Meet all of our Turtles! (Fun facts time!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 พ.ค. 2023
- Today we show you all of our turtles, share a fun fact about each species, and then feed them a special shrimp treat!
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I can imagine if dinos were still around, Ed and Emily would have a sactuary for them and as pets 😀
Birds are dinosaurs and they own a bird so technically they have a pet dinosaur lol
@@nicolegoodew1547 aligators are also dinosaurs and so are turtles :D
@@VeniKpop Aligators and turtles aren't dinosaurs, but are somewhat closely related. Crocodilians, dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurus are all archosaurus. Turtles are closer to archosaurs than lizards/snakes.
@@VeniKpop No they're not. Related, yes. But it's like calling a tuatara a lizard or a human a monkey.
Oh of course lol
I found a box turtle hidden under the leaves after a brush fire. His little toes were singed so we named him Smokey & kept him while he healed. My daughter was 5 at the time & Smokey made many trips to school & even vacationed in Florida with us. He loved the screen porch at my mom's! He was fun to feed grapes & worms to, was a great ambassador. My daughter cried for weeks when Smokey dug out of his summer enclosure but as we lived in the woods, he was healthy enough to be on his own & find a girlfriend. Our family has perfected the "turtle on the road" routine with everyone playing their parts to stop traffic & ensure their safe crossing. It's a great way to get kids comfortable with wildlife unless you mistake a box for a snapper 😅
I love this. I know your daughter was upset when Smokey went back home, but it was a wonderful lesson that wildlife should remain wild and that lesson will serve her for her entire life.
We found an endangered gopher tortoise near our house one day, and it was such a wonderful sight. He was on an old golf course that has been turned in to a natural wetland, so it was a wonderful sign of nature returning to the area.
I was at my grandparents house once and found a baby common snapper. I just thought it was a normal mostly friendly turtle, I didn't realize it was a snapping turtle until it almost took a bite out of my finger.
@@shaqtus3365 why all kids should be taught. Not to fear but to identify & respect.
@@Annie_Annie__ she turns 40 today 😊
We have a Ball Python that was found abandoned 10 years ago. She's the only one I know who can pick up a wild rat snake & not get musked. Heck of a kid, heck of a mom. She's still my baby kitty even now!
@@Annie_Annie__ I had 5½ acres of land when I still lived in MS and had a resident gopher tortoise on my land. He had burrows all over. My dogs attempted to harass him once but after he peed and nearly got on them, they were much less interested. Still, I held them by their collars until he got back into his nearest burrow.
Another fun fact about leopard tortoises (that I’ve personally witnessed, as I see them often where I’m from in South Africa) is that they will eat Spotted Hyena dung, as their dung contains a lot of calcium and minerals from all the bones that they eat (their dung is actually white), so the tortoises eat it to get extra calcium for their shell.
Realy interesting
I bet you see awesome wildlife all the time! Very jealous over here in the UK!
That is so cool and makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing!
And for the eggs i assume
That's quite interesting! I mean it makes sense though, the hyenas don't need all that from the food, why just leave it? Free nutrients in a softer package than rocks!
Chloe is the turtle version of an influencer, she knows EXACTLY when the camera is on her and she thrives on the attention of strangers (but don’t touch!)
If you think about it, all her ambassador animals are influencers. 😊 Of the best kind, of course - they influence us on wildlife conservation, not health scams and bitcoin. 😂
My favourite/least favourite fact about turtles is that their shells are their ribcage! It's all fused! They can just _pull all their legs and also head into their ribcage and how messed up is that._
Metal af
The fact that soft shells feel like stingrays is amazing to me. I love the way sting rays feel
How do you just *know* what stingrays feel like??
@@_veronica_r A city near where I live has a rehabilitation and research center for aquatic wildlife. They have a program where they let people come in and pet stingrays and some small sharks while they learn about them
@@kittybun8845
Oh lucky, that's really cool! It sounds like fun!
At some zoos while I was traveling, I also felt and fed a stingray!
@@_veronica_rThe large aquarium in my city has ray touch tanks.
They also have tanks where you can touch epaulette and bamboo sharks, and tanks where you can touch native hermit crabs, sea urchins, starfish, and sometimes sand dollars and other crab species.
At aquariums touch tanks are a common way for guests to connect with animal species that they may have only seen before.
(Also, it’s not uncommon for people to catch various species of rays while fishing in my area so some folks have touched them in that situation, much as you would a flounder.)
“This is Elon, the musk turtle.”
I love your guys’ naming conventions, it’s so fun hearing your animals’ names being said, lol.
*tHiS, iS eLoN mUsK.*
There's a lot of free word association going on and I love it lol
I would never think of names that creative
@@swiftiexiii oh I'm sure you could...like naming a crocodile Shoes or something 🤣
@@PlecsExotics3 😊☺️
Right now I'm caring for my mothers Hermann's tortoise named Molly. Molly is a spry older lady of about 70years, with - of course - a head of her own and a huge love for strawberries. 😃
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like eating strawberries automatically makes an animal cuter
@@kittybun8845 Absolutely. Anything strawberry adjacent. I play a lot of Sims, any clothing or jewelry involving strawberries is my go to. 😂
An old tortoise eating strawberries immediately has me thinking about a happy old granny making strawberry cake or just strawberries with cream for her coffee time guests.
If I remember correctly, the Guadalupe softshell turtle is actually a regional sub-species of Spiny soft shell, so I think taco is good either way.
Yes they are! They are one of 6 subspecies found in the US.
@@17caratytsquad good to know! I only vaugley remember it from a list when I was trying to figure out what is species we get in Ontario.
@@knate44 I worked with several spiny softshell subspecies for my PhD (as well as other freshwater turtle species) actually… so it’s fresh on the mind lol
It makes me so happy to know they feel the shell scratches. I’ve always seen the large tortoises in local zoos and got told as a kid to touch their shells n never thought touching the shell did anything. Knowing they feel it and enjoy it is all the joy in my heart.
Love Emily talking about the differences between the painted turtles and Ed's voice has that "I learned something cool" tone to it. It's so cute to hear an adult who works with these animals enjoying learning new things.
I love Sharon! I remember when I was lucky enough to visit the zoo I gave her lots of scritches and she actually followed me around; what sweetheart!
Love how casually Emily reaches in the water and picks up a turtle
I know Chloe is relatively tame as far as snappers go but Ed is still SUPER gutsy to tickle a snapping turtle's foot like that. Wowwie.
Fun fact of my own, my backyard was for several years the site of a turtle nest. We'd see turtles come to my back yard to lay their eggs. It's been a while so I don't know if any are gonna show up any more, but yeah, turtles regularly visited my back yard. Had to help them cross the street a few times.
Before you ask, I don't actually know what species they were. They might have been a kind of painted turtle.
Bonus: one year a GIANT snapping turtle was sitting on the sidewalk. I didn't get to see it's face because I was young and my parents didn't want me to get hurt, but it was there!
Update: I saw another snapping turtle recently, she was laying eggs in my front yard (at least it looked like she did).
Also I love how when Emily is educating us, Ed acts as the student with all the questions lol
Tbh, I've not been here the whole time. But when Ed starts to kind of "interview" her, it really adds to the vids. I'm happy to see other ppl appreciate it too!
Emily just casually yoinking the western painted turtles from the water just gave me a heck of a serotonin boost and IDK why.
Please do an updated meet all our snakes video! It'd be so interesting to see who you all still have vs your newer snakes 🐍
Yess we need this ❤❤
They have too many snakes for that xD
@@Dreegon1486 That'd be a tour of at least half the zoo.
YESSS
@@EclecticallyEccentric you act like that is a problem
I have a vivid memory of walking in Florida, looking at the ground because it was raining, and seeing a box turtle in a storm drain! We used a large stick that was "Y" shaped at the end to wedge around the turtle and pull him up high enough to grab him through the grate. We drove him to a small wildlife rehab place, they said he looked all fine and healthy and we let him go in the forested area behind the building
Aquatic turtles are such an underrated pet 🥰 I have a DBT named Wasabi that lives in my office and I just watch him all day.
Your positive vibe with animals warms my heart
I love your videos they are always interesting and informative and all ages can watch im glad Ed has come out of his shell you two make a good team
"Came out of his shell" 😂I see what you did there.
@@SnakeDiscovery hahaha i didn't even notice XDXDXDXD
Oh no! You gave Emily another pun!!@😂
@@SnakeDiscoverydo your turtles breed or are they all males? Different species can breed together right?
Sweet, I loved seeing all the turtles together in one video! Really impressive how you can feed one turtle with one hand while holding two in the other LOL That's an animal wrangler professional move right there!
I'd never seen a sulcata tortoise up close, I was so struck by just how pretty Sharon's face is! It seems so exotic to me, the idea of having all of these wonderful animals be native to where you live, it must be wonderful
Check out tiptoe!
Mike the Minnow reminds me of Lucky the Mouse, a mouse that my first grade teacher live fed to her garter snake. But instead of eating, the snake decided to escape and so Lucky the Mouse got to hang onto life for the rest of the school year.
I've got a southern river cooter and he's an absolute character! I never even thought about getting one. He was kinda a special case and still has a big special place in my heart 💖. He was originally a class pet when my daughter was in middle school (approx 7-8 years ago). At the end of the school year he was given to a classmate friend of my daughter. But within 2 mo of getting him, their dad made them take his outside and place him and his tank down the road and just leave him on the sidewalk on a 🔥 HOT🔥 sunny FL summer day. Thank goodness my daughter got a call from this friend about an hour after she left him and at some point just kinda mentioned it casually and my daughter started freaking out on her (rightfully so in my opinion). So my daughter screamed for me and asked if we could go get him. Of course I said yes and she told her friend she needed to go get him, bring him back to her home and to add some cool water and cover him. When we got there he barely had any water and it was no joke 105°. He was basically getting boiled alive 😡😤🤬. But now Mr Turds living his best spoiled life!
Did her daughter stop being friends with her? I'd certainly do that.
That teacher *really* should have known better. You don't get a class pet (any pet, let alone something as long-lived as a turtle) without already having a plan for what's going to happen to it long-term. If they do decide to ask for a volunteer from the class to take it on, then the teacher better make sure that both parents are on board and they have the knowledge and resources to care for it properly.
I'm so glad your turtle ended up in a good home, especially well done to your daughter for immediately realising how urgent the situation was when her friend told her what they'd done. I hope you had a stern word with the teacher involved though.
We had a western painted turtle a female that my son found in the middle of the hywy near us. We put her in a tub and she layed eggs in it. We took her to our pond on the Columbia River near where she was found and she has happily lived there since. The western painted turtle can be found down the entire length of the Columbia River, even though the field guide maps say they can only be found on the eastern end of it. Our daughter named her Kathalina and all the kids went swimming in the pond with her every summer.
Who else has been watching since em and ed had to explain the story of rex every time she was in a video. Also when Emily was working at petsmart did she own reptiles of just birds.
Been watching since they thought Rex was a he!
The fan art script is really sweet and I love how much you appreciate all of your fans ❤️
I work at an aquarium and we have a tortoise we let guests feed. He is such a good boy. One thing he loves is if we take a vegetable peeler and make thin slices of veggies. They are kind of like big noodles. Also, one more fun fact about sucata tortoises, each ring on their shell is a growth spurt. As they grow instead of shedding scutes they add rings.
i love turtles so much and all of yours are so cute
I just started working at a children's museum and we have turtles, tortoises, snakes, and several lizards! Your videos have made me comfortable to work with them!
Emily just out here saving the world with reusing fanart as script paper and viseversa
The turtles are ADORABLE 🤩
Right as Emily went to feed Sharon, I paused the video to say to my son, “I really love watching tortoises eat.” I’m happy to hear that it’s not just me!
That is soo cool looking life a leaf 🍁 I learned something new that’s great. My favorite turtle 🐢 is an alligator snapping turtle 🐢 soo freaking cute 🥰
Painted turtles' plastrons are specifically designed to look like oak leaves, which are the most common deciduous tree in their range, especially around bodies of water.
I´d expect them to be nothing but a silhouette if you looked at them from below against the light of the sky but I guess catfish have better eyes than us?
@@mikekuppen6256 Nah, there's enough light in the shallow ponds and lakes they reside in for anything that lives at the bottom to be able to see just fine. Remember, light makes its way 1000 meters down in the oceans and countershading works just fine there.
@@MontgomeryWenis General countershading, darker top and lighter bottom, sure. But patterns? I suppose it does or the turtles wouldn´t have it. But it´s counterintuitive for me.
@@mikekuppen6256 Are you forgetting that their plastron is a bright yellow while their carapace is mostly browns and blacks? That's countershading, dude.
@@MontgomeryWenis That´s what I said: I understand that general countershading works. But I don´t see a grayish-beige pattern showing up against an orange border very well if all the light is above the turtle. Quite apart from the fact that it´s usually the leaves that are orange-y brown when the sunlight shines through them, not their surroundings.
I wouldn´t be surprised if this was a fun idea someone came up with because the pattern vaguely looks like a leaf and everyone ran with it without checking because it sounds cool. But if you have a source where this was researched I´d love to be proven wrong, because it DOES sound cool!
I LOVE your turtle tank. A little painted turtle took a nibble of my finger 😂 Scared me silly but we all had a chuckle 😅
Chloe has reeaallyy cute face!! One more fan fact…somehow all of turtles have smiley faces😊!!
You guys are amazing! I have been watching you guys for forever now, thanks to you my mum got my a leopard gecko a couple years ago. And now our reptile collection has grown to 5. Thanks :)
the picture at 11:14 of the softshell basking made me die of laughter 😂 also how you described how the common snapping turtle got its name made me LOL 🤣
Do you know what is the difference between tortoises and other turtles?
You might be surprised... tortoises walk on their toes, digitagrade, while all other turtles walk on their whole foot, plantigrade.
Noticed how I said 'other turtles'? Well it is because tortoises are a specific group of turtles. All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. A second thing that distinguishes tortoises from other turtles is that they do not shed their scutes.
Clint's reptiles has a whole video explaining all of the turtle families and how they are related (please watch)
Illinois college of veterinary medicine says that tortoises do actually shed scutes.
Turtle Day!
Reminded me of my grandmas turtle she had, she passed away about a year ago, but she lived to be 39 years old tho! I believe she was a Red Eared Slider, since she had markings similar to the ones I see on google
Love this! And Chloe at the start is so cute
1:29 A snapping turtle has the aesthetic of a dinosaur, or other prehistoric reptile, but they are not a living dinosaur as people often call them. Testudines as a whole aren't considered dinosaurs because they're a separate order within Reptilia, have a unique history, and weren't as greatly affected by what killed the dinosaurs. The Chelydridae family (snapping turtles) survived the mass extinction event mostly unaffected unlike dinosaurs, with species still living today. Turtles do have some common ancestors with the dinosaurs but with their unique evolutionary history and overall design they are very different. They are referred to as prehistoric turtles instead of being considered dinosaurs.
It's pretty common for people to refer to pet reptiles as little dinosaurs even when they aren't as old or prehistoric as a snapping turtle, so I don't think comparing the snapping turtle to a dinosaur was meant seriously. Everything else was pretty good.
I love the shout out for the art! Always remember there are three R's - Reduce, REUSE, and Recycle! What a great way to give some cool art a new, additional purpose, and saving a piece of paper on top of it!
The turtle tank needs white cloud mountain minnows... and pearl danios .....
Or rainbow shiners...
Y'all need more musk turtles ... they are the best!!
Waiting for you to end up with leopard-cata hybrid tortoises.
My favorite thing is when tortoises are REALLY enjoying their shells getting scratched and they start doing that little wiggle! It's so adorable!
Always love to see more of the critters in the Zoo.
Turtle are my my very very favorite animal!! Love you guys!
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Its sooooo good to see sharon again xxxx loved meeting all the others too 🎉 thanks as always ❤❤
Great video, but if you don't mind me asking, could we get an update to Quasimodo (the deformed snapping turtle whose egg you rescued)?
Quasi lived for about a year and then passed away. They mentioned it on a live awhile back. 😢
@C W aw....
Not the kind of update I was hoping for... but I'm not surprised. Thanks anyway
RIP little buddy
I wonder if they kept him after he died would of been a interesting specimen
Taco is definitely my favorite Turtle of you guys he's so cute LOL
I love how excited Ed got during this video!
I used to have gopher tortoise and burrows in my back yard, since they are protected in Florida we weren't allowed to build a fence near it. It was real fun watching them and seeing the babies.
Very cool turtle display. Over here in South Louisiana all the slider turtles have been going onto the land, digging holes and laying their eggs. 🐍 🦎
You guys are getting _so_ close to 3 million subs! Almost there...
I found a wild turtle in our yard, he was heading for our gate but I worried he wouldn't make it past, so I did move him just beyond it. I gave him shell scratches and wiped his shell down and he loved it. Started coming out of his shell and looked at me as if to say "what is this magic?"
Hey guys, have you ever made an update video on those teeny tiny snakes you got a long time ago, pre-Covid? IIRC their adult size was smaller than a foot, and you had 3. Are they still alive?
The DeKay's Brown Snakes? Haven't seen them mentioned in a while, but they were so cute eating bits of earthworms.
The timing turned out to where I was eating sweet potatoes with my dinner at the same time Sharon was 😂 this was really cool, and neat to see all the different turtles!
I love chloe. She's such a chill snapper. ❤
Unless you poke her feet...😂
Long live Mike the minnow🙌
It is so cute watching Chloe eat. I have some one in my family named chloe!!!😀
This episode popped up right after I saw a story about them finding a turtle shell fossil the size of a car.
Love the Sulcata tortoises! The animal rescue centre I work at has 5, and they're the sweetest things ever. Ours are very fond of watermelon rinds (as a treat as they are kind of sugary) and carrot sticks too, and it's always so fun watching them eat and giving them shell scratches.
Watermelon rind has about the same exact carbs and sugars as carrot does (per weight)
So good to see all your turtles again! ❤
Hi snake discovery! I would LOVE to see a rescue chameleon video if youd be able to make one? I work a ton with rescue reptiles and i dont see chameleon rescue too often on YT
So much love to you guys! You got me into my reptile babies ❤
There's nothing quite like a turtle smile ❤
Emliy just yonking the painted turtles out of the enclosure was amazing XD
They r all so cute
I really love turtles so much!! I'm so happy u did this video!!!✨✨
Watching this channel for 1 year and i was terrified of lizards,snakes and turtles/tortoise now i love them Emily and Ed are amazing
I love turtles facts and this might be my favourite video ever🎉thanks for the fun facts❤
I turned 21 a few months ago love your channel It got me into reptile keeping
I just thought of something. When you fed Taco, you made him a shrimp Taco! 🦐🌮😆
About the leopard tortoise, if you think about it, most species of tortoise enjoy spiney foods, like cactus paddles and whatnot. Love the channel and all the videos you guys make! I really enjoy watching and learning about the animals you have in the zoo and all the ones you breed and put up for adoption. Thank you for all you do Ed & Emily! You two rock!! Keep up the amazing work and all the amazing things you do for the reptile community!! Hope you are doing well, as well as everyone in the comments section! Take care and stay safe out there!! ❤
Maby thistel is tasty. Artichoke is and that is a thistel.
I've found that my love of a turtles aesthetics is directly linked to how much the look like Gamera.
Really loved watching that! Thankyou
Great info as always, many thanks x
oh to be a turtle at snake discovery being fed shrimp..... i have weird life goals 🐢
Thanks! Turtles are very interesting indeed! You have such a good collection of species in your zoo!
My current only pet is a desert ornate box turtle that was a rescue from a client at a veterinary clinic I used to work for. She might be a little too chonky to close up completely but she's also not afraid of me. She's great
Hey! Super early! So glad I found ur channel, you’ve taught me so much about reptiles!!!
I had two red eared sliders growing up loved them. Y’all’s turtles are all so neat
This was a fun video! Thanks! Enjoyed seeing all of your turtles. 😊
I love that you pronounce “species” correctly. 😊
the clip of Taco basking is EVERYTHING
I love the tortoises and turtles!💕
i like that during the musk turtle segment i got a fabreeze ad
Love you guys keep up the good work ❤❤
Thank you! It was really fun to see all the turtles and tortoises!
Love you all so much! This was a wonderful video, all around!
Loved learning more about the turtles you have.
I was fishing sunday with cut up bream (small freshwater fish) and I got a like 10 or 15 pound soft shell turtle and then me and my dad went down in to a waterhole (or hesd of a river, we arent fully certain whay it is) that's never been dry before and were using more cutbait, and I caught a 50 pound alligator snapping turtle- I got so scared when I saw the back, it looked like a alligator-
Love these vids too! keep em up!
15:49 tell me I’m not the only one who heard “sulcata kewl” 😁
Will you maybe be able to do a video where you show all your hognoses? Thanks and all your tortoises and turtles are soo cuteee
I LOVE SNAKE DISCOVERY SO MUCH AND LIKE TOO SEE HOW THEY SUCCES OVER THE YEARS 🤩❤️❤️🥰🕷🕷🕷🕷
I always love someone that makes education fun . I'm learning and don't even realize it 😁❤️
I love how easy it is to find the program vs. pet/display animal in these videos. Even the non-program animals have chill and don't feel super threatened or afraid for their lives.
Hii thank you for the information love your videos 😊😊❤