- My esophagus is in her mouth.
That's where your life flashes before your eyes,
in that moment, that is that moment,
you can see it in my face.
- [Mark] Look at you, you're like, this is bad!
- Yeah, I look constipated, I'm like. (grunts)
♪ Fire ♪
♪ Fire on the mountain ♪
(upbeat bluegrass music)
I think you guys probably all recognize
where we are, at this point.
Our favorite restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, 101BK.
The Base Camp set,
for another episode of Base Camp.
What you may notice is that
we're wearing the same exact outfit
that we wore in the last episode.
Why is that, Mark?
- Because we're actually filming two videos today.
- Back to back.
- We forgot to bring - That's right.
a wardrobe change.
Maybe next time, we'll think about that.
- I don't ever change my - A lot of water
wardrobe, so I was just always good to go.
Now, do you guys have any idea
which episode we're gonna be taking a lot at, today?
'Cause you didn't about the last one, either.
- Nope, nope, no. - No.
- No. - We never know.
Well, I thought it'd be fun to head back
to one of my favorite locations,
the rainforest of Costa Rica.
We filmed many episodes there.
The Coyote Pack has been asking to see this creature,
behind the scenes, can you guys guess what it is now?
- Baby Sloth. - No.
- Eyelash viper? - No.
- Let me give you a hint.
It's cute, cuddly, fuzzy, and it lives in the Rainforest.
- Oh, I think I have an idea.
- What is it?
- Is it gonna stalk us?
- It's not an eyelash viper, Mario, I already said that.
Eyelash vipers are always
stalking things. - No.
- What did you say, sloth?
I told you guys it was fuzzy, cute, cuddly,
and it lives in the Rainforest.
- That sounds like a sloth.
- It does sound like a sloth, doesn't it?
But, it's not a sloth!
As a matter of fact, it's the ocelot.
One of the most famous episodes
on the Brave Wilderness channel.
- One on my favorites actually.
- The star of your book.
Brave Adventures. - Yes!
- Chapter 10, the Shadow Stalker,
if you guys haven't read it, pick it up.
Brave Adventures, available on Amazon, and I think on
the Brave Wilderness website? - Yep.
So, if you guys are ready, let's jump into the episode.
Coyote Pack, you ready?
Yep.
Let's roll the footage. - Alright, here we go.
- Let's do it.
- I'm Coyote Peterson, oh, look at that cute kitty!
This is an ocelot.
Hi, buddy, oh!
- Bit your eye. - My eyeball!
(upbeat drum music)
- [Coyote] Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
Is that a lion roar at the end?
It's kind of a like a dragon.
- It's actually, 'cause I was there
when this was being made, it's a combination
of a grizzly bear, a polar bear,
and a lion. - A Chihuahua.
- Oh, so like, just like in Jurassic Park,
how they made the dinosaur noises,
we mixed multiple animals sounds together
to get that roar at the end
of the break in trailer animation.
- We thought we were real clever,
we definitely stole that technique.
- Brilliant.
Arbitrary flashlight shot, got it!
Oh!
The updated maps. - Ah, the new maps, okay.
Loot at all of that. - Costa Rica.
That shape.
- [Mario] Osa Peninsula, that's our first time in the Osa.
That was such a cool shot. - That was.
Mario, you got all these shots.
What people realize, okay, yeah this is a good spot
probably to pause it, pause it too,
to talk about, like, animal B-roll shots.
Which, you know, you guys running the cameras
can kinda talk about
is they often times, come after the fact.
The ocelot, you know, I think we made it pretty clear,
at this point, it was a wild ocelot, 100% wild.
But, it spent so much time hanging around us,
which is what made it such a unique situation.
All those B-roll shots,
were gotten after we filmed the episode,
and then the cat wouldn't disappear.
It was just, like, hanging out as we're walking back,
following us through the jungle.
Mario was like, get those shots.
- We were walking back to camp, and we're like,
uh is this cat gonna follow us all the way back
to our outpost?
'Cause it's kinda seemed that way.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
But, you did catch some pretty cool elusive looking shots.
- Yeah, it's awesome to actually get some behavioral shots,
so that when you talk about jumping,
or the claws, or whatever, you can put those shots in.
We had a great opportunity with this ocelot,
and that millipede.
- That millipede. - Oh, it stepped on.
That got pounced, that's a wild ocelot.
It's just right here, at my feet.
(groans)
I was nervous, like, I was trying to be
as excited as possible, which I was.
But, I was also nervous, because it's,
I mean, quite a bit bigger than just a normal house cat,
and much more powerful.
So it's like, is this cat really wanting to just hang out?
I remember you were like, see if you can pick it up.
Scroll back a little bit.
You see the look on my face, we cut this shot, I was like,
I think I was like, I'm holding the ocelot!
(laughs)
We're not gonna put that in the episode.
- Is this allowed? - Yeah.
- I was like, am I allowed to hold this ocelot?
I like, so befuddled.
- [Mark] That thing was just so curious,
it was just all over the place.
- We're out at night harping,
looking for reptiles and amphibians.
Walking down the trail, I literally stopped,
and I'm shining my light,
on this giant. - Yeah.
(groans)
Wandering spider.
- That's not a wolf spider, is it?
- Not so much, just a highly venomous.
- But, go ahead and put your hand up next to it,
anyways, 'cause we gotta get - Wandering spider
the scale.
- Hey, that was your call,
and I don't know where you were on that one,
Wildlife Biologist.
- I was out looking for snakes.
- Fair enough, he most certainly was.
Man, look how close my thumb is though, like why?
- It's could. (whoosh)
- Easily could've, we know how fast they are,
now that we've done a wandering spider episode.
But, you know, that comes with
proper species identification guys.
Like, in that instance, what I should've done,
is gone into my adventure pack,
busted out my Insect and Aracnid Field Guide,
and been like, - Yep.
well, that's a wandering spider.
It's not a wolf spider at all,
this one can put a heck of a wallop on your finger.
So, keep going.
Out of the darkness, I hear. (scratching)
- That's really what happened, you know,
I know, we get a lot - It is really what happened.
of questions about this video, particularly are like,
did you guys bring that ocelot in the jungle?
Is that a captive ocelot?
It was not, we were actually looking for pit pipers
that night, we're hoping to find,
an eyelash viper. - Eyelash viper.
We weren't finding any, but something found us.
That's genuinely what happened.
So, craziest episode we may have ever filmed.
- Zooms right past me.
Let's me see if I can get her back.
She likes my snake stick.
She did, she liked anything that was rattling,
like any cat with a toy, it's oh it's game time.
- [Mark] Did you grow up with cats?
Like, 'cause I thought. - I had a cat.
I thought you did pretty great, you know,
coaxing the cat around the cameras.
- I'm more of a dog person, than I am a cat person.
But, for some reason, cats love me.
Anytime I got like, a horse barn,
or somebody's house, and they have a cat,
these cats like pile on me.
I think it's because cats can sense when they're like,
oh you're a dog person?
I'm gonna try to convince you to become a cat person.
We played the snake stick.
She's gonna be all over the place.
Again, I think we noticed this before,
working with Bucky the baby black bear,
you can't control a mammal.
Like, there were points where I was like,
oh let me try to hold onto the ocelot.
The ocelot was like, I don't think so,
I'm not playing this game.
- I think this was one of the first segments
that we actually really just went with the flow.
Just allowed the animal to do what it's gonna do,
and just get your reactions, basically.
- Well, this is one of those,
once in a lifetime opportunities,
and we just wanted to really just document it.
- You don't realize how hard it is
to ever see an ocelot.
You can set up camera traps,
and maybe you go your entire life
never catching a shot of an ocelot.
You might as well be trying to catch shots of Bigfoot,
let alone, we have this encounter.
Now, that I actually think about that,
if we had an encounter like this with Bigfoot,
can you imagine what that video would do?
- We're just gonna with the flow right?
- Go with the flow!
Be like, you want a banana?
Like, you're a primate
let's have bananas. - You gonna try to hold it?
- You gonna pick him up?
- He would probably hold me.
I would try to see if I could - Probably.
get a piggy-back ride from Bigfoot,
that'd be pretty crazy.
Alright, let's keep rolling.
Down this trail, we were told if you walk.
That cat was so soft.
So inquisitive too, look at the little tongue hanging out.
- You know, I remember - She's so cute!
That shot right there, - Yeah.
That was one of the first times
that it actually kinda just stood there.
I was like, alright, gotta get that shot.
- Here she is attacking me.
- That was her mannerisms, that's what she liked to do.
She liked to disappear in the jungle,
and then you would just wait,
and then boom, attack!
- Hunt and pounce, that's the game.
Rustle the bag, rustle the bag.
- [Mark] So cute.
I had a huge smile on the whole time,
we were just like, filming this thing.
- So perfectly into it's environment,
all this cryptic patterning
allows him to stay hidden in the shadows.
What's interesting is that she's panting.
It was really hot out there, it just had rained early.
You can see, like, the sweat pouring off me.
Actually, I'm pretty soaked in sweat.
Paw to the face, paw to the face.
This is the point where I felt pretty comfortable
with the ocelot, I'm like okay,
I'm going in for, like, the snuggle here.
'Cause she just kept jumping all over the place,
and at one point you were like,
man, see if you can just keep the ocelot here
for a few seconds, and throw some lines out.
Get an interaction where you're actually
kind of in control.
Then, this game started.
The paw swap.
- [Mark] I love this part.
She's oh.
- Oh, she put, ow!
- [Mark] It's cute to watch but, in actuality,
that was kinda nerve-wracking.
- I was a little nervous, yeah.
Actually, I'll say the part where I really got nervous.
At this point, it was more just like,
worrying about those claws catching my eyeball.
Anything's out here in the Costa Rican rainforest.
All they have to do is run.
I love, I love, - Great music.
Yeah I love the music that we got in this episode,
it reminds me of A Christmas Story.
Oh, that was crazy!
Kissed by an ocelot.
Where'd you go?
She actually had good breath.
Sometimes you think of, like, a wild animal
to have, like, stinky fish breath.
I've been eating crabs - Oh!
and frogs, oh pause are right there!
Dude! - Yep.
What happened?
- Well basically, at the end of the camera,
there's this big fluffy mic that extends out.
Oh, perfect. - Oh, there we go.
There it is.
So, that's at the end of the camera,
and I've got this low angle.
I mean, to a cat, what do you think this looks like?
- A squirrel. - Yeah, you can kinda see
- It's squishy too. - It's like, you know.
- It's nice and fluffy, so she used her claws.
She just grabbed it.
There he goes,
and brought the camera down.
- That's why we don't have nice things, Coyote.
- I'm surprised you used that shot.
That was kinda funny.
- I just think it was really engaging,
it just goes to show you that anything can happen
when you're filming an episode of entertainment
with an animal, you never know what's gonna happen.
- I think that's my new tactic, though.
Gonna use that mic to lure the animals in.
- I got a great idea!
We should do a Brave Wilderness line
of microphone muffs that actually look like animals.
Squirrels, or little chipmunks, maybe a prairie dog,
it could all be based on the location,
and they're now available on the Brave Wilderness store.
Just go to bravewilderness.com.
- They're not available yet. - Not yet?
- We gotta focus group that.
- Tell us in the comments section below
whether or not you guys think we should make
animal based microphone muffs.
- I kinda like that idea, almost like Tiger Woods,
you know how he covers - Yeah!
his golf club with the tiger head?
- Right, right. - That's not a bad idea.
- Maybe we could use it in Africa,
lure the lions in.
- I'll tell you what, you try to see what happens
when a lion attacks your camera,
and see if we get the same results.
Okay, let's roll the video.
The microphone did survive, in all fairness.
The muff just got ripped up a little bit.
Destroy that muff.
Not something as cute,
oh as an ocelot.
(giggles)
You gotta get that landing down, you know.
She was very pouncy,
and would not hit her landings very accurately.
She loved to tumble.
That was like the thing, tumble off the log.
Here's where the face batting really begins.
- [Mark] Isn't that interesting
how all juvenile animals are somewhat, like,
clumsy and playful? - Yeah.
Like they, oh that's good. - Oh yeah, back that up.
Hold on. - Oh, look at my face.
- There's a moment of panic.
- I'm glad we stopped her right here,
because I think this is often missed
by most people who watch this video.
It happens very quickly, - I'm like. (groans)
but right there, you can see
that the cat has a mouthful of your jugular,
and neck in it's mouth.
- Yeah, my esophagus is in her mouth.
That's where your life flashes before your eyes,
in that moment, that is that moment.
You can see it in my face.
Almost looks like.
- Yeah look, like at you, you're like this is bad!
- Yeah, I look constipated, I'm like, (grunts)
but that's really what it looks like
when a wild cat grabs onto your jugular.
That's how these animals kill their prey.
It's almost like, oh did she trick me
with her cute cuddliness into getting into this position,
where now she can latch onto my throat,
and flick the kill wound?
- All I could think about was let's keep rolling, right?
- Yeah, well get it on camera. - Yeah, exactly.
- We're definitely gonna get it on camera.
As you can see, she let's go really quickly.
- Yeah.
Ow, she just doesn't bite hard, ow.
(groans) It's starting to get painful at this point.
That's again, I'm like, let's put my finger in her mouth
so that that attracts her attention.
- [Mark] You're getting a little
- I was getting scratched up - annoyed here.
a little bit there, this is where her claws were,
she was digging into my back and shoulders to grapple on.
There's a little wrist bite. - Biting you.
That actually, back that up a little bit,
back it up, back it up, just about there.
Something close to this is what the thumbnail
ended up being for the video,
because we didn't get any, like,
photographs out in the wild that were like,
oh this is the moment to use for your YouTube thumbnail.
It's a screen grab, - It's a screen grab.
called Ocelot Attack. - Yep.
It was effective.
It was that, - Yeah, it was,
that shot right there. - I think it was that shot.
Serious damage, she is just loving me right now.
You are just the most adorable thing,
I think I've ever met.
- I think your hat's all messed up.
- Yeah. (chuckles)
Yeah, I was like, oh readjust my hat,
and I still have some scratches on this hat
to this day from that cat.
She's probably only a few months old,
and you can see those paws.
Come here, let's take a look at your paws.
She's like, I wanna explore, I'm outta here!
Oh, I'll get you from this angle too.
Those paws are how,
her paws were like the size of a German Shepherd's paws.
It was pretty crazy. - That's a good example there.
- [Mark] Look at that, right there.
- Is she behind me, right now?
- [Mark] Yeah, probably gonna pounce.
- This was one of the very common moments.
I actually think I had been talking for a while here,
we didn't know if the ocelot would come back,
and you can see the leaves move.
Oh, there she is, she's like, uh oh it's game time.
- Can you hear like, is this cat there?
- Yeah, just some movement like this.
Yup, boom pounce!
Paw in the mouth.
They go right for the hat, I did.
I've tasted the paw of an ocelot.
I have kissed an ocelot, I have tasted the paw of an ocelot,
I've had an ocelot chew on my ear,
that's what happening, right here.
She's chewing on my ear, look at all the slobber in my ear.
First time for everything, ah!
Oh, yeah that's good, she's training right there.
This is where she was biting the back of my neck.
I mean, at least I worked as a training tool,
for her, I guess. - Yeah.
- [Mark] She's learning valuable hunting.
- You can kinda, look at my face,
it's starting to get red, here.
I can kinda even sense watching this,
if you really watch carefully,
I'm starting to get a little like,
how much further is this gonna go?
This is, like you can see right there, on my face, like
I was getting,
itty bitty punctures here.
- [Mark] A little agitated.
- Nothing I can't take.
It was painful.
- Well, you gotta realize too,
this is two and a half hours in,
at this point. - Yeah.
This had been going on for quite a while.
- Keeping your composure when you're like,
oh man, like, I'm getting clawed up
with these tiny, yet very sharp claws,
it wears on you after a while.
- Now, Mario and I, I think I can speak for you
on this one, Mario.
We coulda kept shooting this all night.
We were enjoying this. - Oh yeah.
This was like, amazing. - We were having a great time.
I mean, you can take a few scratches for the team?
No big deal. - Right.
- At this point, I was looking for what is my outro,
when am I gonna have a moment to like,
boom, deliver an outro, and be out of this episode?
We're getting close.
- I can see you thinking about it, right there.
- Rainforest creature.
I'm Coyote Peterson. - There it is.
Be brave,
stay wild, we'll see you on the next adventure.
One outro. - Perfect, I love it.
We did one outro for this, that was it,
that was the moment to get,
and I hit it out of the park.
- [Announcer] Palling around with a wild ocelot.
But, believe it or not.
- Oh, there you can see, there's continuity,
you see the sock right there?
It's like, where did that sock come from?
Why does this ocelot randomly have a wigwam sock?
If you go and watch that episode,
An Ocelot Steals My Socks,
we ended up using one of my wigwam socks
off of my foot, to keep the ocelot engaged in this scene.
Actually, she then. - Very effective
She then took those socks off into the wilderness,
I had to walk back through the jungle,
in my snake boots, barefoot.
So my bare foot was in the snake boot.
- Right, and then yeah,
she took the socks, so somewhere
in the middle of Costa Rica,
there's either an ocelot wearing a pair of wigwam socks,
or there's a couple pair of socks, you know,
kinda decomposing in the jungle, what do you think it is?
- Oh, I think she's probably wearing the wigwam socks,
'cause they're so comfortable.
I'd be wearing those out in the environments.
- See, that's what I think.
- [Coyote] Completely true.
For nearly three hours, this curious cat
followed the crew and I through.
- [Mark] That was cool, in the volume there.
Good shot, Mario.
- [Coyote] Filmed her behaviorisms,
in a totally natural habitat.
This sort of an encounter with wild animals,
it's Bigfoot, no it's an ocelot.
So cute!
Hi, buddy. - What a cutie.
I feel incredibly fortunate, yeah,
to have shared these moments in time.
She was a cruel cat,
special cat.
This is where now, you getting into where
there were more, sort of, like the,
watch the next episode!
- [Mark] She was cooling off in that puddle.
- Yeah, subscribe to join me and the crew
on this season of, oh that's,
I got pinched by the crab right there.
Scared the ocelot.
- [Mark] Oh, and there's the Brave Wilderness outro.
Who out there has noticed the little bird
flying over the mountains?
If you look closely, - Ca-caw!
oh it's there.
It wasn't by accident. - It's an eagle.
Is it an eagle?
Well, an eagle's a bird. - Could be a turkey vulture.
Okay, well hey, that was fun.
- Yeah!
Looking back at the ocelot episode,
I mean, truly an animal encounter that,
at the time, I didn't think anybody would believe.
I remember laying in my bed, at Base Camp,
in the Costa Rican rainforest, thinking to myself,
can we even release this episode?
First of all, I knew we had like,
over three hours worth of footage,
and I was thinking, oh how are we gonna edit this?
But, is anybody gonna believe that this happened?
- I mean, I still honestly can't believe it,
even watching it now. - Right.
It was probably the most amazing animal encounter
that we've had. - Yeah.
- Truly magical.
- Except for the Bigfoot one,
which we just haven't released yet.
Soon, soon guys.
- Speaking of videos, - Yeah.
You've picked them all for this point, Coyote.
But, you've done a good job. - Five of 'em.
I will say, it's been a lot of fun.
But, what do you say we let
the Coyote Pack pick the next one?
- Yes.
You guys write in the comments section below,
and tell us which episodes you want us to revisit.
From here moving forward, it's gonna be audience picks.
- Nice. - Yeah.
- Awesome.
- Well, should we give 'em an outro?
- Let's do it.
- Alright, I'm Coyote Peterson.
- I'm Mark Vins.
- I'm Mario Aldecoa.
- Be Brave.
- Stay wild. - Stay wild.
- We'll see ya, on the next Base Camp adventure.
- See you, guys, yeah. - That was a pretty good one.
- If you love this episode of Base Camp,
and never saw our famous encounter with an ocelot,
make sure to go back and watch the episode,
where I was pounced by this playful, jungle cat.
Don't forget, subscribe!
So you can join me and the crew,
on our next big adventure.
Let's see, what else do I maybe have for you to play with?