Finding INVASIVE Reptiles in Florida! 

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She will be a Florida native when she turns 60 😂

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Honestly that would be a cool idea.

That would be amazing

Yessss

Every species in the zoo could be an invasive species somewhere.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeess

I am so glad I wasn’t the only one that thought that at first! *high fives*

i thought it was a thing about earthquakes- i dont experience them in my country so i dont know much

Very informative and very funny

@@verotuxn Florida doesn't have earthquakes. Just hurricanes and tornadoes and flooding and wildfires....

@@eklectiktoni In January 2020, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck 86 miles northwest of Jamaica and sent seismic energy that could be felt in coastal Florida, including in downtown Miami, where some buildings swayed.

and most of them are from the exotic plant trade,wood imports and stow aways on transports but the media craps on pet owners most of the time

I heard a small herd of hippos have found there way into the wanted list of florida

@@kbeancritters8463 florida: the outback of the United States

Yeah, I was wondering where it went.

yea lol just like losing the tv remote but its in your hand the whole time

@@scourgeface omg ssoo true

To be fair it wasn't getting released anyway

@@ConstantChaos1 it was?

@Shayla Gibson what are you even talking about

Exactly! How do they do it?

Well they do have a flashlight and a camera (Not trying to be rude)

@@lovelyh20 yeah

Maybe he has tracers

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The thought of you making kissing noises and pspspspsp at an 8 foot alligator and it responding is just so funny to me idk why

Oh dear 😬

Is the cat okay??

As a European I can't imagine seeing a wild alligator. Like I know they are wild animals but I only ever saw them in the zoo. Living next to them must be terrifying, but you're probably used to it but it still baffles me. It feels unreal. Edit: Grammar

Ya 😂

I love Ed! 😂

Snake discovery I love your videos sorry that you got a bid in

Snake discovery snake discovery Ha Hah Hah Hah that was funny that you got Baden

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Lol

He really has to believe in it to make it work

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That woman has balls :> I like that.

@@GirlofCulture pretty sure she DOESN'T have balls

@@GirlofCulture she is brave tho

@@slaughterinthespotlight1669 duh it’s just an expression

@@wewerebornsick8590 that was a joke too

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Lizards are just daily life animals around here. YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE THE FREAKING THINGS.

@@PinaaaColaaa It's sad so many invasive species have populated Florida.

We call those "foster fails"

I was really anxious too, but I was so happy to see them keep him and give him a home.

American steve Irwin’s

I would say they are the Steve Irwin and Terri Irwins of RU-vid

@@bluepearl4624 oops thank you for letting me know :)

Which lizard? Most invasive species you have to make sure are legal to keep as pets.

Good on you! :D

What kind of Finches?

If your grandma ever wants to release a finch tell her I had a co-worker who came in crying because she let her cat out on her balcony and when she let it back in it came in with the fresh killed body of a little blue parakeet. Never seen it, obviously a pet breed of bird. Apparently landed on the balcony after the cat was out lacking instinct and not knowing many cat would see it as a nom nom.

My mom tried to do that when we lived back in NY but she did it right next to my red tailed hawk. Bird made it a whole 5 feet before my hawk jumpped up n caught it mid flight n ate it in front of her lol I just laughed like crazy. Told her u NEVER release animals into the wild. She just hit me wit the broom lol were puerto rican so the broom attack is normal lol

I just wanna say, I love your profile picture

All non invasives are eaten at this point

Sadly it was humans again who first released them to wild.

They've been a huge problem in FL for a long while

I heard that Roomba is creating subaquatic vacuum especially to capture lionfish

Lol

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Emily: :3 cute wittle lizard! Lemme give some facts about it... Meanwhile... Anole: *I will emit the war cry of my people MORTAL FOOL*

😑😐 Huh …

@@xbrightcitiesx1720 it's florida, what do you expect to hear from those weirdos

😆😆😆🤣 I love it!

Just stay away and you'll be safe from me! (I had to)

As I read this it came on

It’s so pretty. I love it!

You should see Edd's. xD

Lol

@Rex And Friends He dyed his whole head like Emily's streak. You can see it in the newest fan mail vid :)

@Rex And Friends My bad, Fan Mail #23 It looks good too

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Oh those guys are all over south Florida. They are very mean and VERY crafty. I have one that I accidentally tamed, so hes kind of a pet? I dropped bits of chicken off my balcony to feed him on my porch and now hes here every day. His name is Gordito because hes gotten pretty chunky since I met him 😅

@@50meterworm gordito means fat in Spanish

Cool story!

My dad always tells me this story about a guy he knew. Apparently one day after we had this guy came across a bunch of dead iguanas so he does what any sensible Florida Man would do, and he piles the dead iguanas in this back seat so he can go home and make some iguana stew. Although in the warmth of his car all the iguanas start coming back to life, and the guy ended up running his car off the road.

@@sixoffcenter80 that's funny, disgusting, and horrifying all at the same time!? I hope the guy was o.k. but since it's a second hand story I would assume so?

@@DJDroz-tz4qc I've heard similar stories a few times - when it gets too cold, the iguanas brumate and fall out of trees. They appear frozen and dead... Until you warm them up.

They're actually quite prolific in other southern states like georgia, alabama, and the Carolinas. It's just unfortunate so many invasive critters introduced to florida eat smaller reptiles. I've maybe seen three in my whole time of living florida. They're really an absolutely stunning anole, just unfortunately becoming scarcer and scarcer in Florida. They're actually going through a period of forced advanced evolution- their natural habitat is hunting bugs at the bottom of trees, but they're quickly evolving larger ridged toe pads in order to climb higher and higher into trees to avoid newly introduced predators! It's really pretty cool, just a bit sad that they have to learn to adapt so fast.

yes

Anoles: the worst lizard build?

@@HHLucifer666 is that a teirzoo reference?

Kind of like how frogs are nature's candy.

To be fair it wasn't getting released anyway

Lol

@@ConstantChaos1 i mean yeah but like je got coght and ignored for 6 minutes xD

@@jellyjesus7530 hey 6 min of body heat for a reptile, sounds like a win to me

@@ConstantChaos1 ngl you have a solid point

That cornsnake is my idol now

i mean the cornsnake isnt wrong

If I was light as him I could climb that high

Well I have Ben higher then that in a tree without ropes I think

As someone not from Florida, going down there and seeing wild iguanas and parrots is amazing to me. We don't have anything cool up here along the east coast.

There’s so many by my house it’s crazy.

@@blobbertmcblob4888 when I went to Disney world I was pretty amazed by all of the lizards

They're also very common in the Caribbean. I did a horsback riding excursion there once and the stable where the excursion took off from was crawling with iguanas, some really good sized ones too.

@@blobbertmcblob4888 have you seen the wild chickens down there? LMAO

First time finding them and keep watching because they are so informative it's fascinating. Like Steve. Irwin and Forest Galante!

I’d say the brown anoles / Bahamian anoles outnumber green anoles 20:1 in Florida. Very sad reality.

@@discobeatbox The green anole players need to step up their game.

They’re everywhere dude. I’d walk into my bare driveway some days and see 30 of those suckers just sprint for the hills.

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She's just a good buddy in general

What’s a “road trip”

Yesssssssssssss 😂

@@the_animal_ark lets just say a trip on the road where you are like heading to a campsite or just driving to go somewhere far to get out of the house ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@@zostars you mean you can leave the house? Sounds like something out of a fantasy novel

I saw one over the weekend sitting in my little cypress tree :) Obviously nowhere near as common as the invasive ones, sadly, but at least they still exist.

@@GilraenTook it's been a couple of years since I last saw one. I look for them all the time, but no luck

@@christheghostwriter I hope you find one soon!

@@GilraenTook me too 🙂🦎

Oh wow..

The squirrels in mine throw acorns at people. You don't even have to piss then off, they'll just start chucking acorns.

The last place I lived had a resident squirrel who threw pinecones only at my one neighbor. It left the rest of us alone, it was only ever just him and he never did anything to the squirrel so we thought it was funny.

Oh snap, I'm also a floridian! From the SWFL area, I've seen the curly tails near Naples and Bonita a lot.

I know they're invasive and all, but living on the east coast where we don't really have reptiles and birds (we got rat snakes and 5-lined skinks, that's all I know of and no super cool birds since the carolina parakeets went extinct hundreds of years ago lol) I love going down to florida and seeing all the reptiles and parrots, invasive or not. Florida is North Americas rainforest. The invasive species are there to stay, I'm afraid.

@@blobbertmcblob4888 Where on the east coast? I regularly see green anoles, tree frogs, house geckos, skinks, etc just around where I live or work in the Carolinas, as well as the occasional rat snake or copperhead (and once one that might have been an indigo!) while out herping. Oooh, and up on Long Island, NY there are tons and tons of garter snakes to find.

My daughter watches all the time. We moved to Naples in March of last year. So she was super excited to see that they were so close!

Those would be cute. Here in California we've got some type of lizard that's green.... I've found two in my bathroom once. When I was younger, I tried feeding lizards meat, but they never took it.

Everything but the natives it seems

@@edman79 I disagree, even the absolute craziest people survive in Florida

Except for people cause the frickin weather

Lol

Yes everything

Nature always defaults back to crabs. 🦀

@@Rob_Thorsman reject humanity, return to crustacean

I can just imagine someone in a t-pose, shuffling from side now. XD

LOL HAHAHA

Same

You should go to Australia. They have so many parrots and other stunning birds.

It's truly a BEAUTIFUL sight to behold. There was a flock that flew overhead in my neighborhood everyday when I lived in ft. Meyers!

Emily got bit by a baby Raptor lol 🦖

@@rebekahmaeb1300 The Omnom-raptor-

Definitely : 3

Squamates are nothing compared to dinosaur bites, even tiny little birds can be pretty painful if they want to hurt you.

I really wonder what dinosaurs will look like if they were actually more related to lizerds rather then birds I don't hate feathered dinosaurs but I wonder

Especially when they're doing something interesting, like herping. But seriously, even if they found nothing, I would be interested. Emily's a fact spewing machine.

I've got one that hangs out under a board next to my window and every day I hope nothing has eaten him

I used to visit Florida a lot and I hardly ever see green anoles anymore 😔

@@paulaelisamenacho4882 I know I love them :( My neighborhood actually has green anoles, brown anoles, and curly-tailed lizards, and the brown anoles have been doing the best by far, so I'm not 100% sure how accurate the thing she said in the video is, but it could just be because curly-tailed lizards are a relatively recent introduction up here in the center of the state

I don't.

@@liammurphy2725 lol 😂

Yeah-

XD same

Its like my baby beardie, i put my hand in the enclosure to pick him up and he makes a huge fuss and runs around tryna climb the walls, then i put him back in the enclosure but he wont let go of my finger!

That's truth

​@@cheesebois1315 That's what the same thing my budgies do XD They don't let me get them out of they cage, but then they refuse to go back in

It’s the snake in the thumbnail for me 😂

@@valtheh0neybee53 lifeless 😂😂😭

@@Bingeworthy fr tho 😂 XDDD

leave the bird alone lol

@@tweetjohnson7136 trueeee XDDD

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If I was bitten I would be like: 😭

If it's a cat bite, I'm used to it. If it's all the way through my epidermis/dermis then my brain just goes "RIP IT OOOOOOFFF" while I go and bit my lip in pain.

same for my brother

U were?

such a sad sight, I'm a huge softie for pythons and although they are bad for the environment, any loss of life is sad

As an owner of pythons(ball,not Burmese ) I struggled too…poor snake,at least it wasn’t laying there hurt and suffering 🥺

I would ask is it okay if i take them home and give them a proper buriaul.

I mean it sucks but they reproduce extremely fast and are threatening alligators and cougars by eating their food sources.

What happened?

Hey we need you to give a part two what happened to your snek

Sneaky snek

@@hiletsfight9328 i found him where i didn't look and that was 2 weeks ago

@@letmeeaturbrainz150 he...escaped? and i found him?

Gotta find em all

Aren’t you the guy who fried minnows live? Why did you do that btw?

@@dog8958 he’s also the guy who tortured a poor axolotl

@@actuallydeer and speared a python and iguana to death. And stuck an iguana under boiling water .

glad you're watching Snake discovery, maybe now youll learn how to take care of animals

Did you point out to them that captive bred animals often don't have the skills to survive?

Also that wild rabbits don't live near as long as ones in captivity due to being food for pretty much everything

😅 releasing captivity pets/animals in the wild is cruel. Did they ever release their pet?

@@tisfortori4521 yeah there was no talking them out of it

@@SpeedDemonStar they didn't care. They saw it as cruel to keep a rabbit in captivity and thought it would be happier and more natural outside...despite the fact it probably got eaten by an owl or coyote.

You got to read it in the Nigal Thornberry voice

Hell. Freaking yeah!!!!!!!

Help. Freaking yeah!!!!!!!

Hell. Freaking yeah!!!!!!!

@@Bluevr25 lol help

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I think they were allowed to do it because they are relocating it out of the state to a new state where it can't survive in the wild (those Minnesota winters be too harsh for tropical cold blooded lizards)

Conures 😉

Indeed my friend

They’re everywhere out here so you he fused to it

THEYRE SO CUTE OMG

So true lol

She stated the brown anoles are part of the ecosystem now, so there is no point removing it. Knight anoles arent super well established, so removing individuals can slow down the population growth. Not sure about the curly tail though

I wanna know this too!

I'm curious about this too actually. I would actually love a whole video on protocol herpers follow when dealing with invasive species in a bit of detail.

@@kateg9437 depends on the part of Florida. They're pretty well established down south, but as you go further north in the state they become less dominant

Yep, looks like a critical English teacher.

True dat

haha!! yeah!! but just so you know, they did do the right thing by taking him out of the wild because they're invasive! have a fantastic day/night!!!

Truee

What did she expect? A nice smile of approval?

I like ur comment 🙂

I know right!? Ladies show of hands how many of us out here would rather find a guy like Ed than win the lottery? It’s about the same odds it seems! 🙋🏻‍♀️

@@Shyrden1 🙋‍♀️