- Good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog, reptile army.
You know, my anacondas have been breeding and you know,
when they start to breed,
it's all about increasing food to females.
So today we're going to feed Ivy the largest pig we've ever
fed her. Don't know if she's going to eat it.
It's going to be an absolutely giant meal,
but we also are going to try to feed all of them.
It's a little tricky. We've got Jazz down in the water.
That's easy enough,
but we've got Arianna who looks like she wants to eat
already. As soon as I open up the door, she's like, "food!"
I've got Ivy down here. She's creeping forward her.
So I don't know.
I think the strategy is going to be maybe to feed Arianna
first, get her out of the way and then feed Ivy,
but it's going to be really tricky because obviously we've
got two big anacondas, obviously one giant Anaconda,
one decent size Anaconda that are both like in food mode.
Look at, look at Arianna, already.
She's already smelling the meal and she's thinking like,
"I'm getting fed."
So, wish me luck, guys.
This is a little bit dangerous. I'm not going to lie to ya.
So, uh let's just give it a go.
And here we go, Arianna first.
All right guys, we've got to couple anacondas in here
that need to get fed.
- First one is up here in the tree, Arianna.
Come on, girl.
There she goes. She took that one.
Whoa whoa whoa
We got Ivy the big girl over here that's going to get
a really big pig.
I got to get her over here. Ivy, Ivy, Ivy
Over here, over here, over here.
Over here, Ivy. We're in trouble.
Okay.
come on.
I'm holding an anaconda over here.
I've got a big pig over here. This is not easy.
Oh my God. This is bad.
I don't know what to do. I'm in trouble here guys.
Oh no, no Arianna let go!
Oh. That a girl. I got Ivy over here.
Dragging her out over here. I got Arianna over here.
This is manic mania.
Let's set Arianna down here.
Hopefully she's okay.
Got Ivy over here. I've got one more anaconda
to the feed right over here.
Oh my gosh. Look at Arianna.
She's over here. I gotta get her back over here.
Whoa.
Okay.
All right. One more.
- All right.
So now I'm going to try and find speed Jazz in the water.
Jazz.
Food.
Trying to get Jazzy to feed here, but you know,
males oftentimes go off of food. Now, in the meantime,
I'm sitting here with an Anaconda at my feet and one right
over here. Not exactly the safest thing I've ever felt,
I'm not going to lie to you. So, here's Jess up on the side,
but I don't know if he's going to take it or not.
Like I said, often times males during the breeding season
just aren't interested,
but he seems to have some interest for sure.
See if we can get him to go, come on buddy.
That's a no go on hunt Jazz.
So we definitely have Ariana's sitting right down over here.
She's not on the pig itself, which is scary.
So I got to keep an eye on her.
And then of course we've got Ivy behind me,
which I hope dragged it into the water to eat, to be honest.
Cause she eats big meals like this. Bigger, but she took it.
That was hectic, guys.
I'm not going to lie to you.
When Ivy was coming up over here,
and Ariana was hanging out, I had her in one hand, you know,
and I know probably I could have separated them out to feed,
but what happens sometimes if you move an animal
and then you try to feed it, they don't want to eat.
So I wanted to make sure that everybody ate today.
So it was definitely sketchy as could be.
So let's see if Ivy gets through this giant meal.
Cause that is the biggest meal she's ever eaten in her life.
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As you guys know Ivy,
especially when she's eating a big meal, takes forever.
Sometimes, she'll take like an hour before she even starts.
Once she starts, she actually finished it pretty quick.
I'm assuming she's going to eventually grab it
and then drag it into the water.
She's even looking at the water right now.
Like I think she's like, you know,
getting a plan together now Arianna is actually over in the
other side, she seems to be preoccupied with her meal,
and I'm hoping that she gets done and it doesn't mess with
Ivy as well. So it's a little bit crazy.
I do have an extra meal that Jazz didn't eat just in case I
have to distract somebody, but yo so far,
I don't know what Ivy's doing.
Now she's literally going into the water.
I don't even know what's going on.
So hopefully she's going to come back to that pig.
I have no idea what's going to happen.
I do have to feed the rest of the zoo,
but you guys have seen that a million times.
So we'll make it really snappy. Starting with Perdido, who,
last time I fed actually bit me instead of the rabbit.
So let's see if this time it goes a little better.
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As always Ivy, when she's eating a large meal,
will actually drag it into the water.
I just think it's easier for her to actually ingest it in
the water for some reason.
So now she just has to find the head and start to eat.
I get asked all the time, what is my favorite animal?
And actually Tom down in the comments asked,
"If the crew had to pick one favorite animal,
what would it be?"
So I'm going to leave it up to them and I'm not
participating. Let's see what they have to say.
- [Brian] Noah!
- If you had to pick one animal in this place,
that was your favorite, which one would it be?
- Joe Byron,
- Even though I don't handle these that much
because they are honestly kind of hard to take out.
I don't usually get that lucky,
but I love them because of the, the blue.
Anything with a natural blue on it. I mean baby.
Ah, ah, ah it got underneath the nail
with its nail.
Ah. God.
But if this guy would just calm down,
I'll show you the beauty. But look at this.
It's got the Sprite lemon lime head to it and then on the
back, ah,
- Got that baja blast blue baby.
Baja blast blue.
God! There's some- they're going deep today.
Oh ho ho
Oh wow.
Wow. Calm down.
Please stop moving.
Okay, well look at how cool they are dude.
One animal in this entire place.
What animal would be your favorite?
- By far, One of my favorites is Gemma.
I mean, she's just so big and impressive, and so sweet.
I mean there's no way you can even get this close to a Daisy
or definitely Lucy.
- So this is the first time we're actually going to
offer Hiccups some food.
Come on, bud.
There it goes. Oh wait.
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and of course we're going to do is after this first meal,
I'm going to start to introduce the ball
for the ball training.
Obviously it's not going to pick up on it immediately,
but I want to start him associating the blue ball with food.
So I'm going to go ahead and touch his nose.
Then I'm going to give him food just like that
and look at how good he's eating.
That is absolutely amazing.
And we'll see how quick he picks up on the ball. Right?
So now show him the ball.
Ball, food.
There he goes. And then we'll do one more thing.
And we'll start to see if he starts to kind of key on that
ball a little bit,
knowing that on the other side of this ball equals food. So,
but it's great that he's eating so well. So again, ball,
see already him following the ball.
That's how quick these guys can learn. Unbelievable.
Wow. So again,
obviously you know that we decided to name him Hiccup.
I love it. I love how to train a dragon.
So hiccup this eating well, doing really good.
And I tell you what,
what an absolutely amazing animal, I tell ya.
I'm so excited to have this old monkey at the reptile zoo.
It's just so crazy.
Look at how amazing and just get him right after he eats.
You can just pick him up, play with him, just like nothing.
I mean, wow.
What an amazing animal
Anacondas are very strange.
Obviously, Ivy drags it into the water.
They were both messing with it.
It's been an hour since we've been waiting here
and weirdly enough
both Arianna and Ivy took it at the exact same time after
an hour of just playing with their food.
So it looks like Ivy's going to crush it even know from a
body standpoint,
she probably has the same percentage size pig as,
actually, Ivy.
Ivy's is just such a much larger meal, right?
But she's curling around. She's crushing it right now.
And again,
the interesting thing is that she'll stay under water the
entire time that she's eating and it could take her,
you know, 30 minutes or so we,
I think we clocked in it at over 40 minutes,
one time for underwater eating. But once she gets going,
she gets crushing,
but this is going to be a huge meal for her.
And quite honestly,
it's going to be a really big meal for Arianna, too.
They both could use a bunch of weight.
Now, I'm not breeding Arianna this year,
but Ivy needs those calories.
So that as Jazz is breeding or she starting to produce
follicles and hopefully get some babies
because I tell you what,
the day that I come into the reptarium and there's 25 or 30
or 40 babies crawling around,
I'm going to probably pass out on the floor.
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- It's almost hard to believe,
but Ivy is actually finished up with her giant meal.
And Arianna is still only about halfway done.
So now the tricky part is when you're feeding stuff in the
same enclosure,
you have to make sure that the Ivy doesn't go mess with
Arianna and so on like that.
But I think we're going to be okay.
She's crushing it pretty fast,
but we definitely gonna have to keep a really close eye.
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- All right. Then last up is Daisy
Oh!
Yeah. And did with a bang.
Listen I always love feeding the zoo.
Both by anacondas are done. Look at the lump in her
Again, we only do this once in a while,
maybe every six to eight weeks,
we feed her a big meal like this and I hope you guys don't
get bored with it.
I could never get bored feeding these anacondas.
It's so amazing to watch him eat and stuff like that.
Arianna it looks great. Ivy looks great.
It was a little bit tricky at times,
but it turned out to be a success.
- [Brian] Hey what's up dude?
You had one animal in this whole place to pick,
which one is your favorite?
- [Worker] I honestly,
this is an animal that I've um I've experienced in so many
different ways
You're okay, you're okay
When it comes to monitors, this is the,
this is the pinnacle right here. This is the big boy,
the one,
the one everybody always wants to, wants to work with and
play with.
And I've been given the opportunity to exclusively work with
this animal. And so like, because of that,
I guess I, I'd probably pick him as my favorite.
- [Brian] You get to pick one animal
that was your favorite in the entire place.
What animal would that be?
- [Female Worker] Matilda.
Just because she's such an amazing animal.
I've always been fascinated with tortoises,
especially the giants.
And she's just so cool and so loving and it's,
they're just such an amazing animal.
And that in itself is what I think makes them so cool.
- [Brian] If you have one animal
you had to pick in the entire place,
be it be reptarium, if that is your favorite to work with,
which animal would that.
- [Female Worker] Why does everyone want to know favorites?
Favorites are so hard.
I'd have to choose Bella for sure.
I've had the longest relationship with her actually,
before she lived over here at the reptarium,
when she lived at BHP, I took care of her for the most part.
So yeah, she's just an amazing animal.
- [Noah] So we just got this new Australian frilled dragon
from our friends over in Indiana called black cafe.
And he's actually been one of my favorite animals that we've
gotten in so long. He's actually so friendly.
He just comes around and he likes to just hang with your
boy.
We're going to shoulder him up and we're going to feed him
today. Put them right on my shoulder.
I love, I love a good shoulder pet.
Just kind of hang out and then watch this dude.
It doesn't get any cooler than that.
Oh, you dropped it.
Oh buddy. You got to catch him.
Good boy. Good boy.
Yeah.
See now the cool thing about these is you don't really have
to worry about them falling.
It always feels like they're going to fall,
but they're just like what? Look at this.
Look at this.
Are you kidding me?
Is this to get any cooler than that? If you want a pet,
get a fricking Australia frilled dragon.
Look at the ground. He's dropped four of them right now.
Four of them.
Come on, man.
You're going to have to eat them.
Catch it. Good boy.
All right.
How are we going to get the ones off the ground now ?
My little legs are so sore.
I played soccer.
Good boy.
Atta boy. I love this guy.
I swear to goodness. And I've been thinking of a name.
Still don't have one yet, but,
One last one.
Awesome.
Love this guy dropped some comments down below what we
should name them.
- Pretty amazing to see account is eat that type of size of
size of meal.
Let me know if you guys like it down in the comments.
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