Sunflowers took over our Rattlesnakes' Enclosures!
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2024
- Whelp, this was an unexpected development while we were out of town... evidently, sunflower seeds were mysteriously "planted" in our rattlesnake enclosures, and took over!
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This video is actually a great showcase of how animal behaviors help to perpetuate their ecosystems. Squirrels storing their food help to spread the vegetation, kind of like birds feeding on berries and spreading them via droppings.
We have oak trees, and it's obvious they produce far more some years than most, maintaining a squirrel population then occasionally dumping far more than they can eat, just in case the forgotten acorns aren't enough. The deer also eat the acorns, but the squirrels still have plenty to bury.
Exactly and each animal specializes in a specific thing remove one of those animals due to extinction the next animal won't do as good at taking over what that animal specialized in because the replacement has their own specialty it might only do a portion of what the extinct animal did. If that makes any sense. We're all living in a huge ecosystem and these animals and the earth are what keeps us alive and keeps other animals healthy and also keeps the earth healthy.
Holy cow, what a great point! I totally missed out on discussing that!!
@@SnakeDiscoveryyeah, I live in Oregon and we have squirrels that steal hazelnuts from the local orchards, so now I have a few free ‘squirrel optimized’ hazelnuts growing that I have potted so they don’t grow through the garden fence. Unfortunately, I have discovered someone is feeding them peanuts recently too… not a great diet for squirrels and the nuts are all over the place.
True! And now that there are so many humans and a lot fewer animals, it's our turn to take some of their relay sticks!
Fish keepers: duckweed is overrunning the tank, it never ends!
Snake Discovery: the same but with sunflowers
oml actually
@@AinsleyKatzman🎉❤😂
Yes :D The same with hornwort and vallisneria, I swear I can remove all vallisnerias and they will come back and take over aquarium.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 yes
The squirrel pulled the ultimate prank 🤣
“It’s just a prank bro” **proceeds to put a ton of flowers in your house**
Squirrels *love* pranks. Saw one watch a couple grackles dancing until the perfect moment to jump between them. I knew that had to be his plan because he was sitting in the bird-feeder and *not* eating any of the seeds.
True, but it was a good prank, because it helps the earth!
The effects of Steve the Squirrel is yet to be realized.
revenge for all the squirrels eaten
All the rattlesnakes with the sunflower plants:AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, IT’S A APOCALYPSE
All humans when there’s an eclipse: oMg ThE wORLD Is EnDing!!
Both very accurate 😂
IT'S THE A-PLANT-ALYPSE!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
A that’s me when I see a bee
@@mattthewmontoya2757lol fr
Squirrel: you like herping? How about I make you go herping in your own enclosures for venomous snakes!
Talk about next level bio-active enclosure, it even needs weeding 😂.
I imagine now a trend of starting animal enclosures with random plants, have someone or something stick animal safe seeds in and make content! Then at some point you go crazy because you can't see your animal or anything
@@alteria2714 Shh ! That's next years's April Fool's prank.
In a previous video it was mentioned they couldn’t touch stuff in the enclosure because rattlesnakes shed their teeth, Emily pulling the plants with her bare hands made me nervous
Oh man I didn't remember that until you brought it up 😮
They can do that?
Spoiler alert- After removing the rattlesnakes, I actually went through the plants very thoroughly (off camera) to ensure there weren't any fangs present.
Over the years I've noticed that fangs are usually found in their poops (since they pass them that way after swallowing), so I first checked for poops, and then scanned the plants just in case there were any.
Unfortunately this means I already knew there were plants growing under the water dish and cork when I filmed it, but safety comes first 😊
@@SnakeDiscovery I'm glad you took precautions for your safety even if it did mean you would have to pretend to be surprised at the plants under the water dish. Your channel does mean a lot. Y'all helped me learn more about snakes and realize how cute they are
Yep, that’s were I find most, in there poop. That’s why when I would pick up the poop I will go under the substrate and make sure not to squeeze down. 🐍 🦎
Since that bag of dirt is likely still full of the sunflowers you could get tray planters and grow mats of the sprouts. Might be a good foraging exercise.
I found Sharon's account
Sharon's little face when she realized the sprouts were food! Heart melted 😊
The squirrel said.. “APRIL FOOLS" 🤣🤣🤣
This was my FIRST THOUGHT!!! Lol
Having watched many varieties of sunflowers come up wild under our birdfeeder, i can safely say you are gonna be overwhelmed by how fast and big the number of sprouts you left grow. 😅 waiting for round 2 of this video series
I was thinking the same thing. Should’ve yank them all. 😂
OMG EMILY! THE BOOKMAGE HOGNOSE ON YOUR BLUE T-SHIRT IS MY HOGNOSE YUMA!!! I commissioned the artist Daft Patience to 'lizard wizard' Yuma and as she loves to sleep in the bookcase, I suggested making her a bookmage XD
Haha, I totally did not expect to see the art here, that's thrown me for a loop ^^
No way!! A fan graciously sent me the shirt, and it's one of my favorites!
Yeah someone sent it in a fan mail video! That's awesome you're a great artist and Yuma is adorable!
@@SnakeDiscovery *LOL* And now you know the backstory for the art too! XD
Sharon's ASMR was very cute. She'll have to start her own vlog now. Truly become an influencer
I hate ASMR but sharons ASMR is the only one I acc liked lmao
Help out technology challenged grandma? What is ASMR?
@@ElaineCard autonomous sensory meridian response, its videos were they'll record comforting, familiar sounds like of waves crashing, rain, or chopping vegetables, or someone reading in a soft voice. Its for people to relax to. there's some weird ones like the sound of shaving, but to each their own.
In this case, hearing Sharon crunching up her food was just adorable.
No gonna lie but my ball python would be overjoyed to play in those sun flowers ❤🌻I live in a area that is warm enough so she can go outside and she loves it
Nice I bet it is so happy!❤
When I first got my first snake, my mom and I planted little succulents and other small plants in his tank for enrichment and just aesthetic. Bobby ran so many tracks around them that he uprooted every single plant we put in his tank. He's three now, and once I start work on his new outside sunning bin, I'll try to find some new, hardier plants that he won't be able to uproot.
@@BPJD2004 hahah looks like he had fun😝😂🤣😂
i love sprouting millet in my snakes tank! she always goes through it and destroys it, but also seems more active.
I think my mom would die at the thought of having an rattlesnake right behind her at her desk lol
Those rattlesnakes are the cutest!
My mom absolutely would lol
Sunflowers are my favorite, but that is impressive. Go Mr. Squirrel. You are, in fact, Nuts.
He knew it was going into a rattlesnakes enclosure. Had to have.
Its so sweet how she baby talks the dangerous snakes
I'm so excited to realize that your massasauga rattlesnakes were the ones at the MN state fair, which means I've seen them in person! I was so happy to see the local snakes exhibit at the DNR building, and now I know for sure that they have a healthy and safe home.
Hey! I recommend using a watering can with a thin closed spout! That way, you can open the door less than an inch and full the water bowl! Easy peasy!
haha i just commented this without even seeing this 😂
We don't have venomous snakes but that's what we use with our snakes because we have to get under and through things to fill the water, we wash our dishes each time before filling them but putting a full water dish back can be messy. Our watering can looks like a big cup with a long metal spout. We can get it into small areas. We also have a back-up had that not worked, the back-up was a sure thing but the watering can costed more and arrived first.
"Curse you Steve!" - I laughed so hard. 😂😂
Amazing video as always!
Room Service is so chill and polite! He seems very comfortable with you.
I feel like this is a great example of how an invasive species can take over an environment, just in a smaller scale!
Loved seeing the rattlesnakes getting their space back!
I was so happy she found a good use for the sunflower plants instead of just throwing them away
On this note, I love how calm the rattlesnakes are once they actually see you. The babies are a little nervous when getting poked and when put into the bucket, but on the hook and anytime you talk to them, they chill immediately.... they can tell you love them ❤
Cronch Cronch! So satisfying! We need a full length Sharon eating micro greens video lmao
Rattlesnake says... " The only time sunflowers are good for snakes is when birds, mice, and bunnies come to eat the sunflowers... and in a flash... fast food is served! "
One might even call it Room Service...
@@GlowingTrashPanda99
Good call! 🐇......🐍
You did room service for Room Service 😂
Room Service: ROOM SERVICE PLZ I AM BEING SURROUNDED BY PLANTS AAAAAAAA
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I am so glad I saw this video. Several years back, I was hiking in the woods and got terrified when I almost stepped on a snake. It was a very small snake, but it was curled up ready to strike and I swear I heard a rattle. It was the rattle that alerted me to the snake, and the sight of it posed to strike sent me flying out the woods. And quickly finding a safe place to take off my boots and thick socks because I wasn’t sure if I had been bitten. I have wondered if I encountered a rattlesnake ever since, even though I had spent tons of time in the area and didn’t believe we had rattlesnakes. When I got home, I realized I might have encountered an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake. Hearing your snakes rattle helped me identify the sound and the markings. I looked up the difference between the Eastern and Western Massasauga rattlesnakes, and I’m even more convinced it wad a rattlesnake.
I have never really liked snakes, but I have been terrified of them since that day. I love your channel, how positive you are, and how you demonstrate safe handling of all your reptiles. You help with my fear. I recently met a gecko and touched my first reptile. And it was adorable! I don’t think I would have tried if I hadn’t watched your videos. And now I’m curious about what a snake feels like. I think I would be open to trying to hold one if I had the chance to do it safely. Because I don’t want to live in fear. I actually watched the big rattlesnake strike the mouse a few times until I stopped jumping and could just be curious. Now more curious about the snake I almost stepped on, even if I’m glad my instincts got me away safely that day
If it helps, the snake is most likely just as glad as you are that its rattling alerted you in time for it to not need to bite! It's a scary sound but really for most types of rattlesnake the last thing they want to do is bite you. Since they can't eat you they see it as a waste of precious resources to envenomate you. :)
@@avianahelena logically I know that. But logic doesn’t work when m primitive brain takes o. That’s why I’m glad I can watch a snake channel when I’m not in flight mode
I love how you guys keep your rattlesnakes. Alot of people who keep venamous reptiels have them in the most baren enclosuers with no enrichment.
I know, it’s kind of sad especially as many of them are so intelligent.
Ha! A couple of weeks ago, I mulched my strawberries with straw from the pet store. I have straw sprouting everywhere. So much for weed control 😂
Wheat straw always has seeds left
The snakes are like: What are these? Why are they here? I want them out... NOW!
The sunflower seeds growing just shows how well taken care of their snakes are
Sunflowers from my personal expirince (i can not spell) tend to have deep and expansive root channels. The rattlers looked so cute but you could tell they weren't happy, you could plant some of the sunflowers so that they grow up to harvest the seeds, they make a great healthy snack. My brothers and i used to have seed shelling competions where we would see who could shell the most seeds with their teeth the fastest... made our mom so mad when she saw all the sunflower seed shells on the floor afterwards. Sharon seemed to really like her sunflower salad... I'm craving sunflower seeds now😅
That squirrel had the ultimate April fools joke on you guys 😆
Sharon seemed quite pleased with Steve's gardening efforts. Hey, at least they something you could use! Sunflower sprouts are quite tasty. Suppose I can't blame a squirrel for wanting more.
My ball python - coincidentally named Sunflower! - loves to sit and beg for food in a similar spot to Room Service. He’s so cute and chill, it sucks rattlesnakes are venomous!
Justin Timbersnake is also so cute and chill! Want to boop
You sure he's "begging for food" and just not getting a front-row seat watching you on your computer and entertaining himself? 😂
Sharen ASMR is the best lol
You could use long aquarium scissors to cut new seedlings without risking putting your hand in.
If they can't grow and use their leaves they will run out of energy and wont survive.
Be glad they are not Mammoth sunflowers. I grow them on occasion up here and they get well over 7ft.
the tallest I've seen was I think an abandoned house it had like 5 foot something sunflower seeds are those them
As a houseplant enthusiast who never uses basic soil, this is one of the reasons. Even without the help of the squirrel you could have gotten a variety of random seeds in your soil. And basic potting mix usually holds a lot of water which most plants don't like since their roots suffocate. One small pack of seeds goes a long way. I'm saying this while I'm drowning in baby Pickle/ cucumber plants, since I grow my own veggies xD
Btw if you have the space for it throw the sunflower infested soil in your garden or somewhere it doesn't bother you ^^ I'm sure the wildlife would appreciate it
Those sun flowers are going to keep sprouting for a while unto all the seeds either have sprouted or rotted. I planted sunflower seeds in my garden one year I put a dozen seeds in the ground and I let the squirrels and birds have them when they went to seed, and I had a sunflowers sprouting in my garden for the next five years😂 including some which were varieties that I didn’t plant in my garden and were brought over by squirrels
Steve looks pretty chonky too!!! He's been eating well!!! 💚 🖤 💚
Get some 24 inch tweezers from Pangea or Bean Farm - not only can you use them like tongs to pick up smaller snakes (like the Massasaugas), you can use them to safely pluck out the sunflower sprouts before they get too carried away again.
Sharon is the best type of friend, always willing to clean up for y'all. ❤️🥰 Shes so beautiful.
Yay! I got mixed gem isopods from your shop a few years ago and they are still doing so well in my abronias wet enclosure! They love a bit of bell pepper for a treat. :3
7:11 you can tell they love you because they poke their heads out for help. ❤😂😂😂
You know a rattlesnake is content when it's being handled and not rattling
i love that Emily and Ed always have a positive attitude, no matter what is going on.🙂
Hi! I just wanna say I love this channel. I used to be scared of snakes when I was little and this channel has given me so much love for not only snakes but lizards, tegu's ( basically armored doggies ) Isopods and much more. Thank you for giving me new interests and hobbies
It's not a snake discovery video if Emily doesn't eat something random 😂🥰
A good tip for high rooted plants, cut the top first and then try pulling by the base if you don’t want to keep the roots, but if there’s not a lot, less then 10 is usually the point where I say the limit cut as close to the soil then you can leave the roots to rot and there shouldn’t be high nitrate levels, but for sunflowers you’ll be plucking them until you replace the soil the seeds can sprout multiple times and will germinate fast
Sprouts are great and nutrient dense, I put them in my birds salads and my sandwiches because they’re super crunchy and tasty
I love that Room Service wasn’t even rattling 😂
Not Sharon slurping down those sprouts like spaghetti, too cute.
In case you havent thought of it: you could get a narrow spout watering can to water them, that way you only have to slide the door open enough to get the spout in, id think it would make it easier to water them without having to wait for them to move out of the way
you should get a thin spouted watering bucket for your venomous snakes, so you barely have to open it, and you can just sneak the spout in!!
If you need something longer to feed the Rattlesnakes with, you can get super long medical hemostats
Room servis has come so far since his rescue I remember when he would rattle at the slightest movement in the room and whenever he was put in the bucket you guys have done such a good job with earning there trust, you all are fantastic ❤
I have kinda been there. My blue tongued skink gets a piece of cherry tomato now and then as a snack. Then one day there were all kinds of seedlings sprouting. I took them out and potted them and turned out they were tomato plants. They did really well and produced loads of new tomatoes for me, but since they are Solanum spec I am not comfortable leaving the seedlings in there so I now always pull them out immediately.
I’m imagining what that residual patch of sunflower seedlings growing into very large plants, as sunflowers do. But it’s interesting to see the easily grown sprouts and learn that they are good for your animals to eat. Sharon was thrilled. Bean sprouts are too little for her to grasp easily but these are perfect.
Sharon makes sunflower sprouts sound tasty.
I love how safety is always the number 1 priority. I love this channel.
I love how Emily talks to the baby rattlesnakes like they are her human children 🥰🐍
Steve: Sunflowers are just part of my evil plan! Heh Heh Heh!
Planted by squirrels, guarded by rattlesnakes, eaten by tortoises.
I get so anxious to see Emily putting her bare hands in the enclosure. Doesn't rattlesnake fangs still contain venom even if it's broken off? I am pretty certain that I have heard that somewhere.
Please Emily - Stay safe!! 🙏
They do and I’m pretty sure none of their hots are venomoid. They will strike the closest heat source that smells like food, though, not the random more distant heat source, so long as they’re not being harried.
Though, the fact that Emily is braver feeding her hots than I am feeding my husband’s retic is… telling XD
Spoiler alert- After removing the rattlesnakes, I actually went through the plants very thoroughly (off camera) to ensure there weren't any fangs present.
Over the years I've noticed that fangs are usually found in their poops (since they pass them that way after swallowing), so I first checked for poops, and then scanned the plants just in case there were any.
Unfortunately this means I already knew there were plants growing under the water dish and cork when I filmed it, but safety comes first 😊
@@SnakeDiscoveryThank you!! My anxiety lessened a bit now. Safety first is always a great idea! 😊
As someone who's from Kansas; I'm so sorry you had to deal with those. They're basically weeds and impossible to get rid of. You gotta replace the entire dirt and can't leave ANY in there
Never thought I'd see microgreens grown with a rattlesnake but here we are
The way Sharon eats really reminds me of Spike from the land before time ☺️
I love how many living things we got to learn about in this video--rattlesnakes, sunflower plants, tortoises, and isopods!! The natural world is so awesome 🥰
Repurposing too, taking an unwanted thing and giving it purpose in another way.
After the first post about the sunflowers, i actually got the idea to throw a small batch into my native toads enclosure, it's definitely been more enriching for them than just dirt. But there's not as many as the rattlers had, so they're also not overwhelmed by them 😂
I tried so hard to grow sunflowers for my garden, and I feel like a fool seeing how many you accidentally got to sprout! 😭😂 Mine always died not long after the second pair of leaves started growing in.
Well, we now know they germinate really well inside of a reptile enclosure. It must the combo of heat + the UV light. So funny.
I don't think sunflowers are that picky, if there is a bare spot under a bird feeder from animals picking at the husks, the random seeds that get dropped will sprout all the time.
I love how much geniune care and love you have for theses rattlesnakes, they also seem very friendly in this vidéo, i love this bond ❤❤❤
I actually laughed out loud when you said.I left a few sunflowers behind and I don't think they will be a problem
I planted one sunflower twenty years ago and i've been fighting its babies ever since
I love how she said “Curse you Steve!” For the kids lol
I don't even think you could get them all out even if you tried with out literally taking absolutely taking everything out! I would watch incase more come out!
They're adorable... I hope, you keep them 4ever ❤❤❤❤
Sunflowers be like: "WE'RE NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!!"
:D
We need more clips of Sharon eating food that's so cute!
I bet those rattlers would love to meet Steve.
Sunflower sprouts are edible! You can put them in salad or eat them right out of the ground, I'd give those a thorough wash myself, however I personally like baking them with a bit of sea salt to dry them and make them a bit crunchy!
Your fans get a fun video and the herbivores get a yummy snack! It's a win/win!
Danger maraca noodles
I love this
I love Snake Discovery ❤
The sprouts are totally turtle spaghetti xD
Also it's ridiculously funny and cute that one snake has a begging rock😂
Edit: I really like that you show safe handling practices with these. Not like those stupid videos were keepers antagonize their cobra for fun.
Lovely little Sharon munching sunflower sprouts. Cute!
Hi good evening that is crazy! A lot of sunflowers! WOW❤❤😂😂😂
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In hindsight a scissor may have been a lot better since the seeds don’t have a second germinating point to my knowledge, you can just go in there and snip away without taking all the dirts
I laughed so hard after the clip said 5 days later and it showed just a massive pile of weeds inside an enclosure. Lol😂
Good evening from Georgia! ❤
Not the video I expected, but definitely the video I needed.
Good thing there were no surprise babies in that enclosure.
I grew up in a high mountain desert where northern pacific diamonbacks are everywhere. That rattle. Oh my god, it gives me adrenaline just hearing it.
Love from Australia x
Hello, Ed and Emily!!!!❤
I love your black and green speckled floor!!
This video is a lot of fun. and fun and see some of the animals they have at home. ❤