He needs his own TV show- this guy is great!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! I've actually turned down a couple so far.

@stevenunez

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you have good reasons for the rejection but I hope at some point you get the recognition and broadcast opportunity you deserve. You consistently put out great content- congrats and keep it up! @

@mattm7798

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Very well spoken and a good narrator.

@Nitidus

5 жыл бұрын

@ Are there any shows that you (or anyone reading this) like that are similar to this format? Like some person adventuring through the wild discovering and teaching things about such animals?

@tonymontanak4866

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nitidus brave wilderness on KZread it's class a good!!!

I love these "Are we keeping them correctly?" videos, because you actually go out into their natural habitat and actually show wild specimens to explain exactly how they live in the wild. Also, kinda jealous you get to travel so much. lol

dude best information on the difference between bci and bcc I have seen....thanks for sharing this

5 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@alexharper9786

4 жыл бұрын

Wow I thought I had a BCI turns out I have a BCC. Awesome video!

@briancarnahan6421

2 жыл бұрын

@ q

On the lure hypothesis, I've personally witnessed my hog Island boa wiggling the very end of his tail as if it were a worm. Almost exactly how a viper would do the same. Its absolutely the reason

I'm glad that you were making these kind of videos so we as a reptile Community can improve our care for our reptiles. Are you making one for any other reptiles?

5 жыл бұрын

I have a whole series of them. I'll make a playlist soon.

You are one of the coolest people in this hobby! Doing the legwork with field research is so important, and I really respect your efforts and your passion to learn more about these amazing animals!!

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

As a BCC enthusiast/breeder I am glad to finally see a video showcasing BCC, the Ecuadorian variety is a spectacular one. Any plans to visit Suriname? I specialize in Suriname BCC and would love to see them showcased as the Ecuadorian was in this episode. It would be an endeavor but showcasing each of the well known BCC varieties would surely be a well attended series of videos.

5 жыл бұрын

As a matter of fact, yes I do, but I'm not sure when. And yes, I now have footage of them from Ecuador and Peru!

@michaelskrip4674

5 жыл бұрын

Drew, I have seen some of your Surinam Red Tails before and you produce some very nice looking boas. Do you have an email that I could reach you at ? I would love to pick up a baby Suri from you sometime down the road.

Just when I thought you couldn't raise the bar any higher, BAM! You come out with this video! This was amazing! So many other youtubers just sit on their beds and talk about reptile care (most of it VERY wrong info) but you actually go to where they are from to teach us about them. You are a rock star dude!!!! It still pisses me off that you don't get the recognition you deserve. Thanks for doing what you do! Rattle On!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for always being a fan Martin!

Great Video Dav! I recently got a juvenile BCI myself (from the Toronto expo, where we watched your Q&A). Thank you for all the great work you do. I've always loved snakes (and reptiles in general), but was not allowed to get one of my own as my mom was not a fan of "nope ropes" to say the least. Your videos along with a few others like Emily and Clint helped her see them in a new light. We now have several species of snakes and other reptiles and with my new channel, I am on my way to my dream of becoming a herpetologist and reptile educator. This may not have been possible without the work you and other great reptile ambassadors do. Hope to see you at the next Toronto Reptile Expo. Thank you so much! -Annaliese

Love it! and im surprised that both wild boas you handled are calm with you and not showing their defensive behavior

Watched this when it first came out, now watching it again to give my baby red tail a bioactive!😀😊

5 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@dualityofmorons

3 жыл бұрын

Same here man….this helps a lot!! The humidity threw me off from what people where saying. But I’ll believe the guy who is there lol

I keep the humidity for my BCC in the mid-80s for the most part. I believe that we should give them as close to their natural habitat as we possibly can. But if we can pick out the beneficial things only and leave some of the key aspects that are detrimental then we should do that. For example, I foodcycle my boas. I feed them a little bit more during late summer through the fall and I feed them little or nothing during the winter. I have had excellent results from this. They grow at a very good rate and they stay muscular and healthy. I also keeps their humidity very high and then certain times of the year I lower it some. It's never around 50% or anything like that but certain times of year I'll keep it around 65 to 70% and other times of the year I will give them more of the 80s to 85%. You just want to keep your conditions clean and you do not want to have it be constantly soaking wet in the enclosure. My substrate is not dressed and soupy, but the humidity is nice and high. I get perfect sheds, and my animals are very healthy. So I love this video. I think we are keeping a lot of the snakes in Worse conditions than we should. Most of my Boas have or will have 8-foot enclosures with places to climb and stretch and hide and I use a lot of fake plants to allow them to have extra cover. My 7 foot anaconda has an 11-foot age with a 400 gallon pond and once he is an adult, a few years down the line I'm planning on providing her an 18 x 10 x 6 enclosure with a massive pond as well. Thanks for posting this video!

@maliksmith7074

2 жыл бұрын

How do you keep the humidity up without the substrate wet

@25siesta

2 жыл бұрын

how do you keep the humidity so high? do you use like a automatic mist system or something?

Wow! I loved watching this! I have a 16 month old Boa named Evie. After two unsuccessful sheds, I realised that I didn’t provide enough humidity for Evie. It really is an excellent point that you make about the living conditions of the red tailed boa and the rainbow boa. I placed Evie’s water dish over part of her heat pad and it created a perfect condition for her (there is now visible condensation on the sides of her viv). She had her first PERFECT shed a few days ago! So it turns out that my boa needed a higher humidity to enable her to shed successfully. I don’t have her enclosure as humid as Medusa, our rainbow boa, but it’s somewhere in between the rainbow boa and our rosy boa (Stubby Whub Nuts!) Thanks for the videos Dave! Kindest regards, Jane

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome Jane! Glad to hear that!

Brilliant content and so well made. Congratulations Dav!

This was amazing! Thank you so much for uploading! I have learnt a lot.🙏🏻

Spot on! Way to show what these animals actually live in. We appreciate your time and energy in your videos!

Best boa channel! Love this type of video! THANK YOU DAV!

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Awesome video! Love the knowledge you're dropping on Boas. Keep up the good work!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

Absolutely love when you do videos like this Dāv. Awsome, entertaining, and educational. Keep up the good work.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Juan!

He put in 15 hours of travel for only 4000 likes.... Great production quality too. He does deserve a tv show

Great vid, Dave. I appreciate the time, effort and resources you’ve pulled together to give us this vid. Well done and thank you 👍

Wow the tail/fruit comparison is the most interesting thing I've heard for ages. I think you're onto something!!

Awesome, awesome info Dāv. Thank you for sharing

It’s so cool you can learn so much from these videos. He gives you humidity and temp levels and substrate textures pretty much everything you would need to build an enclosure around these reptiles. Great info!

Thanks for this video!!! Something finally clicked for me with this video. I think it helped a lot seeing the difference in environments

Fantastic video Dav!! Definitely have to agree about the tail color hypothesis. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on the species!!🐍🐍

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It was an interesting thought. There's got to be a reason for it, and the truth is out there!

I love all the info. That red tail was a stunner. Stay awesome and God bless

Nothing beats wildnatural beauty! Love BCCs. Thanks for sharing.

@mr.airgun6921

4 жыл бұрын

You’re right. I used to keep snakes and have no issue with people that do but I kind of feel conflicted when I see them in the wild now. I’ve been obsessed with finding them in the wild my whole life (I’m 43 & still look forward to spring for reptiles) and seen some cool sights in recent years with grass snakes, slow worms and lizards here in the UK. I guess at least we can take comfort the ones we’re keeping are captive bred so it’s really their only life they could have led. Seeing that red tail like that in the wild, amazing. Surprised how chill she was. I had a young boa 20 odd years ago that was given to me as a biter, I tried daily to tame him down but he’d smash me every time I got near. Looking back I wonder if he was actually a bit messed up mentally or something. I passed him on to a guy in the trade after a while. My full grown female was so chilled.

There's just simply no one else that comes even close to the amount of passion from Dav. Just the lengths he goes to show us this stuff is amazing. It's my dream to see a feature length documentary on the herper culture in general. Kind of like Dav's docs, but just like a big documentary movie focusing on well known and renown herpers/breeders/keepers. It would be do amazing for Dav to host one as he already basically does here.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Braston, I really appreciate that!

Love BCCs! Very informative video, thank you! Rattle on, Dav!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Rattle On!

This was freaking Great!

Wow! Thanks again for helping, teaching, & giving us some real science behind how to care for our animals!

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I really enjoying going to their natural habitats and seeing what they are doing in the wild. There will be more videos like this coming soon

Great video! Love the content

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Absolutely fantastic work !

I love these videos so much because no one else for as long as I have researched has ever gone to actual locations where these snakes are from and compares the climate to how we keep them. It’s amazing and i can’t wait to learn more about it

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I love making videos like this and I have a lot more like it in the plans.

I love this episode!!!

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you do!

I was waaaaaiting for this video since we talked on the phone yesterday! 😆🐍 I'm so glad that you ended up finding them!

5 жыл бұрын

You would have loved it down there. Well maybe not the scorpions in the bed though :)

Wow, how fun was that trip!!! Amazing!

5 жыл бұрын

It was amazing!

Love this your an inspiration dav

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dillon!

All these videos of reptiles in their wild environment are great, I've been looking for this type of video for years! Thanks so much for making it! Looking forward to more of these

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I have many more coming!

@franklinmichael671

5 жыл бұрын

Great!

Always awesome job! Thank you for sharing. Great information on these beautiful snakes. 🐍

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Boas!!! 😍. How I love boas. Dav, you are a legend! Absolutely brilliant video and great to see you on your epic travels again escaping that snow 👍😊. Living the true life, loving nature! Your vids are so much fun, your joy infectious - way better than Attenborough! (sorry other David!) Glad you had an awesome time in Ecuador! xx 👍🌿🌴🐍

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Attenborough is one of my heroes, so I really appreciate you saying that! More from Ecuador coming up!

You have some crazy videos brother!!!! 🔥🔥They never get old!!! My kids and I watch them over and over just for the entertainment and education!!! Keep up the good work Dave!!!🤙🏼🤜🏼🤛🏼

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

Hi Dave once again another great video. You are the person who has changed my attitude for better, about reptiles in general. I couldn’t even watch a snake eat something. And since I watch your videos my attitude totally changed for a whole lot better. ❤ your trips. Keep ‘em up!!!❤👍

Wonderful video. I'm really enjoying digging into your vids. I love the way you're getting out there into the wild and really looking at their natural settings and then thinking about how that might influence our husbandry. You also have a great personality and an obvious passion for the animals. Keep up the great work!

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great video Dāv!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing how u take us to the actual homeland of these awsome amazing animals. So danm cool

10:35 who needs food? What a sweet find Dav! Worth the trip right there my friend, nice job.

5 жыл бұрын

Well worth it! You'd love it down there!

great episode dav. what a beautiful snakebtgat red tail was

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video.. Thanks for showing Boas

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

the amount of education 😍 my brain is healthy now thank you

Bro... Your content on this was amazing. The snake gods had your back down there. Really Enjoy your work!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil!

Thank you for doing these videos! Quality content 👌

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Love these videos

you are the most informational guy i have seen in the industry, i hope that one day i can know just half of what you do about reptiles. keep up the quality content, you have earned a regular viewer and permanent subscriber.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Blake! I really appreciate that!

Very beautiful animals. Love it!

Awesome vid really enjoyed it!

Man,ahh,man! I want ur life, or at least bring me.with u!! Thise BCC are absolutely beautiful! This video was awesome!

5 жыл бұрын

I live a very boring life. You don't want it :)

Very good content. Thank you.

Another great video. I love all my BCI morphs but there is something special about the natural beauty of a BCC that can't be beat. I keep both BCI and BCC. I do find that my BCC tend to do better in a warmer and humid environment. Would also like to see you do a video on BCO the Argentine Boa. They're not as common in the pet trade but are a spectacular darker colored sub species of boas. Keep up the great work and Rattle on !

5 жыл бұрын

I'll get back there for those boas as well one day I'm sure.

@papamidnightfpv

5 жыл бұрын

Morphs are cool in our houses but i have a special love for wild types too. I came into snake life w cornsnakes and all the morphs but i find myself drawn to preserving the beauty of localities over morphs.

Great video! Thanks!

This is such a great, detailed, and informative video. The best video I have seen in regards of comparing the BCI and the BCC, many of my questions have been answered. Thank you for this video, I plan on getting a pet boa in the near future and found this content very helpful. A+ 👍🏻

5 жыл бұрын

Glad it could help! Best of luck with your new boa!

Really appreciate the lengths you go to to make these videos!

I love your hipoteses about redtail boas! Sounds pretty sound to me.

Wicked video Dav! That's a healthy hypothesis Rattle on bro

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lance! Rattle On!

Dave, I'm digging the boots and shorts look around 15:10. That is some high fashion....you're gonna turn me back to men. 😘😘😘 I think these are incredibly important videos you are making. Yes, there are differences between wild borne and captive bred snakes, but at the very least we need to be able to question ourselves and think through what we are doing in our enclosures. Our snakes deserve for us to do the absolute best for them that we can.

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, I rock that look! Lol! And thanks for you comment.I totally agree

@papamidnightfpv

5 жыл бұрын

Ooh, its the wildman hair and snake love that got you huh? He does a great job ;-}>

@PyroChemdawgxxx

5 жыл бұрын

Dāv Kaufman's Reptile Adventures You need to lay off those calf workouts 🏋️‍♀️. Pretty soon those hulk calves won’t fit in those boots. 😂

Amazing how docile the wild boa is. ❤️

Man your videos are awesome I'd love to be there with you all those stunning locations great video 👍👍👍👍

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Best video ever.

MAN! YOU. ARE. THE. BEST.

Another great video! My favorite snake species and really enjoyed this footage.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

Ok I NEEDED this as a first timer preparing to - within the next year - obtain my long awaited, dreamed of boa... I had NO idea to up the humidity and feel stupid for not having thought of such but it makes so much sense!! Look how calm these are, wild caught and I'd imagine not ever before or rarely having had human interaction. Amazing.

I keep Brazilian Rainbow Boas and this is so very interesting to me. Your videos keep getting better and better. Great work Dave!

5 жыл бұрын

Just wait until next week then :)

This video helped, I got two red tail boas at the reptile super show this weekend.

This was such an amazing video about the BCI and BCC found in Ecuador. This brings back so many memories when my Grandmother and I made the trip out there when I was 12. We stayed on a flotel on the river. Hope to get my Wife and little girls out there one day. Thank you so much for sharing. You are awesome Dav.

5 жыл бұрын

Nice! Glad it brought back so many memories for you!

I've been doing a lot of research on boas since I am interested in purchasing one and this video really helped clarify some distinctions.

5 жыл бұрын

Very glad to hear that!

Wonderful video! Never knew the difference between these snakes. They’re both beautiful and I agree with you on the coloring of the B.C.C. I have an African Red Belly parrot who has the same type of camouflage coloring. She’s a crabber green on top seen over head blends with the trees. Underneath, she’s turquoise, yellow and grass green seen from underneath blends with the trees! Very neat!

Amazing vid like always

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

Wow!!! That BCC. Was gorgeous, and I also agree with the red tail theory, acts as a lure like in other species of snakes

Damn Dav, what a life, BCC in the wild! I truly envy you! Keep em coming my man, I look forward to your awesome reptile adventures! The Amazon is definitely on my bucket list, someday! Till then you are as close as I’m gonna get, thanks for sharing.... 🤘🏻🐍

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hope you make it down there one day

man i want a BCC or BCI. Very informative video and saved for future reference. Also Subbed!

Great video and some great questions

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice informative video. I had a Boa for close to 10 years it was a BCC red tail.

A herper group chat recommended your videos. I love your energy and I have already learned a lot. you definitely love your sweet guitar 🎸 licks!🤘🤘

5 жыл бұрын

Cool. Welcome! And yes I do!

you need a tv show! your a great guy this video is helping me out im looking into getting a boa

I noticed that my BCC would caudal lure like a green tree python. The tail is bright red and I think they use it to attract prey.

I would literally be like let’s goooo! Very cool place

Amazing video! Youve answered so much that i jus couldnt figure out by just reading the difference. new subscriber here.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks and welcome!

I just don’t get it why you don’t have 1,000000 subscribers this channel is awesome!! You sir are the hardest working Reptile enthusiasts period

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate that a lot! Feel free to share the video!

Great video, you have taken me to school with this one.

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you learned from it!

I'm getting my first bcc guyana next week and plan to keep him the same as my BRB after watching this. Thanks for the info 👍

Great video 👍

its coool You showing most popular animals in hobby in the wild ! thanks man !

5 жыл бұрын

I'll have a lot more of these types of videos coming up soon

@marcinwkurw3185

5 жыл бұрын

​@ in that case, nothing more than waitng :D Greetings

*Gets too excited, high fives phone, sends it flying across the room* 😬🐍❤ Lol high fives in spirit Dāv!

5 жыл бұрын

Lol!

Love asking for a ticket n them I'm lookin for boas lol.too cool n what a tropical paradise adventure to see them in their natural environment ty dav 😘🐍

Awesome video man, keep them coming.

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Lots more coming from Ecuador!

@boidnation4138

5 жыл бұрын

@ awsome vid as allways dav. im going to start keeping my redtail as i do my brb just to see if there is any change in them breeding feeding wise ive allways had a nightmare getting them to breed may be the way we keep them is the problem ill let you know what happens

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, please keep me posted on your success!

Agreed, great lure.

Wow Dave this episode is by far my FAVORITE and you have some really good ones. my father is from and is currently in Ecuador for vacation. It bring back so many memories and I can’t wait to go back and talk to my father about reptiles. You educated me and made my love for reptiles so much more greater! Hopefully I can pass the knowledge down and become a great rattler🤙 Hopefully we can meet again this month at Tinley ! I wanna talk more!

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's awesome! And I'll be there

Such a beauty

Awesome video again!! Love this 'natural environment needs'-search!!! Btw, I have 2 Bcc's and i keep them pretty moisty and warm ;)

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and that's great!