This is what I love about being friends with you; before I met you, I thought I knew EVERYTHING. After meeting you, I am the student once again. I truly think I have learned more from you in your videos and on our various adventures than maybe anyone else on earth...or at least in Utah. :) Thanks for always adding to my knowledge of the natural world. BTW this was one of my favorite videos of yours. More adventures to come!
the way you have taught your children to hold and handle animals in such a respectful and careful way makes me so happy. I work in shelter care and when dealing with families wanting to adopt, it's apparent so many people dont teach their kids to interact with animals with empathy or to respect their bodies and space. love your channel!!
Definitely, I get so nervous around some kids especially young ones when they interact with dogs and cats, it's clear that their parents haven't taught them anything about respecting animals (or even asking before running up and trying to touch a strangers dog) and even the nocest most tolerant animals have a breaking point, but you just know that the kind of parents who let their kids behave like that are just going to blame the owner and the animal if they so much as growl or nip and they'll also yell at you for "trying to parent their kids" if you intervene and tell the kid to stop when the animal has clearly had enough
Agreed! I am constantly trying to coach my son on how to handle our 🐶. Making sure he understands that our pup isn’t a play toy it’s a living being and can get hurt and sometimes doesn’t want to be touched
*hoping Clint will adopt me so I can also go on herping adventures* so true what you said though Jenny! It's so important to teach young kids how to properly handle and respect animals not only for the animal's safety (and life) but also theirs. His kiddos have the best teacher!
Clint. Finally, after a multi-year misunderstanding, I was able to sit my husband down to see your actual true feelings on iguanas. He was fully convinced from your iguana video that some awful iguana did you wrong, hurt you, or perhaps killed your whole family. He was baffled why you were so scared of such a tiny iguana. Confusion paired with growing frustration as you handled dangerous animals like cobras with no fear. I didn't exactly expect this sort of resolution but I'm glad we worked it out.
been watching this guy for a while now, and the excitement and love he has for these animals, and animals in general, never fails to make me smile. him with the kids was top notch. heck, i never see him not smiling when he's handling a little critter.
Wow! Mind blown by the side-blotched lizards (never even heard of them before). I was going to watch this video before going to sleep early (I need to sort out my sleeping pattern before going back from the holidays to working in school on Monday). Instead it's now 1:30am in the UK and I'm going to end up staying up all night searching side-blotched Lizards! Thanks Clint😂
Crazy thing is how corvids and parots seem to be mostly self aware.... (I think I recall that the synaptic structures of birds are denser/more advanced, meaning they reach higher cognitive functions with less brain size. Add to that that some live in swarms and other sort of societies as well as the fact that tool use is massively beneficial when you have wings instead of hands / paws and you get some crazy intelligent birds...
Pretty amazing to see them out in the wild like that. Where I live there aren't any wild herds (to the best of my knowledge,) but there are some bison farms. Beautiful animals, but I would definitely stay a safe distance away from them.
@@hibernopithecus7500 Stands to reason that there might not be too much diversity in terms of large animals on a small island like Ireland. Down here we have Elk, Turkey, Coyote, Black Bear, Marten, the occasional Moose, plenty of Deer, Wolf and the odd Cougar and Lynx. I feel blessed, at least in terms of nature, to live where I do.
@@meisteremm We used to be good; bears, wolves, wild boar. Don't think we had woolly rhino but we had Irish Elk. Never had any snakes though, but we do have a few herps; common frog, viviparous lizard (native) & slowworm (invasive, legless lizard, related to glass lizard). Other than that we've got red deer, badgers, stoats, then we're into invertebrates, fish & birds a plenty. But nothing on the island that can kill you, unless you mess with a stag in must or are allergic to bee/wasp stings or false widow bites. We used to be pretty diverse. Guess what changed?
@@hibernopithecus7500 I'd say people had a hand in it. The good thing about my area is that since it is part of a large landmass in the form of continental USA it is a lot harder for animals to truly die off as compared to an island. I love my woods, honestly.
Walking catfish are just insane! I used to live in the Tampa FL area and they'd get in the mechanic shop at work and it's really just surreal walking into a mechanic shop nowhere near any standing bodies of water and hearing the mechanics complain about fish getting in. They were, apparently, walking between giant puddles that happened every time it rained at work.
That fish wasn’t a walking catfish. At least, it didn’t look like one to me. It looked like a pleco (a Pterygoplichthys of some sort). They can live outside of water for as long as 30 hours and they’re one of the most common freshwater aquarium fish species. The problem is that they get really big. Too big for most people to keep as a pet. So, I can only figure that someone dumped it when it got too big. I can only hope that they didn’t know that it would die slowly over the course of almost a day and a half.
That Gopher Snake is amazingly comfortable in human hands. His head movements and tongue sniffing is saying he's unafraid and curious. That's pretty cool.
This is my *favorite video* of yours! I love watching a group of friends with a passion for wildlife, out on an adventure together-recording all of the incredible things they find and teaching us about it!❤
It's the wierdest thing as an Australian seeing people pick up wild snakes like that... Most of ours with a build like the Gopher Snake or a Garter Snake are dangerous, and our pythons aren't normally that chill (at least wild caught. Captive raised ones from most species can be sweethearts).
That gopher snake looked pretty young. In my experience at least with the ones in southwestern Idaho, the young ones are nice when you pick them up. Most adults are pretty cranky. The trick is picking them up before they pose defensively or strike at you. If you get them before then, they tend to be pretty chill.
Since whiptails are so reminiscent of Tegues, it's interesting that noone breeds them. They would probably tame down if they are captive bred. That iguana is the size of a _child!_ 😳
Loved it, beside a bit of motion sickness during the Mormon Cricket segment. Appreciated the pop up video style of on screen info for names of critters found, as well as mentioning the rad peeps you were hanging out with. Hope to see more like this.
My favorite part was when you told the lizard "well pla y ed" when it got up too high for you. That was funny! And at the end, when you were holding the big guy and said, "this is a dude" He was a big boy and he was gorgeous!
I watch a lot of horror content and do a lot of morbid research for work and stuff, and your channel is perfect for when I want some chill and adjustment time because you're a very wholesome guy who just loves animals. So for that, I thank you! :D
omg i just realized chandler fromk chandlers wild life and dave were both there two of my othner fave youtubers thatim a subscriber of and clint perfect videoe best one yet good hering you all did and good videoe clint
Imagine one day you're on a walk and a giant alien comes out of nowhere and picks you up. He starts making strange vocalizations and holding you up towards a strange device. Then just puts you down and leaves. Being an animal around humans must be really weird.
I've found your channel only a few weeks ago, but I truly love your videos and your more so your enthusiasm and pure joy when you talk about all these animals! I hope 2021 will be a happy year for you and your family! Stay happy, save and healthy!
Love this kind of video! Nice to see the collabs, nice to see the family out exploring nature, love the facts and stuff we've learned and all the cool scenery and animals and its nice to see you out from behind the desk! Hope you managed to check off the majority of your herping list!
Your accent for Mr. Rock was hysterical!! SeriI usky...hysterically funny Clint. What a fun place to go. Where is this? Is this somewhere in Utah? Did you just see a random Bison just hanging out with his boys , oh wait, there are no boys . Just him ...wandering arouis not an everyday thing isit
In 2020 I found your channel! Your videos and live feeds always leave me with a smile on my face. Positive energy, enthusiasm, and good humor were more needed than ever this year. Thank you for putting it out in the universe. And thank you for introducing us to so many stinkin' rad animals and reminding us what a beautiful place our planet really is. Bless you, your family, and everyone involved in making Clint's Reptiles, and have a happy New Year. PS after years of hoping, wishing, and research, I got the "best pet reptile for me" ....a baby beardie. Best Christmas ever!
Clint, if youre reading this, we want to see the 5 categories for a komodo dragon!!!!! The nile monitor and savannah monitor need to be dethroned from the bad lizard category!!
It would be amazing to get a Clint’s fans herp-off. With viewers from so many different countries it’d be so neat to see what’s native to different parts of the world.
Unfortunately I'm in England so itts essentially one kind of frog, one kind of toad, grass snakes, slow worms (small legless lizard), one or two small lizards, and adders our only venomous snake (about as dangerous as a bee sting). There are one other species of frog and one other toad but they are extremely rare, confined to small areas and heavily protected against harassment of any kind so no touching or moving things to see them better etc. The reptiles we have aren't nearly as common to see around as they are in other places of the world either, I'm relatively lucky in where I live that I have better chances than most of seeing them but even so it's definitely not an everyday event
@@Lilith-Rose I, too, currently live in England. There are also the common and great crested newts which I adore; especially by having a pond in my garden I witness lots of incredible moments. I think a mass international herping event would be Great for a channel like this, despite your less enthused perspective of UK local wildlife: Slow worms are cool!!!
@@acrylicqualia we have ponds on our allotments that I put in, and hides for hedgehogs etc, way better than slug pellets (if you do anything for native wildlife one of the biggest things is educating about how dangerous for native birds amphibians and mammals it is to use slug pellets), and although I love reptiles I actually currently only keep native amphibians, one rescue toad and three frogs raised from tiny froglets out of all the ones we relocated from a site designated for construction because one has a leg deformity and the others were in less than ideal health, plus they do better in small groups. I honestly don't know how I managed to leave newts off my list, such amazing little critters. In the future I'd like to be able to offer captive bred native species so people can keep them without impacting the environment but it needs to be minimum third generation because of the protective laws prohibiting sale or trade and I'm not willing to actively seek out individuals to start a breeding project as I strongly discourage collecting from the wild populations, so it's dependent on circumstances more than anything. The only reason I have my guys is that the toad (who I named beauford) had already been kept in captivity around other critters and wasn't suitable for release for a number of reasons (partly because you need to know where they were from originally since they migrate back to their home pools to breed). The frogs actually ended up as permanent/long term residents by chance as well, my sweet little physically disabled boy legolas wasn't going to last long if he got released since he can't hop, swim or climb very well with only 1.5 back legs, one of the others had a neurological defect of some kind that was causing movement issues and the third was almost skeletal and very lethargic, so most likely they wouldn't have survived either. I was already caring for my toad so I had the supplies and ability to take them in rather than just release them to become food and heck have I gotten attached to the little buggers while caring for them these last few months
@@Lilith-Rose Firstly, legolas - what a brilliant name! I once found a great crested newt in whilst my house was having an extension so I took it in, later finding out their decreasing coservation status made it illegal for me to disturb, so I placed it by my pond. I see many common newts now but I haven't seen Isaac Newton since.
It is so amazing what you guys are allowed to do herp-wise in the US. Here in the land up over (we're not downunder; south is up and north is down), we get fined if we even touch a native reptile. I remember the last time I picked up a wild lizard; it was on a Marine Biology excursion (I created a Marine Biology Program for students that were academically way ahead of the 'average' student that I ran "above and beyond" my timetabled classes) and we saw a stumpy tailed lizard (I think you guys call them a shingle-backed skink) which appeared pretty chill; so I picked it up and talked with the students about it (camouflage/blue tongue/etc) and as we were discussing the beauty and of nature as seen in this lizard as well as the need to conserve/protect; a volunteer from some tourist shop raced up and started to abuse, not only me but four impressionable 15-16 year old students that we shouldn't touch the wildlife and that it was protected and all sorts of rubbish I started to ignore when they fell into swearing.... I put down the lizard and escorted the students away from this toxic person. So counterproductive when all the students were appreciating the need to respect wildlife even if it wasn't "cute" and fluffy.... Anyway; I miss being able to do what you are doing so freely and with respect.. I'm also very envious in what herpes you have available in the US (although a bit over the top) - here, we have to spend hundreds of dollars to get a license for ONE YEAR just to keep a snake, or a lizard. Virtually nothing herp-wise can be obtained without a license (which is why so many catch from the wild; exactly what authorities are trying to stop)...
WOW, just from the video the Gopher tortoise does look a lot like a Centrochelys sulcata (African spurred tortoise). Pretty amazing. Too bad there was not a way to breed them in captivity. A very beautiful tortoise.
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I believe your Beetle is a Fiery Searcher Beetle (Calosoma scrutator), or at least something in that genus. I have found a few using the black lights to draw moths.
I’m lucky enough to live in south Florida and have seen all those reptiles in the wild myself. There’s nothing like it and I’m so glad that you got to experience what we have here!🦎🐍🐊🦜
I have really been enjoying your videos. I recently got into the world of reptiles and even used your videos to help me decide to get a Water Dragon. Keep up the good work!
That gopher snake brought back memories. I had one from my mid-teens to my mid 20's. Had been wild caught. I probably should have released him. Just like that one he was incredibly docile, curious, and easy to handle, not just for me, but for anyone who wanted to hold him. He was the first snake a lot of those I met during that time ever seen up close. There wasn't a great deal of information on keeping reptiles back then. His enclosure was at least sized appropriately. I figured mimicking the local terrain in miniature would be a reasonable environment for him and he did well. I don't know the legality currently, but I can think of worse first snakes to get as a pet.
What a wonderful Iguana. What a gaze!! Such a commanding presence, I feel small looking at it through the computer screen, like even though you're holding it, really the Iguana is the one in control here. I wish we had those kinds of animals here in Sweden!
Utah is a beautiful state Clint. Loved visiting a couple years ago. I think I visited one of the Dino museums and it was an absolute blast. Magnificent and large creatures, larger than I imagined
I have to say even though this video is already a half hour long it was so fun I'm sitting here wishing it were twice as long! Thanks for the awesome content!
I watched the live and have been looking forward to this (I didn't get online until now because I turned 26 today and spent the day with my parents and one of my younger brothers) but what a great video to start off the year, I'd definitely love to see more content like this, I just love your genuine excitement and happiness over even the smallest of creatures and that energy is definitely infectious. Oh and say hi to the emerald tree skinks from me, they're definitely my favourite lizard followed closely by red eyed Croc skinks
That iguana was an absolute unit I saw it on Dav's Channel ❤ I think it's incredible how that monster just allowed you guys to handle it and show it off but I'm glad that he did people need to see how big these guys get before they think 15 bucks for a lizard is a good deal
(spoilers?) the fish at the end omg...... i wonder if something dropped it, that's such a wild find! what a great vid, that iguana at the end was HUGE, biggest one i've ever seen, and his spines were so majestic! 🤩
If it was a humid night, The Pleco might be moving between bodies of water on it's own accord... They can breathe air, and although I don't know if it's been recorded in Plecostomus or any other Loricariid, Walking Catfish (Claridiae) and eels will certainly migrate overland.
@@malusignatius anyone with plecos will tell you they often try to leave the water or accidentally jump out of the tank while grabbing air if conditions aren't right, also from my experience at night they'll get most of their bodies out of the water to graze on algae covered rocks, so I really wouldn't put it past them to try crossing the road from one ditch to another
@@malusignatius oh definitely, they're just like mini plecos with funny faces, I definitely recommend them to people who want a pleco but don't realise how big they can get, I currently have a lovely breeding colony of them in my 5' community tank that has become pretty heavily catfish focused
This is what I love about being friends with you; before I met you, I thought I knew EVERYTHING. After meeting you, I am the student once again. I truly think I have learned more from you in your videos and on our various adventures than maybe anyone else on earth...or at least in Utah. :) Thanks for always adding to my knowledge of the natural world. BTW this was one of my favorite videos of yours. More adventures to come!
Dāv, your New Caledonia video was awesome!
the fact that you guys work together and are buddies just makes my heart smile
What a beautiful place 🙏
Brilliant collab. You two are such solid herptubers
the way you have taught your children to hold and handle animals in such a respectful and careful way makes me so happy. I work in shelter care and when dealing with families wanting to adopt, it's apparent so many people dont teach their kids to interact with animals with empathy or to respect their bodies and space. love your channel!!
Definitely, I get so nervous around some kids especially young ones when they interact with dogs and cats, it's clear that their parents haven't taught them anything about respecting animals (or even asking before running up and trying to touch a strangers dog) and even the nocest most tolerant animals have a breaking point, but you just know that the kind of parents who let their kids behave like that are just going to blame the owner and the animal if they so much as growl or nip and they'll also yell at you for "trying to parent their kids" if you intervene and tell the kid to stop when the animal has clearly had enough
Agreed! I am constantly trying to coach my son on how to handle our 🐶. Making sure he understands that our pup isn’t a play toy it’s a living being and can get hurt and sometimes doesn’t want to be touched
*hoping Clint will adopt me so I can also go on herping adventures* so true what you said though Jenny! It's so important to teach young kids how to properly handle and respect animals not only for the animal's safety (and life) but also theirs. His kiddos have the best teacher!
I really hope this turns into a series! Even if it was just every herping season, it would be great!!
Thank you! Me too!
I entirely agree.
Honestly I agree
That would be awesome!
YES
As an entomologist, I deeply appreciate the insect highlights. Thank you for all of your insect content, you're a fabulous advocate for them.
They are just so amazing!
Insects are not shown enough on other channels i really like how much he shows.
15:44 They aren't carpenter ants but harvester right?
@@ClintsReptiles I saw a blue dragon fly in golden gate park once
( the park i live near)
your son seems so polite, smart and relaxed!! i love him
Thank you so much! He's a great kid.
Good genes from His father 😁👍
"Sorry, Gopher" - what a compassionate little guy! You're raising him well!
Nice to see someone looking at wildlife in general versus just "herping".
I like it all!
😂😂😂 what
i love that he's a full on bioligist as well. really someone to look up to as someone who is interested in learning about nature in general
@@ClintsReptiles and we do to! You have the rare talent to make other people care about what you are fascinated by!
when ver is sus
Snake: "there was a bright light, and then this hand reached out from the sky, and suddenly I was way up in the air. Aliens!"
😂
-duuuude can't believe what happend on saturdayyy!
-here we go, brian, we talked about that, are you on the booze again?
"If you can't identify what kind of scorpion it is, don't touch it." That's true of ANY living thing.
And food.
Agreed😂
Na
@@zacharyalfano9846 That is definitely an interesting argument. Particularly the "Nah" part.
@@hibernopithecus7500 lol
i like this is not just about reptiles but also shows other animal types like insects
The world is full of such amazing creatures!
Clint you have a gift! Your ability to teach and explain things while keeping and holding both animals and listeners attention is amazing!
bruh hearing how wholesome he is with his kids makes me want a dad
It is a special relationship to have. I wish everyone could have it.
same, especially seeing them at that age. But i'm worried i'd have the kind of teenager I was haha
@@phorestpsy216 lmao
😭
Clint.
Finally, after a multi-year misunderstanding, I was able to sit my husband down to see your actual true feelings on iguanas. He was fully convinced from your iguana video that some awful iguana did you wrong, hurt you, or perhaps killed your whole family. He was baffled why you were so scared of such a tiny iguana. Confusion paired with growing frustration as you handled dangerous animals like cobras with no fear.
I didn't exactly expect this sort of resolution but I'm glad we worked it out.
been watching this guy for a while now, and the excitement and love he has for these animals, and animals in general, never fails to make me smile. him with the kids was top notch.
heck, i never see him not smiling when he's handling a little critter.
Wow! Mind blown by the side-blotched lizards (never even heard of them before). I was going to watch this video before going to sleep early (I need to sort out my sleeping pattern before going back from the holidays to working in school on Monday). Instead it's now 1:30am in the UK and I'm going to end up staying up all night searching side-blotched Lizards! Thanks Clint😂
This is like a better version of brave wilderness, and that is a good thing
Yeah, I don't like Coyote Peterson.
I like both.
@@chubbyroll233 he is too extreme. Like he wants the drama factor, instead of just awe and respect to animals.
Yup. No dramatics or hyperbole.
When I’m sad, I just imagine Clint calling me a magical, wonderful little creature 😂
I have three ravens on my back, they are definitely in the top 10 most excellent reptiles in existence. Love damsel and robber flies, bugs are so rad!
I would like to meet your ravens!
@@Omaritin patreon
Crazy thing is how corvids and parots seem to be mostly self aware....
(I think I recall that the synaptic structures of birds are denser/more advanced, meaning they reach higher cognitive functions with less brain size.
Add to that that some live in swarms and other sort of societies as well as the fact that tool use is massively beneficial when you have wings instead of hands / paws and you get some crazy intelligent birds...
Clint: "What ya thinkin' Mr. Bison?"
Mr. Bison: "Well hi there! Is this stinkin' rad rock, the best scratching rock....for you?"
Pretty amazing to see them out in the wild like that.
Where I live there aren't any wild herds (to the best of my knowledge,) but there are some bison farms.
Beautiful animals, but I would definitely stay a safe distance away from them.
@@meisteremm I live in Ireland.
We've got cows.
@@hibernopithecus7500 Stands to reason that there might not be too much diversity in terms of large animals on a small island like Ireland.
Down here we have Elk, Turkey, Coyote, Black Bear, Marten, the occasional Moose, plenty of Deer, Wolf and the odd Cougar and Lynx.
I feel blessed, at least in terms of nature, to live where I do.
@@meisteremm We used to be good; bears, wolves, wild boar. Don't think we had woolly rhino but we had Irish Elk. Never had any snakes though, but we do have a few herps; common frog, viviparous lizard (native) & slowworm (invasive, legless lizard, related to glass lizard). Other than that we've got red deer, badgers, stoats, then we're into invertebrates, fish & birds a plenty. But nothing on the island that can kill you, unless you mess with a stag in must or are allergic to bee/wasp stings or false widow bites.
We used to be pretty diverse. Guess what changed?
@@hibernopithecus7500 I'd say people had a hand in it.
The good thing about my area is that since it is part of a large landmass in the form of continental USA it is a lot harder for animals to truly die off as compared to an island.
I love my woods, honestly.
It's always a pleasure seein happy man with friend hanging out and bring happy so humble
There is a lot of joy to be found in this world.
Yep
Walking catfish are just insane! I used to live in the Tampa FL area and they'd get in the mechanic shop at work and it's really just surreal walking into a mechanic shop nowhere near any standing bodies of water and hearing the mechanics complain about fish getting in. They were, apparently, walking between giant puddles that happened every time it rained at work.
That fish wasn’t a walking catfish. At least, it didn’t look like one to me.
It looked like a pleco (a Pterygoplichthys of some sort). They can live outside of water for as long as 30 hours and they’re one of the most common freshwater aquarium fish species. The problem is that they get really big. Too big for most people to keep as a pet. So, I can only figure that someone dumped it when it got too big. I can only hope that they didn’t know that it would die slowly over the course of almost a day and a half.
I forgot how amazing green iguanas can be. That was probably the most impressive green iguana I've seen.
Absolutely my favorite video in a while, thank you for this
Your kiddo being so gentle with that snake made me smile🥺❤️ you’ve taught him well!!
This was great, love to see the herping content.
Thank you! I hope a lot of people agree with you. I would love to do more of it!
@@ClintsReptiles Please do! Not enough herping content on YT anymore and you have such a great personality!
That is so insanely cool with the side watch lizards! It’s _exactly_ like Rock Paper Scissors
That male iguana just looks unbelievably prehistoric, what a catch!
That Gopher Snake is amazingly comfortable in human hands. His head movements and tongue sniffing is saying he's unafraid and curious.
That's pretty cool.
Hopefully this ends up being a series, love it
BEST show ever Clint! And... you are so happy OMGosh!
This is my *favorite video* of yours! I love watching a group of friends with a passion for wildlife, out on an adventure together-recording all of the incredible things they find and teaching us about it!❤
My goodness that green iguana is gorgeous!! 🥰. Loved this video!
Isn't he amazing?!?
He’s beautiful, but also looked really angry the whole time lol.
It's the wierdest thing as an Australian seeing people pick up wild snakes like that... Most of ours with a build like the Gopher Snake or a Garter Snake are dangerous, and our pythons aren't normally that chill (at least wild caught. Captive raised ones from most species can be sweethearts).
That's the nice thing about America, most of our wildlife is pretty harmless. We're actually far more likely to hurt them than vice versa.
I absolutely love that you bring your sons! I hope I can bring my children herping; it seems like a wonderful educational and bonding experience.
Wait Clint only has 260k subs?! He is so underrated! Everybody needs to sub to him
Local snake learns that being nice to people gives a bigger chance to survive
A pity that isn't always true, some people are just a$$holes.
That gopher snake looked pretty young. In my experience at least with the ones in southwestern Idaho, the young ones are nice when you pick them up. Most adults are pretty cranky. The trick is picking them up before they pose defensively or strike at you. If you get them before then, they tend to be pretty chill.
Thank you for all the great stories about the various reptile, snakes, and insects.
So exciting to see all these animals in their natural environment. Loved seeing your son sharing the experience.
Since whiptails are so reminiscent of Tegues, it's interesting that noone breeds them. They would probably tame down if they are captive bred.
That iguana is the size of a _child!_ 😳
They are more high strung and short-lived.
Where i come from our whiptails are called rock lizards
This was awesome. I had so much fun, I didn't even realize it was already a half hour past. Loved it, please do more!
this was so cool. I'd have never been able to see these things in the wild myself.
Loved it, beside a bit of motion sickness during the Mormon Cricket segment. Appreciated the pop up video style of on screen info for names of critters found, as well as mentioning the rad peeps you were hanging out with. Hope to see more like this.
My favorite part was when you told the lizard "well pla y ed" when it got up too high for you. That was funny! And at the end, when you were holding the big guy and said, "this is a dude" He was a big boy and he was gorgeous!
Thank you for the video clint. I was so excited when I saw you posted. Also the size of that whiptail is insane.
Clint is like Mr. Rogers and Steve Irwin had a child!😆
Love the herping videos man! Thanks for being so awesome!!
I watch a lot of horror content and do a lot of morbid research for work and stuff, and your channel is perfect for when I want some chill and adjustment time because you're a very wholesome guy who just loves animals.
So for that, I thank you! :D
omg i just realized chandler fromk chandlers wild life and dave were both there two of my othner fave youtubers thatim a subscriber of and clint perfect videoe best one yet good hering you all did and good videoe clint
Clint interacting with his kid is rather wholesome
Clint you should come to the UK herping. I'd love to see if you could find all 6 UK reptile species
😅
Slow worms are my favourite
Heh, I was thinking get Clint out to Australia... We've got a lot of lizards and other fun things here.
@@malusignatius it would be way more of a challenge if he came to the UK
Gotta say, Clint and Chandler are my favourite herp guys right now👍👍
Imagine one day you're on a walk and a giant alien comes out of nowhere and picks you up. He starts making strange vocalizations and holding you up towards a strange device. Then just puts you down and leaves. Being an animal around humans must be really weird.
Nobody would ever believe you...
I've found your channel only a few weeks ago, but I truly love your videos and your more so your enthusiasm and pure joy when you talk about all these animals!
I hope 2021 will be a happy year for you and your family! Stay happy, save and healthy!
Just got my “Gus Gus” t shirt! Love it! Fits great and so soft! ❤️ thanks
I love your enthusiasm. And thank you for loving animals!
Love this kind of video! Nice to see the collabs, nice to see the family out exploring nature, love the facts and stuff we've learned and all the cool scenery and animals and its nice to see you out from behind the desk! Hope you managed to check off the majority of your herping list!
"They're basically a tree crocodile" - Chandler 😅
Fantastic video, Clint! ! I recognized some of my own favorite herping spots! Someday maybe we can visit them together!
Your accent for Mr. Rock was hysterical!! SeriI usky...hysterically funny Clint. What a fun place to go. Where is this? Is this somewhere in Utah?
Did you just see a random Bison just hanging out with his boys , oh wait, there are no boys . Just him ...wandering arouis not an everyday thing isit
In 2020 I found your channel! Your videos and live feeds always leave me with a smile on my face. Positive energy, enthusiasm, and good humor were more needed than ever this year. Thank you for putting it out in the universe. And thank you for introducing us to so many stinkin' rad animals and reminding us what a beautiful place our planet really is. Bless you, your family, and everyone involved in making Clint's Reptiles, and have a happy New Year. PS after years of hoping, wishing, and research, I got the "best pet reptile for me" ....a baby beardie. Best Christmas ever!
Thanks for sharing with us I really really enjoyed this episode and hopefully you will make many more like it 😎!!!
Sage Brush Lizard: "My 2020 list is now complete! I found Clint!!"
This was such a blast!!
"Sorry gopher." Your son is precious.
I don't know the species but the big green beetle was a 'Ground Beetle' (Family Carabidae).
fiery searcher - Calosoma scrutator
@@nm515 Cheers.
We have similar Carabids in Australia, but I have to admit I am totally unfamiliar with the North American species.
Great video Clint, thank you for all you do!!
Much love from Australia
Clint, if youre reading this, we want to see the 5 categories for a komodo dragon!!!!!
The nile monitor and savannah monitor need to be dethroned from the bad lizard category!!
So glad you went to Florida. Partly because you got to experienced all those reptiles but also partly because you got to collab with Chandler.
When you were holding the iguana while talking he looked like he was holding out his hands to show his nails 😂
It would be amazing to get a Clint’s fans herp-off. With viewers from so many different countries it’d be so neat to see what’s native to different parts of the world.
Unfortunately I'm in England so itts essentially one kind of frog, one kind of toad, grass snakes, slow worms (small legless lizard), one or two small lizards, and adders our only venomous snake (about as dangerous as a bee sting). There are one other species of frog and one other toad but they are extremely rare, confined to small areas and heavily protected against harassment of any kind so no touching or moving things to see them better etc. The reptiles we have aren't nearly as common to see around as they are in other places of the world either, I'm relatively lucky in where I live that I have better chances than most of seeing them but even so it's definitely not an everyday event
@@Lilith-Rose I, too, currently live in England. There are also the common and great crested newts which I adore; especially by having a pond in my garden I witness lots of incredible moments.
I think a mass international herping event would be Great for a channel like this, despite your less enthused perspective of UK local wildlife: Slow worms are cool!!!
@@acrylicqualia how.... How could I forget the newts!!!
@@acrylicqualia we have ponds on our allotments that I put in, and hides for hedgehogs etc, way better than slug pellets (if you do anything for native wildlife one of the biggest things is educating about how dangerous for native birds amphibians and mammals it is to use slug pellets), and although I love reptiles I actually currently only keep native amphibians, one rescue toad and three frogs raised from tiny froglets out of all the ones we relocated from a site designated for construction because one has a leg deformity and the others were in less than ideal health, plus they do better in small groups. I honestly don't know how I managed to leave newts off my list, such amazing little critters. In the future I'd like to be able to offer captive bred native species so people can keep them without impacting the environment but it needs to be minimum third generation because of the protective laws prohibiting sale or trade and I'm not willing to actively seek out individuals to start a breeding project as I strongly discourage collecting from the wild populations, so it's dependent on circumstances more than anything. The only reason I have my guys is that the toad (who I named beauford) had already been kept in captivity around other critters and wasn't suitable for release for a number of reasons (partly because you need to know where they were from originally since they migrate back to their home pools to breed). The frogs actually ended up as permanent/long term residents by chance as well, my sweet little physically disabled boy legolas wasn't going to last long if he got released since he can't hop, swim or climb very well with only 1.5 back legs, one of the others had a neurological defect of some kind that was causing movement issues and the third was almost skeletal and very lethargic, so most likely they wouldn't have survived either. I was already caring for my toad so I had the supplies and ability to take them in rather than just release them to become food and heck have I gotten attached to the little buggers while caring for them these last few months
@@Lilith-Rose Firstly, legolas - what a brilliant name! I once found a great crested newt in whilst my house was having an extension so I took it in, later finding out their decreasing coservation status made it illegal for me to disturb, so I placed it by my pond. I see many common newts now but I haven't seen Isaac Newton since.
It is so amazing what you guys are allowed to do herp-wise in the US. Here in the land up over (we're not downunder; south is up and north is down), we get fined if we even touch a native reptile. I remember the last time I picked up a wild lizard; it was on a Marine Biology excursion (I created a Marine Biology Program for students that were academically way ahead of the 'average' student that I ran "above and beyond" my timetabled classes) and we saw a stumpy tailed lizard (I think you guys call them a shingle-backed skink) which appeared pretty chill; so I picked it up and talked with the students about it (camouflage/blue tongue/etc) and as we were discussing the beauty and of nature as seen in this lizard as well as the need to conserve/protect; a volunteer from some tourist shop raced up and started to abuse, not only me but four impressionable 15-16 year old students that we shouldn't touch the wildlife and that it was protected and all sorts of rubbish I started to ignore when they fell into swearing....
I put down the lizard and escorted the students away from this toxic person. So counterproductive when all the students were appreciating the need to respect wildlife even if it wasn't "cute" and fluffy.... Anyway; I miss being able to do what you are doing so freely and with respect..
I'm also very envious in what herpes you have available in the US (although a bit over the top) - here, we have to spend hundreds of dollars to get a license for ONE YEAR just to keep a snake, or a lizard. Virtually nothing herp-wise can be obtained without a license (which is why so many catch from the wild; exactly what authorities are trying to stop)...
This is the greatest video I have ever seen. Just amazing, dude. Props to you
thanks for documenting this! you guys are incredible and i really felt like a part of this little adventure :)
WOW, just from the video the Gopher tortoise does look a lot like a Centrochelys sulcata (African spurred tortoise). Pretty amazing. Too bad there was not a way to breed them in captivity. A very beautiful tortoise.
Best reptile channel since uncle Steve. Big call. Seriously mean it. Watching from New Zealand 🇳🇿😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I believe your Beetle is a Fiery Searcher Beetle (Calosoma scrutator), or at least something in that genus. I have found a few using the black lights to draw moths.
It was amazing! Thank you!
I’m lucky enough to live in south Florida and have seen all those reptiles in the wild myself. There’s nothing like it and I’m so glad that you got to experience what we have here!🦎🐍🐊🦜
I can't get over how beautiful this iguana is!
Happy New year and Hello and greetings from finland :)!🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🐍
I have really been enjoying your videos. I recently got into the world of reptiles and even used your videos to help me decide to get a Water Dragon. Keep up the good work!
That gopher snake brought back memories. I had one from my mid-teens to my mid 20's. Had been wild caught. I probably should have released him. Just like that one he was incredibly docile, curious, and easy to handle, not just for me, but for anyone who wanted to hold him. He was the first snake a lot of those I met during that time ever seen up close. There wasn't a great deal of information on keeping reptiles back then. His enclosure was at least sized appropriately. I figured mimicking the local terrain in miniature would be a reasonable environment for him and he did well. I don't know the legality currently, but I can think of worse first snakes to get as a pet.
That feral green iguana is an absolute beast! What a great video!
I loved this video. Thank you so much for sharing.
This should be a regular series on this channel.
Good morning from Dallas! Great video! I saw my feeder crickets eat each other yesterday 🤢🤣
What a wonderful Iguana. What a gaze!! Such a commanding presence, I feel small looking at it through the computer screen, like even though you're holding it, really the Iguana is the one in control here. I wish we had those kinds of animals here in Sweden!
All other animals: just chillin*
Mormon crickets: peace was never an option
Utah is a beautiful state Clint. Loved visiting a couple years ago. I think I visited one of the Dino museums and it was an absolute blast. Magnificent and large creatures, larger than I imagined
This was entirely unexpected but really amazing. It's awesome seeing the cool things you can find all around you.
Also that green iguana holy crap! That looks like a real dinosaur! 🦕
I have to say even though this video is already a half hour long it was so fun I'm sitting here wishing it were twice as long! Thanks for the awesome content!
Most crazy : that beautifull green iguana!!! And that wierd out of water common pleco xD
Thank you for the warning before the Mormon crickets. Very good video and loved watching your son interact so gently!
I would love to see you continue to collaborate with fellow reptile enthusiasts and go herping once a month!
I watched the live and have been looking forward to this (I didn't get online until now because I turned 26 today and spent the day with my parents and one of my younger brothers) but what a great video to start off the year, I'd definitely love to see more content like this, I just love your genuine excitement and happiness over even the smallest of creatures and that energy is definitely infectious. Oh and say hi to the emerald tree skinks from me, they're definitely my favourite lizard followed closely by red eyed Croc skinks
I learn so much watching your videos!
This was awesome! I hope to see you do more of these.
That iguana was an absolute unit I saw it on Dav's Channel ❤ I think it's incredible how that monster just allowed you guys to handle it and show it off but I'm glad that he did people need to see how big these guys get before they think 15 bucks for a lizard is a good deal
I love the Poe reference with the raven.
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Oh and I was hoping clint is a Ravenguard enthusiast.
What a great video, Clint! I love watching herping videos and this one was awesome. Happy New Year :)
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the fish at the end omg...... i wonder if something dropped it, that's such a wild find!
what a great vid, that iguana at the end was HUGE, biggest one i've ever seen, and his spines were so majestic! 🤩
If it was a humid night, The Pleco might be moving between bodies of water on it's own accord... They can breathe air, and although I don't know if it's been recorded in Plecostomus or any other Loricariid, Walking Catfish (Claridiae) and eels will certainly migrate overland.
@@malusignatius anyone with plecos will tell you they often try to leave the water or accidentally jump out of the tank while grabbing air if conditions aren't right, also from my experience at night they'll get most of their bodies out of the water to graze on algae covered rocks, so I really wouldn't put it past them to try crossing the road from one ditch to another
@@Lilith-Rose Not surprising. I've kept Ancistris and they were much the same.
@@malusignatius oh definitely, they're just like mini plecos with funny faces, I definitely recommend them to people who want a pleco but don't realise how big they can get, I currently have a lovely breeding colony of them in my 5' community tank that has become pretty heavily catfish focused
@@Lilith-Rose I'm a huuuuge catfish fan.
Sadly my faves (banjo cats) are practically unavailable in Australia.
This is such a valuable video. Thanks clint!