- So when is my giant Anaconda gonna have babies?
- When? - When?
- When? - It's really hard to say
It's typically about 135 days from ovulation.
The problem is with a giant snake liked this
it's hard to pinpoint the actual ovulation.
I think we're looking at about two weeks from now.
A few weeks ago, we actually ultrasound
and we actually could see some little babies.
Whoa, there's a little baby snake right there.
You could see it's actually curled up inside.
You can see a vertebrae and everything!
Oh my gosh!
You can actually see the vertebrae of the snake.
I have a feeling that they're fully developed now.
So what do you say we try to ultrasound her again
and see if the babies are bigger.
So two thirds of her body are full of a baby anacondas.
We could pretty much ultrasound her anywhere
'cause there's all babies right through here.
Look at how her scales are spread, she is loaded.
So let's just go ahead and see what we've got.
You're gonna just hold it real quick
and see if we can see babies in here.
Oh, I can see like all of 'em
which is really weird, but I don't see spines.
So that is really unusual.
Oh, there they are.
There's the spines right there.
You can see the spines, all of them coiled up.
I think the problem is now is that they've gotten so big
that it's hard to really see.
Look at the coil right there.
You can see it right in there where it kind of coils over.
Look that baby snake right there.
Yep. They're all in there.
There's another one over here.
Hard to say.
The only thing that I don't like right now
is that I am seeing some masses
that don't look like they have spine,
which tells me that there might be some infertile ovum
in here too.
Rather than having a hundred percent fertile baby.
And that happens with live bearers.
A lot of times they'll have like two thirds
or three quarters live babies and then some infertile ovum.
So that's certainly a possibility as well.
But we definitely see some spines in here too.
You can definitely see. 'em like right here.
You can see the spine of the snake right there.
So we know that there's some babies in here
but we definitely see some ovum as well.
Like right here, you can see that spot right there.
That's actually an ovum.
That to me, doesn't look like an actual snake,
that looks like there's probably an infertile ovum
right over there.
And then we know that Ivy, but then look at that.
Look at all of the spines right there.
Look at that.
How crazy is that?
We're definitely seeing babies in here for sure.
And they're big already.
One side is over here and the other side
is all the way over here.
You can see the spine wrapped all the way around.
That's exciting.
Now the big question is how many babies does she have?
If I went through from the front end
and counted all the way to the back,
I could tell you how many babies there are
through ultrasounding
but that would be just too much stress for her.
And I'm not gonna do that to her.
That's not just a lot of work.
And by the way, I think Ariana's very, very curious
what's going on.
She wants to know how many babies Ivy's gonna have too.
But now it's just a waiting game guys.
In the comments, let me know what you think.
I think probably within two weeks, but I don't really know.
Let me know.
And if you guess the correct date, I'll send you something.
Put the date that you think Ivy is gonna have babies
in the comments.
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- Mike, what do you think this button does?
- No idea.
- Beep, boop.
Is this like the original MacBook or something?
- Dude, we got knobs like a rocket ship.
What else do you think we can ultrasound?
- I don't know.
Lemme see this.
- Wait, no, you forgot the gel.
- Usually spit does the trick.
It's gonna be a little cold man.
Dude, dude.
I'm worried, bro.
I don't see anything in there man.
- Oh, wait.
- Dude, did you see that?
- I did see it.
Well, I got gel going by, but I see it.
- Whoa, that's a tumor.
Wait a minute.
What is that?
I'm in your eyeball, come on mad dog.
(both laugh)
Oh, let's go find something else.
- Don't judge you guys.
- Oh, what is on your face?
- How much did you use?
It's dripping
- You know, women put that on their tummies?
- Not on my forehead?
Oh, you gonna look too, go ahead.
- Nothing up there that's for sure.
- Yeah. That's our conclusion.
- You've already reasoned that, it's the message.
- You see that?
- What? - He stole my ice cream!
Get em'! (punching sounds)
- Never do that again!
- Got 'em.
- I still get time to spend with Jazz and Ariana
but it really stinks that it's been a while
since I've been able to interact with Ivy
with any consistency.
I used to be able to take her out all the time.
And you guys know she was my spirit animal.
I mean, I love her, but she's such an amazing animal.
Just getting an opportunity to play with her.
Just see how amazing and inquisitive she is.
She always would come right up to me.
Well, once she's been pregnant, obviously we haven't
been able to really mess with her.
We wanna leave her alone as much as possible
'cause we don't wanna mess with her baby.
So it's definitely been hard over the last few months.
Not being able to muck with her at all.
'Cause she is such an amazing animal.
Don't get me wrong.
Jazz is amazing.
Ariana's amazing.
But there's something special about Ivy.
So I can't wait till not only I get all those babies,
which I'm super excited about, but also get the time
that I can spend with her again,
after she's done and gotten a few meals in there
and getting back to the old interactions.
Not only excited about babies
but also I've been missing my girl Ivy.
- We have to take this bad boy to the street.
- I'm 10 steps ahead of you.
- You're what?
- 10 steps ahead of you.
- What the heck does that mean?
- Honk for- - Oh!
Free to get it going. - Smart.
Gotta build that clientele.
- Ultra-ma-sound.
Should we do "ulta sound?"
- [Both] Oooh! Yeah.
- Like the beauty store.
I Like it.
- Noah, come up here, I gotta show you something.
- I got something to show you too.
- What? - Are you kidding me?
This is the exact same sign.
Great minds think alike.
Let's go show your mom.
- Look at our sign. - Genius.
- We're starting an ultrasound business.
- You have to start by giving it away for free
and then you charge money.
- No, no.
We're not, that's not a business.
- But we're doctors.
- You're not doctors.
- Dr. Bryan.
Dr. Mike and Dr. Noah.
- No. Where are you doing these?
- Right down in front of the Reptarium?
- No, no, you're not doing this in front of the Reptarium.
- No, you're not.
- Why we took an online test to get our doctorate.
- That's a lie.
That's a lie! (laughs)
That's not a good business.
- Let's go.
- We're going to jail, let's do this!
(all laugh)
- Speaking about excited about babies.
It's really amazing that this is year number two
for Diddy and Dixie.
Last year, she was gravid and she actually
messed up her eggs
because we had a kind of smaller nest box.
And what ended up happening was she poked them
with these really sharp nails.
And most of the eggs actually had punctures
and none of them hatched.
Well this year we're gonna do something completely different
and make a gigantic nest box in with her.
She laid August 8th of last year
and she is loading up with eggs right now.
You can see her plumping up like you can't believe.
So she's definitely gonna be ready.
I have a feeling she's gonna lay
before August 8th, this year.
So probably in two weeks or so in the beginning of July
we're gonna go ahead and make that big nest box.
Literally about a quarter of her cage.
It's gonna be about a foot and a half to two foot deep
of soil.
So she can dig in there and have her eggs this year.
Could you imagine little baby Dixies and Diddies?
That would be absolutely incredible.
Like I said, it was super cool to get eggs last year
but I was definitely disappointed we didn't hatch 'em.
Definitely have some really cool animals
that were gonna have babies with this year.
So the deal is Chris,
one of our animal educators, it's actually his birthday.
No one knew about it.
Told one person and said, "Do not say anything."
So odd.
Let's go get him a cake.
- Are we doing an ice cream cake?
Ooh!
- [Cashier] Thank you for coming to Dairy Queen.
- Yeah, hi, I just need a birthday cake
- [Cashier] And are you looking for an eight inch,
a 10 inch?
- 10 inch is good.
- Oh boy.
Thank you so much.
So the difference between egg laying snakes
and live bearing snakes
isn't as different as you actually think.
This is actually an albino ball python down here
that actually was bred to an albino pipe.
Looks like she's got a few bad eggs in her.
She's got a couple eggs, kind of rolled all over
trying to get mama off over here.
But the majority of the clutch looks pretty good.
A live bearing snake actually will kind of have
egg inside her that's got a membrane around it.
And so she's actually gestating the eggs internally.
So when we pull these eggs and put 'em in the incubator
basically what mama is doing is doing the exact same thing
but in her belly, right?
So that's basically the only difference
between the animals that actually will lay eggs
and the live bearing animals.
Same amount of time from the time an ovulation
to hatching on an egg clutch.
This compared to the same amount of ovulation
doing an adult snake has live young.
So this girl ended up having two, four, six, eight
good eggs, three little sluggers.
All these are gonna be albino
because both were albino and they're gonna be head for pie.
- Ultrasounds, free ultrasounds.
- Woo, woo!
- Honk, honk for some free ultrasounds.
Honk! Honk for me!
- That semi doesn't honk for someone.
- That guy looks mad.
- Honk! - He covered his hand
on his thing and then he read it
and he was like, "No."
- Honk, honk.
(car honks)
(Noah yells)
I'm telling you the grill market he is working.
We just gotta stand out there for like 27 hours.
And we'll be rich.
- It'll be dark. (car honks)
- Honk for free ultrasounds.
- Honk, honk!
- For free ultrasounds!
- What are you guys doing?
- You want a free ultrasound?
- I think we just got our first customer.
- Yeah!
Where the hell did you get that donut?
- It happens to be a pastel ghost female,
she's bred to a ghost champagne, which is called a mimosa.
And basically why would live bearers be any different
than egg layers?
Like what is the difference between the two of them?
And typically what ends up happening
is that egg layers are oftentimes in areas
where eggs won't get killed by other things.
I mean, certainly there's a lot of attrition in the wild
with, you know, things, eating it.
And so like that, but the harsher the climate,
the harder chances that eggs have to hatch in the wild,
the more likely that a female is gonna internally gestate.
So basically you have it, now don't get me wrong,
it's not always that way.
'Cause oftentimes you'll have egg layers
and live bearers in the same geographical range
but that's typically how mother nature works, right?
It wants the best chance for the babies.
So the best chance is to gestate,
then they have live bearers.
If the best chance is to egg lay then they egg lay.
We've got two, four, six, eight, nine gorgeous eggs.
- But it all started when I was born.
- This is not that kind of therapy.
- I hate that.
- And that is his tummy.
- This might be a little cold.
- This is still free right?
- Depends on what we have to remove afterwards.
- Remove?
- Let's get it all nice slobber gobbery
- Fill up that whole circle there.
That wasn't in the test.
- I'm starting to get a feeling that you're not licensed.
- What makes you say that?
- [Noah] That right there.
- [Patient] That's a baby. Is that baby?
A turkey leg?
- Yeah, that's a freaking turkey leg dude.
- Well, now we know while your stomach hurts.
- You guys don't just swallow turkey legs whole?
- We're not snakes.
- That'll be $50.
- You said it was free.
- We ain't leaving this basement until you pay.
- It was free to come down into the basement.
But the ultrasound is actually $50.
- I don't have the money right now.
- That's fine, we can hook you up with a payment plan
if that works for you.
- That's fine.
- What are you doing?
- Do you want a free ultrasound?
- No.
- Is this permanent?
- So basically what I mean, is you think about an Anaconda,
right?
It actually comes from the Amazon basin, right?
It's gonna live in water.
That Amazon basin floods all the time,
which by the way, this is a pastel female.
Ooh, she's got a few slugs in here,
but she does have some good eggs too.
So that's okay.
Spread to a Pewter P lesser pongo,
absolute ripper, there should be some really good stuff,
but you figured there's probably not a good chance
of survival if an anaconda had a clutch of eggs
and laid it because of floods and moisture
and predation and stuff like that.
So mother nature basically says, "Now internally
incubate those eggs and they'll hatch basically inside you
in this membrane."
And then after they hatch,
they end up getting rid of 'em right?
And that's live birth, which is pretty cool.
There's two, four, five, good eggs, three slugs.
Not too bad.
I hope you guys understand live birth compared
to egg laying now.
- Hey Chris.
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
- Blow out the candles.
(all cheer)
- Guess what? It's ice cream!
- Wow, third time's a charm.
- Perfect. Look at that.
- It's not working.
- Happy birthday runner.
- I am so excited for Ivy's babies to come out,
again down in the comments,
let me know what's your best date is.
If you win, I'll reach out to you and send you something.
It's gonna be amazing when these babies are out and about.
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