- Good morning, everybody and welcome to the Vlog.
I hope you start your day is absolutely incredible.
You know, I've been thinking about something for a while now
and it's with my guy Elvis, you know.
Now I remember that I've seen this with Komodo dragons
a few times in the wild, they will eat larger prey
and they'll rip the flesh off and stuff like that.
And then of course, we feed smaller meals to Elvis
and I've been thinking what would happen if we allowed him
to try eating larger say, little baby frozen pig, you know,
and would he actually do it and the advantages is
number one, it's mentally enriching,
but also it builds their neck muscles
because they're supposed to be ripping
at things in the wild.
So I think I'm gonna go ahead get Elvis,
get him up front over here, lure him up with the ball
and then see if we can have a go
at a little baby frozen, thawed pig.
If you guys don't like gore, probably won't like
this next five minutes of this video,
but let's just see what happens 'cause I think
it's gonna be a really great thing for Elvis.
Really mentally enrichment, good physical energy for him
and I think he's gonna actually enjoy it.
I don't know what's gonna happen,
what do you say we give it a shot.
Come on Elvis, let's go, come on, come on.
So I put a pig all the way up front
and I'm trying to lead him over.
I'm gonna lead him a little bit and give him some food,
just to motivate him.
There you go, let's go.
Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming.
Give one more piece of food here.
There he goes.
But lead him to the pig.
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Well, he's definitely got the pig in his mouth right now
but he's not gonna be able to eat
the whole thing whole that's for sure.
What is he thinking?
I hope he's gonna actually kinda tear into it.
That's the whole idea of something like this.
Not like as a whole pig you silly monkey.
What are you thinking?
Oh my gosh, I seriously think
he's gonna try to eat it whole.
I don't want him to do that.
This is not at all what I was expecting him to do.
Look at this.
I don't want him to eat it like that, what?
This is not at all what I was thinking
he was gonna happen.
I don't know if he can even eat something this large.
What are you doing Elvis?
I thought for sure he was gonna rip it apart
and just kinda tear into it not do this to it.
Wow, I don't know, I'm just gonna sit back
and watch and see what happens here.
Honestly don't think he can eat it like this.
This is not what I was hoping for.
I didn't want him to try to swallow it whole
is definitely stressing me out.
What I was really hoping is that he would get in there
and start tearing apart again with that mental enrichment
and also kind of helping all those muscles
and doing something.
And now all he's trying to do is eat it whole.
Take a look what he's doing right now,
he's actually using the rock.
You know, these guys are so absolutely intelligent, right?
I mean, all the time she's been mapping his play style,
he's climbed over these rocks 100 times.
And you wonder if he knows that, and he's now trying
to use that as a tool.
I mean, this is pretty amazing.
It's been 20 to 25 minutes and he's continuing
to try to figure a way to eat this thing whole.
Obviously, that rabbit is gonna be too big
and I'm stressing out.
I don't know if I should just pull it away from him
or what, I'm hoping he'll just let it go
and start actually ripping into this thing.
And there he goes, he finally let it go.
That's what I was hoping for.
Now, I'm hoping he'll do what I was hoping he was gonna do
from the beginning, which is just kind of tear into it.
I realized this is graphic guys,
I'm not taking joy in seeing this animal ripped apart.
I'm just thinking it's really good for Elvis,
because it's doing all kinds of great things
for his kind of mental enrichment.
And again, just strengthening those eyes.
This is what they would do in the wild.
And there it is finally, he's doing what I was hoping
he's gonna do ripping into it.
This is what they would do if they find a carcass
in the wild in Indonesia and the Philippines,
but he's still using those rocks and all these other things
as tools to aid him in actually eating this.
This is awesome.
I find it really interesting how he holds the prey item
with his mouth, but then he's using the claws
to actually rip the skin open so he can get
into the more tender meat areas.
Oh, yeah, I tell you a good thing.
There's no smelly vision on this 'cause seriously,
this thing reeks.
Really not sure what's going on right now.
I mean, he's literally just walked away from the animal.
I'm not sure if he got bored with it
or he just doesn't think he can eat it.
I'm not sure let's just give it a few minutes
and see if he comes back to it.
(upbeat music)
Okay, he's coming back.
He's coming back towards the pig.
But wait, he's keying in on Jeffrey.
Come on Elvis, (mumbles) Jeffrey,
look at how they're kinda looking at each other,
It's a staredown right now, but obviously there's a glass
in between them.
So I'm completely fine.
Elvis hit over here and eat this pig.
(upbeat music)
Hilarious he's back at it.
And listen guys, like I said, I don't take any joy
in seeing that this is just nature.
It's good for him.
This was a frozen thawed pig anyways.
And the truth is, is although it's graphic,
and it's kind of you know wild,
that one of the most amazing experiences
I've ever had in my life was at my feet
watching cheetahs eat an Impala.
And you know as much as nature can be brutal,
it's awesome to see it and this is really what nature
is all about.
You gotta remember guys Elvis has never had to work
for his food right?
We caught it up, we give it to him
all that type of stuff, this is the first time that
he's had to do what they do in the wild.
And again, it's good for him right?
It's strengthening those muscles,
it's making his mind work how to get to that pray.
This is something that we're definitely gonna want
to probably do at least maybe once a month
or every six weeks 'cause I think this
is really, really good for him.
(upbeat music)
Alright guys, it looks like Elvis is done.
And again I apologize for those you guys
that think it's gross.
I mean, I don't mean to go and show you
something super graphic that's gonna gross you out.
I just wanna show you kind of nature and how amazing it is.
And we're trying to simulate the best we can
for these animals here at the Rep Terim of nature.
And this is something they would do.
This is great for them and again,
Elvis is kinda gonna come out of this with
a stronger neck muscles.
He's had this mentor, he's probably tired out
like you can't believe this is the hardest he's ever worked
for food and it was pretty amazing.
And I think it's something that we definitely
we'll continue to do but as for now,
this is pretty gross.
So I'm just gonna find Bruce to clean this up
'cause you know I ain't gonna to do it.
Hey, Bruce, where you at?
Baby, baby, babies.
We've got lots of babies right now.
This is actually just a head snow
that was bred to a coral snow.
Interestingly enough these guys here
are actually goes corns.
So the fact is, is there is also hypno
in this particular genetics here and the hypnos
are actually these little monkeys right here.
The ones that are more strawberry looking.
Those are hypnose.
So I didn't expect to produce hypnose in this
but we've got ghosts, we've got hypnose,
we've got snows, we've got albinos all kinds.
We even have normal corns and these are all
that coral snowline that really beautiful pink line.
So these are absolutely gorgeous little babies
lots of corn snakes this year.
You guys know that we love corn snakes,
we had a really banger of a corn snake year.
A bunch corn snakes that actually, this is actually
a triple head, snow stripe corn that was bred to a coral.
So everything in here is hat for stripe corn,
but it's also got some coral stuff.
We've got some black corns right here,
here's another little black corn over here.
Of course we just have one little coral snow corn right here
and then some double hats and so on like that.
So again, we could produce some snow stripe corals here
in the future.
That's why we did this breeding.
So raise some of these guys up, breed them in the future
here and another couple years and produce
some really beautiful snow stripe corals.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Finally had that one clutch it was a Pistavi orange dream
to a normal that hatched out that I was really happy with
the eyes 'cause I had mentioned there's only three eggs
and I really wanted to add some more orange cream stuff.
And first off we got this pastel orange dream.
Unbelievably beautiful.
I tell you what, the orange dream really adds
a tremendous amount of color to that.
I mean just pops it, it's absolutely incredible.
Then we actually got another little
pistavi orange dream here.
Again, you know that the pistavi's are great on their shelf
but then you add that orange dream
and it just really makes the colors clean up
and also pop a little bit and then we ended up
having a little pistavi here that doesn't look like
an orange dream or it might be a low expression orange dream
so we probably will just have this one is a pistavi
which is a pastel and a mojave because I don't know
that it's an orange dream.
I will say it's a very, very pretty pistavi
but I don't think it's an orange dream.
You can see the difference in color between
this one and this one here.
Others have so much orange in it, this one doesn't
so I'm pretty sure it's just a really pretty pistavi..
I tell you what guys, this was an interesting clutch.
This was actually a spider specter,
the spectre is a lilith for super stripe spread
to a pastel crystal which is mojave pastel and special.
We've got some crazy stuff right here.
First off let's start with these two here,
these two monkeys right here.
These are spiders, they're mojaves and they're specters.
So a spider mojave specter
and they look absolutely incredible.
Now on the other hand we have this right here
which is actually a spider special and a specter.
You can see the difference between the mojave
and the special stuff just how it changes
the color but these things are incredible.
Then we just have a little bit of a spider special
right here, then this one here is pretty cool.
This is actually a spinner mojave, so it's a spider,
it's a pinstripe and it's a mojave.
I don't think that there's anything else in it,
it's a little hard to tell with that one,
so I think I'm just gonna leave it at that
but I'm not 100 sure.
And then we have a lemon blast specter right here
which is the pastel a pinstripe and the specter.
So really an interesting clutch of snakes.
And look at how beautiful these guys are
so much diversity in one clutch.
Those mutations mixed together made for some banger animals.
(upbeat music)
We have a clutch ball pythons that are the majority
already pipped out you know.
In the incubator things are starting to really pop.
It's hard for me to even keep up to be honest with you,
it's just a pastel female bred to a pin calico yellow belly,
so we can see we have a little lemon blast right here
that's not quite out of the egg.
We do have just a normal yellow belly right here
that is 100% on the egg.
And then we have a bunch of heads poked out
and stuff like that.
So who knows you know we could potentially produce
lemon blast calico yellow bellies which would be
the kind of pinnacle animal in this.
Let's go ahead and cut the rest of these eggs,
even though most of them are already pipped.
We know this one's here, so let's move on
to egg number two.
Egg number two, okay first one we've cut
but egg number two 'cause the first one's basically
already hatched.
And it looks like, wow guys I think we did.
We hit the lemon blast calico yellow belly
right off the rip.
Man that's a cool snake, holy moly
is that thing beautiful.
And usually the pinstripe doesn't have a lot
of calico to it.
This one is a ripper that's about as most white
as I've ever seen on a lemon blast before.
So this one is gonna be absolutely incredible
when it hatched out.
Right off the rip we crush it
so that's awesome but we should have a bunch of eggs to go.
We'll just go ahead and just see what is
in the rest of this clutch.
What do we have here, ooh that's a pretty snake right there.
That looks like maybe a pastel, it's definitely
a pastel yellow belly could be a pastel calico yellow belly
with like low white cause it's really, really beautiful.
Nevertheless gorgeous snake, gorgeous snake.
Egg number three that's actually egg number four
because the first one we didn't cut.
And another lemon blast calico yellow belly.
This one isn't as high white as the first one
but still absolutely incredible oh my gosh,
these things are so cool.
When these crawl out of the eggs,
you guys are gonna love them.
So that'll be in the next few days,
I'll give you the update on that you're gonna freak out.
Wow to get two of the Paul Jean animals already
is pretty freaking spectacular.
Let's see what we have here.
What do we have here?
Oh I gotta just cut it just a little bit more
just to see what's going on.
Definitely a lemon blast, definitely looks like
another lemon blast calico yellow belly.
Oh my gosh, we've had three of them
on the first five eggs how crazy is that!
These things are so badass I mean that is awesome
and we still have four eggs to go.
I couldn't imagine odds being better than that.
That is for sure and then out of nowhere
we just get a normal ball python.
Again odds are pretty long that you're gonna produce
a normal ball by them but that's what we did
so let's go ahead three eggs to go.
All right here we go.
What do we got here, uh looks like just a lemon blast
but it looks like a lemon blast yellow belly
really pretty high color but you can see the difference
when you got that calico, really fades it out
a lot more than that.
So this is just a lemon glass which is a pastel pinstripe
and a yellow belly.
All right a couple more eggs and we are done.
So this is a pink calico yellow belly
so this is just like daddy.
Pink calico yellow belly just doesn't have the pastel in it.
And the last egg, let's see what we got here
whoo dog yeah what a clutch man.
I tell you what, so it looks like a pinstripe
maybe a calico pinstripe yeah it looks
like a calico pinstripe most likely
not a yellow belly in that not a pastel but how wow,
we produced three lemon blast calico yellow bellies
how amazing was that.
Again I realized that, that footage was pretty brutal
in some ways but that was nature and it was really
a great enrichment for him.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it it was something that
although didn't maybe take enjoyment of seeing an animal
get ripped up was definitely interesting
and I know it was really good for Elvis.
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