(upbeat music)
- Come on, Moomoo.
Moomoo is definitely a pretty amazing snake,
and I tell you what,
through this kind of a journey that we're on together
with this expansion for the 3.0 with the Reptarium
and then of course, 4.0,
when it comes to the actual aquarium part,
there's gonna be some hard decisions that have to be made.
I've been buying up animals to get into the Reptarium 3.0,
I've been kind of working on all that type of stuff.
And then to be totally honest with you,
there are gonna be some animals
that probably don't fit into the future.
I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
And right now, today,
we're actually getting an animal you guys
are gonna be blown away with.
Jay is actually picking it up right now
and he's gonna be here any minute
and now it's definitely a curve ball
and it's something that quite frankly,
I didn't think a whole lot about,
but when the opportunity,
a friend of mine produced this animal,
I thought this might be a great animal ambassador
to really get people interested in some things.
And the truth is,
is that we kind of looked around and thought,
where can we put it to be on display?
And Moomoo's enclosure
is kind of gonna work out really well
for this particular animal,
which means that Moomoo is getting moved off of display.
Now, the truth is guys, and I've thought a lot about this,
and this is very difficult for me.
I love Moomoo, but we have Perdita.
Now we of course have Neo,
the pied reticulated Python.
So we already have a couple of black and white snakes.
And I thought to myself, Moomoo is kind of
a little bit of a repetition of something
as much as I love Cow Rets, I love Moomoo,
really Perdita is always gonna be the one
that everyone wants home,
'cause she's just a better handling snake
and stuff like that.
And just people love her to death
and I'm really working on Neo to be that amazing animal,
a batch for in the future.
So I don't know that Moomoo really has a spot
even in the expansion, to be honest with you.
So I regrettably, I'm gonna say,
I think I'm gonna go ahead and sell Moomoo
and try to see if I can have her find a home
that's gonna really take care of her,
'cause literally, I don't wanna relegate Moomoo
to a second string animal.
I want someone to love her and take care of her
as much as we have as she's been on display here
at the Reptarium and now that she's off,
she gets moved over to BHB,
I'm gonna feel really bad about that.
And as much as it's gonna hurt me to let Moomoo go,
I think it's the best decision to make.
So, hey, if any of you guys are interested in buying Moomoo,
she's an amazing animal.
You can certainly see that,
and I'm gonna miss her so much.
So whoever gets her,
I'm gonna probably really ask a lot of questions,
'cause I want to make sure that she's going to a home
that people are gonna take care of her and love her
as much as I do, but I hate to say it,
there are gonna be decisions like this
that are gonna have to be made, not just now,
but in the coming years,
every year you have to decide what's best for the zoo
and what's best for the animals
and all that type of stuff.
And right now,
instead of taking Moomoo and just stick her at BHB
and not letting her interact with people like she does now,
I don't think that's fair to her, right?
So we're gonna make that decision and it sucks.
It makes me feel bad,
but you guys are gonna freak out about the animal
that's gonna go in her cage.
It definitely is something that I am excited about
and never thought I was gonna work with.
So Jay should be here any minute
and you guys are gonna be blown away.
And guess what?
Jay is here, it's about time.
You be killing me with the anticipation.
- I know, I went nice and slow on purpose.
- I know, look at the smile.
You guys are not gonna believe what this is.
I'll tell you what, there's no way, before we do this-
- Come on.
- In the comments,
let me know what you think that we just got.
It's in this enclosure right here.
What do you guys think it's gonna be?
Everyone's gonna just cheat.
You guys are all gonna say it after you find out,
plus, whatever, so let's just go ahead and take it out.
- [Jay] Take it out?
- Okay, here we go, the moment of truth.
This is, oh my goodness gracious.
Are you kidding me right now?
Look at this thing, unbelievable.
That's right, I know.
There's no way you guys guessed it right, that's right.
We've got a little six banded Armadillo, unbelievable.
And of course, what's his name?
- Brillo.
- It's name is Brillo the Armadillo.
That's right, Brillo the Armadillo.
He is so cute, oh my goodness gracious.
How old is he?
- 63 days old today.
- 63 days old, so these guys get quite a bit bigger.
They can get up to what?
25 pounds or something like that?
- Yeah, 25 pounds, he'll be up 24 inches long.
- 24 inches long.
So these are a larger one for sure,
and we just thought that,
number one, adding it to the zoo for experiences.
People could come mess with it.
They can feed it, stuff like that.
As well as, of course experiences at zoo to use,
like in kids' events and stuff like that, school parties.
Look at him, oh my God, he is so cute.
And again, a friend of ours
actually captive produced these guys here in Michigan
and reached out to us and said,
"Hey, you guys probably could use an Armadillo."
Of course, Jay was all on it,
that's all you could talk about for days.
- I know, I love him.
- [Brian] (laughs) It's so cute, what do you guys think?
- [Group] Oh wow, so cute.
- And I realized it's not a reptile,
but it's got scalation, it's kind of similar,
that pangolin-y kind of looking thing,
and look at how it just absolutely habituated
it is already to being handled.
This is absolutely incredible.
I definitely, yo, I've seen a lot of armadillos
and the majority of the armadillos you see
are literally nine banded,
but I've seen a ton of armadillos.
And I thought, never thought that we would actually
own one at the zoo, but here he is.
Oh my goodness gracious, I'm in love with Brillo.
He is absolutely gonna be an amazing addition, (laughs)
And of course, he's gonna have to get used
to things here and we've done a lot of research
on the care and how to take care of them.
Obviously, Jay spent a lot of time talking
with our friend, Mark
about how you take care of them.
And it's incredible.
- Look at him.
- He looks rubbery, like he does.
- It's so soft, wait till you hold it.
- [Brian] Yeah, it's so weird.
- It's so adorable, man.
- I know when we say we got Drogo,
we were not gonna get more mammals other than the,
of course, small clawed otters.
- [Jay] There you go, Jessica, (laughs)
- Thank you.
- There you go.
- Aw, he's so adorable.
- So we just had to,
it just kind of worked, it fit into it.
I think it just broadens the experience level
when you come to the Reptarium,
obviously, there's again Drogo.
Now there's the Brillo the Armadillo.
Again, eventually, we'll have a small clawed otters
and stuff like that.
So, absolutely amazing.
- [Man] It's so cute.
- [Jay] Isn't it cute?
- He feels not even like a thing, oh my God.
It doesn't feel like a thing, it doesn't feel like a thing.
I never touched anything that feels like this ever.
- [Man] It's funny that his hair is kind of like the-
- It's like a Brillo pad, yeah, (laughs)
- Of course, yeah.
- [Jay] That's bizarre, and absolutely cool.
- It is really soft, it's really strange feeling.
I think it's almost like a wetsuit on the bottom
or something like that.
- In three months, he won't be soft anymore.
- Won't be soft anymore.
- Just enjoy it now.
- Enjoy it while he's here,
and I put him on his belly and give him a little pets,
little pets buddy.
Oh no, he says, no, dad, I don't want that from you.
- [Jay] Oh yeah, he's gonna do it.
Sometimes, he'll like try to dig up here,
he'll try to dig.
(both laughing)
- He is so cute, man.
Oh my god, whoa, you're amazing!
Look at him, I tell you what guys,
I'm in love with him already.
It's such a crazy thing to think,
but again, I just think it's the right way, right guys?
- [Group] Perfect.
- Yeah, it's perfect for the Reptarium.
So this is awesome.
I love him, he is so cool.
So now the big thing, really,
to be honest with you is just to set him up
and get him ready.
Again, we've done a ton of research on the care,
what he needs, and believe it or not,
like I said, Moomoo's cage is perfect,
something that's gonna be six foot by four foot,
it's plenty of space,
could of give him a lot of time
out of the enclosure as well,
but we're gonna have to have some deep bedding in there too,
'cause they love to dig.
So we're gonna have to move Moomoo off, which stinks,
I hate to do that, but this is his new enclosure
and it's gonna be absolutely cool.
So hey, even this weekend at the Reptarium,
you can come and see Brillo the Armadillo,
and again, we'll probably have some special encounters
and stuff like that that we'll be offering as well.
But wow, that is absolutely cool.
Good job, Jay, you did a good job.
- Thanks.
- Some baby Colubrids for us to check out today too.
And this guys, whoa, was absolutely incredible.
This was actually a possible Het diffused Ghost Corn
that was bred to a scaleless Silver Queen.
And to be honest with you,
I didn't even know this was Het for scaleless,
and literally, all but one baby, are scaleless.
And there's a bunch of Silver Queen scaleless.
It looks like some diffuse scaleless,
even some diffused scaleless Silver Queens,
which are incredible.
Look at some of these babies here, hoo doggy,
I tell you what, they're getting all over the place too.
So I got to be careful.
Don't you get out of there, please.
Don't go, go.
There's a lot of baby snakes
that are gonna start to pop,
but wow, look at how gorgeous this,
again, those are the surprises that happen
during the breeding season when you don't even realize
that you have something that's Het,
to have a possible Het diffused and Ghost Corn
and have all these scaleless, it's crazy.
These are so, so awesome,
that was a cool surprise to open up to today.
And we have actually a really cool Cal King clutch here.
This is actually just a couple of black and white Cal Kings
that are really cool.
I love this one here.
Just look at the perfect kind of interesting pattern to it.
It's kind of got the perfect white to black ratio
that is really good.
And sometimes there'll be a little bit like a dark brown
and kind of an off white.
This one is pitch black and really white, really beautiful.
We've got a couple just normal desert phases here.
We even have some high black and white Cal Kings here.
And this one is pretty cool too,
look at the racing stripes on this one here.
It's just, again, kind of an apparent high white,
black, white Cal King.
And then we even actually produced a couple of albino black
and white Cal Kings too,
which I absolutely love too.
That's another surprise that we had this year.
We didn't know our group was Het for albino
and we've been producing some albino black and whites.
It's been probably five years
since we produced albino black and white,
so it's pretty cool to have these spontaneously pop out.
It's definitely a cool clutch of babies, (laughs)
I was absolutely chopped about this clutch right here.
These are actually what they call
white sided Everglade's rat snakes.
They used to call them Ghost Everglades's rat snakes.
But I know these guys don't look very interesting now,
but when they get older,
their white sides come out
and they're actually pattern assigned.
It's a lot like the Licorice black rat snakes,
or that type of stuff where they just have white sides
and then pattern on their back.
So again, just a cool snake.
Look at how cool that,
I love how they flatten their head out when they go to bite.
And they're just so feisty.
They're just absolutely cool.
Of course, they do tame out tremendously
when they get bigger
and they go through a real major oxygenic color change
as they get older, but look at these two monkeys right here.
Oh my God, they are so funny.
- So this is Brillo's penis
and it is about longer than he is,
about two inches longer than him.
- [Brian] He go all the way up, what?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- Pretty gross, a little phenomenal.
- A little fact that I never thought
I would know about armadillos.
- Impressive, that's what it is.
Good job, Brian, impressive, yeah.
We're gonna get Brillo's new home set up.
You got to clean everything, got to disinfect it.
So we're gonna pull all this stuff out
and get to cleaning.
Mike!
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- All right, guys, so we're all clean and disinfected.
We're gonna go grab some dirt
because these guys love to burrow, they love to dig,
they love to hide.
So I'm gonna go get a ton of soil
and then we're gonna get Brillo in here.
(upbeat music)
We're done, we got the soil in here.
We decided to go with the little half and half.
So that way he can come over here to burrow if he wants,
but then he can come over here just to hang out,
scratch around a little bit, do some climbing.
So he got his water dish in here.
We had to wedge it in here pretty good actually,
'cause these guys will flip almost anything
that we put in here, obviously, if they burrow, they dig.
Good morning, it's time to go to your new home.
All right, guys, let's just take a couple minutes.
Let's watch him, we'll see what he thinks.
So as you guys see this exactly what we were talking about,
you see he is already using this dirt
to go ahead and dig and burrow.
It's gonna be super awesome.
We're gonna try to get a little bit more soil in here.
So maybe he has even more space to dig,
but it's crazy to see him doing exactly what he would do
in his natural habitat.
- Here we go.
(hands clapping)
Are you excited?
Jay's fairly excited.
You're excited.
- I don't know.
- [Brian] You don't know?
Okay, here he is in all his glory.
This is Brillo the Armadilla.
- So is he nice?
- [Brian] Yes, he's very nice.
- Has he bite anybody yet?
- [Brian] No, he won't bite, he doesn't bite.
He doesn't even have teeth in the front of his mouth.
- It looks like pickers, but it's actually hair.
- [Brian] It's like a cactus, (laughs)
- [Jay] Pick him up.
- Can you pick it up?
- [Jay] Yeah, of course you can.
(both laughing)
- Almost like an ugly puppy.
- You want to see something?
Watch this, that's his wiener.
- Oh, it's a boy, okay.
- And it's as long as he is.
- [Brian] Jay loves telling that fact, that's...
- Okay, that'll be a good one for the kids.
- Yeah.
(Brian laughing)
- It's as long as he is, does he like to be like this?
- Yeah, you just have to scratch him though,
to get him to stay.
Use your mother nature, there you go.
- Nope, he says nope, nope, nope.
- [Brian] (laughs) He's cool, right?
- He's definitely different.
- [Brian] I think people are gonna love him here.
- [Mimi] Oh, oh, he likes that.
I'm guessing this is a treat.
- [Jay] He'll go all the way in his mouth too
if you can let it, he'll put it all the way in.
(Brian laughing)
- It's been a while since I've fed a baby, got it.
- [Jay] Oh my gosh, it's so crazy.
Put it right back by his nose.
- [Brian] It's kind of like reptilian in a way, right?
- [Jay] It's got the osseoderms on the head and stuff.
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah.
- [Jay] And so I'm gonna try to take it from you.
- [Brian] Look at that tongue.
- [Jay] So that'd be $5, (laughs)
- [Brian] And Lori is the one that okayed this,
can you believe Jay, that she okayed?
- I actually can't believe it.
- [Brian] It happened quick too.
- Yeah, way faster than some of the others.
- [Brian] Literally we talked to Lori yesterday
and it's here today.
- Yeah.
- Well, that's because of you guys it happened so fast,
but, (laughs)
- [Brian] Mimi, just do it.
- No.
- [Brian] Mimi.
- I don't let weird things touch my face.
- [Jay] It's okay, he's not weird.
Oh, she said that about you.
- He's very weird, you're very weird,
but that's okay, that's what makes you special.
- So obviously we did a bunch of research
before we got this animal.
We do this with all the animals we're getting,
Jay was obsessed with it,
so of course, he knew more than I did really quick,
but I did as much research as I can.
And like I said, our friend Mark that produced it
spent a lot of time with us just talking to us
about care, husbandry, housing, all of that type of stuff.
And of course, this is a six banded Armadillo.
So basically, the nine banded armadillos
are the ones that you find here in the Americas.
And those are the ones that actually can carry leprosy.
So obviously, you don't want a nine banded
because you don't want to get leprosy, right?
And then the three banded are the ones
that you see more commonly at zoos and other places.
And those are the ones that kind of curl up into balls.
And that's one of the reasons
why we're looking at maybe getting into armadillos.
We didn't wanna really do the three banded,
not that they're not awesome animals,
but they do kind of hide a lot and curl up into balls
and they aren't nearly as interactive as the six banded.
So that's the reason why we went with this one.
The fact is is that these are one of the larger ones.
They kind of really interactive
and they're a little bit more rare than the other ones.
And they're just super cool because they don't ball up,
and they're always on the go and stuff like that.
The thing that's great about this with interactions,
even with kids
is that they actually don't have teeth upfront, right?
Their teeth are in the back almost like molars.
So they don't really bite, which is really cool.
Although this guy is super tame
and you don't have to worry about that.
Even scratching isn't that bad.
These guys don't have super sharp claws
or anything like that, so they're absolutely incredible.
They are omnivores, right?
So they need to be about 80 to 84 degrees,
they don't really need a basking spot.
They come from south America,
all the way from like Paraguay, Brazil,
all that whole Eastern part of south America
is kind of central all the way to north.
So they are considered least concerned
when it comes to endangered because of their wide range.
And they just are out there, right?
Well, it is really cool to have one,
you don't see them around,
they're often in zoos and they are just so incredible,
such a great ambassador animal.
It's really cool.
So I'll just have a good time learning
as much as I can about these guys
over the next little bit and these little hairs on them,
that's why his name is Brillo.
He almost looks like a little Brillo pad
plus Brillo the Armadillo rhymes, right?
So it's absolutely incredible,
but I can't wait to just share this journey
that we kind of embarked together on here
with having another mammal at the Reptarium.
This one being an Armadillo.
I know you guys didn't see that one coming
with the Armadillo Brillo.
He is absolutely amazing.
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