When Wildlife STRIKES: Coyote's Extreme Moments Compilation

0:01 I am getting nervous now.

0:02 Go turn back now, buddy.

0:06 You

0:06 all right?

0:07 Don't get stung alive.

0:08 All right.

0:08 All right.

0:08 You got to get off.

0:09 Go ahead and just jump real hard.

0:13 They're all in my face.

0:17 From high in the sky, the Snorn Desert looks like an endless expanse

0:21 of rocky terrain that is speckled with cacti.

0:25 And hidden amongst this unforgiving environment exists a world of animals,

0:30 many of which can be difficult to spot.

0:33 However, today is going to be a little

0:35 different as instead of looking for the animals,

0:38 they are literally going to be placed right in front of us or in my case,

0:43 directly on my skin.

0:44 That's a lot of bees.

0:46 With the goal to prove that honeybees are not

0:48 just out to sting you, or so I thought,

0:52 the crew and I headed out to Life's Sweet Honey Farms,

0:55 where I will be working alongside bee specialist Chris Britain.

1:00 Chris and his team specialize

1:01 in safely removing beeworms from residential areas,

1:05 honey farming, and per my special request, bee beards.

1:12 This the craziest thing you've done this morning, coyote?

1:14 Sure is.

1:15 So that they shaved off my fur beard.

1:18 Ah, yes, the beard.

1:21 I'm sure you were wondering, Coyote,

1:24 what in the world happened to your fur beard?

1:26 Well, the answer to that question is that I shaved it off to make room

1:31 for the nearly 3,000 European honeybees that will

1:34 soon be swarming all over my face.

1:37 Get ready for the newest trend in facial hair fashion, the beard.

1:45 The following scene was filmed on private

1:47 property and under the supervision of bee specialists.

1:52 A single sting has the potential to be fatal.

1:56 Never approach a beehive in the wild.

2:03 Okay.

2:03 Well, we're going to start the preparation here.

2:06 Chris is actually going to apply Vaseline, you said,

2:08 to my nose and my ears and near my eyes so

2:11 that the bees don't go into these holes in my face.

2:14 Right.

2:15 Well, you're going to either look homeless with a beard

2:16 or we're going to look like a nice manicured beard.

2:18 So, this is a pseudo queen.

2:19 This is basically a queen pheromone lure.

2:22 So, this is what's going to push those bees to actually

2:24 gather somewhere because they're actually looking for that queen pheromone.

2:27 They've been separated for a while.

2:29 So, this is what's going to actually hold them on your face.

2:32 So, we're going to put this underneath your chin.

2:33 So, this is going to be the attractive.

2:35 This is the attractant.

2:37 All right, guys.

2:37 Well, I think we have reached the uh final moment here.

2:41 It's either back out or get covered by bees.

2:45 And uh I don't think there's any backing out at this point.

2:48 I have the pheromone attached to my chin.

2:51 Got GoPro here.

2:53 GoPro on my shoulder.

2:54 Both of your cameras going.

2:56 Now, wait, wait, wait, wait.

2:57 Before we go through with this, how do I get the bees off?

2:59 What if something goes wrong?

3:00 What do I do?

3:02 Good luck, man.

3:02 I'm just going to drive away.

3:03 I got Nothing's going to go wrong.

3:07 Um, when it comes down to the bees,

3:09 if they get to the point where they are stinging excessively, Yeah.

3:12 you can just shake off real quick.

3:13 I put these in your pocket.

3:15 Oh, epinephrine pens.

3:17 Just in case this really goes wrong.

3:21 I am getting nervous now.

3:23 Now I'm getting nervous.

3:24 I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to take on the BB beard challenge.

3:29 Are you ready?

3:32 Yep.

3:31 Okay, let's do this.

3:33 No turning back now, buddy.

3:41 Come on, girls.

3:44 Come on, girls.

3:44 Up you go.

3:47 How you feeling now, Co?

3:49 It's a lot of bees.

3:50 It's tough to talk.

3:53 There's

3:53 a bee right on your nose.

3:55 I feel it.

3:59 That's a lot of bees.

4:04 Are you feel Are you feeling nervous?

4:10 Have you been stung yet?

4:11 No stings yet.

4:14 That's good.

4:14 That means you're remaining calm.

4:15 My leg is shaking.

4:18 Ow.

4:19 Stuck in the lip, man.

4:23 It's stuck on you.

4:29 You all right?

4:31 Mhm.

4:30 Be brave.

4:33 My neck just got some.

4:34 I'm going to take a couple steps back.

4:37 I just got some right in my head.

4:39 I didn't realize we were getting swore by bees this morning.

4:42 Got a lot of bees on me.

4:44 Get more.

4:50 You got it.

4:50 You got it.

4:51 Getting stung a lot.

4:52 They're getting stung about six times.

4:57 Oh, the neck is getting stung again.

5:02 This is what we start with right here.

5:04 We just get most of the bees to start on him.

5:06 And then what they're going to do is they're going to emit a pheromone.

5:09 And it's a location pheromone.

5:11 And those bees are just going to start basically migrating.

5:14 So now I can actually just basically hold this right here.

5:17 And they're going to all start marching up.

5:19 Are all the bees out?

5:21 No, dude.

5:22 My lip is swelling up.

5:25 You're all right.

5:26 You definitely have a full neck of bees.

5:28 I can feel them all.

5:31 Are you still getting stung?

5:32 No, not right now.

5:36 So, what is coyote?

5:38 Oh, it's starting to look again.

5:40 Oh, no.

5:46 Oh, same spot.

5:48 Really starting to hurt.

5:50 Okay.

5:51 Mhm.

5:51 Wow.

5:51 Cody, there you are just covered in bees, man.

5:54 It's actually turning out pretty well.

5:58 What?

6:02 All right.

6:02 I think I need to get him off.

6:04 Are you okay or you want them off?

6:05 That's a lot of pain.

6:06 Oh, you're But you've almost got it.

6:08 You're so close.

6:09 Go ahead.

6:10 You're going to do this.

6:11 You got it.

6:12 You got it.

6:13 Power through.

6:14 You got this.

6:14 You're already going to get You already got stuck.

6:16 You're good.

6:17 I'm definitely I'm getting stung a lot.

6:20 All right.

6:20 All right.

6:21 Got to get him off.

6:21 Go ahead and just jump real hard and just Whoa.

6:26 They're all in my face.

6:35 Smoke me.

6:35 I'm getting so quite a bit.

6:47 Oh, yeah.

6:47 He just he just stung you big time.

6:49 He got stung up, huh?

6:51 You want to walk away?

6:53 Just go ahead and walk away here.

6:57 This way.

6:57 Here.

7:00 Oh man, my face hurts.

7:01 Are you?

7:01 Oh man, you should see this thing you have in your neck.

7:04 Oh my gosh.

7:05 Are you okay?

7:05 Yeah.

7:06 Yeah.

7:06 Yeah.

7:06 Yeah.

7:06 Are you Is your tongue swelling up?

7:08 The tongue is is the indicator.

7:09 We need to know.

7:10 No, not yet, but my face is on fire.

7:12 Oh man.

7:13 Okay, here.

7:13 I think I think we're good now.

7:15 There's only a couple bees and they're just falling the pheromone in your face.

7:18 Hold on.

7:18 You still have Oh, let me You got stingers all in your ears.

7:22 Oh my gosh.

7:23 Let me see.

7:23 Get them out.

7:25 There's mine.

7:25 Dude, I got stung like so many times.

7:28 All of a sudden, like all at once started stinging my face.

7:31 My ears.

7:32 Let me get the stinger out of here.

7:36 You okay, buddy?

7:38 Yeah.

7:38 Sorry.

7:38 They just I just was getting a lot of stings.

7:40 No, that's fine, buddy.

7:41 You got them through your shirt and everything.

7:42 For some odd reason, all of the sudden,

7:46 they started just absolutely going to town on you.

7:48 You can see.

7:49 Look at that right there.

7:50 That actually literally

7:51 It like drew blood.

7:52 Yeah, I like got blood to the surface.

7:54 You just got stung like 40 times in the face by honey bees.

7:59 40.

8:01 I don't think that was supposed to happen, Chris.

8:04 I don't know why I wasn't getting all blasted up.

8:06 I mean, I got

8:07 I got stung like once or twice, but he was literally just getting beat up.

8:18 Oh my gosh, dude.

8:19 My pain is in My face is in so much pain right now.

8:22 You're right.

8:23 How's the tongue?

8:28 Really, really painful.

8:29 My tongue is not swollen, but my entire my lips I can't feel my lips.

8:33 OW.

8:35 WHERE'S MARIO AT?

8:36 He's over there filming.

8:37 Hey, Tommy, come over here.

8:38 Hey, Mario.

8:41 Mario.

8:41 It's probably covered up by B sounds still.

8:43 Come over here.

8:46 Was it worth it?

8:48 Oh, man.

8:48 I can see my lip in the lens.

8:51 You don't want to look at yourself right now.

8:53 You don't want to look in a mirror right now.

8:58 Well, I guess I better give you some sort of an outro before I

9:00 can't talk cuz I find that my lips are not working properly at the moment.

9:05 All right.

9:06 All right.

9:06 I'm going to try to be calm.

9:07 All right.

9:07 I'm going to be calm.

9:10 I think based on the look on my face, the beard is not the new fashion trend.

9:17 I lasted for about a minute and a half

9:20 with my face covered in around 3,000 bees.

9:24 And once they started seeing my lips, it got really painful.

9:28 They're swarmed around my eyes.

9:29 I was getting stung on my hands, on my arms, on my forehead, on my ears,

9:33 but it was definitely the lips,

9:35 as you can see from how swollen they are right now, that were the worst.

9:40 I definitely say that the BB beard was an experience worth experiencing.

9:44 So far, I haven't had any major adverse allergic reactions other

9:48 than just this localized swelling on my hands and on my face.

9:51 You can hardly tell.

9:53 Yeah, Liz looks okay.

9:54 You can hardly tell.

9:55 I could tell you guys are having a real hard

9:57 time not laughing while we're trying to get this outro,

9:59 but we counted around two dozen stings on my body at this point.

10:05 My lips are swelling up,

10:07 my eyes swelling up as you see the drools coming out of my mouth.

10:11 But I'm Ker Peterson and that was a beard.

10:16 Be brave.

10:18 Stay wild.

10:20 We'll see you on the next adventure.

10:22 Ow, that's painful.

10:25 When it was all said and done,

10:27 we counted a total of 32 stings that span my face, lips, ears, neck, and arms.

10:38 The neurotoxin of the European honeybee is very

10:41 specialized and is notorious for causing extreme localized swelling.

10:47 For me, this began immediately.

10:49 And despite the disfigured, lumpy, baked potato look of my face.

10:54 I actually handled the venom very positively

10:57 and within 48 hours was completely back to normal.

11:01 Now, the guys have their bees suits on and they're

11:03 going to put the bees back into their hives.

11:05 And so far about 30 minutes has gone by.

11:07 No anaphylactic shock.

11:08 So I should be just fine.

11:09 Other than the fact that my face looks like the vase of the elephant man.

11:12 And I can see in the reflection of your glasses.

11:14 It is not pretty.

11:15 It is not pretty.

11:16 If you were wondering how this compared to the single sting from a bullet ant,

11:22 I can honestly say it was worse.

11:26 As compared to the warrior wasp, well,

11:30 I guess we will just have to wait and see.

11:34 Wow.

11:34 Yep.

11:35 That's uh that's about the size we're used to seeing in Costa Rica.

11:38 Look at that.

11:39 Perfect.

11:40 Good.

11:40 Don't change anything.

11:41 Ooh, this is going to be wicked.

11:43 Oh, wowzers.

11:51 Nature is riddled with dangers, and to the untrained eye,

11:55 if you don't recognize one of its many biological landmines,

11:58 it's possible that your next step could be your last.

12:03 Spiders, scorpions, centipedes,

12:06 and even spiky plants can be considered

12:09 explosively perilous if they catch you off guard.

12:12 But nothing is more serious than stepping on a venomous snake.

12:16 On this adventure, we're going to take a look

12:19 at Central and South America's most notorious pit viper.

12:23 A snake that I am all too familiar

12:25 with and a reptile you should definitely be aware of.

12:29 Lest you accidentally encounter it while hiking in the rainforest.

12:39 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

12:41 We got We got a fertilance right in front of us.

12:44 Right under this leaf.

12:45 Look at this.

12:46 Right in front of me.

12:47 Right in front of me.

12:47 Look at that camouflage.

12:49 Holy cow.

12:50 His head's coming right up past that leaf.

12:52 Oh my gosh.

12:53 That is the camouflage that you hope you recognize before you step too close.

12:59 The snake literally just curled up underneath the leaf.

13:01 Its nose is just poking up right in the middle

13:04 of the path that we are walking down.

13:06 I don't see it.

13:07 Right.

13:07 Right.

13:08 Look at this bright leaf in front of me.

13:09 You see this?

13:10 Its nose is just sticking up on the top of it.

13:12 You see that?

13:14 Got it.

13:14 Keep your light there.

13:16 Completely hidden the fertilance.

13:18 Arguably the most dangerous snake in Central and South America.

13:22 Yes, I was hoping we'd see one of these tonight.

13:24 One thing we've never done before is tube one

13:27 of these vipers and take a closer look from that position.

13:30 So, I'm going to slowly lift back this leaf.

13:34 I have no idea how big the snake is.

13:36 This is sometimes the funnest part.

13:38 What's the leaf going to reveal?

13:40 How big is this snake?

13:41 It looks sizable.

13:44 Oh yeah.

13:44 Oh yeah, that's a goodiz snake.

13:46 Oh, buddy.

13:48 Look at you.

13:49 Okay, right now it is still saying to itself, I'm hidden.

13:53 Nobody sees me.

13:54 If I don't move, maybe you guys will just pass right

13:56 by and I'll continue about my night hunting for prey items.

14:00 But we definitely want to get a better look.

14:04 All right, Mario.

14:05 The snake is actually in a absolutely perfect position for us

14:08 to try to get it safely inside of a snake tube.

14:12 It's the safest situation for the snake and it will

14:14 put the least amount of stress on it as possible.

14:18 Get your camera too too much closer than that.

14:20 What's amazing about these snakes is that they can

14:22 go from completely gargoyle statue still into explosive action.

14:28 And these snakes can launch themselves 2/3 the length of their body forward,

14:33 which is why they are incredibly dangerous to work with.

14:40 And just like that, I dropped my snake tongs and the snake is on the move.

14:43 Okay, we need light.

14:45 It's just kind of slithering slowly, which is good.

14:48 It's not being too explosive.

14:51 Like I said, they can move incredibly quick when they need to.

14:56 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

14:57 Careful.

15:01 All right, Coyote, going to step in.

15:03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

15:04 Here, I'll tell you what.

15:05 Why don't you take the the snake hook?

15:09 Yeah.

15:09 I'll take the tube.

15:10 You got the right gauge.

15:12 You're going to pick it out.

15:13 Okay.

15:13 Go.

15:14 Switch.

15:16 This never gets any easier.

15:18 This is definitely the most dangerous part.

15:22 Angled down like Yeah.

15:24 Angled.

15:25 Not yet.

15:26 Not yet.

15:30 Down.

15:33 Now.

15:34 Got it.

15:35 There we go.

15:37 Oo, look at the fangs inside there.

15:40 Okay, be very, very gentle now.

15:43 Okay, you just have to take a deep breath after successfully getting control

15:51 of a snake like that because the bite from this species is extremely toxic,

15:57 hemattoxic and mitotoxic.

15:59 It will break down red blood cells.

16:01 This is one of the most potent bites of any

16:03 venomous snake on the western half of the world.

16:07 And if you're bitten by a snake like this and you do not get the proper care,

16:10 it could take your life.

16:12 Now, when I turn the snake like this, you

16:14 can see the scalation is very, very defined.

16:17 It's very rigid, very bumpy.

16:19 It's got incredible texture to it.

16:21 And that texture also helps to keep these snakes camouflaged.

16:25 One of the names that this snake is commonly known by is the lance head.

16:29 And that's because of the triangular nature of the head.

16:31 Almost looks like the tip of a lance or a spear.

16:35 And like all pit vipers, they have a heat sensing pit,

16:38 which of course helps them to detect their prey.

16:41 And while they will take advantage of mammals,

16:43 certain times of year, these snakes primarily feast on amphibians.

16:46 And with all the rain that just recently moved through earlier,

16:49 I'm guessing this snake is on the hunt

16:51 for any sort of creature that can possibly come across.

16:54 Whether it's a mammal or an amphibian,

16:55 it is fair game if you are a snake like this out and on the hunt.

17:01 Now, one of the reasons I was so

17:02 excited to have come across a fertilance tonight is

17:05 that I've always wanted to show you guys what

17:07 happens when you mix this pit viper's venom with blood.

17:11 Human blood.

17:13 But to safely do that, we're going to need to head back to Dan,

17:16 Florida, and connect with our friends at the Reptile Discovery Center.

17:19 We can actually get hands-on with one of these snakes in captivity

17:22 and safely show you guys what it takes to not only milk this species,

17:25 but also to mix its venom with human blood.

17:29 Stay tuned, guys.

17:30 I promise the second part of this episode is going to be wildly entertaining.

17:35 Interacting with a fertile ants is like handling a loaded gun and just

17:39 a single mistake could quickly turn into a medical emergency or worse.

17:44 This species is responsible for 90% of the snake bites in Central America,

17:49 making them the most dangerous snake in their range.

17:53 Sounds horrific, but here's the good news.

17:56 If a bite victim is taken to the hospital

17:58 in a timely manner and antivenenom is administered,

18:01 the survival rate is extremely high.

18:05 We have returned to the reptile discovery center in Dand, Florida.

18:10 Millions of you enjoyed the previous episodes we filmed here,

18:13 so it's an absolute honor for us to return

18:16 and once again work alongside Carl and Mara.

18:20 This serpentarium is not only home

18:22 to dozens of the world's most dangerous snakes,

18:25 it is also the first step in the production of life-saving antivenenoms.

18:30 Yet, in order for antivenenom to be created, first you need the snake's venom.

18:35 And to get the venom, you need to milk the snakes.

18:40 Behind us is a room filled with snakes.

18:42 And in one of those boxes is the fertilance,

18:45 Central and South America's most notorious snake.

18:48 And today we're going to milk it.

18:49 Are you guys ready for this?

18:51 We're ready.

18:51 I think so.

18:52 Are you nervous?

18:54 Never.

18:54 Let's bring out the snake.

18:55 Beautiful.

18:55 Okay, coyote.

18:56 She's coming up.

18:58 All right.

18:58 Now, remember, Carl and Mara are professionals.

19:01 They do this on a weekly basis working with these snakes,

19:04 but it's going to be really interesting to see

19:06 the fertile ants not in its natural environment.

19:09 I don't know what the snake's going to look like, how big it's going to be.

19:11 So, I'm ready to be surprised.

19:13 This is going to get intense.

19:16 Oh boy.

19:16 Here we go.

19:18 Wow.

19:18 Yep.

19:18 That's uh that's about the size we're used to seeing in Costa Rica.

19:22 Look at that.

19:23 They are big, well adapted pit vipers.

19:26 They have highly developed venoms,

19:27 toxic venoms, tend to be tremendously hemolytic,

19:30 and in other words, do lots of destruction to blood cells.

19:33 And so they account for a lot of bites in South America,

19:36 as you know, or Central and South America.

19:38 And so it's a really a formidable pitf.

19:40 So a bite from the snake without antivenenom is almost guaranteed to kill you.

19:45 I'm not going to say always lethal because again sometimes

19:47 a bite from that snake will result in a minor invenimation.

19:50 He won't give you anything.

19:52 But a severe or a significant invenimation by that snake without treatment

19:56 would probably be result in fatality or perhaps a loss of a limb.

20:00 Okay.

20:00 So Carl, at this point the snake is looking right at us.

20:03 I feel like it's probably good point to milk this snake.

20:06 What's this process going to look like?

20:08 So the catch here is going to be a little bit different.

20:10 And if you start to really look at that snake's body language,

20:12 coyote, uh, he's starting to kind of get act up a little bit.

20:16 He's starting to get nervous.

20:17 And fertilance can be really flighty snakes.

20:20 Now, have you ever had one jump off of the table?

20:23 We have.

20:24 Yeah.

20:24 Just not quite as far as you.

20:25 I keep wanting to look off at the camera,

20:27 but then I keeping my eye on the snake.

20:29 It looks like it's in launch mode.

20:30 Okay.

20:32 Absolutely.

20:31 I think this is probably the moment.

20:32 What do you guys need me to do?

20:34 Just step off to the right a little bit.

20:35 We're going to give Mario a little room to kind of work our magic.

20:37 him secured and then I'll hand him over to you.

20:42 Nice.

20:43 Pressure is coming down.

20:44 All wound up.

20:46 Strike.

20:46 And there's full pressure on.

20:48 Perfect.

20:48 Good.

20:48 Don't change anything.

20:51 Perfect.

20:52 It's a strong snake.

20:54 Good.

20:53 So, Carl, this is the most important part right here, right?

20:56 Yep.

20:56 And you'll see normally fertilance are good solid venom producers.

21:02 Went light today.

21:03 Okay.

21:03 Sometimes the snake's going to give us only

21:05 a small amount of her venom or his venom.

21:10 And the big difference here is you've heard the term milking snakes.

21:14 And in the old days, they used to press on those venom glands.

21:17 They'd squeeze that snake's head.

21:18 We don't do that.

21:19 We just allow the snake to bite and give

21:21 us what he's going to give us voluntarily.

21:23 And sometimes they don't give us a lot of venom.

21:25 He's he's remember venom to the snake is precious.

21:28 These are defensive bites.

21:29 And he really has venom to obtain his food.

21:31 Mhm.

21:32 Great job on the body.

21:33 So, I'm going to go back into the cage now.

21:35 But even that little bit,

21:36 you're looking at about 100 millig of dry weight there.

21:39 That's absolutely probably multiple lethal doses of venom.

21:42 Wow.

21:43 Good.

21:43 Beautiful job, Coyote.

21:44 I got him.

21:44 Yep.

21:45 Perfect job.

21:46 Thank you.

21:47 Did you hear that?

21:48 So, just that amount of venom, not even a full venom yield,

21:51 capable of killing multiple people when it's at dry weight.

21:55 Now, Carl, question for you.

21:59 Yes.

21:58 What is this venom going to do to your body?

22:00 So, um, the the little thing

22:02 in your bloodstream that allows platalitates to stick

22:05 to it and clot is actually being broken apart by some of these venoms,

22:09 that's being liced into pieces.

22:11 And so, that net there, that clotting net that's going to allow

22:14 the platelets to stick to it, is being destroyed.

22:18 And so, all of a sudden,

22:19 you're beginning to hemorrhage, you're beginning to bleed,

22:21 you go into shock, you've got all kinds of fluid problems,

22:24 your kidneys are beginning to fail because you've got all

22:26 these things floating around in your bloodstream that shouldn't be there.

22:29 And of course, like all pet viper bites, uh,

22:32 lance heads swell and they destroy tissue, something they call metal proteinis.

22:37 So, it's a messy snake bite.

22:39 It's a painful snake bite.

22:40 They often result in amputations because

22:42 of a delay in treatment or no treatment.

22:45 So, you'll see people missing fingers or even

22:47 bigger parts of their body with these guys.

22:49 So, it's a dangerous snake.

22:52 It is serious business if you're bitten.

22:53 So, you have to admire the snake from a safe distance.

22:56 Now, the next thing that we want to do

22:58 is take this venom and mix it together with blood.

23:02 Of course, my blood.

23:04 And this time, in less of a rudimentary situation,

23:07 and we're going to put it underneath the microscope and see

23:09 if we can see some of those blood cells breaking down.

23:11 That sounds excellent.

23:11 You're stepping up your your experiment a little bit.

23:14 We really applaud that.

23:15 And as you said, maybe we'll get lucky and we'll be

23:17 able to see some of these toxins at work under a microscope.

23:19 Okay, stay tuned, guys.

23:20 The next part of this episode is going to get extremely scientific.

23:25 This is one strong animal.

23:27 Thing I don't want to have happen is this horn

23:29 to come up and hit me straight in the face.

23:43 Okay, so right now the convoy is headed out

23:45 to the area where the rhino crash has been spotted.

23:48 There's one specific male that we are

23:50 targeting this morning with a very large horn.

23:56 For well over a century,

23:58 humans have been decimating populations of our planet's animals.

24:02 Many for reasons that make absolutely no sense.

24:07 The rhinoceros is arguably the most

24:10 recognizable species for this global atrocity.

24:14 To date, nearly 95% of the world's rhino population has vanished,

24:21 and most of it is due to one single thing.

24:31 This is the fight to save a species,

24:33 and our journey to the front lines of battle begins at the Carura Game Reserve.

24:39 I first learned of Kura in March 2012.

24:43 Just after a dark shadow cast upon the reserve

24:47 and left them to face an unimaginable crisis,

24:51 three of their rhinos were tranquilized by poachers,

24:54 brutally stripped of their horns, and left for dead.

24:59 One animal lost its life immediately.

25:01 The second passed within days, its injuries too much to endure.

25:06 But the last, a female known as Tandi,

25:09 miraculously survived due to the herculean efforts of this man, Dr.

25:15 William Foss.

25:16 Looking after these animals is a a massive collaborative effort.

25:19 No single reserve can do this alone,

25:22 and we do rely enormously on the support of people around the world.

25:26 Getting this message out is critically important.

25:30 In many large animal procedures,

25:32 helicopters have proven to be a useful tool as they allow veterinarians

25:36 to cover a considerable amount of distance in a very short period of time.

25:42 White rhinos often graze across open savannah,

25:45 clustered together in a family unit commonly known as a crash.

25:50 And based on human intentions, this social behavior has its pros and its cons.

25:56 The positive is that rhinos are big,

25:59 making them rather simple to locate from an aerial perspective,

26:03 while the negative is that when they are crashed together,

26:06 they become an easier target for poachers.

26:10 Now, we moving from the thicket area into this grassland space,

26:13 and this is where I would expect to find white runners.

26:16 So, we're just scanning the area to see if we can find the right one.

26:19 Our mission centers around a specific male whose horns have

26:23 grown to a length that makes him such a target.

26:26 So, in order to give his facial ornaments less black market appeal,

26:30 it's been decided and the permits granted for us to give him a little trim.

26:35 We got eyes on the target animal.

26:37 With our bull on the run and now clearly in sight, Dr.

26:41 Folds aligns his shot.

26:42 Okay, tell me when you're good, Ed.

26:44 Yeah, I'm good.

26:47 Wow, look at him move.

26:53 That dart looks good.

26:54 Nice and perpendicular.

26:56 We're now going to set the stopwatch.

26:58 This is a really important part of the process because

27:00 we want to track time from when the dart goes in.

27:04 It will be several minutes before the tranquilizer serum takes full effect,

27:08 giving us a narrow but necessary window to land

27:10 the chopper and move in as a ground unit.

27:13 All right.

27:13 So, we got ourselves into a little bit of a tricky

27:15 position here because got his head in a bush,

27:17 which we're going to have to clear up now.

27:18 A rhino procedure is best described as carefully coordinated chaos.

27:23 He's listening to his breathing, which is nice and deep.

27:27 So, that's good.

27:28 But at the same time, it's a masterclass of veterinary medicine.

27:32 Here's how it goes down.

27:33 The chainsaw masters take over and in a matter of minutes,

27:37 they intricately landscape the dense, thorny foliage.

27:40 Right now, it's important for me to just be as out of the way as I can be.

27:43 Chainsaw's going.

27:44 They're taking on all these branches.

27:47 We got to make space around the animal

27:49 before we can get in and do the procedure.

27:52 Next, Dr.

27:53 Folds administered a muscle relaxant,

27:55 which helps to calm heart rate and lower the rhino's intense rush of adrenaline.

27:59 So, it's all about keeping him relaxed and those muscles untens.

28:04 Obviously, he's fired up, right?

28:05 Ah, so we need good relaxed muscles.

28:07 It improves blood circulation, gets lactic acid out of there,

28:10 and while he's shaking, like I guess he's burning up oxygen.

28:13 Shadowing the vet team, I follow precise,

28:16 organized directives as we collect biometrics,

28:20 inject a multivitamin,

28:22 and replace the batteries on this big guy's ankle oriented tracking collar.

28:26 Listen to the power of the breathing.

28:30 Exchanging breath with a white rhino.

28:33 Such a beautiful animal.

28:34 You don't realize truly how big they

28:36 are until you're literally right next to them.

28:38 Look at the size of this animal's head.

28:41 Finally, it's time for the most important order of business.

28:45 Dehorning.

28:46 Do I have uh two seconds at this point to talk about the horn a little bit?

28:50 Sure.

28:50 So, here's what's going to happen today.

28:52 We are performing a dehorning procedure.

28:55 There's a couple very important things that you need to know.

28:57 This horn is not ivory.

28:59 This is keratin.

29:01 Just like the same material your fingernails and your hair are made out of.

29:04 If you look close at this horn, you can see all of these fibrous.

29:09 Let him go.

29:10 Pull him left here.

29:10 Come pull hard.

29:11 It's going to be a bit wobbly.

29:13 What this means is we've got our anesthetic dose.

29:15 A little bit of rum.

29:16 And not too serious cuz we're getting circulation back in his legs.

29:19 We're just going to walk him towards the trailer

29:21 cuz that's where he needs to end up.

29:22 Well, nothing will make your heart race like a rhino getting up mid- procedure.

29:26 This is one strong animal.

29:28 Even when it's in this state,

29:30 you can only imagine how powerful this animal is at full throttle.

29:34 It should get on any minute now.

29:37 Thing I don't want to have happen is this horn

29:39 to come up and hit me straight in the face.

29:42 Okay.

29:42 Just don't support him if he falls over by himself.

29:45 It's nice and soft here.

29:46 He can't damage himself.

29:50 Okay, great.

29:51 Perfect.

29:52 We're just going to give him a chance to settle down.

29:57 That was crazy.

29:58 Okay, we have successfully moved the rhino out into a more open area,

30:02 which is perfect for this next aspect of the procedure, which is horn removal.

30:06 Now, I want to be very clear about a couple of things.

30:09 This is what poachers are after.

30:11 This giant piece of horn.

30:14 And the problem is that poachers don't come in and just

30:16 saw off the piece that doesn't touch the root.

30:18 They come in and they cut it out all the way down to the root.

30:21 So that goes down and into the snout causes massive bleeding.

30:25 It's catastrophic damage that in almost every instance kills the rhino.

30:29 So as much as I hate to take away a piece of this beautiful animal,

30:34 the true thing that defines it, this is how you save a rhino.

30:39 And I cannot stress enough that this does not hurt the rhino.

30:42 Not physically in any way whatsoever.

30:56 Nice and cool.

30:57 Okay, let's do back horn.

31:27 This is the the procedure that we dread doing the most on Rhino.

31:31 Just an absolute sacrilege to take these off.

31:34 So, do you think that this throws off the rhino's

31:37 depth perception at all by not having the horns in front?

31:40 I don't think so, but I They know that they don't have a horn.

31:44 Well, I mean, they obviously have to learn

31:45 that when they wake up from all of this.

31:48 We're going to walk him now.

31:49 So, we're just going to rock him onto his other side.

31:52 If he stands up in the process, then great.

31:54 One, two, three.

31:55 Push.

31:56 Push.

31:59 Just keep supporting him.

31:59 That leg's going to be a little bit floppy.

32:01 And then we're going to go We're going to go left.

32:03 He's in first gear.

32:04 We're going to change to second.

32:05 Keep pulling.

32:05 We're going to line him up with the trailer.

32:07 With the dehorning complete, our final task is to load this bull into a trailer,

32:12 relocate him to another part of the reserve.

32:15 That was unbelievably exhausting.

32:17 Just the force that it takes to balance that animal.

32:20 Dr.

32:21 Fold said probably about 1 and 1/2 tons.

32:23 And that's not a full grown rhino.

32:26 So, what we're looking for in France here

32:27 is that he's got complete control of his body.

32:31 We obviously don't want him to be fighting this crate,

32:34 but he must be able to move himself around.

32:37 and keep himself on his feet without being

32:40 thrown around by the members of the vehicle.

32:43 This new expansive habitat is home to several

32:46 first generation cows and it will only be a matter of time before he claims

32:50 this territory breeds and diversifies the genetic population.

32:55 Quite an animal.

32:59 Unbelievable.

32:58 Hey, amazing to think he's still got growing to do, too.

33:01 He's not even fully grown yet.

33:03 Incredible things.

33:06 The charge of emotion right now is almost hard to explain.

33:10 And as I prepared for today's scene, last night,

33:13 I was laying in bed thinking to myself,

33:14 there are a number of emotions that run through me.

33:16 Sadness, first and foremost.

33:18 I can't tell you how sorry I am that we

33:19 had to take the horn from that beautiful animal.

33:22 Yesterday, we were filming B-roll with it in the wild.

33:25 I mean, I looked right into this animal's eyes, thinking to myself,

33:28 I'm pretty sure that's the one whose horn we're going to take tomorrow.

33:31 So, I had to carry that with me going to sleep last night.

33:34 So that's where the sorrow comes in.

33:36 Sorry that we as humans have put our planet in a state where we are

33:39 now being forced to take the prized element that defines a rhino away from it.

33:45 A dominant male.

33:46 This is everything that makes up his emotion, his spirit, his confidence.

33:52 And within that animal's soul and body, he's going to wake up and wonder,

33:55 "Where did my horn go?" It makes me angry to know

33:59 that we as humans are doing something like this to our planet.

34:03 doing something like this to our animals.

34:05 And the reason these animals are being

34:06 poached is because people in other countries,

34:09 in Asian countries specifically,

34:11 believe that the rhino horn has medicinal purposes.

34:14 I can tell you with 100% certainty,

34:16 it has been proven by doctors that that is absolutely false.

34:20 Another thing is that wealthy people would love to have this on their mantle,

34:24 but I can tell you this much,

34:25 there is absolutely no honor in having the horn of a rhino on your mantle.

34:31 And for as angry as I can be at the process that poachers go through,

34:35 you have to understand that in many instances

34:37 the poachers themselves are almost forced into these situations.

34:40 This horn is worth money.

34:42 If they get this horn and sell that horn, that money provides for their family.

34:46 It is a vicious cycle.

34:48 So the sorrow and the anger build together and I realize to myself,

34:52 you can't fight this fight by being angry.

34:54 You fight this fight with having hope.

34:58 Dehorning white rhinos is necessary because of the way that they move in herds.

35:02 The next animal we're going to look at is the black rhino,

35:05 a slightly more solitary animal.

35:06 And what we're going to try with this next segment is to find out whether or not

35:10 technology can be the answer to the future

35:12 of these animals and not taking its horn,

35:14 but providing something that may be the front lines of conservation.

35:19 This horn will be immediately taken off site to a secure undisclosed location.

35:24 And I want to note that dehorning is only

35:27 one aspect of multi-dimensional wildlife protection at Carura Game Reserve.

35:40 There are around 20,000 white rhinos left in the wild,

35:44 which classifies these gregarious giants as nearthreatened.

35:47 Yet, they are not the only rhinoceros in Africa.

35:51 The black rhino, the more elusive species, is listed as critically endangered,

35:56 and its wild numbers have dwindled to barely 5,000.

36:01 Visually, there are a few noticeable differences between the two.

36:05 For starters, black rhinos are smaller

36:08 in weight and stature as compared to whites.

36:12 Taking a closer look at their heads,

36:14 you will notice that white rhinos have pointed ears and a square upper lip,

36:19 whereas blacks have rounded ears and a pointed prehensile upper lip.

36:25 At ground level, these key features

36:27 make identifying Africa's rhinos quite simple.

36:31 But from a helicopter, it's all about experience.

36:34 This is typical territory for black rhino.

36:37 To find a rhino in here is incredibly difficult.

36:40 We could fly for hours here and not find one.

36:43 Dense Albany thicket blanket the hillsides,

36:46 creating ideal forging and hiding habitat for black rhinos.

36:50 But for Dr.

36:50 Folds and the helicopter team,

36:52 seeking and successfully darting our target animal is a noticeable challenge.

36:58 Coyote.

36:59 Coyote coming in for Mike.

37:00 Go for Mike.

37:01 Eyes on the right.

37:02 We got to move out.

37:04 The good thing is that the hillsides aren't too steep,

37:06 but we might end up on the side of a cliff doing this procedure.

37:10 So, things are about to get intense.

37:12 So, we've identified the right animal.

37:14 Just going to load a dart here quickly.

37:16 Now, what Alex is going to do is just line up this rhino,

37:19 and when she's comfortable, she'll tell me when I can take the shot.

37:27 Okay.

37:29 Ready?

37:33 We are good.

37:35 Good.

37:34 All right.

37:34 Rhino's been darted.

37:35 Nice.

37:36 This is all open flat area right here.

37:41 Okay.

37:41 Got animal down right here.

37:43 This is typical black rhino.

37:44 He's got himself with the head in a bush.

37:46 I'm just going to put his blindfold on.

37:48 Make sure we protect his eyes.

37:50 All in all, black rhino veterinary workups are

37:53 very similar to our previous white rhino experience.

37:56 Carefully coordinated chaos.

37:58 One, two, three.

38:04 Okay.

38:04 The biggest difference is that instead of taking this animal's defining feature,

38:09 we'll be performing an interhornal implant procedure that disguises

38:13 a GPS tracking system into the rhino's rear horn.

38:17 You can notice how much larger the horn is

38:20 on this rhino because it's never been trimmed before.

38:22 Using a Dremel, we carefully carve a cavity

38:25 which provides a snug fit for the GPS.

38:29 It's amazing to hear it breathing.

38:31 This is what we're fighting to protect right now.

38:35 And the toe structure is quite a bit

38:37 different between black rhinos and white rhinos.

38:39 See these three large hooves up front?

38:42 How agile these animals are being able to move around on these steep hillsides.

38:46 lot of cushioning in the foot so these toes can almost grip around rocks.

38:50 For such a large animal, it's amazing how agile they are.

38:54 Next, a strategically colored dental epoxy is used to fuse the unit in place,

38:59 keeping it camouflaged and out of the battle zone

39:02 if this rhino ever squares off with another male.

39:05 All right, you can see how noninvasive this devices on the animal.

39:09 Now, once that epoxyy's cured,

39:10 we will grind it down slightly to blend right into the horn.

39:13 Put in the reversal serum.

39:15 this animal will be good to go.

39:17 All right, let's go, guys.

39:18 Remember, their wakeups are different, so we need to get out of here.

39:20 Okay, all the way.

39:23 All right, the uh transmitter is officially locked in place in the horn.

39:27 That is what you call a successful mission right there.

39:30 We put the reversal serum into the animal and we got the drone up in the air.

39:34 We'll be able to follow it as it tracks back and off into the wild.

39:38 Yes, this was incredible.

39:40 Looks good.

39:40 He's finding his feet very nicely.

39:42 His anesthetic was smooth all the way through.

39:44 very happy about that.

39:45 He didn't give us any surprises which was good

39:47 for the humans and uh I'm actually very impressed with the implant.

39:51 We managed to get it in there with a lot of space around it.

39:53 So, it's been a good procedure.

39:57 I am excited to have participated in one

39:59 of the first interornal implant procedures that has been performed

40:03 on this species and the technology linked to it will

40:07 help protect this animal and its horns on a daily basis.

40:11 That's how you do two rhino procedures in two days.

40:14 The white rhino dehorning the black rhino with a piece

40:16 of technology that might change the face of conservation.

40:19 What an unbelievable experience.

40:22 I'm Coyote Peterson.

40:23 Be brave.

40:25 Stay wild.

40:26 We'll see you on the next adventure.

40:31 After traveling a journey like this, you arrive at the realization

40:35 that your final destination has somehow become a new perspective of the world.

40:42 What happened?

40:43 Where did we go so wrong that as humans,

40:47 we have put a fictitious value on the horn of an animal

40:50 that created a black market demand worth more than gold, diamonds, or oil?

40:57 When are we going to stand up and who is

40:59 going to break the wheel that drives the game of horns?

41:04 Brave Wilderness in collaboration with Global Conservation Force and Carura Game

41:09 Reserve have a pioneering vision to help the future of Africa's rhinos.

41:15 We are building a safe haven in the Eastern Cape that may become a last

41:20 stronghold for the preservation of these animals

41:22 if poaching is not brought to an end.

41:26 What we do now does truly echo in eternity.

41:30 And I can promise you, in less than 10 years,

41:33 these animals will be extinct in the wild if we do not take action now.

41:39 This is the truth of the rhino's plight.

41:42 But you can change their future.

41:45 Become a warrior and join the fight by clicking the donate button

41:49 so that together we can prevent the loss of these vanishing giants.

41:55 Put your finger down into a hole that has a spider

41:58 and know that spider's going to come out and bite you.

42:01 This is the dumbest thing.

42:03 All right, are you guys ready?

42:04 I I'm actually 50/50.

42:06 I'm curious if they're actually going to bite you or not.

42:08 I like it when Mario's 50/50.

42:10 The last time there was like, oh yeah, coyote,

42:12 that's definitely going to bite you was my hand in a box jacket.

42:16 If you really stop and think for a second,

42:18 he's going to put his hand in front of a tarantula burrow,

42:22 trick it to come out so that it bites him.

42:24 I mean, that's pure nightmare fuel right there.

42:26 If you have arachnophobia, this is definitely the episode for you.

42:31 Oh, my tweezers.

42:33 Found one over there.

42:35 Oh my gosh.

42:35 Yeah, there it is right there.

42:38 Oh, wow.

42:39 Yeah, it's a big spider.

42:41 Uh I'm honestly very nervous to attempt doing this.

42:43 These spiders are not small.

42:45 And what's cool about these spiders

42:47 specifically is that they are ambush predators.

42:49 Now, this is not a trapdoor spider.

42:52 Trapoor spider would have a cover over its hole.

42:54 This is some variety of tarantula that definitely just uses

42:58 its burrow to probably entice things to sniff down in there.

43:02 These holes are very well camouflaged

43:05 into the ground and they're lined with webbing.

43:08 So, imagine if you were to be a little lizard or snake

43:12 or mouse and you come sniffing around the edge of this hole

43:15 and all of a sudden a giant spider pops out

43:18 and bites you in the face and sucks you down in there.

43:20 Uh, that's kind of what the scenario is.

43:23 All right, you guys ready?

43:26 I'm Coyote Peterson and I'm about to tickle a blue tarantula.

43:33 Here comes Here we go.

43:40 Oh, it's whing the stick.

43:41 Look at that.

43:46 Oh, try to get my finger close.

43:58 Smack me on the finger and make me jump.

44:01 Just that made me jump.

44:02 Oh my gosh, look at his fangs.

44:07 Oh jeez.

44:08 Oh jeez.

44:10 I'm so nervous.

44:11 I'm so nervous.

44:12 This is so stupid.

44:14 I don't know which finger to get bit on.

44:19 Has to be a small one.

44:21 Oh my gosh.

44:31 Oh, look at that.

44:33 Got to keep your finger still.

44:36 Locky.

44:36 Hold him down.

44:37 You try keeping my finger still.

44:39 Locky.

44:39 You got to hold him down, dude.

44:41 Oh my gosh.

44:43 It was very nerve-wracking.

44:49 God, I put right down the side of my fingernail.

44:51 I heard that.

44:52 You get that?

44:53 I heard it, too.

44:56 Yeah.

44:57 Oh, he got right in the edge of my fingernail.

44:59 I heard him hit your fingernail.

45:01 I don't think he got me, though.

45:04 But I felt the fan go right there.

45:07 All right, I can do better.

45:08 I can do better.

45:10 This might end up being my favorite video.

45:13 Oh my gosh.

45:13 This is This is the dumbest thing.

45:16 Actually, maybe if I do this.

45:18 Yep, that's a good idea.

45:26 He's going to get Yeah, he got me there.

45:30 Oh, yeah.

45:30 Did you get that shot?

45:31 He definitely got me.

45:34 I see it.

45:36 Yeah.

45:37 Two double fangs.

45:39 Oh, it burns.

45:41 That's some pretty quick venom.

45:45 Oh, wow.

45:46 Yeah.

45:46 Wow.

45:46 That's a little bit worse than a That's a little

45:49 bit worse than I thought it was going to be.

45:52 Yowsers.

45:55 That was a play right there.

45:56 get it to come all the way up to the edge and turn my finger sideways.

46:01 My heart's racing.

46:03 And what does it feel like?

46:04 What does it feel like?

46:06 Uh, more than a beasting.

46:08 I would put it on par with probably uh yellow jacket,

46:12 I would say, but we'll see if it starts to build at all.

46:14 You can see obviously the way that the fangs come up

46:18 and those pedapelps spread apart and then the fangs go down.

46:21 Got two solid puncture marks right into my hand there.

46:26 It definitely burns.

46:27 Wow.

46:28 Blue tarantula.

46:29 All right.

46:30 Now, I want to get one actually out of the hole and freehandle it

46:34 to show you guys that they're actually

46:35 rather docile when they're not in feeding position.

46:40 That's nerve-wracking.

46:41 Think about that.

46:43 Put your finger down into a hole that has a spider

46:47 and know that spider's going to come out and bite you.

46:50 Only I would do something with this stuff.

46:51 All right, let's try to catch this bigger one.

47:00 Can you see it?

47:01 Big one.

47:06 All right.

47:07 So, the goal here is to get this spider all the way up and out of its hole.

47:11 And then when I do that, I'm going to freehandle it

47:14 and show you they aren't nearly as aggressive as one might think.

47:26 that stick.

47:40 Oh.

47:50 a bit of balancing act.

47:51 Okay, now I got her.

47:53 There she is.

47:54 Great light off now.

47:57 Yeah, you guys can kill your headl.

48:06 I'm not being able to get a control

48:08 of her, but you can see her is tucked down right there.

48:12 But I don't want her to go to my shirt.

48:14 Get her come down like this.

48:17 Oh, they sure have strong grip on their legs.

48:21 There we go.

48:22 She ran on top of my microphone.

48:24 It's interesting.

48:24 It looks like she has little eggs or a parasite on the side of her thorax.

48:35 Okay, we've seen this scene before.

48:37 Often times I get tarantulas on my back.

48:39 Uh, but we were successfully able to get her up and out of the hole.

48:42 And you can see now as I'm trying to handle

48:44 her, she's more interested in getting away than she is at biting.

48:49 Get you go this way.

48:52 Actually get her into my hand.

48:54 You want me to go?

48:55 Yeah.

48:55 See if you can bring her around.

48:57 There she is.

48:58 She's on your far right side.

49:06 Just kind of pull push her around this way.

49:12 Good.

49:14 Awesome.

49:15 Thanks, Locky.

49:16 When they're on your back, it's a lot harder to get them under control.

49:19 And there you have it.

49:21 Spider's not necessarily aggressive if it's not in hunting position.

49:28 Still nerve-wracking though.

49:29 Not necessarily holding it, but just getting it to come up out of the hole.

49:32 That was a dangerous little game of operation.

49:35 Have you ever heard the phrase, keep your hands where they belong?

49:39 inside of a spider hole is probably not

49:40 a place anybody should be putting their hands.

49:43 But the bite from a spider like this is rather painless.

49:47 And while it did hurt at first,

49:48 right now I'm actually experiencing no pain from the spider's bite.

49:52 No more potent than that of a bee sting.

49:54 On the initial bite,

49:55 I said it was probably closer to the sting of a wasp or hornet.

49:58 But other than that, at this point, pretty much feels like nothing.

50:02 And we proved that a spider once taken up

50:05 and out of its burrow is actually pretty docile.

50:08 I'm Ky Peterson.

50:09 Be brave.

50:11 Stay wild.

50:12 We'll see you on the next adventure.

50:13 All right, let's let this little guy back down into his hole.

50:16 What you see here on the table are a pair of hex armor bite proof gloves.

50:20 Supposedly, these can withstand the bite of a venomous snake.

50:24 What I'm going to do is slowly move my hand in towards the snake's nose.

50:29 Let's just see what the aggression level is

50:31 as I move my hand in toward its face.

50:44 Okay, it's a beautiful night in Costa Rica and I'm sitting

50:48 next to one of the most iconic snake species in this country.

50:52 That is an eyelash viper.

50:54 Now, we've worked with this species in the past.

50:57 In fact, I found the yellow phase

50:58 of this snake out in the wild several years ago.

51:01 But this one here is actually ambassador for its

51:03 species that was born and raised in captivity.

51:06 This snake specifically is used to help

51:08 educate people about the snakes that live

51:10 here in Central America and why you want to safely avoid them at all cost.

51:16 Now, this snake is not necessarily as toxic as something like a fertilance,

51:19 which makes it the perfect subject matter for tonight.

51:22 What you see here on the table are a pair of Hex Armor bite proof gloves.

51:27 Supposedly, these can withstand the bite of a venomous snake.

51:31 Now, obviously, I wouldn't try this with something

51:32 as large as like a western diamond back, an eastern diamond back,

51:35 or a fertilance, but the eyelash viper has smaller fangs,

51:39 and I feel a little bit safer freehandling that snake with these gloves.

51:43 We'll get to that risky entertainment in just a few moments, but first,

51:46 what I want to do is take an educational look at this incredible reptile.

51:52 Now, the eyelash viper is an aoreal species,

51:54 which means they're primarily found up in trees.

51:57 And as you see this snake right here, gently clutched on this branch,

52:01 it almost looks as if it's a gargoyle, staying completely still.

52:04 And this is usually exactly how you will see

52:07 these snakes out in the wild, waiting in ambush.

52:10 They are ambush predators, and all they need to do is hang

52:12 from a tree branch and wait for something to come close.

52:15 They primarily feast upon animals that are going to be up in the treetops.

52:19 Lizards, frogs, bats, even birds fall victim to snakes like this.

52:24 And you see that position the snake's in right now?

52:27 That scurled shape, head pointing down, something gets close,

52:30 it strikes out and with those hinged fangs injects a hemattoxic venom.

52:35 Now, what's unique about the eyelash vipers as compared

52:38 to many other pit viper species is that when they bite, they actually lock on.

52:43 When you think of something like a fertilance,

52:44 it's going to strike out, inflict a bite,

52:46 let go, and then track its prey once it has succumbed to the venom.

52:50 But with a snake like this that lives up in the trees,

52:52 it needs to bite and hold on.

52:54 If this guy bites a bat, and that bat falls out of the tree,

52:57 the snake's got to go all the way down to the ground to get it.

52:59 So, this snake wants to bite, hold on, and then it's got its chance for a meal.

53:03 Now, the name eyelash viper, where does that name come from?

53:06 If you take a real close look at the face of this snake,

53:10 you'll see two little modified scales growing just above the eyes.

53:15 Sort of makes it look like horns or in this case a pair of eyelashes.

53:19 Now, scientists believe that these modified scales

53:22 perhaps help them navigate through the aoreal environment,

53:25 maybe pushing away plant matter or possibly to help keep them camouflaged.

53:29 These snakes are incredibly good

53:31 at keeping themselves hidden within the environment.

53:34 Now, if you're to go out into the Costa Rican rainforest at night,

53:37 the thing that's actually dangerous is that if somebody grabs onto a branch,

53:40 let's say you're moving through the environment,

53:41 you grip onto something, helping yourself navigate.

53:44 If one of these snakes is in the tree, that's how you're accidentally bitten.

53:47 These snakes are not necessarily going

53:49 to ever be aggressive towards humans unless threatened.

53:52 However, if you were to unfortunately be bitten,

53:55 it is a hemattoxic venom, and that means medical emergency.

54:00 Now, you guys clicked on this video because

54:02 the thumbnail likely has this snake close to my hand.

54:05 It's like, "Oh my gosh, is coyote going to get bitten by a venomous snake

54:08 tonight?" I'm not attempting to provoke a bite from this snake.

54:12 The reason that I'm going to try to handle this snake

54:15 with bite proof gloves is because it's a fragile species, right?

54:18 A snake of this size is rather delicate.

54:20 It's not something that you want to squeeze and hold on to.

54:23 You don't want to pin its head.

54:24 You don't want to have complete control of the snake.

54:26 The idea is that if I can hold it gently with these gloves,

54:29 it may be a tactic that we use in the future to handle small venomous snakes.

54:33 Coral snakes, side winders, eyelash vipers.

54:36 These are perfect subject matters for using these bite proof gloves.

54:40 I also have to be aware of how close this snake gets to my face.

54:44 So, keeping it out in front of me like this is extremely important.

54:48 Remember, they've got a rather far reach,

54:50 and a snake like this can lunge forward nearly 2/3 the length of its body.

54:54 If I'm bitten in the face by a snake like

54:56 this, it's going to be a very bad end to my day.

55:02 Takes a little bit of nerves when

55:03 you start thinking about handling a venomous snake.

55:06 And while in the past I've interacted with many different venomous species,

55:09 to actually be hands on with one without controlling

55:12 its head is something that I have not attempted before.

55:16 So, if you're ready, it's time to freehandle the eyelash viper.

55:23 What I'm hoping is that I will be able to get

55:27 it to just kind of come right out onto my hand.

55:29 So, you see that the snake is backing its head up ever so slightly.

55:32 Now, that position right there definitely could warrant a bite,

55:37 but you'll notice this snake is not aggressive in any way whatsoever.

55:41 It's sensing my hand.

55:42 Now, I see the tongue flicking out.

55:44 It's investigating me, saying, "Okay, this is something new in my environment,

55:48 but it doesn't look like something that I would necessarily want to eat." So,

55:51 I'm going to gently see if I can bring it up.

55:58 Oh, there we go.

56:00 See if I can get you to come out here onto my hand.

56:03 There we go.

56:05 There we go.

56:05 Okay, this is going really well so far.

56:08 Really, really well.

56:09 There we go.

56:10 And I just want to make sure that I'm not constraining the snake too, too much.

56:14 There we go.

56:15 Oh, I'm going to keep you right there.

56:17 That's perfect.

56:18 I'm very happy about that position.

56:20 Now, if I just keep my hand like this, you see

56:21 how it's causing the snake to balance itself into a curled position.

56:26 That is absolutely perfect.

56:28 Now, on camera, it's tough to tell exactly how close that snake is to my face.

56:32 It probably looks closer than it really is.

56:33 So, I don't want any of you to think, coyote,

56:35 you've got that pit viper way too close to you.

56:37 Trust me, guys, it would take a huge jump for it to be

56:40 able to leap out and get me in the face at this point.

56:42 It's also why I'm keeping my hand slightly

56:44 here blocked just in case something crazy happens.

56:47 But if I turn it like this, you can

56:49 really get a great look at that snake's profile.

56:53 They are just so incredibly beautiful.

56:56 And like all pit vipers, they have a heatseeking pit.

56:59 And this snake is capable of sensing all sorts of different heat registers.

57:04 So if this snake spots something like a lizard,

57:08 this snake is using its incredible eyesight to be

57:10 able to identify animals that do not have warm blood.

57:14 Notice the vertical pupil that expands and contracts

57:17 based on the amount of light in the environment,

57:18 which helps them to see incredibly well at night.

57:22 And for anybody that's afraid of snakes, the fear, which is called aidedophobia,

57:25 you can see that this is not something that is aggressive toward humans.

57:29 You may be saying to yourselves, "Well, coyote,

57:31 you said that this snake was born

57:32 and raised in captivity." Doesn't make a difference, guys.

57:35 It's behaving the exact same way that one of these snakes would in the wild.

57:38 If you're not swinging your hand in front of it,

57:40 if you're not poking at it with a stick,

57:41 if you're simply admiring it from a safe distance,

57:44 it will be a great experience.

57:46 That's probably also a great spot for me

57:48 to give you guys that stereotypical warning where I say,

57:51 "Never go out into the environment and try to handle a snake." Now,

57:55 the people that use these Hex Armor gloves are typically professionals.

57:58 Anything could happen here.

58:00 I could be bitten.

58:01 While I do trust the gloves, I would never want you guys to be in a position

58:04 where you could accidentally receive a bite from a snake like this.

58:09 Now, like I said earlier,

58:10 the reason that I'm using these bite proof gloves tonight is to test out whether

58:14 or not freehandling smaller venomous snakes like

58:17 this is a good tactic for us moving forward.

58:19 So, if I were to physically grab onto the snake or pin

58:22 its head down with a snake hook or hold it with snake tongs,

58:25 puts a lot of stress on the animal, you can see how calm it's being right now.

58:29 And this is an awesome way for us to be able to get

58:31 these animals up close for the cameras without putting a lot of stress on them.

58:36 I'm going to try a little experiment here.

58:38 What I'm going to do is slowly move my hand in towards the snake's nose.

58:42 Not to necessarily provoke a strike,

58:45 but let's just see what the aggression level is

58:48 as I move my hand in toward its face.

58:51 Very slowly.

58:56 Look at that.

58:57 Snake just basically stays in gargoyle mode.

59:01 Yep.

59:01 I popped you on the nose just a tiny bit there.

59:03 You can see it's kind of curled his head back in a little bit of a strike pose,

59:07 saying, "Okay, you got close.

59:10 Let's not push it too much further than that." And I won't.

59:13 But that's exactly what I wanted to try to determine.

59:16 Is this snake feeling completely calm because it's not restrained.

59:19 It has no reason to strike out and try to bite me.

59:23 Wow.

59:24 What a cool experiment this was tonight.

59:27 determining that using bite proof gloves is

59:31 a great way to interact with smaller venomous snakes.

59:34 It's allowed me to stay calm, the snake has stayed calm,

59:37 and we've gotten a really cool Central

59:39 American species up close for the cameras, the one and only eyelash viper.

59:44 I'm Coyote Peterson.

59:45 Be brave, stay wild.

59:49 We'll see you on the next adventure.

59:50 All right, I'm going to place you back up on your tree branch.

59:52 Sound good?

59:55 YEAH.

59:56 OH, YOU GOT ONE.

59:58 COME ON.

59:58 COME ON.

59:59 COME ON.

1:00:00 Right over here, guys.

1:00:01 It's huge.

1:00:02 OH MY GOSH.

1:00:03 Look at the size of that thing.

1:00:05 Wow.

1:00:06 Can I pick it up?

1:00:07 You can.

1:00:07 Wa!

1:00:08 Look at that.

1:00:08 Wa!

1:00:09 All right, here we go.

1:00:11 Oh my gosh, is it slimy?

1:00:16 If there is one ecosystem on the planet that is constantly changing,

1:00:19 it has to be the tide pools.

1:00:22 With every single rising and falling of the tide,

1:00:24 new waves crash upon the rocks and alter the placement of plants and animals.

1:00:31 Along the coast of California,

1:00:33 there are slew of creatures that you can find if you know exactly where to look.

1:00:38 Got a little striped crab right here.

1:00:40 Oh, got it.

1:00:41 There's definitely no shortage of crabs out here in these tide pools.

1:00:45 However, navigating this terrain can be difficult because

1:00:49 most of the rocks are wet and slippery.

1:00:52 One of the toughest things so far for me

1:00:54 in filming beyond the tide has been the terrain.

1:00:57 I'm used to swamps and deserts.

1:00:59 Everything here is rocky and slippery.

1:01:02 It's all covered in a layer of I guess it's some

1:01:04 sort of algae and using a lot of eye foot coordination

1:01:08 because I'm looking for creatures and every step I take your foot

1:01:12 might slip off of something and these rocks are extremely jagged.

1:01:15 Really easy to get hurt out here and I'm

1:01:17 sure for you Mark it's even more difficult.

1:01:19 Right now you're balancing on these rocks just trying to get the shots.

1:01:22 I'm sure everybody at home isn't easy is it?

1:01:25 Nope.

1:01:25 All right.

1:01:25 Well, let's keep going this way and see what we can find.

1:01:28 Watch your footing.

1:01:28 Oh yeah.

1:01:29 See there you go.

1:01:31 I'm usually pretty good at finding animals in the field,

1:01:33 but sometimes a wildlife expert joins us to help

1:01:36 locate the species that can be very difficult to find.

1:01:40 Today, I'm back out with tide poolool expert Aaron Sanchez,

1:01:43 who has been exploring these Southern California pools his entire life.

1:01:47 And our goal is to locate a giant sea slug.

1:01:50 All right, Aaron.

1:01:51 So, we're here at the tide pools and we're looking for slugs.

1:01:53 What should I be keeping my eye out for?

1:01:55 Well, Cody, these slugs are going to be pretty hard to miss.

1:01:57 They're actually the largest sea slug on the planet.

1:02:00 They come to these rocky shores here to mate and lay their eggs.

1:02:03 Okay.

1:02:03 Now, when you say the largest,

1:02:04 do you mean like 5 to 6 ines in length, or we talking bigger?

1:02:08 We're talking probably almost a little bit less than 3 ft.

1:02:11 A 3ft slug.

1:02:12 So, it's going to be pretty hard to miss.

1:02:15 Yeah.

1:02:14 All right, let's start searching.

1:02:16 The search was on and I was confident

1:02:18 that I could come across one of these giants.

1:02:21 I mean, if they're as big as Aaron says they are,

1:02:24 spotting one should be simple, right?

1:02:28 Hi.

1:02:28 We've been searching for about 45 minutes now through all these layered rocks.

1:02:33 I don't know.

1:02:34 Her said it was going to be easy.

1:02:36 Nothing yet.

1:02:38 We continued to search over jagged outcrops, in crevices,

1:02:42 through knee deep pools, and even under rocks.

1:02:46 I say the odds of finding one of these slugs are slim to none.

1:02:50 Coming in.

1:02:50 Yeah, it's coming in big time.

1:02:51 And all I've seen is crabs.

1:02:52 Crabs.

1:02:53 Crabs.

1:02:54 Hermit crabs, striped crabs, purple shore crabs.

1:02:57 No giant slugs.

1:03:00 With the tide starting to come back in, it was looking like

1:03:03 our search for the giant sea slug was coming to an end.

1:03:06 But if anyone knows how to find a sea creature, it's definitely Aaron.

1:03:14 Searching, searching.

1:03:16 No big slugs.

1:03:20 YEAH.

1:03:21 OH, YOU GOT ONE.

1:03:23 COME ON.

1:03:23 COME ON.

1:03:23 COME ON.

1:03:24 Right over here, guys.

1:03:25 It's huge.

1:03:27 Oh my gosh.

1:03:27 Look at the size of that thing.

1:03:30 Wow, dude.

1:03:32 Yes.

1:03:33 Wow.

1:03:33 That was one heck of a search.

1:03:35 And there it is.

1:03:36 Can I pick it up?

1:03:37 You can.

1:03:37 It's totally safe.

1:03:38 And it's not going to ink me.

1:03:39 Might be a little slimy, but that's it.

1:03:41 Wa!

1:03:41 Look at that.

1:03:42 Wa!

1:03:43 All right, here we go.

1:03:44 Oh my gosh, it's slimy.

1:03:49 Look at that slug.

1:03:50 Oh my gosh, it is heavy.

1:03:53 Jeez, this thing must be about almost 10 lbs, I would guess.

1:03:57 Is that a big one, Aaron?

1:03:58 Oh,

1:03:58 it's a pretty good size.

1:03:59 Yeah, it's one of the bigger ones I've seen.

1:04:01 Wow.

1:04:01 I'm going to let it stretch out of my arm.

1:04:03 See if we can get it to fully elongate itself.

1:04:06 Oh my gosh, it is so slimy.

1:04:08 All right, now tell us about this slug, Aaron.

1:04:10 Well, Coyote, what he's wrapping around your arm

1:04:12 right now is actually his muscular foot.

1:04:15 He uses that to get around.

1:04:17 I can feel him gripping onto my arm.

1:04:19 I mean, I can feel him actually like wrapping around

1:04:21 me and I can feel his little tongue under there.

1:04:24 He can't bite, right?

1:04:25 No, these guys are vegetarians.

1:04:26 They mostly eat algae and kelp.

1:04:28 Okay.

1:04:28 And it does have an internal shell, correct?

1:04:30 Where it has all of its organs.

1:04:31 It does have an internal shell.

1:04:32 It's kind of soft and made of protein.

1:04:34 Okay.

1:04:34 And that is actually what these extensions

1:04:36 of its foot called parapodia are protecting.

1:04:39 I can see why there's no way you would miss stumbling upon one of these.

1:04:43 I have to admit, I was just over there talking to Mark.

1:04:45 I literally said, "I'm really doubting

1:04:47 our chances of finding one of these slugs."

1:04:49 All we've seen all day is crabs and smaller little brown sea hairs,

1:04:54 which by the way, we should grab one of those.

1:04:56 Is there one over here?

1:04:57 Let's see them next to each other.

1:04:59 Yeah.

1:05:00 All right.

1:05:00 You got one of those brown sea hairs.

1:05:02 Okay.

1:05:03 So, this is this is cool.

1:05:04 Showing the comparison of the giant black sea

1:05:08 slug next to the much smaller brown sea slug.

1:05:13 And they're both called sea hairs.

1:05:14 Cuz as you can see, those tentacles sticking up in the air

1:05:18 on the front of the head look like rabbit's ears.

1:05:20 I thought the brown sea hair was big.

1:05:22 Yeah, seriously, there is no mistaking the difference between these two species.

1:05:28 Wow, that thing is absolutely massive.

1:05:31 It weighs about 10 lb and fully stretched out, it's about 2 feet in length.

1:05:37 That is crazy.

1:05:38 And it is so unbelievably slippery, it's actually really hard to hold on to it.

1:05:42 And my hands and arms right now are covered in a slippery mucus.

1:05:46 Now, are they toxic in any way?

1:05:48 No, they're not.

1:05:49 Okay.

1:05:49 So, I'm in no danger right now.

1:05:51 So, they don't bite.

1:05:52 They're not toxic.

1:05:53 They're just slimy and alien looking.

1:05:56 So, how do these defend themselves against predators?

1:05:58 Well, you know, these guys don't have

1:05:59 as many predators as the California sea hair.

1:06:01 Probably due to their size.

1:06:03 So, they would generally just kind of stick to where they

1:06:05 are and they're going to be pretty welded in these rocks.

1:06:07 I can't even imagine what would want to try to eat this.

1:06:11 And it's just so amazing how big this slug is.

1:06:13 When you said to me, "Yeah, we're going to go out.

1:06:15 We're going to catch a giant slug." I honestly didn't believe you

1:06:18 when you said they could grow to be about two feet in length.

1:06:21 And until I actually had this animal in my hand,

1:06:24 really on my arm, I didn't believe it.

1:06:27 This is absolutely amazing.

1:06:30 Well, Aaron, thank you so much for having us out

1:06:32 today to explore the tide pools here in San Pedro.

1:06:35 I think there's no question about it.

1:06:37 This is one big black slug.

1:06:42 I'm Kyrie Peterson.

1:06:43 Be brave.

1:06:45 Stay wild.

1:06:46 We'll see you on the next adventure.

1:06:49 We gently placed these two slimy slugs back into their respective

1:06:52 pools and watched as they slowly returned to the wild.

1:06:56 I think it's fair to say that these creatures are as primordial as it gets.

1:07:01 And while they may be incredibly bizarrel looking,

1:07:03 they are an important part of the tide pool ecosystem.

1:07:07 This is what we call camouflage.

1:07:09 Me camouflaging into the environment while I allow the leeches to crawl.

1:07:14 Oh, that one bit me good.

1:07:21 At the moment, we are in Australia.

1:07:24 It is our very first day here and we're very jet-lagged.

1:07:28 And earlier today, we came to this park and we

1:07:31 found that it was completely infested with forest leeches.

1:07:36 Today, I'm going to set myself the challenge

1:07:37 of trying to make an episode in a single hour.

1:07:40 So, it is 3:00 p.m.

1:07:42 here in Australia, and by 4:00,

1:07:44 I'm going to have been eaten live by these hungry blood suckers.

1:07:50 In Australia, people are famous for walking around barefoot.

1:07:53 I never quite understood this, unless of course

1:07:56 you just want to connect with the planet,

1:07:58 which case I have great respect for that.

1:07:59 When it comes to walking around in Australia,

1:08:01 there are a lot of things that can bite and sting you that are really painful.

1:08:05 The area that we're in right now is

1:08:06 notorious for its number of Sydney funnel web spiders.

1:08:10 Hopefully, I don't run into one of those.

1:08:11 But I feel like my best odds of getting eaten

1:08:14 alive by these leeches will be to take off my socks

1:08:17 and my boots and let my piggies and my dogs out

1:08:22 and see whether or not in the walk around this pond right here,

1:08:25 I managed to get myself swarmed by these forest leeches.

1:08:28 Probably can't see that on the GoPro, but already there's a leech right there.

1:08:33 Here we go.

1:08:39 I got to come back, get the camera, cut it, and then take it with me.

1:08:43 Okay, the quest begins.

1:08:46 And by quest, I mean, well,

1:08:48 they're going to be leeches questing for the delicious taste of my feet.

1:08:54 Now, people often make fun of my feet because to be honest,

1:08:58 I got pretty weak feet.

1:09:00 They're really soft for some reason.

1:09:01 I don't spend a lot of time barefoot.

1:09:03 I should probably spend more time barefoot.

1:09:05 And I did the episode in Alaska with Steve Crochell and the Wolverines.

1:09:09 Oh man, that I put my feet through some serious serious issues.

1:09:14 Now, they're all buried down in this leaf structure.

1:09:18 See this?

1:09:19 All the leaves that you see covering the forest

1:09:21 floor here are exactly where those leeches are hiding.

1:09:25 And similar to ticks, what they will do is quest for their next victim,

1:09:29 which means they can sense heat, body heat, and carbon monoxide.

1:09:34 carbon dioxide.

1:09:35 No, it's carbon dioxide.

1:09:37 The heat from your skin and the carbon dioxide

1:09:39 that's exuded from your skin allows leeches to say,

1:09:41 "That is a warm-blooded creature.

1:09:43 I'm going to hop on, catch a free ride,

1:09:45 and get a free meal." I should be asleep right now,

1:09:48 but you know, it's brave wilderness, so we're making videos.

1:09:57 H So far.

1:09:59 Oh boy.

1:10:00 There we go.

1:10:01 Walking through the underbrush.

1:10:02 Really, all you got to do is step a couple of spots, sit, and wait.

1:10:08 Ah, yeah.

1:10:09 It's starting to starting to dig in.

1:10:11 Mhm.

1:10:12 Now, just like the leeches I was bitten by years ago,

1:10:14 they have a mouthpiece that looks like the MercedesBenz emblem.

1:10:18 These three slicing teeth that once they get on you,

1:10:22 they lube the skin with anti-coagulant and then they slice in.

1:10:26 At least that's how the European medicinal leeches worked.

1:10:29 I can tell you already that the ones right down here,

1:10:33 I can feel them beginning to drink.

1:10:36 Right there, that is one's mouth locked in place.

1:10:39 Got a couple more down here.

1:10:42 The blood buffet line is officially open and ready for business.

1:10:47 All right, let's work my way down here.

1:10:50 Okay, how do I get back up to the trail?

1:10:53 I'm completely lost.

1:10:55 One way people often get leeches on them

1:10:56 is just by simply stopping to admire nature.

1:11:00 You look around, you're standing in an area that is dense with plants.

1:11:04 You're not paying attention to your feet.

1:11:05 You look down, you're like, "Okay,

1:11:07 this is this is totally good to go right here,

1:11:10 except for the fact that leeches are coming up and off

1:11:13 of the plants and onto your legs." I think I have

1:11:16 found a pretty good spot here standing in the ferns because

1:11:20 I am seeing more and more of them jumping onto my legs.

1:11:24 Especially this giant one right there.

1:11:26 Look at this guy.

1:11:27 He just hitched on a couple seconds ago.

1:11:30 Oh, that guy's starting to get close to the shorts line.

1:11:34 What I don't want is for them to crawl up my shorts.

1:11:38 You may be wondering to yourself, why in the world would this man

1:11:41 wander around barefoot in a leechinfested forest?

1:11:44 Stay tuned till the end of this episode,

1:11:46 and I promise I'm going to show you how to safely remove leeches

1:11:49 from your body in the event that you

1:11:50 ever find yourself in this worst case scenario.

1:11:56 I just keep walking and walking and walking

1:11:59 and my feet are taking a beating, but it's worth it.

1:12:02 Okay, I'm going to go meet up with Mario and Trent.

1:12:04 We're going to get the tight B-roll shots.

1:12:06 We're going to get the thumbnail.

1:12:07 And I'm going to get these leeches off of my leg.

1:12:10 Okay, it has been a solid hour since I walked around the outside of this pond.

1:12:17 And while I was hoping for more leeches, there are not just a couple.

1:12:20 There are many.

1:12:21 I'm going to count them real quick.

1:12:22 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,

1:12:30 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

1:12:38 21 leeches on my legs, feet, and ankles at the moment.

1:12:43 And the one that definitely took the most advantage

1:12:46 of my Blood Buffet line was this guy right here.

1:12:49 Now, to remove a leech,

1:12:50 you have to remember there is the back end and the front end.

1:12:53 Both ends have suction cups.

1:12:55 You want to remove the back end first, which is going to be the bigger end.

1:12:58 You may think, "Oh, bigger end's probably the head." Nope.

1:13:00 The bigger end is actually the butt and the smaller end is the head itself.

1:13:05 All you need to do is use your fingernail.

1:13:08 Slide your fingernail up against the back end

1:13:11 of leech like that to get it to unadhere.

1:13:14 And then the same exact thing you want to do by its mouth.

1:13:16 Now, what you don't want to do is just pull the leech straight off.

1:13:19 If you do that or if you squeeze leech,

1:13:21 you can actually cause it to regurgitate some of its

1:13:23 meal into your wound and that could cause an infection.

1:13:25 So, you take your thumbnail or a credit

1:13:27 card or anything that's flat and smooth and run

1:13:30 it right from the backside up against its mouth

1:13:36 just like that and the leech will pop off.

1:13:40 And that right there is one very full leech.

1:13:47 Yeah, buddy.

1:13:47 We've had enough to eat, I think.

1:13:50 That is disgusting.

1:13:52 This leech started out short and skinny,

1:13:56 and now it's long and plump, and it's filled with Coyote Peterson's blood.

1:14:01 Now, I'm going to remove every single one of these leeches in that same fashion.

1:14:05 As you can see there, the blood is starting to flow.

1:14:08 That's always going to happen.

1:14:09 Now, for cleanup, all you need to use is a little bit of soap and water,

1:14:12 maybe some Neosporin.

1:14:14 Keep the wound uncovered.

1:14:15 Keep dabbing it.

1:14:16 You don't want to cover it.

1:14:17 You want to just let the wound breathe at the end of the day.

1:14:20 And uh you should be fine.

1:14:22 Very seldom are there infections that are caused from leech bites.

1:14:25 Unless of course you squeeze it and get

1:14:27 some of that regurgitation into the wound itself.

1:14:30 So as long as you're careful when removing leeches,

1:14:32 you hopefully should be just fine.

1:14:34 But I have to say it is very creepy

1:14:36 feeling to have something on you drinking your blood.

1:14:39 Is there any pain that I'm experiencing?

1:14:41 No.

1:14:42 absolutely none whatsoever because of that numbing agent in their saliva.

1:14:46 You may feel a little bit of a pinch.

1:14:48 I did feel a pinch a couple of times, especially the ones in between my toes.

1:14:52 You know, there are many methods that you

1:14:54 may stumble across on the internet for removing leeches.

1:14:57 You know, people say, "Oh,

1:14:58 use salt like you would melt a slug or use a lighter."

1:15:03 This is this is absolutely the wrong way to do it.

1:15:05 It's all about properly removing the back end, using the edge of your thumb.

1:15:10 I find that honestly the best thing to use is a credit card.

1:15:14 And get you off of there like that.

1:15:17 Oh man.

1:15:18 Oh, look at this beast here.

1:15:20 Oh, that is so slimy.

1:15:22 Ah, gross.

1:15:24 Oh, come on.

1:15:25 Don't stick on there, too.

1:15:26 Yeah.

1:15:27 Come on.

1:15:28 Ah.

1:15:29 Oh, one thing I'm not looking forward to is

1:15:31 the last time we did a leech episode,

1:15:35 the itching was a big part of the aftermath.

1:15:38 And I have a feeling that that's going to be the same with these guys.

1:15:43 Oh yeah.

1:15:44 And there you have it.

1:15:45 Coyote Peterson turning himself into a blood buffet line for forest leeches.

1:15:50 But at the end of the day,

1:15:51 we showed you guys how to properly remove these creepy alien looking creatures

1:15:56 from your body if you ever find yourself in the blood buffet line.

1:16:00 I'm Coyote Peterson.

1:16:02 Be brave.

1:16:04 Stay wild.

1:16:05 We'll see you on the next adventure.

1:16:08 What a way to start off Australia.

1:16:13 As I learned from our previous leech experiment, these bites had more to give.

1:16:17 As exactly a week after filming the scene,

1:16:20 I experienced intense itchiness, weird seepage,

1:16:24 and around a dozen nagging wounds that eventually

1:16:26 turned to scars that I still carry today.

1:16:29 Moral of the story, do your best to avoid becoming a leech buffet line.

1:16:36 Fish on.

1:16:37 SHOULD I BE LETTING IT TAKING MINE LIKE THIS?

1:16:40 YEAH.

1:16:42 HE'S RUNNING.

1:16:44 WHOA.

1:16:44 THERE IT JUST JUMPS.

1:16:45 YOU SEE IT?

1:16:46 IT'S like the size of A KILLER WHALE.

1:16:48 WOW.

1:16:49 IT is massive.

1:16:51 This could be your world record size fish.

1:16:54 Woo!

1:17:02 Well, it's the start of a very big adventure.

1:17:04 We are in the middle of nowhere right now.

1:17:06 British Columbia is a massive expanse of wilderness.

1:17:10 And this river that's flowing here is the Frasier River and it's surrounded

1:17:14 in lore and mystery primarily around the sightings

1:17:18 of what may be a prehistoric creature.

1:17:22 We're going to be working with two experts today,

1:17:24 Kevin and Maro, conservationists and anglers.

1:17:28 And our goal is to see if we can catch one of these supposed river monsters.

1:17:34 Sunshine starting to peek out.

1:17:35 You've got clouds lining in between the crest of these mountains.

1:17:39 You got the frost line up top with the snow caps.

1:17:43 British Columbia is absolutely beautiful.

1:17:46 And we're going to catch a river monster.

1:17:48 Ho ho.

1:17:49 A big river monster.

1:17:51 All right, the boat's getting ready to pick me up.

1:17:52 It's go time.

1:17:56 In British Columbia,

1:17:57 we're pretty fortunate with what we have here for fishing, right?

1:18:00 It's a mecca in the world for fishing.

1:18:02 Once I was about 14 years old and and saw one for the first time last year.

1:18:07 We were fortunate enough to land a fish that's 11 foot 6 and 1/2 to the fork

1:18:12 and uh we were pretty excited to say

1:18:14 the least to see something that that spectacular.

1:18:17 It changed my life.

1:18:18 Well, hopefully we catch something between 7 and maybe 14 ft today.

1:18:22 Kevin has the world record at this point,

1:18:23 but as long as we get a big fish on the line, we will have an excellent episode.

1:18:30 Okay, so we officially have a couple

1:18:32 of lines in the water and like most fishing,

1:18:34 now we begin the waiting process.

1:18:37 There's heavy weight on the end of these baits.

1:18:39 So, it essentially stays in one spot.

1:18:40 We want to let the fish come to it 28 ft deep in this spot right here.

1:18:45 So, we're going to catch a big one today.

1:18:51 These two here are real close to this bait here.

1:18:56 They're just sitting beside each other.

1:18:58 Just see those two?

1:19:01 Yep.

1:19:01 Hold on.

1:19:02 Okay, here we go.

1:19:03 We're getting a bite.

1:19:04 Oh, we might have a bite

1:19:06 now.

1:19:06 It could be a smaller fish.

1:19:09 Uh-huh.

1:19:08 Or it could be monstrous and he's just

1:19:10 going super slow with trying to get the bait.

1:19:12 Right.

1:19:16 Oh, yeah.

1:19:16 Definitely pulling a little bit.

1:19:18 Not a big fish.

1:19:19 Oh, okay.

1:19:20 Definitely a lot more pull now.

1:19:23 Oh, yeah.

1:19:24 There he is.

1:19:24 There he is.

1:19:25 Just keep them in the water.

1:19:27 Oh, yes.

1:19:31 Wow.

1:19:31 Just keep them in the water.

1:19:32 Yeah.

1:19:33 Yeah.

1:19:35 Whoa.

1:19:35 That is like perfect handle and hug size.

1:19:39 Look at that prehistoric creature.

1:19:41 A little mini river monster.

1:19:44 Even at this size.

1:19:46 Incredible power.

1:19:47 You going to walk them in?

1:19:49 Walk them in.

1:19:49 Yeah.

1:19:51 Okay.

1:19:52 First one.

1:19:53 Fish is secure.

1:19:54 Good job.

1:19:56 Oh my goodness.

1:19:58 Look at you.

1:20:00 Unbelievable.

1:20:02 That is the white sturgeon.

1:20:04 A very miniaturized version of what we're

1:20:06 hoping to catch throughout the course of today.

1:20:09 But this gives us a chance to really examine the animal.

1:20:12 Look at that beautiful coloration.

1:20:14 It almost glistens white and blue.

1:20:17 Now, what's unique about the body structure

1:20:19 of this fish is that it's very muscular.

1:20:21 The skeleton is made of cartilage, but the head is made of solid bone.

1:20:26 The snout is very shovelnseed in design.

1:20:29 You see those little things dangling off the front there?

1:20:31 Those are the barbles.

1:20:33 And it's those barbles that can sense chemicals within

1:20:35 the environment that help these creatures search for their food.

1:20:38 Now, the mouth of the fish,

1:20:39 I'm going to lift it up just very gently like that so you can see the underside.

1:20:44 They have no teeth.

1:20:45 These are environmental vacuums and that they use suction

1:20:49 to bring small crustaceians and other animal into their mouths.

1:20:52 So they use flat raspy plates to crush down on and then swallow their prey.

1:20:57 They've got these distinct pectoral fins on their side

1:21:00 which helps balance their body when they're underwater.

1:21:02 But it's this dorsal fin in the back

1:21:04 and the tail that really makes it look like a shark.

1:21:07 That codual fin will often be seen coming to the surface and those are

1:21:11 one of the indicators that people think

1:21:12 that they're seeing some sort of prehistoric monster.

1:21:16 This fish is truly ancient in design.

1:21:19 And its reptilian look,

1:21:21 especially if that back just comes to the surface like that, shows

1:21:25 you why people may misidentify this animal as a mythological creature.

1:21:30 At this point, we want to get the fish back off and into the environment.

1:21:34 But this is small, 2 and 1/2 ft in length.

1:21:36 We're hoping to find something that dwarfs this fish.

1:21:39 Something that could truly be considered a river monster.

1:21:43 All right, buddy.

1:21:43 Thanks for hanging out with us and happy hunting.

1:21:50 For us, it's it's very encouraging to see

1:21:52 these fish and when you get the small ones,

1:21:53 they're my favorite and so it's it's great seeing them.

1:21:56 Yeah.

1:21:56 The young ones mean the next generation is growing

1:21:58 to become someday these living dinosaurs in a sense.

1:22:02 Exactly.

1:22:02 Well, certainly the work that you're doing to instill conservation

1:22:06 and education aligns with everything that we're doing at Brave Wilderness.

1:22:09 And if we can catch a big fish,

1:22:10 we'll be able to show the world just why these creatures are so cool.

1:22:14 Yeah, for sure.

1:22:14 And it'll be uh it'll be good to see, you know,

1:22:16 what sizes we get cuz it's kind of like a lottery out here, right?

1:22:19 You get little guys, you get big guys.

1:22:21 We don't know.

1:22:22 Any tips for how to bring in one of these fish,

1:22:24 especially if it's 7 ft or more and weighing close to 300 lb?

1:22:27 Yeah.

1:22:27 So, one thing is never let your guard down ever.

1:22:30 And also, if you have a little bit of a pause,

1:22:33 straighten out your arms rather than keep them really tight in like this.

1:22:37 And that'll give your bicep and your form a little bit of a break.

1:22:40 And then you got to get right back into it.

1:22:43 So, you see that fish on there?

1:22:45 I'm going to try and cast right close to him.

1:22:48 Yeah, it's just trailing off the back of the boat.

1:22:49 The big question is whether or not it's actually hungry and wanting to feed.

1:22:54 If we get that monster on the line, hold on.

1:23:07 Now we got a fish.

1:23:08 Fish on.

1:23:12 Big one.

1:23:13 Bigger.

1:23:15 Bigger.

1:23:15 Okay.

1:23:15 You're going to grab this

1:23:18 and you're going to you're going to stay square to him.

1:23:22 Okay.

1:23:21 So, face him.

1:23:22 Okay.

1:23:22 Yeah.

1:23:23 Like that.

1:23:24 Yeah.

1:23:24 This could be a legit river monster right here.

1:23:25 And hold on tight cuz when he's going, he's going to go.

1:23:29 Yep.

1:23:29 So, I'm just feeling him.

1:23:30 Hold on,[ __] Just hold on.

1:23:32 Yeah.

1:23:32 Yeah.

1:23:33 Okay.

1:23:34 Yeah.

1:23:34 Yeah.

1:23:34 Get ready.

1:23:35 Hold on tight.

1:23:36 Don't reel.

1:23:36 Don't reel.

1:23:37 Just hold.

1:23:38 Just hold.

1:23:39 That's a strong fish right there.

1:23:42 Holy cow.

1:23:42 We definitely HAVE A RIVER MONSTER on the end of this line.

1:23:48 Wow.

1:23:49 This is going to require a lot of strength.

1:23:50 I could tell that.

1:23:51 SHOULD I BE LETTING IT TAKING LINE LIKE THIS?

1:23:53 YEAH.

1:23:53 YEAH.

1:23:54 Let him go.

1:23:54 Let him go.

1:23:54 Just stay square to him.

1:24:02 This is a very, very big fish.

1:24:06 I use all my body weight to hold on to this animal.

1:24:11 Come on, baby.

1:24:15 Oh, boy.

1:24:17 Farewell and ado.

1:24:19 All ye fair Spanish ladies.

1:24:23 Farewell in ado, YOU LADIES OF SPAIN.

1:24:26 WE GOT A BIG ONE HERE, CHIEF.

1:24:31 This could be your world record fast fish.

1:24:34 Kevin and I might break his record today.

1:24:37 My forearms are screaming right now.

1:24:42 That's why you don't skip arm day at the gym.

1:24:45 Wow.

1:24:47 Oh, look at him taking look at him taking slack.

1:24:50 Oh, he's running.

1:24:53 Every time I have the chance for slack, I got to take it.

1:25:01 Oh, there it just jumped.

1:25:02 Do you see it?

1:25:03 It's like the size of a killer whale.

1:25:06 Woo!

1:25:07 It is huge.

1:25:08 Did you see it?

1:25:09 It is really big.

1:25:12 We do not want to lose this fish.

1:25:14 We got the fish up at the surface.

1:25:16 It's absolutely huge.

1:25:17 Mario's filming its heads right alongside the boat.

1:25:20 Wow, it is massive.

1:25:22 Holy cow.

1:25:23 What do you want me to do, Kevin?

1:25:24 This right there's good.

1:25:24 I'm going to grab the weight and then I'm going to grab the weight.

1:25:27 Reel a little bit.

1:25:28 Okay, reel a little bit in.

1:25:30 Just right there.

1:25:30 Yeah, that's good.

1:25:31 Right there.

1:25:33 Hold it there.

1:25:35 Hold it there.

1:25:39 Oh yeah, there.

1:25:43 That is a big fish.

1:25:44 Good job.

1:25:46 Wow.

1:25:47 Holy cow.

1:25:48 Yeah, that is a horse right there.

1:25:51 It's spilling out of the cradle.

1:25:56 Okay, let's see what his length is.

1:26:00 225.

1:26:01 Wow.

1:26:01 Yeah, he's pretty

1:26:04 86.

1:26:03 86 225 86 7 and 1/2 ft.

1:26:07 So that's over huge tail.

1:26:09 Over eight total length.

1:26:10 Over eight total length.

1:26:12 Yeah,

1:26:12 his head is huge.

1:26:13 Absolutely massive.

1:26:15 Look at the size of its head.

1:26:17 It's like a battery ram.

1:26:20 Woo!

1:26:22 We have done it.

1:26:23 We have caught a true dinosaur, the white sturgeon,

1:26:27 measuring 8 ft in length and capping in at probably close to 300 lb.

1:26:33 And when you look at the design of this animal,

1:26:35 it looks exactly like the smaller one we caught earlier.

1:26:39 The big bony head, the skuts that run down the length of the body,

1:26:43 but the difference is the girth and the weight.

1:26:45 This thing is absolutely massive.

1:26:48 Now, the lineage of this fish species dates back 200 million years.

1:26:52 And throughout our adventure, Kevin keeps calling these things dinosaurs.

1:26:56 They truly are living fossils.

1:26:58 What would you guess, Kevin?

1:26:58 This fish is probably close to 70 or 80 years of age.

1:27:01 Yeah, for sure.

1:27:02 At this size.

1:27:02 Yeah, that is ancient.

1:27:05 Something very cool about this fish is, see these scoots around here?

1:27:08 They're like blue.

1:27:10 Every fish has different unique markings.

1:27:12 You can always see it on the head and you can also see it on the scoots.

1:27:15 This fish is got really, really unique markings which is very cool to see.

1:27:20 Yeah, it almost looks like this diamond pattern and the head is

1:27:24 so smooth and then as soon as you get to those scoots,

1:27:27 they really are razor sharp, but they have this iridescent glow to them

1:27:31 and the pattern on each individual fish is completely unique.

1:27:34 Correct.

1:27:35 Yeah.

1:27:35 And and also the scoots, right?

1:27:37 The further they go up river on the Fraser here,

1:27:39 they'll wear down like sandpaper.

1:27:41 So the closer to the ocean, they're sharper.

1:27:44 And if they're a transient fish,

1:27:45 you can get sharp fish in areas that you typically don't.

1:27:50 We spent hours traveling up river by boat.

1:27:52 But believe it or not, civilization is all around us.

1:27:55 The biggest threat a fish of this size faces is non- selective salmon nets.

1:28:00 These animals get tangled up.

1:28:02 The nets aren't checked for significant periods of time,

1:28:05 and they end up drowning.

1:28:06 80 years that it takes to get to this size,

1:28:09 and it can be lost in a single day simply because a net is not being checked.

1:28:13 It's really heartbreaking when you think about it,

1:28:15 but at the same time, people don't think about these animals.

1:28:19 The sturgeon is not exactly the prettiest fish on the face of the planet.

1:28:22 It lives in murky water, feeding at the bottom, an environmental vacuum cleaner.

1:28:27 But they're incredibly important.

1:28:28 And without them, the river system will completely fall out of balance.

1:28:33 You got to love something that's this big and this ancient.

1:28:36 When do you ever get to be hands on with a dinosaur?

1:28:40 I absolutely love this fish.

1:28:43 Sturgeon have been one of those misunderstood creatures

1:28:46 that I've loved since I was a little kid.

1:28:49 Oh, this was so cool.

1:28:50 Now, angling this fish was incredibly difficult.

1:28:54 Exhausting on the body, but the reward,

1:28:56 being able to get it up close and most importantly being able to share it

1:28:59 with the audience is what's going to help

1:29:01 change the face of conservation for these fish.

1:29:03 If you can't see it, if you can't appreciate it, you can't truly love it.

1:29:07 And if you can't love something, you don't have a real reason to protect it.

1:29:12 Kevin, thank you so much for bringing us out on this expedition.

1:29:15 For me, this is a new personal best.

1:29:18 8 ft in length, 300 lb.

1:29:20 Thank you, Sturgeon.

1:29:21 You have now topped the alligator gar.

1:29:24 I'm Cy Peterson.

1:29:26 Be brave.

1:29:28 Stay wild.

1:29:29 We'll see you on the next adventure.

1:29:31 All right, big fish.

1:29:32 Off you go.

1:29:35 Every day, another giant vanishes from our planet.

1:29:38 Many of which go unseen and unrecognized.

1:29:42 But conservation warriors like Kevin and Maro

1:29:44 are working tirelessly to change this.

1:29:48 To glimpse a river monster at the surface is a sight one never

1:29:51 forgets and is a story of the unexplained that can last a lifetime.

1:29:57 But to physically angle,

1:29:59 get hands-on with, and spiritually connect with these ancient

1:30:02 creatures is a privilege one can only experience in person.

1:30:07 If you would like to raise awareness for white

1:30:09 sturgeon and become part of a research expedition,

1:30:12 make sure to visit and book your adventure today.

1:30:17 Oh my gosh.

1:30:18 Oh my god.

1:30:19 All right, here's the revealing piece right here.

1:30:20 OH MY GOSH.

1:30:22 REX, DUDE.

1:30:22 It's a Rex dude.

1:30:23 Oh my god.

1:30:25 Nice.

1:30:25 This is the same size brain as a coyote's brain, too.

1:30:29 It's all about form.

1:30:30 We're going to do it and we're going to do it right.

1:30:34 Okay, we are on a dirt road out in the middle of nowhere,

1:30:37 outskirts of Jordan, Montana.

1:30:40 The fact that we are in T-Rex territory is just

1:30:42 a different feeling as compared to any other fossil episode we've made.

1:30:46 So, the Hellcoolians,

1:30:48 they've got uh an incredible eye for snipping out prehistoric treasures.

1:30:52 So, we're relying on them to get us

1:30:54 out to the spot that they've been digging at.

1:30:56 If we were to like lose track of the hooligans,

1:31:00 I don't know if I could get back to this town.

1:31:02 I really don't know.

1:31:02 Like, we really don't have any tracks

1:31:05 in front of us to determine where we're going.

1:31:07 We are really in the middle of nowhere.

1:31:09 And we're about 35 minutes away from the dig site.

1:31:12 Uh, my heart's racing.

1:31:14 So excited right now.

1:31:16 With the current population of around 300 people,

1:31:19 T-Rex isn't the only thing this tiny town is famous for.

1:31:22 Let's take a tour.

1:31:28 In 1902, the very first T-Rex skeleton was dug up right here in Jordan, Montana.

1:31:35 But that's not its skull.

1:31:37 And if you're on a tight budget like me,

1:31:39 don't worry, cuz you can see the dinosaurs for free.

1:31:42 This is Rexy Red.

1:31:43 Quite possibly the oldest firet truck in the world.

1:31:46 Keep fighting, old girl.

1:31:49 I personally like this dump truck cuz it reminds me of a dinosaur.

1:31:53 This one's an even bigger dinosaur.

1:31:56 Roar.

1:31:57 They have a post office.

1:32:00 World class coffee.

1:32:02 And Ryan's Groceries, which is famous for their Triceratops stakes.

1:32:05 No joke.

1:32:06 We'll get to that later.

1:32:08 And that concludes our tour of Jordan,

1:32:10 a quaint little town that I bet Michael Jordan has never actually set foot in.

1:32:19 Dude, we haven't even got into the dig

1:32:21 site and you're already getting into the snacks.

1:32:22 Uh, it's just fruit snacks.

1:32:24 I mean, and all I had was oatmeal for breakfast.

1:32:26 I'm hungry.

1:32:27 I don't want fossil fatigue to set in too quickly.

1:32:29 I got to fire up my energy.

1:32:31 First to get into snacks means his rations will be gone soon,

1:32:36 which means he's going to be starving.

1:32:38 It's going to impair his judgment.

1:32:39 He's not going to be able to find fossils.

1:32:41 It's really to my advantage.

1:32:43 Eat up, buddy.

1:32:46 Okay, we have officially ended up at the dig site.

1:32:48 Long adventure to get here,

1:32:50 but I can see in the backdrop there are dinosaurs waiting to be found.

1:32:53 We've broken today's competition into two teams.

1:32:56 Coyote and the Cretaceous Kid versus Mario and Dino Dan.

1:33:01 I mean, I just call them losers right out of the gate cuz a little trash talk.

1:33:06 Now, to make today's challenge interesting,

1:33:08 we're each going to search for fossils.

1:33:10 And at the end, we're going to have a Cretaceious council that's

1:33:13 going to judge and decide which team has got the best fossils,

1:33:17 and winner takes all.

1:33:19 What?

1:33:20 That's right.

1:33:20 Winner takes the other team's fossils.

1:33:23 Absolutely.

1:33:23 Hi,

1:33:24 see what coyote finds so we can take it from.

1:33:26 May the uh best fossil hunter win.

1:33:29 Let's do it.

1:33:30 Dan's girlfriend, Raina, is going to be our Cretaceous Council.

1:33:35 And what's crazy is that Raina recently found like

1:33:38 only the fourth existing Ankyosaurus skull on the planet.

1:33:43 She is like the envy of the paleontological world at the moment.

1:33:48 And um all the dogs are gathering around

1:33:49 cuz they apparently want to say hi, too.

1:33:51 This is Paco.

1:33:52 Hi, Paco.

1:33:53 How are you?

1:33:54 Um where's Luke's partner?

1:33:59 This is Rudy.

1:34:01 I think he's goofing off.

1:34:02 He's goofing off.

1:34:03 Yep.

1:34:03 Well, as usual, Cody hasn't showed up.

1:34:06 He's He's literally playing with dogs right now

1:34:09 while Danny and I we're hard at work.

1:34:11 At least Danny's hard at work.

1:34:12 He's He's digging like crazy.

1:34:14 So Luke is giving me a mission of an area

1:34:17 that's a cool shelf that I'm going to dig out.

1:34:19 So yeah, I'll just loosen it up a little bit for you.

1:34:21 We'll have two shelves.

1:34:22 Those guys look like they just have one over there for two people.

1:34:25 I just don't think that's a good idea, but I don't like their strategy.

1:34:27 I don't either.

1:34:28 Okay, time to get to digging.

1:34:37 So, uh, I just found this and my heart raced

1:34:40 because I thought it was a tooth, but it's not.

1:34:43 It's just a rock.

1:34:44 It looks like a tooth, so I feel like I'm getting close.

1:34:47 I found my first Rex tip.

1:34:50 Part of a Rex tooth.

1:34:51 And hey, what are you doing there, sir?

1:34:53 I just sick having a peek.

1:34:54 What you got there?

1:34:55 What is that?

1:34:56 A little Rex tube.

1:34:57 Dang.

1:34:57 Let me have a little peek.

1:35:00 Cool.

1:35:00 Yeah.

1:35:00 Hey.

1:35:01 Hey sir, coyote's a trickster.

1:35:03 Can't trust him with their fossils.

1:35:05 You know that's what coyotes are known for being tricksters.

1:35:08 Okay, my partner's got an update.

1:35:09 What'd you find?

1:35:10 Just found the uh shard of a Rex tooth.

1:35:12 Another one.

1:35:12 This one actually has the serration line still on it.

1:35:15 Kind of like a steak knife.

1:35:16 It's got little ridges on it.

1:35:17 Sandy, what do we got?

1:35:18 It's a T-Rex tooth and it's just the tip of one.

1:35:20 You can see it's broke off in the back.

1:35:23 We are getting very close.

1:35:24 I mean, that in itself is really exciting.

1:35:27 Team Mario Bros.

1:35:29 Okay, I got my first shard.

1:35:30 It's probably really tough to tell, but I can see the serrations.

1:35:34 First PCG Rex tooth.

1:35:35 That's number six on shards.

1:35:36 So, six more and we should have a Rex tooth.

1:35:38 Okay, so the theory is that after you find 12 shards of tooth,

1:35:42 you will find a whole tooth.

1:35:44 Glad I can finally contribute to the effort.

1:35:47 Yes, Mario's got something big.

1:35:51 I was just digging.

1:35:53 I'm pretty excited.

1:35:54 Oh my gosh.

1:35:56 All right.

1:35:56 What do I do?

1:35:57 All right.

1:35:57 I would just start like um you want to take

1:35:59 the pressure away from the fossil, not into it.

1:36:02 Okay.

1:36:01 So, you could take your knife and start coming back through here.

1:36:03 I'll take mine.

1:36:04 Wait, where?

1:36:04 Right here.

1:36:05 Yep.

1:36:05 Yeah.

1:36:06 Just flick it away from the much.

1:36:08 They can be pretty fragile.

1:36:09 So, let's just All right.

1:36:10 Here's the revealing piece right here.

1:36:14 OH MY GOD.

1:36:15 REX TOOTH.

1:36:16 Rex tooth.

1:36:17 Oh my god.

1:36:19 Nice.

1:36:19 Oh my Oh my god.

1:36:21 This is what Jealous looks like.

1:36:22 I'm shaking.

1:36:25 Dang.

1:36:24 That's a gnarly Rex tooth.

1:36:26 That's a good one.

1:36:27 All right, I'll let you pick it up, Mario.

1:36:29 It's your dude.

1:36:29 Oh my god.

1:36:32 Wow.

1:36:32 That's a nice tooth.

1:36:33 Look at the size of that.

1:36:35 You ready to see the rest?

1:36:38 Yeah.

1:36:39 That's That's all I wanted.

1:36:40 That's it.

1:36:41 Satisfied.

1:36:42 This tooth pierced the flesh of countless dinosaurs to keep that T-Rex alive.

1:36:49 And now it's in my hands.

1:36:52 That's amazing.

1:36:53 We got to step up our game a little bit.

1:36:54 I'm excited, but I really want you to find one, too.

1:36:57 So, that will make the trip.

1:36:59 We both got to come home with some big teeth.

1:37:01 That's very kind of you.

1:37:04 Yeah.

1:37:03 What a nice guy.

1:37:04 I would have been rubbing it in his his face if I had

1:37:07 I'm not a competitive person.

1:37:09 I'm still several inches away from the tooth zone,

1:37:11 so I'm I'm confident I'm going to get there.

1:37:13 Oh, yeah.

1:37:13 I won't let you down, partner.

1:37:14 Don't worry.

1:37:15 I'll let you down.

1:37:16 Yeah.

1:37:16 Go take a nap real quick, though.

1:37:22 a clan out here in a landlocked state.

1:37:26 That means that at one point this place was underwater, right?

1:37:28 I'd be better if clams were here.

1:37:30 Yeah.

1:37:30 Pretty neat.

1:37:31 Hey, how are you guys doing over there?

1:37:33 Doing really good.

1:37:34 Hey, hey, hey, hey.

1:37:35 Come on.

1:37:35 Keep the cameras out of our dig zone.

1:37:37 This is a It's a fine line, right?

1:37:39 See that line right there?

1:37:40 Yeah.

1:37:40 You're in our territory.

1:37:41 I'm not in it.

1:37:42 I'm on the edge of it.

1:37:42 I just want to make sure.

1:37:44 Stop crowd my partner.

1:37:45 Dino Dan, we got a hot moment here, guys.

1:37:48 I just heard back of a Rex tooth.

1:37:50 Who found this?

1:37:51 Mario again.

1:37:52 Oh my gosh.

1:37:54 Dude, like you do not find Rex bugs every day.

1:37:56 This is Oh, no.

1:37:59 It's a half.

1:38:01 Oh.

1:38:01 All right.

1:38:01 That was exhilarating.

1:38:03 However, it's still a fantastic find because these guys were stoked.

1:38:07 That's all right.

1:38:09 Okay.

1:38:08 Keep going.

1:38:09 I mean, this is technically my second big T-Rex.

1:38:11 Dude, Ky, how many teeth have you found?

1:38:15 Okay, Luke just called out.

1:38:16 We got something camera worthy here.

1:38:17 That's a nice claw.

1:38:18 What they call it in business.

1:38:21 Uh, that is definitely going to help us out, Carter.

1:38:26 Perfect.

1:38:25 That might be our find of the day right there.

1:38:28 This is not fossil fatigue.

1:38:29 This is lunch.

1:38:30 Well, Coyote was goofing off.

1:38:32 I found this sweet nano tooth.

1:38:34 On my lunch break and these guys are just finding dinosaur teeth.

1:38:37 All right, my partner got something big here.

1:38:39 Nanotyrannus tooth.

1:38:40 Wow, that is incredible.

1:38:43 I just found a Triceratops tooth.

1:38:45 My first trike tooth.

1:38:47 Yes, T-Rex prey species officially in the bag, which means T-Rex must be next.

1:38:53 We are currently in the halftime zone.

1:38:57 And uh I'm taking the lead.

1:38:58 Simple as that.

1:38:59 And uh right now we're using the Bobcat to take out some of the soil

1:39:03 and kind of set a new plate for us to get in there and start looking again.

1:39:08 So Raina, what did you uh start to uncover here?

1:39:11 Um pretty decent sized TX.

1:39:14 Are you excited?

1:39:15 Yeah.

1:39:15 The Cretaceous Council herself showing us how it's done.

1:39:22 OH, IT'S THE WHOLE TOOTH.

1:39:27 Oh my goodness.

1:39:29 Raina, how you feeling about that, Mario?

1:39:32 I say I'm feeling good because at least it wasn't you that found it.

1:39:36 I'm just going to sit in her little uh Rex hole

1:39:38 right here and try to absorb some of this good luck.

1:39:41 I just found a razor sharp raptor tooth.

1:39:45 Nice work, guys.

1:39:46 All right, I must BE IN THE HOT ZONE.

1:39:48 IN THE TOOTH ZONE.

1:39:50 LET'S GO.

1:39:51 WE MIGHT have something big happening right here.

1:39:53 I think it is a ridiculously wicked sharp little raptor claw.

1:39:58 This may be the difference in the game.

1:40:04 Wow.

1:40:04 Oh man, your hand is shaking.

1:40:06 Oh my gosh.

1:40:08 We just got a raptor tooth and a raptor claw back to back.

1:40:11 Fine that tip goes down to.

1:40:13 I mean, that is a razor sharp, dude.

1:40:17 We're in the game.

1:40:18 Well, hey, what's that feel like, boys?

1:40:19 Eat your heart out, Dr.

1:40:21 Grant.

1:40:21 We're bringing back raptors.

1:40:24 All right, just when we thought it was slowing down.

1:40:29 My partner here, look at this thing, Dad.

1:40:32 Is uncovering something spectacular.

1:40:36 Oh, yeah.

1:40:38 Oh, yeah.

1:40:39 So, that's the back of a pretty good size Rex tooth.

1:40:41 say probably at least a 4 incher.

1:40:43 I hope.

1:40:43 All right.

1:40:44 And if it gets Dad excited, that means it's a good one.

1:40:47 This is a beautiful tooth.

1:40:49 Come on, man.

1:40:50 Holy smokes.

1:40:51 That's a good one.

1:40:52 Dan, this is the thing with this.

1:40:53 You got to put your knife somewhere.

1:40:54 And there's there's a point of discovery mark on a lot of the fossils.

1:40:57 So, there's a fine line between going too fast and breaking everything,

1:41:01 not going fast enough to find anything.

1:41:03 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1:41:05 Something something big is unfolding back here at the dig site.

1:41:09 Yeah.

1:41:10 Yeah.

1:41:10 Yeah.

1:41:10 Just keep KEEP WALKING, GUYS.

1:41:12 OH my goodness.

1:41:15 Dino Dan.

1:41:17 Oh my gosh.

1:41:19 Oh my gosh.

1:41:20 Are you kidding me?

1:41:22 That is a beautiful tune, partner.

1:41:24 We're in trouble.

1:41:26 We're in trouble, partner.

1:41:27 Let's go.

1:41:28 Let's go.

1:41:30 Nice.

1:41:29 A 4 incher.

1:41:31 How you feeling in this moment?

1:41:33 I am feeling pumped up.

1:41:34 I've been looking for a long time.

1:41:35 The last two days, I haven't found much.

1:41:36 And feel a little better now about stabbing this hill.

1:41:41 You know we found something good when everyone is huddled around.

1:41:45 Persistence.

1:41:46 Guess who wasn't walking around.

1:41:48 Hey, let's go take a little walk while there's T-Rex teeth to be found.

1:41:52 You know, I was hoping that we would walk over to that side

1:41:55 of the ravine and we would see this just sitting there.

1:41:58 We literally left the dig site for 10 minutes and this happened.

1:42:02 You do the honors.

1:42:03 This is the lift.

1:42:03 Is it a full tooth?

1:42:04 I hope so.

1:42:05 I hope that the side's all there.

1:42:07 Oh my god.

1:42:08 Oh my gosh.

1:42:10 Look at that.

1:42:12 Awesome.

1:42:13 I am in complete awe.

1:42:15 Oh my goodness.

1:42:17 Unbelievable, man.

1:42:19 Unbelievable.

1:42:24 Woo!

1:42:24 Sun's getting low.

1:42:25 Everybody's exhausted.

1:42:26 It's been a wild day of digging.

1:42:29 We've got some great fossils.

1:42:30 And now we need to head back to the prep

1:42:32 lab to get the fossils ready for the Cretaceous Council.

1:42:36 Team Mario is definitely going extinct.

1:42:39 Of all my amazing finds that I found today, this is my prized possession.

1:42:45 And it's got a lot of work that's going to be needed in order to prep it.

1:42:48 So, I want the master to do it himself.

1:42:51 Are you nervous?

1:42:51 Does this feel like somebody's delivering your baby?

1:42:54 I'm not nervous at all.

1:42:55 It's in great hands.

1:42:56 It's an honor for him to do that.

1:42:57 It's an honor for us to be here.

1:42:59 I'm excited.

1:43:00 It's a completely different tube.

1:43:02 The master himself's confirming that this is likely a young Tyrannosaurus Rex.

1:43:08 Okay, so we have prepped our fossils

1:43:11 and my goodness do they look gleamy and amazing.

1:43:15 The table is yours, fellas.

1:43:17 Uh let me start off.

1:43:18 Raina, I just wanted to give you u some fruit snacks in case you're hungry.

1:43:23 Danny, take it away.

1:43:24 All right, so we found a lot of cool dinosaurs.

1:43:26 Let's start off with the triceratops.

1:43:28 We got a ton of their teeth, but we also got a full crown,

1:43:31 which came out of their mouth after they died, probably.

1:43:33 This is a unique tooth.

1:43:34 Look at that.

1:43:35 Look at that tooth.

1:43:36 It's like rounded.

1:43:37 And I mean, that's just the boring stuff of our group.

1:43:38 We've also got a ton of shards.

1:43:40 Almost all of them have sweet serrations parts.

1:43:42 You could glue them together and make a dinosaur.

1:43:44 We could.

1:43:44 We could.

1:43:44 Yeah, we probably will actually later.

1:43:46 Then we also got some nano teeth.

1:43:47 Couple big nanos.

1:43:48 Couple nice little raptors, too.

1:43:49 And you know, the other exciting dinosaur,

1:43:51 Rain's kind of partial to it probably is, is the Kyosaur.

1:43:53 We got one of their scoots.

1:43:55 And then of course, you know,

1:43:56 every collection has its crown and that would be the T-Rex dude.

1:44:00 T-Rex.

1:44:00 I mean, that stopped the entire dig site, right?

1:44:02 Everyone came over and pictures.

1:44:05 You're burning with jealousy.

1:44:06 I give credit where credit's dudes big tooth.

1:44:08 Okay, re real quick.

1:44:08 We've got this other T-Rex tooth here that is sliced in half.

1:44:12 Now, that's what we call a heartbreaker.

1:44:14 However, this is great for like anatomy, right?

1:44:16 You can see the anatomy of a tooth structure right there.

1:44:20 But let's just put that aside.

1:44:21 Now, that's speculation.

1:44:23 I found this guy right here.

1:44:25 What an epic find.

1:44:27 Now, most people might think that's a huge nanrannosaurus tooth,

1:44:30 but actually it is a young Tyrannosaurus Rex.

1:44:34 Exactly.

1:44:34 Right.

1:44:34 So, the king itself.

1:44:35 In conclusion, Danny and I had a fantastic time.

1:44:37 There was a lot of highs, no lows at all.

1:44:41 Exactly.

1:44:40 Well, well done, fellas.

1:44:41 I'm fist bumps all the way around on that.

1:44:43 And Mario, congratulations on finding I mean, in all fairness,

1:44:46 Mario's dream come true finding a T-Rex tooth.

1:44:49 I am a jealous coyote that he had found that tooth.

1:44:52 But we've got a smorgas board

1:44:53 of delicious cretaceous fossils for you here tonight.

1:44:56 We've got some prey for T-Rex.

1:44:58 And you got this nice hydrosaur jaw section teeth batteries right there.

1:45:01 We have an ornithamid or maybe overaptor and nano.

1:45:04 Probably a metatarsal.

1:45:06 Could be a new species.

1:45:07 So this is an ankyosaur osteoderm or scoot.

1:45:10 And not only do we get the scoot, I mean this is cool enough in itself.

1:45:12 If we had found this, we'd probably be winning,

1:45:14 but we also well coyote found an ankyosaur tooth.

1:45:18 Oh, coyote found something for once.

1:45:20 That's right.

1:45:20 This is the only ankyosaur tooth of the day.

1:45:22 Now, with these two pieces combined with your skull,

1:45:24 you are three pieces closer to having an entire dinosaur.

1:45:27 How cool is that?

1:45:28 This is a carist footclaw.

1:45:30 And this is probably a little archerioraptor, which is incredibly rare.

1:45:34 So, we have three of these.

1:45:36 And this team got How many did these guys get?

1:45:38 They didn't get any of these council.

1:45:39 Just saying.

1:45:40 Not only do we have over 30 therapod teeth, about four of them are to a T-Rex.

1:45:46 Mhm.

1:45:46 But I think the thing that I am most proud

1:45:48 about that we found the missing piece to your Ankyosaurus skull.

1:45:52 That is an Ankyosaurus brain.

1:45:55 Sure this isn't just a rock.

1:45:57 That is 100% unquestionably an Ankyosaurus brain.

1:46:02 What I read is that this is the same size brain as a coyote's brain, too.

1:46:07 And on that insult, we are going to now give council a full minute to debate,

1:46:13 deliberate, and ultimately decide who is the champion of the Cretaceous.

1:46:18 Is it Team Mario Bros, or is it the Cretaceous kid and old Yodi the Bonehound?

1:46:25 Okay, I've come to a decision.

1:46:27 Partner, I am nervous, but I am also confident.

1:46:29 I'm very confident.

1:46:31 Well, out in the field,

1:46:33 I thought these guys had got you beat with Danny's massive Rex tooth.

1:46:38 However, Luke kind of came in clutch and found three claws.

1:46:42 Swear fortunately, I think it's a tie.

1:46:46 A tie.

1:46:48 Cool.

1:46:47 Well, I thought that it was like we were going to win each other's fossils.

1:46:50 Kind of wanted that tooth.

1:46:51 No.

1:46:52 I think you guys are going to keep your fossils

1:46:54 and you're going to have a competition of feats of strength.

1:47:01 Council has decided that we are going to do a gentleman's feats of strength,

1:47:06 which is push-ups and pull-ups.

1:47:08 Lifter, are you ready?

1:47:11 Ready.

1:47:12 He's not even getting tired.

1:47:13 It's all mental.

1:47:14 He went first, so all I have to do is beat his number.

1:47:20 Woo!

1:47:21 After a day of digging.

1:47:23 That's pretty impressive.

1:47:25 25.

1:47:25 How you feeling about that?

1:47:26 I'm going to really, really dig deep on this.

1:47:28 Okay.

1:47:29 I noticed you took your shoes off.

1:47:31 I did.

1:47:31 Makes you look tough.

1:47:32 Makes you look hard.

1:47:34 Destroy him.

1:47:34 Destroy him.

1:47:35 You got this.

1:47:36 Oh, he's got the strut.

1:47:41 Oh, he's got a lot of swing.

1:47:45 Uh-oh.

1:47:46 He's Is he getting up?

1:47:50 Get that chin above the bar.

1:47:56 That wasn't chin over.

1:47:57 He's got 26 in terms of form here.

1:48:00 I was clearing I you know I I was in the sky.

1:48:04 I got to I got to give it to Mario console and I'm sorry partner but you

1:48:09 have a lot that I don't think cleared

1:48:12 but he does technically get the number 39 years old.

1:48:15 Look at the grays.

1:48:16 Look at my stragglies.

1:48:18 This has got to be military style push-ups.

1:48:21 Okay, T-Rex.

1:48:22 You go first.

1:48:23 All right, let's do it.

1:48:28 Take that form.

1:48:28 Is he going all the way down?

1:48:30 He is.

1:48:31 I don't think he's going down enough.

1:48:33 5 seconds.

1:48:39 Oh, he's shaking.

1:48:40 Woo.

1:48:41 Let's go, man.

1:48:42 Solid, dude.

1:48:43 Solid.

1:48:44 Us oldtimes here, it's all about form.

1:48:46 We're going to do it and we're going to do it right.

1:48:48 Um, I'm rooting for my partner, though.

1:48:49 All right, let's go.

1:48:50 Good luck.

1:48:53 All right, halfway.

1:48:57 Let's go.

1:48:59 It's like halfway there.

1:49:00 You can do 10.

1:49:01 You can do a million.

1:49:02 Keep going.

1:49:04 Oh man, he's creeping up on it.

1:49:06 I will admit.

1:49:09 Oh man.

1:49:11 Oh no.

1:49:15 Nice work, champ.

1:49:16 Oh, man.

1:49:17 All right.

1:49:17 I say we call it uh I don't know what we call it.

1:49:20 You tell us.

1:49:21 I don't have to leave that up to the viewers in the comments.

1:49:23 Hey, that's a good one.

1:49:24 That's true.

1:49:24 The Wild Boys versus the Hooligans.

1:49:27 Write in the comments section below.

1:49:28 You know what, guys?

1:49:29 I think it's time for some Triceratops steaks.

1:49:32 I think so.

1:49:32 Woo!

1:49:32 I'm hungry.

1:49:34 That is insane.

1:49:35 Look at the size of those things.

1:49:37 Well, that officially brings us to the end of our Cretaceous competition.

1:49:41 One heck of a battle.

1:49:42 Like T-Rex going up against Triceratops.

1:49:44 Hell, Cruculians, thank you so much for having us out here.

1:49:48 Thank you.

1:49:48 It was fun working with you guys.

1:49:49 Heck yeah.

1:49:50 Be brave, stay wild.

1:49:52 We'll see you on the next prehistoric adventure.