00:00 This is Big Lou and he is one amazing alligator snapping turtle.
00:04 If you look inside of his mouth,
00:05 he's got a little red lure for bringing fish in.
00:08 They got about 2,500 pounds of bite strength.
00:10 He can bite a two by two right in half. Hi, I'm Jay Brewer.
00:14 I'm here today to answer some questions off Twitter. This is reptile support.
00:18 Okay. @PrenzlerRyb, how does a chameleon change color? Well,
00:27 that's kind of a technical question, but you know what?
00:30 I'm going to get some help with a chameleon. Okay.
00:33 So we got Greco and it's actually a Panther chameleon. Now, if you see,
00:38 they don't really change color.
00:39 They just modify the colors that are there by squeezing open and close and
00:44 dilating like your eyeball. There's another cool part about him.
00:47 He has two eyeballs that work completely independently.
00:51 So he's actually great at catching his bugs and insects.
00:55 And look at how beautiful he is. @MaggotStomp,
00:58 do alligators chew their food? Absolutely not.
01:03 And you know what? I think we'll go feed Darth Gator, our giant Gator,
01:07 and you'll see he just swallows it whole. Okay.
01:11 This is Darth and Gomer. Darth, let's show them. Do you chew your food?
01:16 Oh, there you go. He doesn't chew his food.
01:21 He swallows it whole.
01:23 The only time you would even consider it kind of chewing their food is the
01:26 attempt of maybe breaking the shell of a crab or something like that.
01:30 @JackVandertal,
01:31 if you were bitten by a venomous snake, would you know what to do?
01:35 Unfortunately,
01:37 I'd really know what to do because I've been bit by a venomous snake at 23 years
01:40 old and it was not a pretty sight.
01:42 Some people actually say the first thing you're supposed to do is suck out the
01:46 venom. Completely a myth. That venom that went in is in.
01:51 End of story. Truth is when I got bit,
01:53 the first thing I did was start sucking the venom out.
01:55 So I thought my lips started tingling and the tingling. I thought, Oh my gosh,
02:00 I shouldn't have sucked it out. It got in my mouth, but that's not what happened.
02:03 The effects of the venom were already through my whole system in
02:08 seconds and my lips were tingling because of the venom inside my bloodstream.
02:12 That being said, if you get bit by a venomous snake,
02:15 the most important thing to do is stay calm and work your way towards a
02:20 hospital as quick as possible at planet reptile 23 question
02:24 for all snake handlers, wildlife experts handling dangerous reptiles.
02:29 What type of handling gear do you commonly use when handling snakes?
02:34 Some kind of snakes are not venomous,
02:36 so I might take a little risk and use my hands. Best tools ever made.
02:40 End of story. That being said, if I'm going to hold something dangerous,
02:44 I'm going to actually need a little bit of space. Something like a pair of tongs.
02:48 We also use these for feeding big pythons and stuff because the snakes excited
02:52 going after its food. Then the snake hook snake hook.
02:56 What it actually is for is that when the venomous snake that you're holding
03:00 drops his head in here, he's no longer can strike left or right.
03:04 Then you got your tongs and that can be used for a lot of different things for
03:09 handling tarantulas, scorpions, little venomous animals,
03:13 and also for feeding small animals. It works really well.
03:16 At James R us 42 without cheating.
03:20 What venomous snake has the longest fangs in the world? Wow.
03:24 That's the easy one.
03:25 I think I should get out a giant Gaboon Viper and show you how amazing they are.
03:29 This is a Gaboon Viper got the longest fang of any venomous snake in the world.
03:34 And you could tell that from that big head and actually has the most venom to
03:39 dump at one time, not to mention one of the fastest striking snakes.
03:44 Even has a horn like a Rhino Viper. They're closely related.
03:48 Both of them have this incredible pattern and color to hide in the forest floor
03:53 in Africa.
03:54 A a a one E two R three. Wow.
03:58 That one I better go back to school for.
04:00 What's the difference between a gator and a crocodile? Anyway,
04:05 a crocodile generally speaking has a long slender,
04:09 more V shaped nose where an alligator has got that nice U shaped nose.
04:14 Now the interesting part about that question is there's actually only two types
04:18 of gators in the whole world. They actually come from China and America.
04:22 If it's not a Chinese alligator or it's not an American alligator,
04:26 it is an alligator. Anyway, at Tango 89,
04:29 how do I lidless creature creatures clean the moisture of their eyes?
04:34 You know what? I think I'm going to cheat on this one.
04:37 Get a subject out to show you. This is George,
04:40 the giant new Caledonia gecko largest gecko in the world.
04:44 Now get those a lot of times have eyelids, but they don't close completely.
04:49 This one has no eyelids.
04:51 And what it does is actually just lick their eye like a windshield wiper,
04:56 kind of wild. But then when you have a snake, for instance,
04:59 it doesn't have eyelids either.
05:01 It gets a brand new lens every time it sheds. Pretty amazing.
05:05 Okay. At Graham, our kid,
05:09 can reptiles be said to have personalities? Absolutely.
05:13 So I have a lot of monitors lizards and they have a lot of personality.
05:18 So today I'm going to play with one of them and let you see what a rambunctious
05:22 little critter this particular one is.
05:24 And maybe we'll get a second one out and you can see how calm and relaxed the
05:28 other one is. I'm going to show you a little mini dragon.
05:31 That's got tons of personality. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
05:35 Here, here, come on. So we're going to take her for a swim. Here we go.
05:38 Here we go. Whoa, there we go.
05:40 So you see every animal's got a little bit different personality.
05:45 This guy here is a pure swimming, hunting, wild creature.
05:50 Oh, there you go.
05:51 It's great exercise for animals to interact with people.
05:55 And this is one of the ways it's called enrichment to make an animal love its
06:00 life. I'm going to show you a completely different personality. Come on,
06:03 come on, come on. So he's pretty laid back so much.
06:08 So that he won't chase it like that. Come on.
06:10 His name is Fabio and he's just a big sweetheart.
06:13 He's like more relaxed, more chill hair here. Come on.
06:18 There you go. Gentle, relaxed, just a complete,
06:23 whoa, what did you do? Vanishing chicken.
06:26 The other guy, if I tried to do that, he'd have my hand,
06:29 but all of them are very cool. Each one's a little bit different.
06:32 Kind of like you at Una Mary.
06:35 What if dragons exist in real life? Oh God.
06:39 I'm going to show you some footage of a giant dragon in Komodo Island.
06:43 Look at this guys. This is the most incredible time of my life.
06:48 This is the peak right here. I don't know if it's going to get better than this.
06:50 The two biggest lizards in the Island meet up at dinner time on the beach.
06:55 Wow. Look at him. They exist. Okay.
07:00 At TNT gal, why do Cobras have hoods?
07:04 Actually it's to make them look big and scary when they jump up,
07:08 they triple their size,
07:09 they start making a loud noise and it's going to scare off any animal that's
07:14 going to attack them. At Swagna, are iguanas dangerous?
07:18 Can they bite?
07:19 So the funny part is I think iguanas are the most underrated animal for being
07:24 dangerous. Not only they have razor sharp claws,
07:27 they have an incredible bite because they have to bite through lettuce,
07:31 leafy stuff and get a clean cut.
07:34 So unlike a snake that has really no bite except long teeth to hang on,
07:39 these teeth are actually for cutting.
07:40 I've seen some horrible bites from iguanas,
07:43 but let me show you how beautiful they are. And to be fair,
07:46 I've seen some amazing pet iguanas.
07:48 I'm going to show you one that we've had for many years.
07:50 So this is actually Jolly Green.
07:52 He's a rescue iguana because a lot of people don't realize iguanas can get big
07:57 and most people don't realize that they go in heat kind of like a dog,
08:01 except that when a male iguana goes into heat,
08:03 they get very aggressive and they want to be dominant and they can bite you
08:06 severely. That being said, they can be great animals.
08:10 And Jolly Green is luckily relaxed and he's about 25 years old.
08:15 We've had him over 10 years. He's absolutely amazing,
08:18 beautiful animal and not your normal iguana.
08:21 At Beralfi, Komodo dragon saliva kill the prey? Actually,
08:27 no. They used to say that the saliva would eventually kill it from
08:32 infection, but that's not true. It's not the bacteria.
08:35 The actual truth is their saliva is venom that is made to paralyze the
08:40 animal just long enough for the Komodo dragon to actually finish it off and eat
08:44 it. At Janet SK Watson,
08:46 how do you tell the difference between a Python and a boa? Okay.
08:50 So boas and pythons are both constrictors. They're both snakes.
08:55 They're both reptiles,
08:56 but boas have live birth and pythons lay eggs.
09:00 And those are all the questions for today. Peace out.
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