As a disabled person it makes me happy too. I wonder if they will put me on display lmao

It's great, especially with Rex being the "centerpiece" more or less, and being special needs due to her early life. Moody being congenitally blind, Ally having suffered an accident, and Rex having been neglected also serves to educate people about how disabilities occur and how to adapt.

So many people think disabilities lessen the value of their animals, which isn’t true at all. I’ve had a disabled dog for 14 years and I wouldn’t trade a minute of it. I’m glad that Emily and Ed can show people that just because animals might have disabilities, doesn’t mean they aren’t perfectly lovable.

Which one has a visible disability??

@@zacharywood9416 there are a few, but Rex is visibly stunted/disabled.

I was wondering the same until I went back and watched the videos of when they where made and you see people inside them 🤣

Is not a camara distortion... Is and Emily distortion... She is so tall that makes everything look smaler

@@adrianaceleste4735 that is so true and made me laugh!! 😂😂

Yeah im only 5ft so I could probably live in those 😂

Same

Yeah indeed you should and maybe make a video about it 😁

She's so chill! 😍

I love colossal snakes.

Hey where is this place and can I have some info

I got a question:when is red gonna move in because he is my favorite reptile

I think you mean do the not dot he right?

@@LilacMorelli I believe they meant “when dogs do the same”

Try too remeber there are multiple classes of reptile. And among them some groups like raptors are incredibly intelligent on a spectrum. Emotional intelligence is not apart of that spectrum for the majority of species. The ability too feel love for exams far too complex for a snake too ever understand or physically feel. So when you humanize a creature that can kill you have too be careful and understand its still not a domestic animal or a mammal. Snakes absolutely can chose a favorite person, they can feel comfortable and and calming sensations in a person's presence. But they will not jump into oncoming traffic for you. They won't notice if you die. Ect. Just be careful and understand even amongst birds, the ability too feel complex emotions isn't universal. Be safe ♡ and love your scally friends. Just be safe. My own bearded dragon was a damn puppy who could snuggle. But I still understand that behavior was mostly one sided. He wasn't snuggling for my sake like a dog might if you had a bad day. He snuggled for warmth and safe naptime. I own a viper that also snuggles, but you could imagine that doesn't happen much. For a multitude of reasons lol.

Some snakes are intelligent. All snakes can befriend and trust humans. But no snake can have a true, loving emotional connection to a human. This is mainly because oxytocin is only found in mammals. ( Oxytocin is the 'love hormone' and generally constitutes something to be considered love; to the best of the knowledge of science. ) By this logic, because snakes are reptiles and cannot produce oxytocin, they biologically cannot feel love. This is also why pet dogs or farm animals can feel love in the most objective sense toward humans. Trust ≠ love. They can and should go hand in hand, but they are not the same thing. You have confused them.

@@austrolonium8115 Well base on observation and parrot intelligence levels that are far higher than dogs, parrots can feel live too. But their intelligence and emotions etc. are in 4-5 years old level (as we know now). So not only mammals. Birds (not all of them but a lot) are able of thinking, feeling emotions such as grief - yes they really mourn after they loose their companion, I am keeping parrots for 20 years, I lost some and I saw how they were acting in the face of their companion death. They can also befriend other species, mine budgie was attached to injured fish that was sitting in hospital tank near her cage. Now I have quaker parrot for about a month, and this is even higher level than budgie or cockatiel, but they show higher intelligence (more like 5 years old) learn quickly (surprisingly quickly), and he really show us that he miss us. When i come back from a walk, he jump on my chest and cuddle under my chin, same with my dad when he come back from work, and he make affection sounds. But well, parrots are one of the most intelligent animals on Earth. And we still keep learning about what they are capable of (and each species is capable of different levels of understanding world around them, words- they can understand words context, they are not simply mimicking, they are talking, they get easily bored - trust me, so easily. They need TONS of mind stimulations or they will be in depression and self harm state, they are playing just for fun, and that list goes on and on. I wasn't aware of this medium parrot intelligence until now, I was sure that only macaws, african greys, amazons and other big parrots show that level, but no, quakers have brain of a most intelligent parrots in much smaller body. But this intelligence is also a minus, as I told, they need so much stimulations, puzzle games, he even play toddler games on my phone and seems to start to understand how it works (and he is just a baby 5 months old), they can't be left alone in a cage for hours - I saw so many bald parrots in the zoos, they need huge amount of space and mind stimulations that most zoos can't offer sadly. And I must admit, taking care of a quaker parrot is like taking care of a child, not a dog or cat. I have both, dog and cats, and none of them is as affectionate as this little bird. Yes both dogs and cats show love to me and family, but not on that level. Sorry for long post, I just wanted to tell that birds are very, very high species when it comes to intelligence :) Most parrots are somewhere in primates level :) as we know now.

I'm sorry you had to give her away, but thank you for enabling so many of us to learn about tegus!

Im happy to see you are very proud and happy of Alaska's future, and i hope you guys have the same happy future as her as well! It is sad that you had to give her away, but its great to know that she is doing amazing with Emily! Have a great day Alex!!

Ally is my fave along with Rex and Jupiter. I learnt to love reptiles through these three and if I could responsibly give a tegu a home ( or any reptile for that matter I would). She’s a beautiful girl and I’m so glad you’re at ease knowing she went to an amazing home. We are so grateful to you all for letting us meet her.

Ally is smol beautiful girly

I love Alaska so much, and I've never met her - I can't imagine how hard it was to give her away. You're such a responsible owner.

If she has a good habitat, good diet and a good home she will live a long time 😊

Yes I would love to pay for a virtual tour! I'm from Europe, so no chance to visit in person 😅😂

@Snake Discovery Would this be an option? Theres a lot of us that cant make it in person.

There might not be enough good contact points for that, but I do agree with you

Seems like a good idea especially if it's a heavy log!

@@Upper_echelon_exotics Yup I agree

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@Emma Kelley same

Same I got a corn snake a few weeks ago actually, his name is Gizmo he is a lavder morph he is also a baby and I love him he is the sweetest darn cornsnake ever ❤ 🥺

When i read the word eden i immediately thought of eden cheese XD im way too addicted to cheesebread

Rex is already in her enclosure

@@Dangowo. I know, but we haven’t seen her put into her enclosure. That’s what I meant.

I am sure Rex deserves her very own moving video.

@@kirstenbass9533 Rex in her enclsoure hasn't shown up in one of Emily's vidoes but she does appear in one of Dave Kafuman's most recent videos.

@@Riceball01 there’s also a fan video on their fb page of opening day.

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Same here.

Same here

@@virkoly1077 Aww

Me too :'(

Feel the same way. It’s definitely not easy traveling from Alaska down to the states 😫

Yes, this!

hear, hear!

They have fun facts on the animals' signs! You've probably seen since it's been a year, but the fun facts can be about the species or the individual iirc

^this

Same#potterhead

Me as a kid: wow that’s so cool that the snake winked at him Me as an adult: WAIT SNAKES DON’T HAVE EYELIDS

@@katehucks774 maybe the snake is an animagus snake 😲

@@Frankenzebra true, but don't animagi just have the normal traits of the animal? i don't know if it would suddenly grow eyelids lol. but- he was also bred in captivity, and it means he would've been in a cage all his life and also a snake all his life. I'm now imagining a small snake at a zoo suddenly morphing into a toddler and panic ensuing lmao

Check Dāv Kaufmann video on the zoo and you will see Rex in her enclosure. It is great.

I suspect moving Rex will be a whole video.

Theyve stated Rex is getting a video all to herself

Maybe not every single one because I think it would be stressfull for her, but that's a good idea!

Congrats!

You can get a sneak peek over at Dave's channel if you want Rex's enclosure spoiled before Ed n Emily show it

@@Jonathan-ug9yu Thx :-) I've already sneaked - of course XD I just can't wait of her moving. I guess it will be a very emotional video, her leaving their house after all these years.

She’s getting a whole video to herself sometime someone said

😂

DITTO

OMG IT HAPPENED!

mee!! Cant wait until Rex his video!

🤣🤣🤣 YES

If I remember correctly the most the logs in the enclosures are cork bark while the rocks are also somewhat if not entirely hollow themselves. Which means they are pretty light weight. So if it did fall I think she would be okay.

Emily made a few videos about brumation. Since they put only the breeding animals in brumation and most of them (if not all) are in the back of the facility, the zoo itself wouldn't be that empty. Here's part 1 of the brumation series where Emily explains in detail if, when and how they brumate their animals kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d62qpZthrNSVhmg.html

Argentine Tegus do brumate, but they don't breed Ally, so she won't be brumated. Since you only brumate snakes that you plan to breed, it's likely they have chosen specimens they don't intend to breed at this time of the species they breed a lot of (bullsnakes/hognoses). That way when its time for brumation, there is only 1 or 2 enclosures they have to remove of the species where they only have one pair, like the foxsnakes. Other species they have that they breed don't need brumation, like the vietnamese blue beauties.

what does brumating mean?? I googled it but the way it was being used didn't make sense to me in the context the definition is in

@@turtle150 it’s a sort of sleep.

@@turtle150 kinda like hibernation, the way I understand it. You lower the temperature of their surroundings during winter to simulate what it would be like in the wild. I don’t know how it relates to breeding, but it does somehow

Oh no! Hopefully they can get a background-matching sticker with the correct name to put over it so they don’t have to have the entire sign redone…

Same 😮😂