- Today I'm probably gonna shed
a little bit of blood for you
because I am doing an entire tour
of all the lizards here at the Reptarium.
What do you say we get started?
Of course, we got my boy Beetlejuice here.
Like I said the thing is,
is that he's got such sharp claws.
He's not a bad animal at all,
but man those claws are something else.
Of course, this is a Bells Phase Lace Monitor
from Australia.
I tell you what, lizards are so I think incredibly amazing.
Where are you going buddy?
Oh my gosh!
Not my ear, not my head.
(Brian shouting)
I don't know why I did before I kept lizards.
I used to just keep snakes
but they are so amazing.
So yeah we're gonna show you guys all
the lizards here at the Reptarium
because there are so many amazing ones.
Let's go ahead and look at this monkey down here.
This is actually Hiccup the snow blind albino water monitor,
and this is amazing too
but again claws like you can't believe.
Come on buddy.
Now, he's a lot more mellow than Beetlejuice,
but he's got some daggers,
look at how beautiful that animal is,
and when it's all...
Oh gosh, uh!
That hurts.
Okay, you've had enough let me go.
Whoa! Au! Au!
(Brian screams)
We're gonna put him back.
I told you guys I'm definitely bleeding.
There's no doubt about it
but he's amazing.
Can you imagine when Hiccup gets like six foot long
and is really beautiful,
it's gonna be an absolute ripper of an animal.
And like I mentioned you can always know monitor people
because they have scratches all over their hands.
Look at blood, blood, blood, all over.
Might as well just go ahead,
and jump in the Chicken Strip, right?
Chicken Strip has a few things going on.
It's got sharp nails,
it's gotta tail that loves to whip,
and he doesn't mind biting sometimes too.
So I've gotta be careful all round.
Come here Chicken Strip.
Come on buddy.
Whoa! You're okay.
(Brian screams)
Chicken strip of course is an albino Nile monitor.
Look at that beautiful animal right there.
He's about ready to get breeding here
in about another year or so.
So hopefully we can make some more
because of course he's the only albino right now.
Another albino may pop up over in West Africa
and it'd be really cool if it did
but if it doesn't I wanna make sure
to propagate Chicken Strip
so that we can have more baby albino Nile monitor
in the future.
Can I tell what, he's actually acting super good with...
Buddy you in a good mood today?
There you go bud.
Now he doesn't wanna let go.
Come on, let go you're okay.
Oh whoa!
Okay, I love you too buddy.
Let's go ahead and stick
with the kinda feisty monitors right here.
This of course is Argumus Prime.
Come on buddy.
Argumus is mellowed out a lot in it's older age,
and she's getting a lot older now.
She's probably about 20 years old right now.
When she first came here,
oh my God, was she a pistol?
But she's doing pretty good right now.
And I love her to death.
Argus monitors are absolutely beautiful,
and we actually have a couple babies
that Noah will show you here in a little bit too,
but go ahead Argumus.
Let's get in there buddy.
Why do they keep on hanging on to me?
What are doing?
Let me go.
Oh man those back legs.
Oh what is it doing?
Usually putting them back isn't as hard as getting them out.
Today has been a little bit wild.
(stool rambling)
Okay, we gotta get up on this stool here for this next one.
This is actually Santana savannah monitor.
Definitely don't have to worry
about Santana hurting me at all.
Of course, this is a savannah monitor.
One of the bigger monitor lizards over in Africa.
Not as big as some of the other rock monitor,
that's just a cool animal.
And these are kinda the puppy dogs
of the big monitor world.
This will still get about three to four foot long,
but they usually stay really mellow and super tame.
This is definitely a really cool animal.
Then of course there's Grits
which is a white-throated monitor.
Come on Grits let's go.
And I tell you what, monitor lizards have such strong claws,
and strong but whoa!
Dangerous being a camera guy around here
you know what I mean?
Grits is amazing.
There's three rock monitors in Africa.
This is one of the bigger ones.
Not as big as the black-throats of course,
but the white-throats are amazing.
He's about as big as he's gonna get.
I mean, probably not gonna get much larger,
heavy bodied animal, super strong claws,
but very docile, love Grits to death.
Look at that little dude right there.
That is an amazing little monkey for sure.
Speaking of monkeys these are actually
what they would call monkey tailed skinks
from the Solomon Island of course prehensile-tailed skinks.
They are unbelievably beautiful.
I've been noticing they've been pairing up.
I've been hoping for babies for a couple years from now.
We have one pair, they typically have one baby per year,
sometimes only one baby every other year.
Very interesting lizards for sure.
I mean, look at how cool they are,
really sharp nails, really highly arboreal,
but look at that cute face right there.
Huh! Huh!
You could go ahead, go be free.
Come here Terrence what's going on buddy?
Terrance is a black and white Argentine tegus
from Argentina.
Obviously that's why they call them Argentine tegus, right?
The fact is that
this is the largest lizard species in South America
and they are incredible.
Can be like a puppy dog.
People will literally let them free-range in their house,
and let them just run around.
You just put a heat lamp in the corner,
and some newspapers down there,
and they'll literally go to the bathroom
in the same exact spot.
So they're basically potty trained almost like a cat,
unbelievable animals.
I know I need one of these running around my house
there's no doubt about it.
Not sure my dogs will like that though.
Then we have a little bit smaller monitor.
These are the Ackie monitors this is actually cherry pop,
the red Ackie monitor.
Again, these are a dwarf monitor lizards from Australia.
So they don't get much larger than this.
Just a little bit larger,
but not much,
but they are definitely a super cool lizard.
And these guys don't scratch up and weigh like...
These guys are not as big,
but look at how cool that animal is right there.
I love monitor lizards.
It's kinda cool to have a palm size monitor lizard
that doesn't have you all ripped up
every time you take it out.
Then there's Flaming Hot Cheetos.
Of course my hypo trans orange beardy dragon.
Absolutely incredible animal.
Love this guy, he comes out all the time,
he's my buddy,
walk around and work with him on your shoulder all day long.
He just likes to hang out what an awesome lizard.
Erwin the blue tongue skink,
the northern blue tongue skink is amazing.
I always have been obsessed with skinks,
and blue tongue skis in particular.
I just, I don't know,
there's something about them.
Definitely, I think an underrated animal,
people love them but still I think they're a better pet
than they get credit for in Australia.
Often times the first lizard pet isn't a bearded dragon
it's a blue tongue skink.
- And you guys know I always gotta show you Baby Kush.
My boy we've had him for almost three years now I believe.
And he is about is about as nice as I guess
the crocodile monitor really come at this age.
But that being said we still got his little random moments.
So he's a little bit eccentric almost.
He's always one of my favorite monitors show to everybody.
As you guys know, we have many here.
This is the pinnacle of all monitors besides
Komodo dragons and parenties.
It's hard not to show this guy off.
- Next up We have Tiana, which is the Lewisi hybrid.
Come on girl you wanna come down to see me?
Come on, come and see me.
She's nodding that head,
and with that nodding the head for her means
come up here and pet me.
Girl I can't reach you come on down.
See how she puffs up like that,
she thinks I'm gonna pet her,
so as soon as I get close,
she's like, "Pet me, pet me."
But you gotta come over here girl.
She's such a silly monkey.
Cyclura are some of my favorite animals
in the whole wide world
'cause they're so absolutely personable.
They love people who love pets.
Again, watch when she thinks I'm gonna pet her
she'll puff up.
Come on.
(Brian laughs)
I absolutely love that animal.
Now, interestingly enough we have Tabasco here, right?
And Tabasco is pretty cage defensive.
You can see as I'm pulling this up,
he's kinda getting up to me.
He's like, "What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?"
But watch this, now he goes like,
"Okay I'll just take pets."
That's right so he acts like a big, big bad man like,
"Don't mess with me or else..."
But then as soon as you get to petting him he's amazing,
of course this is what they would call
a red face green iguana
and you know green iguanas are really amazing animals
but they're not really great pets
to be totally honest with you.
Most people like to get green iguanas
'cause they're pretty readily available,
and they're kinda cheap and stuff like that
and they look amazing there's no doubt.
I mean it's a dinosaur, right?
But the fact is is that when they get this size
they're usually not that great of pets.
Tabasco is pretty awesome,
but he still loves to be a little bit of a jerk at times.
And then of course some other green iguanas
would happen to be Heinz and Frenches.
This of course is Frenches
because it looks kinda like yellow like mustard,
like French's mustard.
And then of course we've got Heinz
the ketchup guy over here,
Heinz is amazing too.
These are albino iguanas or albino green iguanas
actually sun glow green albinos
which are hypo albinos.
They don't have very good eyesight.
So she doesn't really see me very well,
she just has to go by my voice.
That's why we talk to them a lot
before we start messing with them
so that they know they're us,
and same thing with Heinz, right?
So they're more of an animal
that you need to touch and talk to
so that they know that they're not in danger,
but still absolutely gorgeous.
And I mentioned that I love Cyclura,
well there's nothing cooler than rhino iguanas.
Of course we have Diddy Dixie over here,
and then we've got Bella on the other side,
and I love Bella, she's my baby,
she's kinda what started my love of lizards
to be totally honest with you.
But this guy is unbelievable.
They're very different animals.
Everyone of them has a different personality.
Diddy is definitely my buddy,
I mean he's the one that will come out for anyone
doesn't matter who it is as long as you show him attention,
he's gonna love you to death.
Whereas Bella is kinda more my girl, right?
She really just only wants attention from me,
and she kinda doesn't like everyone else as much, right?
But Diddy is amazing.
Of course his girlfriend Dixie is amazing as well
but she's a little bit less friendly.
Look at him he's just like, "Hey gimme love."
What amazing animals.
The thing that's great about this
is he's only two and a half years old.
These guys will literally live 40 ,50,
sometimes even 60 years.
So he's gonna be around a long time
and I'm so happy about that.
Come on bud,
Oh, don't bite me.
Nope, don't bite.
Where did you go?
Come here.
Mango, what is going on?
Of course he's the caiman lizard.
This is the south American lizard,
basically like a Tegu of the aquatic world.
Absolutely incredible wild looking head
compared to its body.
This guy is starting to get some size to him,
he's starting to grow,
but these kids will get literally like, you know,
three to four foot long.
So he's gonna get a lot bigger.
Eventually, this one will go
into salt and pepper's enclosure,
and he's gonna absolutely love it there.
I'm so glad that he's finally starting to put on some size
and start looking but uh,
I gotta keep him tanked 'cause trust me
you don't wanna get bit by something like this.
They've got jaws 'cause they crack snails in the wild.
So they need really powerful jaws.
And then of course we have Mark here,
which this is a natural leopard gecko.
Listen, leopard geckos steal my heart all the time.
Look at how cute that face is
like you can't look at a leopard gecko
and not go that is an adorable animal.
Even a non-reptile lover
will look at a leopard gecko and say,
"Yeah, that's a pretty cool face right there."
And they're just really great for handling
for kids and stuff like that.
So we have a couple leopard geckos here at the Reptarium
again, just great animal ambassadors.
Take a look at this.
This is the rare Lilly's sighting over here.
She'll run away 'cause she doesn't like people too much.
And now Nova's gonna chase him 'cause he wants to breed.
Of course Nova is the Indonesian frilled dragon,
beautiful frills,
I love you Nova you are such an amazing animal.
look at this guy,
he's like hanging out over here, he loves it.
He's definitely in breeding mode.
There's no doubt about it.
He's thinking one thing that he's gotta protect
his girlfriend Lilly,
and she's down here.
I'm not exactly sure what she's down here for
must mean they're ready to gear up for more eggs.
So we've actually gotten a couple clutches
that haven't hatched the last couple times.
A couple years ago we hatched a few babies,
we hatched I think 12 or 13 babies.
So fingers crossed this year will actually get some babies
from these guys again.
Of course we have a bearded dragon,
and this is actually Betty White right here.
This is a hypo whip lights animal.
So when it fires up it's almost all white, right?
You know, there's actually zeros
that are actually much more white than this.
And I wouldn't mind adding one of those,
but it's just cool to have a couple beard dragons
at the Reptarium because they're just such amazing animals.
- All right guys,
so, I'm gonna show you Vlad.
This is Vlad the legless lizard he's a little crazy,
he does a little death row,
it is a lizard.
Oh my goodness!
Wow!
Vlad, my boy relax.
That's better.
Okay, doing the death row,
no food, Vlad.
They're Eurasian, these guys come from Russia,
you can find some of these guys on Florida
they're called glass lizard,
and people call them glass lizard
'cause obviously they're shiny
they look like glass.
(natator chuckles)
Vlad, dude people can't see you when you...
Now, interesting fact we actually found out
that the bask lizard of Harry Potter
was actually modeled after these guys.
Crazy, right?
Who'd guess that movie star, this guy?
- I was tasked to find my favorite gecko,
and I think this one here is probably my favorite.
This is Wanda.
She's our Uroplatus fimbriatus or giant leaf tail gecko.
(narrator chuckles)
They are so cool.
I would say my favorite thing about them is their eyes.
They've got just like the coolest looking eyes
out of all the animals here,
in my opinion.
These guys are nocturnal.
They use these big all eyes so they can hunt at night.
They can see super well in the dark.
You see too she's got amazing camouflage.
Just like either tree bark or tree liking.
Though she was up against the tree you could barely see her.
The only thing you see is those crazy eyes.
- Woah, woah!
We've got our green keel belly lizard
where are you going buddy?
Go, go, okay, it's all right.
No, don't bite.
(Brian screams)
Don't bite.
So these guys are a little bit...
Aauu! That hurts!
Oh my gosh!
What is wrong with you?
Why do you keep biting me?
All right, we're talking.
These guys come from Tanzania,
and oh my gosh, okay, okay.
I'm gonna put that back, Uh!
They're really cool animals,
but boy oh boy they hurt.
Then of course I talked about my girl Bella.
Bella you wanna come over and see me girl.
Hi baby, come on over and see me.
Come on over here.
Come on sweetie, keep coming.
That's right.
I know, have you guys ever seen a lizard
that comes to her name?
She just loves attention.
She's just such a great animal,
and I had mentioned before
that she was the one that really got
my kinda love of lizard start,
and I've always thought they were amazing.
But when I got Bella I just fell in love with lizards.
I hate to say it but I kinda become a lizard nerd.
You know, I love them all so much
but Bella you're always gonna steal my heart girl.
She's amazing.
One thing that you guys may not know is that Bella
does not like Elvis at all.
She gets super jealous whenever I'm messing with Elvis,
and you can see her eyeballing him right now like,
"What do you think you're doing coming out?"
It's okay so Elvis of course the Asian water monitor,
you guys know Elvis.
He's amazing, I mean,
he's my puppy dog game dinosaur for sure ,I mean,
what a cool animal.
He gets to crawl around the Reptarium all the time,
you know, he knows this place inside and out,
and he is an absolute ripper.
I mean, look at those claws how powerful they are,
and big arms that can climb and run and do all these things,
but in his case he just wants to walk around.
He just wants to explore the place.
There's nothing like a cool Asian water monitor.
Wow!
I love you buddy.
Then of course there's Potato
that is actually in shed right now
so it kinda looks a little bit kinda milky,
kinda looking like dull color.
Awesome, beautiful animal from central Australia,
beautiful blue tongue skin.
I just love out of all the blue tongue skinks,
the central Australian or the Centralian blue tongue skink
it is my favorite of all of them,
and I'm so lucky that we have Potato.
I'd love to get more,
one day hopefully I'll get lucky
and get a female for this little monkey.
Look at this dinosaur here of course this is Waffles,
the Tanzanian black-throated monitor.
Much like I talked about Grits the white-throated monitor,
this is another rock monitor from Africa,
but this is the largest species of rock monitor.
And just look at the size of his head and his tongue.
What an amazing animal,
again, look at this claws right here,
Wooh!
I tell you what,
that's something you don't wanna muck with.
There's no doubt about that but, wow!
I love this guy so much and I'm telling you,
I wish we had smell of vision.
Literally smells like waffles in here like maple syrup,
it's just so bizarre.
(narrator whistling)
- All right, Argus monitors guys,
this one's my little pet,
Honestly need to be doing some more work with him.
I love them because obviously
they have a beautiful neon color,
you know, there's something about...
Oh no.
There's something about neon, you know,
it brings out out my inner...
Oh no.
Brings out my inner middle school self, you know,
they're very, fast very agile.
When I was in my sports days I was the fast agile guy.
So I think that's why I relate to these.
Another reason why I really like these guys,
the mink man,
he has them train to the point where they actually go
and they exterminate rodents,
and people's property.
And when I saw that,
really just blew my mind about monitors,
how smart they were.
Argumus Prime back there,
she was always a sassy girl when we first got her.
Wanna be like, "Why is she so sassy?
let me get to know her a little bit."
I don't know, something about their attitude,
the way they act, their beautiful colors,
just a great little lizard.
- Obviously you guys know Milton is my boy.
Au! Au! Stop.
Oh, this nails, get those trimmed.
Got the little...
he's got the little blueberry mustache going on.
We love you buddy.
This is the uromastyx,
(cricket chirping)
Moroccan uromastyx.
So this is one of the species of uromastyx,
not the largest one the Egyptians is the largest,
which we have next door at King Tut.
But look at his color.
Did you notice he's getting bigger,
he's getting the more blemishing on his back.
Would you relax for five seconds you little chubby chump?
Looks like a little old man, look at her it's so cute.
- Toothless knows something is up, over here bud,
over here, all the way over, Woah!
Wow! Wow!
Toothless up here.
The black dragon, the black melanistic Asian water monitor.
Up here bud.
Up here, up here.
We're good.
Jeez! He is outrageous.
The thing I love about this animal
is it's so active when it comes to...
Over here.
(claws tapping)
Oh! He got the ball.
Here you go.
He is so turned onto food,
it's absolutely ridiculous,
but watch this.
Comes up, he eats,
and then you can pet him just like nothing.
He's just like, "Hey I love you dad."
I mean, that is one cool animal
and again, as he gets bigger and bigger,
he's gonna be even more interesting.
He's like, "Do you have any more food for me?"
"No more food for you buddy,
we're just hanging out together all right?"
We also have the Australian frilled dragon.
Philly, the silly frilly right here.
This is just amazing.
They just have a little bit more red color.
They're a longer bodied animal
so their length is much longer,
probably about 50% longer.
And the frills actually are a little bit bigger as well.
Philly the silly frilly is so awesome.
- Takira actually believe it or not
I don't know if we told you or not.
I'm not its a dude.
Takira's got some parts.
You're Shakira the chuckwalla.
We're stick with the name Shakira
'cause it's still funny okay.
No names in the comments Shakira.
Chuckwalla's still pretty young,
they do get a little bit bigger.
As you can see they just like iguanas,
they can't process the sodium,
they spit, it makes a big mess.
Super fun, super fast, so cute.
I mean, just look at the little eye.
He's got that very rusty, golden,
burnt rust color around the tail.
Who doesn't like a burnt rust color.
Veggie eaters, loves the salad,
berries are her favorite,
again, you can see some salad and berries stuck on her face.
That seems to happen a lot with these animals.
Love them so much.
(narrator kissing)
- And of course we have the chameleon here,
we don't like to muck with these guys too much.
Look at this guy this is ambilevous right here.
And I don't know what exactly he's doing.
(soft music)
He's getting bigger and bigger.
Of course we have Karma 2.0, the Nosy Be,
and then the Parson's that are just settling in now.
So we're gonna go ahead and put this guy back.
It's okay buddy.
Chameleons are amazing,
but you know, we have noticed that handling them
isn't probably as good of an idea.
So it kinda more of a display animal
than they are a handling animal.
Some can tolerate it to some extent,
but it's really best kinda leave them alone.
They are just so cool just to look at.
I know what you guys are saying.
You're saying like, "This isn't a lizard Brian."
But you know the thing that's really interesting
is that hundreds of millions of years ago,
these were basically like lizards,
and then developed their shell.
It's just an evolutionary thing
that is really truly amazing.
And for the next lizards,
we actually have to go downstairs.
(Brian's jump swooshing)
To the New Caledonia gecko room,
and of course we have a bunch of cool animals down here,
including Leachi geckos which are absolutely fantastic.
Look at how beautiful these guys are,
and we have a whole bunch of these Leachi.
Look at the pink in that, and the greens.
There's absolutely wonderful giant geckos.
You guys know the largest gecko in the world
you don't need to be told that again.
I've told you that 8,000 times
so I think by now you guys know it.
This is actually some of our gargoyle geckos
that are in here.
Look at this one.
This is actually fired down right now.
When this is fired up, it's really red and beautiful.
It's just a really cool ammo.
We have a lot of gargoyle geckos.
We've been working on that project for a long time,
and they are unbelievably cool.
So again, a lot of gargoyle a lot of Leachi geckos.
We also have some crested geckos.
Wait, wow, wow, wow.
Come on buddy, hey wow, wow.
I tell you what, no wonder why Jessica doesn't let me work
with the geckos.
They are super cool, but I love this guy.
We actually have a Lilly White over here as well.
Our buddy Brian gave us, and here he is right now.
Come on buddy, come on.
Hello geckos, gosh!
No wonder why always been a snake guy.
There it is, that's a Lilly White right there.
Look at how beautiful...
As this gets older,
it's just gonna get more and more white,
and more and more beautiful.
Absolutely wonderful little lizards.
We have some Sarasinorum geckos in here,
but I don't know where they're at.
Where you at little monkey.
Oh, wait I could see him moving.
He's right in the back right over here.
There he is.
Oh, and he disappeared and he's gone.
But yeah, these are really cool lizards too.
And I don't even know all the lizards
that we have down here to be honest.
I think we do have some non-New Caledonian geckos as well.
These are actually Chinese cave geckos that are in here.
Let's see if we can find them.
I don't know where these ones are.
All right, let's see if we can find these guys in here.
Here's one right here.
Look at this, don't run away buddy.
Here you go.
Wait, okay.
Here he goes, I got one.
These of course are the Chinese cave geckos.
These enclosures look absolutely amazing,
but Uh doggie, makes it hard to find the animals
there's no doubt about that.
We actually have a giant day gecko in here.
Right up there that's a Geico gecko right in the back.
Don't wanna open that enclosure up
'cause I know it's gonna be gone.
Down here we actually have,
oh, don't bite me.
Look at that, that is beautiful.
Woah, woah! Jeez!
These of course are from Madagascar too.
So not everything down here is from New Caledonia,
but the most are,
look how amazing that flat tail is right there.
Huu man! That thing is beautiful, gorgeous.
So I tell you what, that's the lizard guys,
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