I would've given it a ten foot berth and not even touched it. Spiders are the reason I can't do tropical areas. Like, when that part came on my screen I held my phone as far away from my face as my arm would allow. Just, yuck.
Cane spider is what I know those big spiders as (the one at 2:30) and they are fast! Also, incredibly scary when they just appear near the ceiling on a wall in your house at after-dark-o'clock.
Omg i remember these dudes showing up whenever i thought let’s sit in the living room for the once in a blue moon my parent’s were not home… the nightmares. My non agoraphobic friends would scream and never come back to that room
I'm Australian, we call them huntsmen. They're simultaneously chill and lazy while also being zoomy and aggressive. They can stay in the same corner for months, or they can cross a room in under a minute because you looked at them wrong
We have a similar spider in my country and my mum has dropped several bowls of cereal because of them suddenly appearing (once one crawled out of her sleeve and onto her hand!). Super scary but harmless XD
I had no idea about jelly reproduction, thats pretty incredible! My favorite part of your channel is all the cool knowledge you share. Animals are so cool.
It helps when you have an adventure partner. Altho word of warning to others, be careful where you go, as you may be prosecuted. The real horror: lawyers
Puerto Rican here: 1- So sad you didn´t get a chance to view/catch a Coquí frog. Although I´m sure you heard it in El Yunque since they´re everywhere. 2- All my life I´ve seen those spiders and didn´t know they were Jumping Spiders. 3- The Puerto Rican Iguana...good luck. I don´t know of ANYONE that had catched one. 4- As for the milipedes I remember playing with them as a kid in school.
9:44 assuming I got my Googling correct, this looks to be Fort Segarra, meaning that this is absolutely a gun emplacement! We've got some similar locations up on the northern Oregon coast, found a garter snake out there once
This reminds me of the herping I did while on my honeymoon in St John just over a year ago. I caught some small geckos and almost caught a ground lizard as well but they are so wily. I ended up catching two different green iguanas including one who was taking a dip in the ocean. He was so calm and didn't try to bite or tail whip me at all.
My daughter is a big fan of yours, thank you for making amazing content that our family can enjoy! Have an amazing trip! We also love to travel, and Royal Caribbean is awesome. We are equally as curious about all the creatures!
I can’t believe you where in Puerto Rico my island! I got so hyped, hope you guys enjoyed your time here! And yes their is a big variety of species here ❤
You won't find Ed and Emily relaxing while on land during vacation, you'll find them out in bushland exploring the different animals 😅 I love your content, viewer from Australia ❤
Sure you guys weren’t ghost hunting along with herping?! It’s funny because Emily said it was creepy and I immediately thought it was a great place for hunting ghosts and then something made a noise! I knew it! 🥴💀
Happy to see both of you on my island, Puerto Rico... Giant anole, racing snakes and coqui... el Yunque is perfect but next time maybe you can go to the west.
If you're going reptile herping: you call Emily and Ed. If you're going ghost hunting: Who You Gonna Call ? Well ... not Emily and Ed 👻 ☺️ Thanks for the AF (awsome fun) video.
I was in the Dominican end of May to work as a nurse in rural communities! Not sure how far in advance you film and publish these but I’m kinda fan-girling at the idea we were on the island during the same time!! The bugs were insane!!! We asked our guide if there were any deadly predators on the island and her response was only the Tigres 😉 (reference to the passionate men) I literally have never owned a reptile but your channel is one of the few reasons I check TH-cam still. Hope to one day road trip to visit your gorgeous zoo ❤
The snail is a member of Clausiliidae, the door snails! I believe it would be a member of the genus Nenia, based on looking around snail observations on iNaturalist from Puerto Rico.
We were in the Dominican Republic and St Thomas the first week of May on another Cruise Line. We got pictures of a beautiful iguana at Magens Bay and swam with sea turtles there unexpectedly.
Snails are very scared of birds, if you want to approach wothout spooking them you should move slowly and in steps instead of a fluid movement :) if possible it does also help to approach from the side more than the top
I'm a big fan of butterflies. I take a lot of pictures of the local butterflies in my neighborhood. And stuff like that. But my favorite thing to do for butterfly photography is go to the museum in DC cuz in their invertebrate section they have a little like greenhouse room upstairs where they've got a bunch of exotic butterflies and it's like 80° even if you go in there in winter. So it's perfect for them to raise butterflies all year round. I've gotten pictures of butterflies from my backyard to other continents in the same shot in there. It's ridiculous but the thing is is on the wall. They've only got pictures of a few species so I don't know all the species I've got and I'm like well. I don't know that one and I think it's exotic
I love El Yunque (the national forest) and I went there almost every weekend throughout most of my teenage years. But as much as I love it, it's not the best place to herp because the areas where the public is allowed are sooooo busy. Scares most of the wildlife away.
Bigger spider is definitely a huntsman! Their ability to collapse their body into tight places is really cool, also the nests in the tunnel belong to two possible species of Ariel Nest building yellow jackets, the Ariel Yellow Jacket and the Bald Faced hornet, and despite the name bald faced hornet is actually a yellow jacket, True hornets seek out small cavities to build their nests in
"Oh look, what's that hole in the ground?" "Oh hey, there's a tunnel that leads underground over here!" Y'all straight found a Skyrim dungeon and just walked in.
I did some analyzing of preserved animals and I analyzed a red bellied black snake and some kind of non venomous yellow snake there was also an axolotl all very dead and preserved in ethanol. so that was cool
If you ever make it to Barbados check out Welchman Hall. There's a Gully AND a cave tour. There's a grotto in the gully but it's blocked off because dead tourists is never a good thing when tourism is your main export. There's also a zoo that has mostly non native animals but feeding time is the best place to see Barbados Green Monkeys. But there's been a plague of African snails and this giant moth and they're eating everything.
I haven't finished the video but were you able to see or at least hear the Coquí? The Coquí is a common name for several species of small frogs native to Puerto Rico.
Dominican is awesome, too bad you didn't have much time to herp there. I was there once on an 4 day vacay at a resort, during the day there were brown anoles and curly tail lizards anywhere where there was grass and vegetation and as soon as night came there were literally house geckos everywhere! Anywhere where there was a light (outside of each room door) there was at least a pair and any trees that you passed by on your way to the beach you would see them scurrying abouts.
So thelampree type snail appears to be a type of tortulosa snail but i am not sure as they seem to be on a snail directory from Sri Lanka. Not sure if its the same snail type.
Since you guys are in Florida I got to say again. I hope you guys visited Chandler because I love his channel. I love your channel and I know you guys are aware of each other. Even if you haven't met because you have common friends. I've seen people on your channel who have also been on his channel that being Adam from wicked wicked reptiles. Dave, Kaufman and Clint, what's his name?
Chandler went downhill and has done some incredibly irresponsible things. I think he has lost his way and is using the animals for clout. Sorry but getting drunk and wrangling a gator is not just dumb, but also dangerous for him and the animal. Horrible representative of the reptile community :/ he even lost his puppy to free roaming because he expected it to stay on the property without proper traing -_-. Clint might have worked with him once same with Kevin and some others, but their tune changed after he turned into a man child for views :/
My dad lives in Puerto Rico and there’s always something cool there was a l Puerto Rican razor in my house I’m sorry if I’m saying that wrong I was watching your vid and I was like omg that was the snake in my house
As someone who has never been on a cruise (nor will probably ever get to go on one cuz...exspensive) i have a genuin question... When the ship hits one of its many ports..can you stay on the ship or do you have to get off so the crew can clean and stuff?
this is like- straying from the video topic but I was wondering if anybody had any information or like- helpful tips on how to care for a painted turtle bc i found one a while ago, she only has 3 legs and we might have to release her but i really dont want to because i'd like to be a herpetologist when im older, and it might help with experience and stuff
10:23 uhhhh I think that's Kanji. Take this with a grain of salt because my Japanese is extremely rusty, but I think it says "dainichi" or "great sun." I looked the compound up and it could be a shortening of the Japanese name for the "sun Buddha," Dainichi Nyorai. Though I guess since Japanese uses the same characters as Chinese, it could just as easily be Chinese.
at 10:22 i messaged my mom (who's chinese) to ask what the words ment i already knew the first word but was confused on the next the first is "big" and the second is date? apparently. "big date" she says could mean an important date but there's still confusion since it's out of context
Trying to help the giant creepy spider and getting ick-ed out by the spider at the same time had me dying 😂 so relatable
Right?! That "I'm trying to help you!" but also "DON'T TOUCH ME!" feeling😂
Im so gad i found this comment before i watched this whole video😭😭
I would've given it a ten foot berth and not even touched it. Spiders are the reason I can't do tropical areas.
Like, when that part came on my screen I held my phone as far away from my face as my arm would allow. Just, yuck.
Thanks for letting me now Im so glad that I found that comment.
lol😂
Cane spider is what I know those big spiders as (the one at 2:30) and they are fast! Also, incredibly scary when they just appear near the ceiling on a wall in your house at after-dark-o'clock.
Omg i remember these dudes showing up whenever i thought let’s sit in the living room for the once in a blue moon my parent’s were not home… the nightmares. My non agoraphobic friends would scream and never come back to that room
I'm Australian, we call them huntsmen. They're simultaneously chill and lazy while also being zoomy and aggressive. They can stay in the same corner for months, or they can cross a room in under a minute because you looked at them wrong
I found one in my shower once, scared the hell out of me 😂😂😂😂
Cane spiders are a huntsman spider species
We have a similar spider in my country and my mum has dropped several bowls of cereal because of them suddenly appearing (once one crawled out of her sleeve and onto her hand!). Super scary but harmless XD
I had no idea about jelly reproduction, thats pretty incredible! My favorite part of your channel is all the cool knowledge you share. Animals are so cool.
That tunnel adventure had me on the edge. You guys are so brave
It helps when you have an adventure partner. Altho word of warning to others, be careful where you go, as you may be prosecuted. The real horror: lawyers
I love how the video just turned into a found footage horror movie half way in 😂 that tunnel was so eerie.
Puerto Rican here:
1- So sad you didn´t get a chance to view/catch a Coquí frog. Although I´m sure you heard it in El Yunque since they´re everywhere.
2- All my life I´ve seen those spiders and didn´t know they were Jumping Spiders.
3- The Puerto Rican Iguana...good luck. I don´t know of ANYONE that had catched one.
4- As for the milipedes I remember playing with them as a kid in school.
9:44 assuming I got my Googling correct, this looks to be Fort Segarra, meaning that this is absolutely a gun emplacement! We've got some similar locations up on the northern Oregon coast, found a garter snake out there once
This is the comment I was scrolling for! Thank you!!
This reminds me of the herping I did while on my honeymoon in St John just over a year ago. I caught some small geckos and almost caught a ground lizard as well but they are so wily. I ended up catching two different green iguanas including one who was taking a dip in the ocean. He was so calm and didn't try to bite or tail whip me at all.
Goodjob!!! I always love watching reptiles and your other animals! Its amazing how big your company has grown!
My daughter is a big fan of yours, thank you for making amazing content that our family can enjoy! Have an amazing trip! We also love to travel, and Royal Caribbean is awesome. We are equally as curious about all the creatures!
Wow! That was pretty brave going into that abandoned bunker! I like how you decided to just "get outa there!"
“everyone on this cruise is partying down there and we’re out here looking for lizards!” :)
I can’t believe you where in Puerto Rico my island! I got so hyped, hope you guys enjoyed your time here! And yes their is a big variety of species here ❤
Right! I feel like i missed an opportunity to bump into them lmao.
The virgin islands is where i was born and greww up im so happy that you had a wonderfull time there!
You won't find Ed and Emily relaxing while on land during vacation, you'll find them out in bushland exploring the different animals 😅
I love your content, viewer from Australia ❤
That was soooo creepy in that tunnel I'm glad you had a good time your a hard working young couple thank you for the great videos
Sure you guys weren’t ghost hunting along with herping?! It’s funny because Emily said it was creepy and I immediately thought it was a great place for hunting ghosts and then something made a noise! I knew it! 🥴💀
Happy to see both of you on my island, Puerto Rico... Giant anole, racing snakes and coqui... el Yunque is perfect but next time maybe you can go to the west.
Jellyfish are like living flowers with how they grow 😂 they are so weird
If you're going reptile herping:
you call Emily and Ed.
If you're going ghost hunting:
Who You Gonna Call ? Well ... not Emily and Ed 👻 ☺️
Thanks for the AF (awsome fun) video.
Aw we used to catch those little Mediterranean house geckos all the time in TX. I miss living in the south
Lol...yu guys are fearless...just grabbing any animal...thnks for the video! Very educational
I was in the Dominican end of May to work as a nurse in rural communities! Not sure how far in advance you film and publish these but I’m kinda fan-girling at the idea we were on the island during the same time!!
The bugs were insane!!!
We asked our guide if there were any deadly predators on the island and her response was only the Tigres 😉 (reference to the passionate men)
I literally have never owned a reptile but your channel is one of the few reasons I check TH-cam still. Hope to one day road trip to visit your gorgeous zoo ❤
Your pretty brave, I don’t know if I’d be roaming around abandoned looking places in Puerto Rico, that how you get kidnapped and human trafficked. 🙃
Way to look on the dark side 😀
The snail is a member of Clausiliidae, the door snails! I believe it would be a member of the genus Nenia, based on looking around snail observations on iNaturalist from Puerto Rico.
you guys can also come to the Belgian Ardennes we have rare snakes and also lizards
I absolutely love the butterfly. It's so gorgeous.
I'm surprised I didnt hear the Coquis while you were in El Yunque lol they're usually so loud hahaha
Thanks for taking us along!
We were in the Dominican Republic and St Thomas the first week of May on another Cruise Line. We got pictures of a beautiful iguana at Magens Bay and swam with sea turtles there unexpectedly.
I would have been the geeky person looking for critters rather than attending a party. 🎉😂😅😂
Island hopping on golf carts is my favorite. 🥰
Snails are very scared of birds, if you want to approach wothout spooking them you should move slowly and in steps instead of a fluid movement :) if possible it does also help to approach from the side more than the top
The St. Thomas round structure was part of an anti aircraft defense system back in WW 2
I'm a big fan of butterflies. I take a lot of pictures of the local butterflies in my neighborhood. And stuff like that. But my favorite thing to do for butterfly photography is go to the museum in DC cuz in their invertebrate section they have a little like greenhouse room upstairs where they've got a bunch of exotic butterflies and it's like 80° even if you go in there in winter. So it's perfect for them to raise butterflies all year round. I've gotten pictures of butterflies from my backyard to other continents in the same shot in there. It's ridiculous but the thing is is on the wall. They've only got pictures of a few species so I don't know all the species I've got and I'm like well. I don't know that one and I think it's exotic
So fun! Thanks for taking us with you!
Thank you for helping my mental health I have just got a therapist and she asked what helped me with my stress and I said y’all’s videos
4:32 A moment of inspiration for the next Ridley Scott film.
Ahh i wish i could go on a cruise. Hi emily and Ed❤
We have Mediterranean House geckos here in Arizona. I live in Tucson and we have a couple that live in our backyard.
I love El Yunque (the national forest) and I went there almost every weekend throughout most of my teenage years. But as much as I love it, it's not the best place to herp because the areas where the public is allowed are sooooo busy. Scares most of the wildlife away.
Am I the only one that has never seen a snail go back into its shell before??
Love these herping vlogs 😁
Your trip looks lovely so jealous lol ❤❤❤
Bigger spider is definitely a huntsman! Their ability to collapse their body into tight places is really cool, also the nests in the tunnel belong to two possible species of Ariel Nest building yellow jackets, the Ariel Yellow Jacket and the Bald Faced hornet, and despite the name bald faced hornet is actually a yellow jacket, True hornets seek out small cavities to build their nests in
The lizard you found and didn’t know what it was is called a Sceloporus 😂😂😂 😂😂😂 😂😂😂
"Oh look, what's that hole in the ground?"
"Oh hey, there's a tunnel that leads underground over here!"
Y'all straight found a Skyrim dungeon and just walked in.
I am blind now!!! lol, I hope you two get lots of sun while down there and have fun.
Awesome video I loved all the lizards ❤
I think that big spider 2:39 might be a husmin spider we get alot of them in Australia
I didn’t know you guys were in Miami!! Hope you are having a fun time here!
Snake discovery video just droppped!!!!!!!!!
I did some analyzing of preserved animals and I analyzed a red bellied black snake and some kind of non venomous yellow snake there was also an axolotl all very dead and preserved in ethanol. so that was cool
I hope you had a wonderful holiday ❤ take care of yourself, God bless x
That giant spider looked like it was hugging the wall for dear life
That huntsman spider punched a fly 😂
I love watching your videos, they make me so happy🥰🥰
We are going on an Alaskan cruise the first week of August…maybe we can herp for garters! 😊😊😊
I was just in Puerto Rico 2 days ago
If you ever make it to Barbados check out Welchman Hall. There's a Gully AND a cave tour. There's a grotto in the gully but it's blocked off because dead tourists is never a good thing when tourism is your main export. There's also a zoo that has mostly non native animals but feeding time is the best place to see Barbados Green Monkeys. But there's been a plague of African snails and this giant moth and they're eating everything.
That was definitely a gun turret!
I haven't finished the video but were you able to see or at least hear the Coquí? The Coquí is a common name for several species of small frogs native to Puerto Rico.
Dominican is awesome, too bad you didn't have much time to herp there. I was there once on an 4 day vacay at a resort, during the day there were brown anoles and curly tail lizards anywhere where there was grass and vegetation and as soon as night came there were literally house geckos everywhere! Anywhere where there was a light (outside of each room door) there was at least a pair and any trees that you passed by on your way to the beach you would see them scurrying abouts.
Ghost hunters Ed and Emily 😂😜 15:50
So thelampree type snail appears to be a type of tortulosa snail but i am not sure as they seem to be on a snail directory from Sri Lanka. Not sure if its the same snail type.
This was such a fun vlog!! ❤❤
That is so cool that you went to the dominican republic Because I live there And i'm from canada
Emily and Ed are now going to create ghsot hunting content in the abandonded bunker
I suspect that circle thing you found was more likely a dismantled radar dish rather than a gun turret
If u see an anole in florida or georgia its most likely a green or brown anole
15:48 this is how you die in a horror movie
Since you guys are in Florida I got to say again. I hope you guys visited Chandler because I love his channel. I love your channel and I know you guys are aware of each other. Even if you haven't met because you have common friends. I've seen people on your channel who have also been on his channel that being Adam from wicked wicked reptiles. Dave, Kaufman and Clint, what's his name?
Chandler went downhill and has done some incredibly irresponsible things. I think he has lost his way and is using the animals for clout. Sorry but getting drunk and wrangling a gator is not just dumb, but also dangerous for him and the animal. Horrible representative of the reptile community :/ he even lost his puppy to free roaming because he expected it to stay on the property without proper traing -_-.
Clint might have worked with him once same with Kevin and some others, but their tune changed after he turned into a man child for views :/
When Emily says interesting😂
My aunts friend has a snake that is half one colour and the other side another colour and she said it might end up on snake discovery
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
My dad lives in Puerto Rico and there’s always something cool there was a l Puerto Rican razor in my house I’m sorry if I’m saying that wrong I was watching your vid and I was like omg that was the snake in my house
Don’t forget to take time for yourselves!
the wall says "大日" in 10:29. it means "big sun".
I LOVEEE THE VLOGS SM
Yay I'm so excited
AF= Awesome fun 😂
Your videos make my day 😀
I HAVE BEEN TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PUNTA CANA
New horror movie beginning, entering an abandoned house for herps
Wooooooooooooooooow das cool
If green iguana are invasive everywhere dose that mean there home was an island that sunk?
OMG WHY DID YOU HANDLE THE BUTTERFLY????
The oils on your skin clog their taste pores and it kills them!! :(
***PSA DONT TOUCH BUTTERFLIES YALL***
As someone who has never been on a cruise (nor will probably ever get to go on one cuz...exspensive) i have a genuin question...
When the ship hits one of its many ports..can you stay on the ship or do you have to get off so the crew can clean and stuff?
I loooooove puerto rico
Anyone else baffled at how they went on a cruise without knowing where it was going? :0
I live in Puerto Rico!
It’s gonna take so long for that snail to get back up that vine😢
New horror movie; herpetologists stumble into a haunted bunker~ 👻
this is like- straying from the video topic but I was wondering if anybody had any information or like- helpful tips on how to care for a painted turtle bc i found one a while ago, she only has 3 legs and we might have to release her but i really dont want to because i'd like to be a herpetologist when im older, and it might help with experience and stuff
AHA!!! YES, ONLY TEN MINUTES LATE!!!!
that looks like a olf missle silo
10:23 uhhhh I think that's Kanji. Take this with a grain of salt because my Japanese is extremely rusty, but I think it says "dainichi" or "great sun." I looked the compound up and it could be a shortening of the Japanese name for the "sun Buddha," Dainichi Nyorai. Though I guess since Japanese uses the same characters as Chinese, it could just as easily be Chinese.
Try to find the coqui frog
at 10:22 i messaged my mom (who's chinese) to ask what the words ment
i already knew the first word but was confused on the next
the first is "big" and the second is date?
apparently. "big date" she says could mean an important date but there's still confusion since it's out of context
So for me, I like lizards. The only problem is I only can catch green Lizards
I’m go into to the carribian