Private Tour of America's Best Exotic Animal Rescue

I'm here at Extreme Exotics Wildlife Foundation, the coolest private exotic animal facility in the entire world with some of the most incredible creatures like Maverick the Clouded Leopard. It's one of the best videos, hands down the best tour I've ever done. You guys are going to love it. Let's go. Oh my goodness. Lemurs! Which species of rough lemur is this? So she's a black and white rough. Black and white rough. Makes sense based on the color. And her name is Angel. Come Angel. Come on. She loves her armpits scratched. You want an armpit scratch? Come Angel. I'm new. I know. I get it. Oh, papaya is so good. Everybody likes papaya. I'm going to scratch your armpits. Okay. Oh, you're so fluffy and soft. Yes, you are. All right. You have a grape and we'll leave this right here. You're very beautiful. But the next animal that Jessica and Steven introduced me to wasn't quite as friendly. Oh my goodness. I'm getting to do all the fun stuff. So I get to feed Rosie, who is an albino gray or red? Gray. Albino gray. She's a little bit more shy. She's quick too. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Whoa. Uh oh. That might be a Stitches. Felt pretty good. You headbutted me pretty hard there, girly. Good job. And I didn't even do anything. I just crouched down. We're five animals in. Yeah. That's good. You didn't even give us a chance. We didn't even get in with the crazy stuff yet. Five animals in and we're already bleeding. Good job, girly. Well, that was unexpected. But I'll grab a paper towel and let's go see some more. Sorry for laughing. That was funny to watch. You should be laughing. It's funny. Who would have thunk that working with animals would be more dangerous than going to my alumni rugby game today that I was supposed to play in. I'll be honest with you guys. There's a lot of things I wanted to see. There's a lot of things I know you guys have that are unbelievable. But right here is probably the number one. Is this the friendly one? Mm-hmm. Okay. Wow. Did you see that? She just scooped him up like he was just a house cat. Come on in here, you guys. This is Boris. Hello, buddy. Right for the balls. You see that? I'm getting really beat up here at Extreme. I didn't know this was a contact visit. Now, just to be clear, he's not de-clawed or de-fanged or anything. At all. Nope. Fully intact. He's just a full-on clouded leopard. Hey, I don't mind if you give me a nibble. I'm okay with it. I can live with it. Oh, my God. This is the best day of my whole life. I got to have a binturong crawl on my head and a kangaroo headbutt me and a clouded leopard nip me. He always has a goofy little smile. Not to mention, he's stunningly beautiful. Much heavier than he looks. He is a lot heavier and he will get bigger than that. So he just turned a year in September. The males do get bigger than the females. Our females are about 45, 50 pounds. He just wants to play. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Hold on. That's so funny. Wait, wait, wait. Maverick, you giving him a nice little lens cleaning? Oh, what a pretty leopard you are. That's perfect. I think you just keep going. That looks about right. Just keep shooting. So these guys are primate specialists, right? They hunt a lot of monkeys. They hunt a lot of birds. They hang out high up in the jungle canopies of Southeast Asia. And in many of those Asiatic islands, they are the apex predator. There is no bigger predator. Oh, yeah. Fifteen feet in between tree branches. No, don't you bite. Don't you do it. That's a serious thing. Modern day saber-toothed tiger. Yeah, you are. You really are. Look at this. I'm literally cuddling a modern day saber-toothed tiger. I'm baby scooping a clouded leopard. I mean, this is ridiculous. He's happy about it. But after playing with the friendly big cats, it was time to go and see some of the more dangerous animals. All right, so we're going to feed the squirrel monkey and the crow. You got to stay here because you can't go in. Wait, why can't Steven go in? So we have some incidences. The crow is the bane of my existence and chases me around and we're pecking me on the head. All right, well, I'm already beat up, so let's see what happens. So this is Shadow. Hi, Shadow. You an attack crow? Oh, no, you're just a hungry crow. So I assume this is your ball. So he's a pied crow from Southern Africa, right? So interesting story. I went to an old boy's prep school called St. John's. And one day we were out during what was our recess and I see these kids like hitting something with a stick and kicking and I run over and it's a pied crow with a broken wing. It was like noon and we got out of school at like four o'clock. So I shoved him in my backpack for the rest of the day, took him home, bandaged up his wing and stuff. He never flew again, but I had him for six years before he died. And he used to like hang out at my house. We built him a little aviary about half the size of this, but he was super happy. Whoa, I thought he was going for it. And yeah, he was never very violent, but he pecked hard as hell when he wanted to. And that's him. He likes to peck at like shoes. He likes to peck at hats. Yeah. But he's really cool. Did yours ever talk? Yes. It just learned to say hello. That was it. Yeah. How about him? He says hi. Hi. When he wants to. Very cool. Oh, my goodness. You just scooped him up. You guys in the scooping up deadly cats. The yoinking of deadly cats. The yoinking of deadly cats is pretty impressive. Oh, Steven, that's your pal. This is my baby. Oh, man. He lived indoors with me until he was like two years old. Is that a greeting? Yeah. That's like the big cat greet. Okay. It's like, oh, hey, welcome to my tribe. Interesting. I'm kind of scared to be honest. Hi. You get the nice gentle one. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. The running start headbutts are ridiculous. So Eurasian lynx, you know, being from that part of the world, they're used to a colder climate. How do they do here? It's good. So we put him in this real shady area. Now, they do slim down and lose a lot of fur in the summertime and stay real sleek. And now we had a cold spurt like three weeks ago. So everybody here kind of fluffed up. Yeah. And then we went back to 90s again and all the animals are kind of like, we're in between this figuring out stuff. Well, the weather is absolutely perfect today. I mean, it couldn't be a nicer day, really. Hi, buddy. Your guy's love of the animals is, it's inspiring to see. I mean, this is so adorable. There are so many bad animal facilities out there and bad people around animals. It's very nice to see this. Thank you. Yeah, it really is. We pride ourselves in it. Get dad. Look at his little face. Get him. Don't. Oh. So now that we've seen the largest lynx in the lynx family, let's see the smallest lynx in the lynx family. OK. You know what that is? Well, I didn't, but I'm guessing it's a bobcat because I'm looking at a bobcat, yeah. So Chomper is our southern bobcat. So the bobcat that's native to Florida and parts of Texas. So there's two species. There's a southern and the northern and then several subspecies of each. But you can always tell because the southern tends to be a lot bigger and bulkier and their spotting isn't as bright as the northern. And another telltale sign is the ears. So if you look at them really closely, it kind of looks like he doesn't have ear tufts. You have to like really look. They're like tiny and microscopic. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Where the northern has really big ear tufts and a big beard, kind of like they look like a really miniature lynx. Oh, wow. People that trap and kill things like coyotes and bobcats, mountain lions and bears, I don't get it. I don't get it either. How can you want to kill this? It's like killing your house cat at home. For being a predator, pretty much. And I hope that people watching this that can see this can feel connected like we are to this animal and maybe change their perception because that is a magnificent creature. He is fantastic. Speaking of, let's see some more. Yeah. All right. So this is our sloth room. So who's the pregnant mama here? So this is Boost. Hey, Boost. You're so preggers. No, no, no. Don't get upset. I'm just, I'm not taking your baby. I'm just feeling your pregnant tummy. She's like, don't comment on my leg. Yeah. She's like, never speak to a lady like that. So five sloths. And how are they? Because I know sloths can actually tear you up pretty badly. They have a pretty gnarly bite. Yeah. These guys are really social, but sloths are blind. So their first instinct when anything is in front of them is to try and taste it. So whether they want to bite you or not, it's just their instinct. I just want to point out, while we were sitting here talking about that, Stephen just starts talking about sloths like it's no big deal. Meanwhile, he's just holding an armadillo over here. You know what? I didn't see that. I don't know where it came from. He's just holding, it's just a living coconut in his hand over here. Who's this guy? So that's Jigsaw. He's a three-banded armadillo. Look at that. Just curled up into a perfect little ball there, as you can see. Literally like defense mechanism. And you put him down and off he goes. Go on. Scoot, scoot. A bush baby. He is so obsessed with playing with the other animals, so just go right to the sloths. Oh, that's why? You want to go see the sloths? Hi, buddy. So, this is a greater bush baby, right? Yeah. So, again, where I grew up, we had these native. Oh, that's cool. And we had one in particular that used to come and jump on our upstairs balcony and eat the bugs that were, and fruit and things that were on our balcony. But look at that. It's like, oh, you're so salty. Oh, yeah. He's like, oh, it's delicious. He's like, why would I eat the puffs when I've got all this earwax here? You're the third animal to go in my ear today, just so you know. We're still holding out for the anteater. That's right. What's this one's name? Finley. Come, Finley. I'll scoop. It's okay. Hi, Finley. But that's enough of the cute, cuddly mammals. Let's go see some snakes. All right. So, this is the reptile house. Well, my first phase, because we keep gaining and we keep growing. So, we'll start here. Oh, man. You got baboons. Oh, boy. This is a scary room right here. Oh, come here. Crazy. So, this thing is... Jungle carpet morph? So, it's a green tree, jaguar carpet hybrid. Wait, what? Yeah. Wait, green trees and jungles can hybridize? Yes. So, it creates a jag pond. Oh, wow. Every jag pond does its own individual color. There's never two alike. A jag pondo. Don't do what you want to do. Yeah. She was thinking about lighting it. I can feel you tensing up. We're not going to do that right now, but... Wow. We call this one highlighter because it's just so cool. It's like literally neon yellow. It's neon colored. Yeah. This is amazing. Wowee. So, a wild found albino cottonmouth. That's absolutely incredible. It's rare to find one that somebody didn't accidentally kill because people know nothing about snakes. So, they always kill snakes when they find them in a while, which is such a shame. Right. Because we're seeing more rare species be taken out by people that don't know any better. Right. So, this is an indigo snake, which are critically endangered in North America. And you look at it and you're like, all right, that's a pretty snake. It's dark colored. Come out here. And look at that. You get this rainbow coloration. I don't know if the camera will pick it up or not, but yeah, you can see... And it's enchant, which makes it harder, but... Watch by my hand here. You can see that as it goes through the sunshine, you get that rainbow coloration that's just remarkable. It's one of the reasons these snakes are so cool. And they live in a very unique pine habitat that has been cleared for housing mostly in agriculture because pine forests are dry and they're above the waterline and they're great places to build. But because of that, these native snakes in North America have become critically endangered. But boy, one of my favorites for sure. Definitely one of my favorite native species. Okay, enough snakes for now. Let's get back to those cute and cuddly mammals. Oh my God. Hello. This is Bam Bam. Hi Bam Bam. I've met Bam Bam before. So, he's a South American tamandua. Oh, what's that? Applesauce? No. So, this is beef baby food, which he loves. He will do anything. Oh my goodness. So, I use it for encounters and training sessions because he will do anything. So, is he... He's pretty chill? If I put him down on the grass? Yeah, he's pretty chill. He won't go anywhere? Here, buddy. Let's see. Oh, those claws are wicked sharp. Those are your jaguar defense claws. Oh. My goodness. I did not know that hurt so much. Wow. I mean, they're giant cousin, you know. They will literally like rip jaguars to shreds with their claws. And this guy, I mean, clearly he doesn't mean to hurt me and he didn't really hurt me. But boy, those claws are serious. I mean, you have to think they rip open termite mounds, which are like concrete. Right. So, they're really strong. Hey, buddy. Oh, he's funny. Like, when he really gets revved up and chases you around and wants to play with you, I'm like, he's got holes in your shorts and everything. You're like, down. You're like, ow. Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you. That tongue went so far into my ear. I think it shot out the other side. The third one. Woo. Oh, man. I mean, my eyes watered. That was like in there. Sorry, Jess. I didn't mean to interrupt you. I was not expecting that. But as if this day couldn't get any better, it's time to go and swim with some otters. All right. Look at these guys. Oh, wow. Are these your standard river otters that you guys have native here in Florida, right? Yep. Are you going to come back out? Yeah. All the playtime's already over? I didn't think that was it. Oh, no way. I didn't think we were going to be done. I didn't think so. Oh, that's adorable. It's nice to have one otter that likes you. So, do you jump in with these guys? This will be the first time I have ever. We're going to know in a few minutes. Yes, we are. Come on, Rufus. He'll go in. Whoa. There you go. Rufus is to show off. He'll go have fun. He loves swimming. All right. Let's see. We're in a pool with an otter. That is not what I thought my day would consist of. There's two. There's another one. There you go. Balls. Toys. What's that? Whoa. What's that? Is that fun? Whoa. Otter nose. It's even wetter. Jessica, wetter hug. Oh, this has been such a dream come true. Thank you, guys. Thank you, everybody, for watching.