Brad's coworker Jerry invited us to his home to see spiders, snakes and other cool animals, or "snakes and cakes" as his son called it. He had invited Scales and Tails to come give a private show. It was super-cool and there were probably only about a dozen people there, including the kids, so everyone could see the animals really well. This first photo is actually from the end of the show when he brought out a Burmese python. This is only the back 2/3 of it. This one is 15 feet long and not full-grown. Brad likes to watch National Geographic videos on YouTube. There are several videos about these super snakes. 
He brought a tarantula. I learned something new about spiders. I knew they had an exoskeleton, not an internal one. What I didn't know is that spiders don't have any muscles. They move by pushing blood into their legs and sucking it out again to expand and contract their legs. He also brought two types of African scorpions. One, the Deathstalker, is extremely poisonous. The other, a black Emporer Scorpion (shown below) is not very venomous. All scorpions glow under a black light. I didn't get a photo when he showed us, but it looked exactly like this:
He showed us a few different tortises. This one is about 85 pounds.
This Tails and Scales presentation was very cool, because they let the kids hold the gentler animals. Parker was a little nervous about holding them and we had to leave early so Brad could get to bishopric meeting. Otherwise, we probably could have had our boys hold some animals.
These are Jerry's kids holding a Bearded Dragon lizard and a Dumeril python.
He brought a tarantula. I learned something new about spiders. I knew they had an exoskeleton, not an internal one. What I didn't know is that spiders don't have any muscles. They move by pushing blood into their legs and sucking it out again to expand and contract their legs. He also brought two types of African scorpions. One, the Deathstalker, is extremely poisonous. The other, a black Emporer Scorpion (shown below) is not very venomous. All scorpions glow under a black light. I didn't get a photo when he showed us, but it looked exactly like this:
He showed us a few different tortises. This one is about 85 pounds.
This Tails and Scales presentation was very cool, because they let the kids hold the gentler animals. Parker was a little nervous about holding them and we had to leave early so Brad could get to bishopric meeting. Otherwise, we probably could have had our boys hold some animals.
These are Jerry's kids holding a Bearded Dragon lizard and a Dumeril python.
He brought out a young alligator. He showed us an adult alligator skull too. He taught us some of the differences between alligators and crocodiles. When their mouths are closed, you can only see the top teeth on an alligator, but you can see both top and bottom teeth on a crocoldile. Crocodiles also have upside-down fangs.
Here is a Lavendar Albino Ball Python.
This Black Throat Monitor Lizard is a cousin to the Komodo Dragon. It is crazy big. I can't believe that some people have almost all of these animals as pets. You could buy half of them at Petco or PetSmart from some teenager who has no idea about them either. Hopefully people do their homework about how big and potentially dangeous some things can be before they buy pets like these.
The boys liked petting it, of course. Jason could have pet and held the animals all day. They made Parker a little nervous, but he was brave enough to touch everything he brought around.
Thanks Jerry for a great night! We learned all kinds of interesting facts and loved it!
1 comment:
Holy cow!!! That snake could eat a whole family at once! That looks really fun though!
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