At this point, Dr Pepper should start sponsoring Maya and Alveus Sanctuary!

I avoid associating feeding response when opening enclosure for my snakes by getting them out for a while and letting them explore before feeding them. That way they can still eat in their enclosure where it is more comfortable for them, but they don’t associate the door opening with food. Obviously more difficult with an animal that has already built that habit, but one of my snakes I got as an older rescue who wasn’t let out of the enclosure for a whole year before I got her so she took some work

I would love to see a collaboration with snake discovery and alveus! Think it would be very educational and so entertaining!

Shout out maya and the whole alveus staff for putting together such amazing content ❤️ yall are an inspiration

This helped me so much with my fear of snakes! They're kinda cute and I care about their well-being! Thank you Maya 🥰

I’ve listened to all 60ish episodes of your conservation cast and then while not working went back and watched them. Very interesting stuff

The Sweetwater round up video actually made me cry. What is it with some people and making a happy get together-bring the whole family-carnival thing out of butchering so many animals? I don't think it's anything to be happy about even if it's necessary.

It would be really interesting to see a video on is what can happen to animals when they are kept as pets. And the behaviors and socialization that is missing. Maybe drawing it on the screen physical detriments?

i havent watched this whole video yet so maybe she mentions this but did yall know they just recently (december 2022) discovered that female snakes have a hemiclitoris?? maya has talked about male snakes having hemipenises before but the new research suggests that snakes might mate for more than just reproduction! apparently theyve actually found the hemiclitoris before but disregarded it and never looked into it further due to human stigma around female anatomy. super cool stuff

I love snakes so much

nice! i love listening to these videos

I mean at least yall are using the whole snake and not just killing them side note rattlesnake jerky is delicious

Not sure if this is a good idea, but have you seen play by play commenters on sports, where they use the telestrator and draw plays and x's and o's over the screen while they explain what the heck just happened? I think a kind of shorts series where you review Alveus clips, but then draw over them to point things out in the background or specific behaviors could be kinda fun. (Maybe not the content you want to make, but this could probably work on human clips as well). It'd almost be like your new voiceover vlog style, but with added drawings on top. [Edit: Oh, actually, could be cool to do something like this with bug hunt or looking at flowers/plants, where a knowledgeable person can identify the bug or something, then pull up a higher quality picture and then maybe point out some of the key distinguishing features.] This might not work, but a fundraising stream where you take drawing requests from donators in chat and you draw on the screen. Or perhaps even have tiers where the ones drawn on screen tend to get erased and replaced very quickly, but ones drawn on the whiteboard will tend to last longer, and then a really high tier where you draw something on a postcard and mail it? Maybe even switch off and have Connor or lindsay draw some while you're busy with higher dollar requests. Sounds logistically nightmarish. But hey lol. You could take a page from Pirate Software and literally just live-animate a story you're telling or a point you're making, like a storyboard haha. That seems crazy. But it's a thing that is theoretically possible. Ok, this is getting into far-stretch territory, but perhaps at the end of a collab, you could ask the streamer for one concrete thing that they might change or do when they go home. Then, when they describe it, you encapsulate that into a fairly simple sketch of them and their commitment. Ok, there you go. As requested, a bunch of bad ideas of how to use the drawing on screens capability for you LOL

Those red necks are gross. Poor rattle snakes 🥺

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Should I microwave my cat food? I mean, if we’re gonna give them fake carcass meat, might as well make it seem fresh.

god that event, i didnt know people could be so horrible in such large groups going to an event to mass kill living creatures inhumanely, forcing them into immensely stressful situations before taking their life when their actual danger to humans is that low? population control for some animal species can be important, but to derive joy from it in this way is sick regardless of whether its necessary to protect the ecosystem or not. its a painful truth but props to maya for raising awareness

There’s reptiles with no legs that aren’t snakes

Yo all the content is dope and I love it and shit, have you ever considered flipping the chat vertically so it scrolls downward and is more readable?

Damn Maya's like every movie serial killer, just be keeping skins all over the place, prob wearing them around when no ones looking....