Can Reptiles Bond with their Keepers? | Rex Colubra

Rex Colubra is a long-time reptile keeper and the creator of the YouTube Channel, Rex Colurba’s All-Animal Channel. In this episode, Rex walks us through how to bond and connect with your reptiles, including how to tame an aggressive snake. Rex treats each animal as an individual, sentient being, which is the key to building trusting relationships with the animals you interact with. We discuss reptile intelligence and how underestimated reptile cognitive function is, even within groups of advanced keepers. Rex also tells us about a large co-hab set up with Boa imperator (Hog Island boas) and Epicrates cenchria cenchria (Brazilian Rainbow Boa). We wrap up the episode by discussing building DIY enclosures.

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0:00 Coming Up
01:20 Guest Introduction
3:47 Housekeeping
4:41 Welcome Rex / Background
13:10 Inutiting Animal Intelligence
19:36 Working with Aggressive/Nervous Snakes
23:23 Needing Peer-Reviewed Science
26:00 Interpreting Intelligence & How to interact with Reptiles
34:56 Rex's Snakes
39:10 Large DIY Snake Enclosure (mixed species co-hab)
41:32 Tips for successful mixed-species co-habbing
48:01 Do the Hog Island Boas and Rainbow Boas interact?
55:23 Are your rainbow boas arboreal?
58:35 Boa hunting a wild bird
1:03:38 Large Co-Hab Enclosure
1:08:40 DIY Enclosure Building
1:15:00 Closing Thoughts & Wild Bird Story
1:22:14 Outro

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