend some time checking out Salt.
Looks like Jay's already got her up.
Good job, Jay.
- Were you coming to get it?
- No, you're good. I'm happy.
You going to take it upfront?
- Yep. - All Right, there goes Salty.
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