THIS VIDEO WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO BUILD THE ULTIMATE LASSO FOR CATCHING LIZARDS AND A FANTASTIC FAMILY GAME TO GET EVERYONE OUT OF THE HOUSE. NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THIS FILM.
I know a girl who does research on wild lizards at a university. this is exactly how they catch their lizards for research. i'm sure they wouldn't do it this way if it harms them
For anyone coming along after this who might see the comment heres a basic explanation: TL;DR, this is pretty much harmless to the lizards, just a little scary The slipknot and lizard basically limit the amount of force being applied to the lizard. You catch small lizards because they don't weigh much, and the only pressure being applied to them is from their own body weight (minimal and harmless). Lizards are good for this kind of activity because they naturally like to sit around, and have two responses when found; not moving and hoping they havent been seen, and bolting (makes them easier to catch, and easier to run). If you try and catch a lizard with your hand you will almost certainly do serious damage to its body, especially if you are an excited child who isn't regulating the pressure they apply. Humans can squeeze with more than 30kgs of pressure, an order of magnitude more than what is applied to the lizard while suspended, and can instantly crush their entire body. So long as you are careful in how you handle them, they may not even drop their tails (or just go for ones that don't have that mechanism). During the video they may look a bit stunned when they are suspended, this is because they are. A common response with many many animals when they know they have been caught and are unlikely to escape is to play dead, and most animals when suspended by their neck (you see the same in puppies and kittens, for example) will just go limp or stick their legs out. If they were choking, they would be panicking and flailing every time. Stop being afraid or angry because you don't understand something, and try learning about it before deciding what you think.
This was a very sweet video. It was engaging to watch and I'm sure your family appreciated how lovingly filmed and carefully put together it all was. While I fear for the little lizards because it's a game at their expense, I appreciate how you make an effort to spend time with the people you love.
this is great because when I go down to Florida there are always a whole lot of lizards and it's my only chance to catch em and this along with the lizard trap idea I had is full proof whoop.
honestly the people who think this harms the lizards don't own lizards. lol lizards can fall from pretty extreme heights and still be fine. Hell even mine jump from my shoulder to the floor and are more than okay. If the animals are perfectly healthy they don't won't be hurt orn harmed. It's quick, harmless, and easy. The only thing that goes through the lizards mind is "Oh shit I've been caught" as it tries to escape. No need to threaten someone's family, religious beliefs etc, just because you disagree with it. Not only is threatening people so highly immature and ignorant but also against the law and you could risk jail time for that. Think before you type, also it's hypocritical to say this is harmful as you've (other commenters ) have probably done the same thing or worse to animals growing up. let's not get too carried away.
Ik right got a bannana gecko and her skin is like tissue paper and she is always jumb from branch to branch in her enclosure and falls occasionally and acts like nothing happened
My Father taught my brothers and I the same long blade of grass method when we were younger, we thought about ways to improve on the design and came up with something we liked and worked. we took our old fishing poles (break downs) took the top part of the fishing pole, ran some fishing line and a cinch knot at the end and it worked great! I have some great summer memories catching lizards with my brothers.
always just snuck up on them, distracted with one hand them grabbed them with the other hand. That's a great way to catch them. especially the alligator lizards. Great video and prayer.
Hi Ryan! Just wanted to give you a quick shout out to tell you how much Jeff and I love watching your videos. Always entertaining and inspirational. You're living the life!
The good Lord always bless you in Jesus name...there is a lizard in my living room staying under the corner sofa I caught him the other day and i released him outside (he came back!) Now I'm going to feed him some fruit.
This is awesome; but use dental floss. I do this alot in my back yard (I live in Florida), and dental floss is alot softer and cannot hurt them. By the way, if anyone is planning on doing this in Florida, you'd probably be catching a Brown Anole (an invasive, yet harmless, species). if you look on their neck after you catch them, you can see a red patch; and if you pull on that a dewlap that's used for attracting mates will pop out if its a male (Which you can tell by the markings on the back, males have colums of faint dots as opposed to the zig zag on a female)!
Pearson DeRuiter is that the lizard species that is common around the Disney parks. I have seen them since I was five and always wondered what they were.
that looks like a ton of fun but unfortunately i live in canada we dont really have any lizards and the few that we do move so slow from the cold you just walk up and grab them
At first this video scared me because it looks as if your yanking lizard by its neck but after you let them go o felt a bit better but I wish there was a simpler way to catch them ?
But how do you tell what lizard belongs to each person in the race? Don't they all look the same? And they seemed to all crisscross paths and get all mixed together during the race.
I would prefer the water bottle method better because it doesn't harm the lizards I am a collector but I buy my reptiles but sometimes if a see one that's really beautiful I will catch it I have a backpack with supplies to catch in breed reptiles I also have a extra stash of money saved up to buy more lizards or amphibians cages,food,reptiles, amphibians,extra supplies and I have shovels everything to find reptiles and amphibians I also catch other wild animals
+SS Chok Fishing line is not sharp lizards weight less than 2 ounces. I have caught thousands and never hurt one. This method will not hurt them just be gentle.
If anyone could help me I’m having a hard taking the line off them and it seems very tight first off is it harmful and am I doing something wrong and also how do I take it off easily
try and keep track of what way the loop goes, and rather than pulling on anything just hold the lizard and push the line back towards them. If its angled the same way as the loop it will slide back through without trouble, opening the loop again. To better understand what I mean, look at a dog choker or something like that, or just practice opening it by pushing. If you look closely at the line you can see the mechanics of it. Its not at all harmful, just be careful not to be too jerky with the line. They are only getting pressure from their own body weight, which is not nearly enough to actually do harm if they are a small lizard. If its a larger lizard try pulling sideways gently and keep them on the ground rather than suspending them. Once you have a grip on the lizard (be gentle, its easy to crush them) do not pull on the string at all in any direction. Edit: another way to explain how to push it is with a b. b is your lasso, you want the line to be at that angle. The loop comes back around and intersects the line, so push like you are pushing the straight part down
that is well harsh the catching doesn't harm them the dangling does and did you check there sex befor you put them in the same small bucket 1 it is crampt 2 they would get injured if had a fight.
All those lizards in a bucket I would love to take one home and treat it like a king/queen I would love to do this with you guys and possibly.....take them home (lizards)
its alarming, but as long as you aren't jerking the string around its not harmful. They weigh almost nothing and the only force being exerted on them if you aren't shaking the line is their own body weight. Humans can apply more than 30kgs gripping with our bare hands, which can instantly crush them. You suspend them just long enough to get a decent position to grip them, then take the string off. If they are in a poor position, I would honestly expect an excited child to crush them (hence the importance of having control over them before holding them with your hands).
