Hodge Podge Lodge; 101; Exotic Animals

Oh. Well. I'm glad to see this afternoon and I know you're going to be glad

because we have a very special guest from Brooklyn New York. Scott Weinstein welcome to have us. And Scott is a herpetologist and a collector of various sorts of animals. We have one of his specimens right here heading west and I'm sure that Margaret and Steve would like to find out about those what would you like to know Margaret. Heading back those directions go well. What's the first thing you'd like to know. Oh I think there's one thing and do you know what it is. Well I wanted to ask that first. You say you know which is the joint specie. And it comes from Africa and it has a very very large reach about three times just one. And it feeds

on vegetation and rotting insects. Look at those go you know what Nelly means thousands actually are about a hundred. And I'm talking about the telegram sent up. I have two pairs of legs on every segment. Can you see each of those little stripes kids each one of those is a segment for each one of those slices sort of like a slice of bread. Yes two pairs of legs on every segment. And. Yeah come back I guess you're going to come back all by himself he doesn't like to hang over their heads and you know those two things in the front the floor. What can you really kind of feel around the area when they find out where his food is down there. Yeah. Very beautiful very beautiful specimen clear Tell close to

plant very good about how you can go back and say well you really met one. That's it. He's very smart. We've had some animals here who just go right off the edge of the hive. They don't know enough to come back. Are they dangerous to they have a bite at any time. No if I'm going to do is maybe pinch you which really won't hurt it all so very smooth floors. So he is really a very good interesting animal. Look I is using his antennae now to find out. What's happening and whether there's anything to eat around in there in a class by themselves which is called Diplo Potter. Oh that's a good word. Let's have something that's something about part of it means feet and they were better putting back what do we have him in I forget which comes from a

paper bag. I just don't want you to be sure to go back to Brooklyn. I read everything that you've got. How about a look at what's in your suitcase. Look at some other smaller. We thought the melody was pretty big for a military base are small compared to this. Yeah. Wow. Oh lookee sticking his tongue out just beautifully. This is what I take from Central and South America. And they are also known as Global Calero and Spanish dealers they also chase chickens.

You know we eggs in things I grant you knows what shape his tongue is Margaret. Yeah it's like oh well this one may be amputated. Didn't you have sort of I won't Yeah from having him out with them only shouting Oh that's a neat piece of skin. You can see that tigers are covered with what scale. How do you get started in the animal collecting. Well when I was about two three years old I began reading books and I went out into the field and collected now and gone on to other things. Which are courting poisonous snakes. What kinds of general do you like other subjects in school besides. Oh yeah it's nice to be well-rounded in this

world as this is here where you know you're going to make him turn his head around so we can see that he's there and that's specially adapted for what he calls living in the world and we swim in our protective gear from water and he has good long toes and sharp claws for running. Does he stay mainly on the land. Yes he does and he also has one close to tearing his food. He's a meat eater. Yeah carnival. What does eat at your house. Well he usually comes up to the plate and licks it all up and we see everything an idea how long it is now. We don't want to fight. Steve how long would you say you want to stay here.

Thank you I think almost as a youngster I would think you could do curls around and look at his back feed us. Well they occasionally want to you stand up on I like Jimmy looking oh my goodness what's that you got me. And also these are also very folk used in dinosaur pictures talk about and they were they blow them up like a monster out of something that really isn't such a monster. Well he's a beautiful specimen really really long right. Almost as long as the discovery table even though it's warm in here out here he's still sort of cool. Doesn't look like his tail is much longer. Than wrestling. Oh Steve once he's in you we will reach out and just you know well be something to talk about and supper tonight. You say guess what I did.

For in the old we have a Latin name which is too banal mistake which means take this of the Marche take one of the sandals. Steve thinks they might be good eating. I think the people they are you know the Indians cookbook. But my goodness why we get all kinds of good vocabulary around here. Well I would like to go back in your suitcase to do so we can look at some of Scott's other interesting specimens. You know how to pack. I take a guess. And I say there's this is one you collected yourself right. And I must say we've got a good look. Look at her. That is a female and what else is interesting about her. She. You notice something about her back. And that's shows in a female when it becomes very large and very that it's going

to have young. This is known as pregnancy going to these lay eggs in the next shack. Soon hatch. So you're going to have a houseful of baby giraffe. What are you going to do. Where did you get this one. This one is on the outskirts of Phoenix Arizona ended. Did you have your trusty tongs with you right there in the car when I put it in a bottle and she can you tell what she eats children. Well you're close to her. Cricket chooses the house cricket. And she's sort of standing up on hind legs. What's But what's the what kind of Tarantula is she. She's the Arizona DREAM. There was all she could see the way he does or to ratchet up the Latin name too.

Steve would like to take a closer look at her while we look at a nother tarantula. Right. Here like this will matter why. This is the Central American White Way and you see the white stripes on its legs and it's not quite so active it's just sort of huddled down in the bottom I was just save one. And she tranche was do not spin webs they make ground whips which sweep over the ground and they catch the section that. And it was a kind of trench from the West coolly crept by. Oh I don't want to see one of those. Yeah. And which they also spin a web. And they come out of the door grab an insect and pull it and need it in the door shots. Well here's something I know Margaret will be interested in and that you're going to need your

tongs for. Stay on keep your hands off the table. You know what. You recognize that it's quirky and this is a Indian Black Scorpion from strictly India and nowhere else in the world. They are found in the southern part very very common in certain parts of it are rare in Asia except for India and they have extremely large coolers almost like crab claw right and they can crush an insect as I want if you don't write notes or they feed on insects and show her the sting which is for doing it right.

If you got stung by a school you have gotten stung by three different species about 18 times and still alive still. There are currently couple of species that can kill. This one can't but there is some the care now how many legs does a scorpion. I don't know not enough for him and I can hear the eight legs there. One cool Was this the stinger which is not this is not a tail by the way this is an abdomen its stomach. Are they in a family by themselves or well they were in a family called arachnids. Oh right. Relatives of spiders are not the ones in this fight. I'm amazed that it doesn't just try to take off on its own. Well many times it will play well in that case yeah I stand very very put on a very good a good demonstration for us so let's let's put it that a male or female but this one gender male put him back then and. So you didn't have another one.

You know another. Oh yes this is a you know small scorpion. This one is just a pregnant female and even though it's smaller it's more it's more deadly more dangerous and I think we'll just leave her. Yes in the jar. But you can see the stinger curled up and this is one from Africa which is known as a pretty diverse. And she's a very very dangerous school. And can kill. For Kids. Isn't it interesting to know about so many different animals from so many different parts of the world. Let's take a look at. This case. Oh let's take a look at your other your box of wet animals. You can't leave them. Look at them for too long because we don't want to dry out your same species you sound man are you sure it's alive. But you can see they're very Only in the

back into the front. Well developed legs not well not very well. There's two different species which is the two tone of this week and this one you can tell is really much more at home in the water. It's not very comfortable out here on the table so we won't leave it out very long with it just long enough to get a look at it. Very tiny legs. Why would you think this was a salamander if you saw it for the first time Martin. I would I think I probably Yeah Scott It looks like a big deal with legs. Right. What's its name and if you were amp you mean where do you find them. Florida ditches in Florida Duchess. My goodness we find them very often much more. How about the eyes. Can they say that they don't guys don't look as if they would work. Well that's right. Oh it's strong and it's true. What do you feed. Yes he eats fish.

Is this is because I guess you know they will sometimes get large and hold your hand so it doesn't like to be but us have to catch a look at those eyes and asking. Really. So he's very tiny learning and this is one of the more primitive sounds right she looks like a couple of times. She you know they're on the hind legs are a little bigger than the front legs and lazier the city. But still very very tiny for such a huge animal. Yeah. Let's put her back just for she dries out anything happen to us. What are your what's in your is your favorite specimen your whole collection like this with you when you're right here. I don't know where this is known as an elephant trunk snake which

is a very very rare species of snake you know it is common in some areas such as Well you can find them common in India but you know you'll be lucky if you find maybe five specimens out of 10 square miles. Does it remind you of an elephant trunk. Try to watch for its time to come out because it has a very unusual tone. It's so floppy and saggy baggy old lip stocking your tongue has a very very sterile body and the scales must be very unusual because girls are like Lisa modeled model model scales and they stick out. And this helps support through the lawyer meet you to look strictly in the water and eat and eat only fish. Only when I need to know what you want to touch an elephant trunk snag Margaret.

But this isn't one of your more adventurous that is. As about as big as a thousand trunks make gets knocked around four feet down. And say oh look they're going it's time now stick your tongue. Yeah yeah it's like oh but it's a much deeper than that tag you have to get there is very very thin like thread and what do you want to choose their tongues was just sensory. They use it for senses and picking up odors and they bring it to something at the top of their mouth Cool J says or looks right and the reason why I can't do you know why snakes open their mouth so wide. While we have some cool quandary from the corner of them mouth it stretches in mouth open. That's why they could swallow very much grain.

I know something about this. Most nights we turn them over they look much different on the bottom right than they do on the top but not the elephant trunk snake it looks the same all over the same kind of funny. They don't have very well-developed bottom scales either because he's one of them. Right now I think that's just some cotton or some line from his box. Scott had to pack these water animals you know wet box something when dry out there you know there is time again to see if you got something else in there. Oh and he'll tell me oh. Yeah I like eel for breakfast that's one on your back. This is an eel from India. It is you know this is a cane which is known as a baby blanket see through good

pictures that you don't like where you live on your own Let me let me hold the Cayman if you assure me that he's not going to bite. Now we have one reptile and one fish. Well you could say yeah it's close it's not on and on and it's not a reptile. What. Recent pictures that you bring them pictures to show when I was growing up this was a spectacle came on from South America. And I've met other Caymans that have been very fierce but this one of Scott's is very. Subdued I don't know what's got us here do you think he recognizes a piece of another reptile. Let's take a closer look at the eel because that's such an unusual animal and he's uncomfortable on the out in the light and the heat

and he's strong too. They're in a park the Cayman Islands. Right but he doesn't have those and he doesn't have the legs like the Anfield right. How big does he get to just get about four inches long and what do you know. Goldfish bowl. You must be either one of those goldfish customers in your area or do you raise them to go. Scott says he raises credits to feed all of these animals. Gosh he is sticky and he's very beautiful underneath orange and yellow spots. When I was dealing this thing most you know very vicious no strike yet you try to fight you this one extremely well you're very lucky.

You must have must have a way. Is this like in North America that you go out to sea for a while and then go back to their new strain not meet these completely fresh water running water streams and feel it's very cold just like a reptile. Right. You. Know hearken back when you're in his nice went box and let's take a look at this case but. I would oh yeah let's see now. Let's don't tap on the cage that's don't have to have been to the zoo for the reptile house and there are always signs like don't talk to her or while they're sitting so still.

Can you tell us a few things about life how about the one that's over there close to Steve the beautiful one with the right spots and the yellow eyes right there that is it can't get caught. And they're very very vicious by nature and they feed strictly on in sex and live in Asia. And Asia. He's beautiful right about these two sort of wild ones here I mean we can see them that are all learning return. They're going to turn to look like a. RAT. Anyway you don't have male or female Basil the two big ones. My own female basons the male has the decorations like the ruffle down the back of his neck and was that jumping on top of the female. Lots of cool Audi which is a kind of a lizard also from a tree. Looks like they're playing leapfrog. Yeah it's going to protect. Or die lizards salamander and they wouldn't be complete without Let's say I

forget which is which which that of course next. This is a group of OK let's look at that. Do you think you'd like to live at Scott's apartment about your mother's. I think Scott must have a very understanding mother Barbara. The landing ever got loose. Are you very frankly. I have a snake getting out to morning are you doing out of the Warsong two or three or four feet. This is a crip. This is doing all right here. From where. From Central America and it was from I was a South American Indian snake and he's just sort of gray and maybe I could get out a rat snake. Would you trust me. Oh that's so we can see two gardens of snakes and rats.

This is from South America. But the. Rat snakes are from Florida. I'm going take a trip to Florida pretty soon as just one. That's the news you saw there was one of the objects that you voted. Yeah that went all right. That's the new one. Let's let me know when OK well can you vote. I'll keep a close eye on them. I can't see the other ones head at the moment. But look. Oh Margaret you're a very very unusual girl you don't scream at the sight of snakes or live rat snakes from going to the right. No. But you know I think yeah sure. Yes.

What do you know rats Nike strictly rats and mice and. Other small animals like you know on your way. These are very beautiful colors that see the COA variations. Oh yes from this one's got a lot of orange right now are these. These are related to our black rocks and I can write with the same name and they get to be as big. They get just about from little bigger than the black markets moving back with Steve. You know I see those when I see what you mean by those women being more active. Maybe a better pop them back in bags we don't have too much going on at once because all these cold blooded animals get a little excited. OK. Well I hope you've enjoyed visiting lots of meetings. Scott

Weinstein thank you. I guess I got a free hand to thank you for coming all the way down and bringing some of your menagerie right. I know you still have plenty left. I hope you get a chance to see some of these interesting animals and maybe turn out to be a collector and a purple tala just when you get to be a little there. Thank you very much for coming and come back again. Were.

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