- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I'm actually in the Chicago land area
at Wildlife Discovery Center,
but my day started at 5:00 a.m.
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- Dad, we really need some food.
- Dad, dad, dad.
- Dad.
- I'm so hungry.
- Dad.
- When we gonna' get food?
- Dad.
Dad, when are you gonna' start being a better dad?
Dad, that was crazy, we almost died.
- Oh my God, Dad.
Where's Mom?
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- And now, here we are.
We are actually in a cool place, again.
I'm gonna' put a link in the description to this place.
If you're in the Chicagoland area, come pay them some love.
Absolutely incredible.
We're about to see some cool animals.
What do you say we jump in?
One of the things that's really cool here
at the Wildlife Discovery Center,
is it's kind of a historic building, right?
This building has been around for so long
and you can even see, look at this huge area
that used to be obviously some sort of a barn,
or something like that.
That's what gives this place such an amazing character,
and when it's back open again,
I really suggest you guys coming out here
and checking out there in the Chicago land area,
cause it's absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, it's got so much character
and absolutely beautiful here.
It's certainly like no other reptile facility
or wildlife facility, I've ever been at
and I love it so much.
I mean, it's absolutely amazing, and it's just, I mean,
just look at the grounds outside are amazing.
The entire thing is cool.
Not to mention obviously a bunch of really amazing animals.
Okay guys, this definitely makes Bella look
like she's a little tiny baby.
Look at this Rhino Iguana.
Oh my goodness gracious, but definitely loves pets
and, definitely is just like Bella
when it comes to affection,
but wow, that is absolutely stunning.
Look at that thing.
I'm flipping out guys, because I love Indigo snakes.
This of course is the Cooper eye,
which is the Eastern Indigo snake.
Absolutely wonderful.
Definitely top five dream snakes for me.
One day I will definitely own these.
You do need permits because they are endangered
and protected in Florida.
But it's something I'm absolutely going to do,
and of course here at Wildlife Discovery Center,
they think they may be able to breed these guys
maybe next year.
And if we have babies, I can get permits
and get them from this place,
which would be absolutely incredible.
What an absolutely ripper of a snake.
Love this, I mean, I've got goosebumps,
that's how excited I am about this.
All right guys, so we have Dorothy,
the albino Burmese Python here.
She is a big Burmese Python.
It's almost hard to believe that sunrise
is going to eventually get this large.
I mean, that is one giant snake and I'm telling you what,
I'm just picking up this much of her
and it is unbelievably heavy.
It is crazy.
Just look at the size of her head,
and again, she is an absolute puppy dog,
but this once again makes me always tell people like,
when you think about giant snakes,
and you're thinking like,
"Oh, that cute little Burmese Python or little (inaudible)."
This is what they're eventually going to get to, guys.
I mean, they get huge and they are a handful,
and I love this animal to death, but most people definitely
are not gonna get an opportunity
to actually handle a snake this size
or actually deal with it,
but this has to be a good, you know,
it has to be a hundred plus pounds.
I mean, this thing is very heavy
and certainly a good 17 or 18 foot.
I've gotta' imagine, maybe even a little bit longer.
Regardless, it's a beautiful snake
and I cannot wait till sunrise one day gets this big.
- Look, the iguana is mad at you.
(laughs)
(person laughing in background)
She's like, "Is this a big banana I can eat?"
(chuckles)
Oh my God, what an amazing snake.
This is absolutely incredible.
This is worth the drive all the way out to Chicago
just to see this girl.
Absolutely wonderful experience.
Remember about a week ago,
I talked about one of my dream animals I want to add,
was actually the Philipino sailfin dragon.
These guys are incredible, but I had said
I only wanted to get some cool captive bred babies.
Well, guess what?
Rob actually has some eggs cooking from this particular
pair right here which are absolutely gorgeous.
So, with any luck he'll have some,
and I can actually maybe get a pair
because I definitely want to raise up a pair of these guys,
but again, it had to be captive bred
and they had to be these particular ones.
I am so stoked.
They look amazing.
- Oh my God.
- Jay, what's going on? I mean,
- Look at this thing.
- I thought Al was big.
- No this thing.
- This thing is giant.
- This makes Al look like a baby.
- Oh my gosh, look at the size of that frog.
That, okay, we got, we got some work ahead of us.
- Yeah, we do.
- Let's go.
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- Take a look at the size of this timber rattlesnake,
right here.
I mean, this is about a 20 something year old
timber rattlesnake.
Absolutely a beast.
I mean, one of the biggest ones I've ever seen.
Got a bunch of really cool buttons.
Look at these, he's coming out with his head, right now.
That is so cool.
I mean, super cool animals, love rattlesnakes
and timbers are kind of cool,
because of course they're native to the Northeast,
which is kind of an area that I've been herping a bunch.
So, it's really cool to see what in this size here,
It's absolutely amazing.
Another big boy here. This actually came from Michigan.
His name is-
- Mittens.
(both men laugh)
That's a nice boa for sure.
Definitely chill. I like it.
These are super cool.
You guys know that we work with a Uroplatus Fimbriatus.
These are actually the Henkel eye,
but they are leaf tail geckos and they're absolutely cool.
These are a little bit smaller than the Fimbriatus,
but they're still cool.
And they are producing them here
at the Wildlife Discovery Center.
Absolutely, look at the eyes on those same big eyes
just like our Fimbriatus.
Again, the little bit smaller species.
This happens to be a little boy right here
and that is pretty awesome.
Jay, look how big this sloth is.
- Oh my gosh, what's her name?
- This is Henry.
- This is Henry, the boy, okay.
- He's still not completely out, so.
- Oh my gosh, yeah, they like to sleep.
Oh my God.
- Oh my god.
- He's so big.
- Yeah.
- He is a big animal. So beautiful though, huh?
- Yeah.
- He does the teeth thing, you hear?
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- Oh my gosh. He is so beautiful, dude.
(man chuckles)
He's real blond too, you know.
- Yeah, this what me and Jay-
- Hazel is more kind of blondish brownish like streaks.
There's like streaks.
- What you think, Jay?
- Yeah. Awesome.
How much does he weigh?
- I could check.
I think the last time I weight him, he's 30
tonight he just went to the bathroom.
So, he's like, he feels really light now.
- Oh my God. That's crazy.
- That is a big sloth, wow, I love it.
- Hopefully we've got time to breed them this year.
- Oh yeah? That'll be amazing.
- Yeah.
- Are we going to get a baby sloth?
- Yeah. We could have a baby sloth.
- Might as well.
- Might as well get a female.
One that'll love me.
My sloth doesn't like me.
- You know, it's weird, they're they're real funny.
Like, Henry likes my wife way more than me.
Like I'm actually surprise,
he's behaving pretty good right now,
but Hazel binds with me like no other.
- Yeah, yeah.
I remember you saying that last time I was here.
- Yeah.
- That's what our bonded with him.
- Yeah.
- And so like he can do anything.
He can put his finger in his mouth and everything,
- Yeah.
- But if I do anything, it tries to bite me.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay Jay, what you think?
- This is awesome.
- Take a look at this little monkey right here.
This is a broad snouted caiman.
Absolutely chiseled. Unbelievable animal.
Caiman are certainly a smaller,
while the majority of caiman, I should say,
are smaller crocodilians but they pack a punch.
I will say they're like the Chihuahua of
the crocodilian world because they are full of energy
and bowser here is absolutely amazing.
Again, critically endangered animals.
Definitely, very, very cool.
I love these guys and, again,
very, very high energy and powerful.
So, I've got to keep a little bit of a grip on Bowser
but he's actually doing pretty well and he is a beauty.
Look at those eyes, and those teeth right there.
This is a gorgeous, gorgeous crocodilian.
Guys, this takes me back to my childhood
when I used to Newt and salamander and collecting
he's of course our tiger salamander right here.
Absolutely amazing.
These Ambystoma tigrinum and I love these guys.
Salamanders and newts are something
that I definitely have to add.
And I love coming to the Wildlife Discovery Center
because they have so many cool, diverse animals.
I mean, the kind of just variety is really cool.
And I'm definitely jealous cause I love these guys.
Again, it brings me back to that little prime,
when I used to collect these guys, I think there so cool.
Look how chubby this one is.
This is definitely an awesome little dude.
Take a look at this little chunky dude here.
This is actually an Egyptian uromastyx.
These guys get absolutely massive.
They're largest of the uromastyx, of course,
we have the little Moroccan that stays much, much smaller,
but are still really, really cool.
And again, this guy's so awesome.
It's a little job in the hot, I mean this thing,
look at that cute face, chubby little thing,
spiky little tail.
These guys are really truly amazing.
And again, these guys will get really, really large.
So this is a species I would definitely
love to add some time because it is so awesome.
I mean, they're just absolutely adorable.
I'm so in love with this.
This is actually a little diamond python
and this little cheeky monkey I think is trying to
get a little bit close to me.
And of course, diamond pythons are the pure form
of the spilota.
Again, you've got the carpet python, which are subspecies,
but these guys are so amazing when they get bigger.
They're this black with just, you know, again,
diamond tight speckling throughout of it absolutely amazing.
Now, interestingly enough, unlike the carpet python,
these guys can actually get really cool.
They're typically from the New South Wales area
and the Northern part and they actually can sometimes
be around in the thirties, believe it or not.
So these guys are typically bred when you can get
a much cooler than the carpet pythons.
But nevertheless, look at that little dude
this thing is an absolute ripper.
Oh, I absolutely love these.
Take a look at these.
I don't think I've ever actually seen these,
these are Filipinos skinks,
and they're really a communal animal.
Absolutely cool.
I mean they're a little bit hyper from what I understand
but nevertheless look it, they can hang out like this.
This will be a great display for sure,
because they're so kind of brazing
like they're right out there, they're crawling around,
absolutely beautiful animals.
They actually lay eggs and I definitely love these things.
They are there one of the animals here at
the Wildlife Discovery Center that really caught my eye
and I can tell you what they are absolutely awesome.
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- Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup.
- Guess what guys?
- What's up buddy?
- We're going to Park Tilla!
- Park Tilla!
- Now what do you want me to do, Jay?
- I want to put the leopard tortoises in Bowser's pond
to watch them swim.
- So, so, every single animal at the rep terrarium.
At one point you said
"Can we put them in bowser's pond?"
- "Can you put it in bowser's pond, please dad?
- Every single day.
- So on Friday, it will be swimming lessons
in Bowser's pond.
- Yeah every, every single day.
It doesn't matter.
Whatever animal is just like,
"Can we put it in bowser's pond?"
- "Come on tabasco, come one"
"Come on, let's put (indistinct) in there"
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- Oh my god.
- What the fuck?
(people laughing)
- Let's put dad on this video.
- What?
- What you get?
- I got a burger.
- A burger in a hotdog place?
- Yeah.
- I'm going to do the same thing too.
- Wow, you guys, I can't take you anywhere.
- Wait, can I get whatever I want?
- Yeah you can get whatever you want.
- Can I get a vanilla shake?
- Oh!
- Big baller!
- Oh, this is some good, grill.
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- Leave it to me!
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- I don't know what this is.
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- All right, super tillers, it was amazing.
Thank you guys so much for letting me come along
on your adventure.
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