My 23 year old daughter is currently traveling around Indonesia and last week she spent four days exploring the Komodo Islands. Yep…..I was pretty jealous 😂
I lived in Indonesia 🇮🇩 for 3 years in the middle of the jungle in Sumatra. Monitor lizards used to hang out on the front door step of my house. It’s a very amazing place to discover and so many islands !
@@mcastereptiles2837 Oh wow, lucky you. Monitor lizards hanging out on my door step sounds like my kind of heaven 🤩 the other jungle nasties 🕷️🕸️ not so much 😂
This is why we love you, because it's not about your RUclips channel and getting people to watch for shock value. It's about the animals and education. Keep up the good work. Thank you for taking us along with you to see this magnificent animal.
Thank you Jim for allowing Kenan, Matt and Tom to join you so that we can learn and see for ourselves and kudos Matt on the excellent footage it was like we were there watching it for ourselves and I love watching how excited Kenan gets watching these reptiles you can just see and hear the passion in voice and eyes while watching them!!
OMG TOM MADE ANOTHER APPEARENCE!!! Tom how are ya Buddy?? So good to see you!! Hope the fam is good too!! Does this mean Tom will be making more appearences? I bet Kenan has the spot picked in his yard for a Komodo Dragon, That would be so awesome Kenan if you had one!! I do see these in the hands of private keepers, especially people like you who are responsible. This was so cool to watch!! Thanks guys & Cheers to all!! Hope we see you more often Tom!!!
Rom Whitaker took cultures of komodo dragon saliva but I can't remember what the bacteria was. You should look up his documentary on komodo dragons and see if it's on RUclips.
when i was about 15, me and my family went to indonesia for the holidays, and i nagged until my mom promised we are going to visit komodo. When we went we first did the tourist tour, which was very boring, because all we did was went up some hills into a fenced enclosure and some komodo dragons where sleeping outside the fence. What was a lot more exciting the next day, when we had breakfast, some komodo dragons walked around the breakfast place. Some of the locals where throwing their boots (not at the dragons, but so the dragons react to the sudden movement). We took that as a good reason to make some great pictures. In hindsight it was probably the most dangerous thing i ever did, since it was fully grown komodo dragons full of energy, especially my brother who was about 10 could have seen as prey, but we felt save with the locals around, and luckily nothing happened. Still one of the best moments in my life. Thanks for remembering this.
For Matt's sanity (and our viewing experience) I hope you guys stick with the two camera setup even when back at your place. It's nice having the classic and more personal GoPro footage but also nice for the higher quality camera shots of the animals to be sprinkled throughout.
Bro you really need to get a pair of Komodo’s they would really be the pinnacle of the camp and be a real drawcard for you also you could then contribute to learning more about these majestic reptiles and possibly contribute to their conservation. Your property would be perfect as would be your enthusiasm, knowledge and reptile abilities! And of course slinky gets to have two fine examples of his bigger cousins!
Wow, Kenan!! This was incredible footage to watch! A Komodo Dragon, ripping & tearing his prey like you’d see on Komodo Island. What a majestic creature. I’m going to make a prediction that one day, you will have a pair of them🦎❤️🦎
Awesome! Komodo dragons interestingly evolved in Australia and dispersed westwards into the Indonesian islands where the species resides today, and fossils have been found as far as Java as well. And in Australia the species we’re living with other Australian megafauna such as megalania, the giant monitor lizard and the giant land crocodile called quinkana.
Yep... Yet again, a video makes me appreciate Slinky all the more! Good boy, Slinky. Today, we let you have that rabbit that's been slumming around your enclosure! Just don't go "komodo" on us! PS -- That "komodo dragon" they used in the Matthew Broderick/Marlon Brando movie, "The Freshman," was actually a water monitor like Slinky! He was a big one, too. Marlon was a strong man and that monitor was bulky for him!
It's crazy just how fast these creatures are it's like they learned how to be so fast they teleport and border on time travel u blink and they're on you
I’m sure you know that once a buffalo is bitten by a Komodo, the Komodo leaves the injured buffalo alone, as it doesn’t want to get trampled or gored, and so follows the buffalo from a safe distance. Not only the original Komodo follows, all the Komodos who get the scent of a supporting wound, start following. They follow till the buffalo can travel no more, and sits down, helpless. That is when all the Komodo’s attack from the back (from which side they are safe), and start eating the buffalo alive. Buffaloes have been known to stay alive for hours while still being eaten alive.
You should get a Komodo Dragon at Camp because they can swim and climb trees and could run on their legs and dig holes to find food and they could use their tails as weapons and they could have poison and their from Komodo inland that probably how they got their name of Komodo Dragon .
I can't imagine that rabbit fur is either tasty or nutritional for this dragon. How funny that he ate the fur but also that he had to work for it. Xxx❤
When he described how the animal went to sleep with that deer leg sticking out of its mouth, I had to think of that old, late nineteenth century cartoon 'Max and Moritz". When they fall asleep, after acrobatically steeling and eating all the roasted chickens of widow Bolte, each has still a bit of a leg sticking out of his mouth.🙂
Komodo island is awesome (or was, coz they were planning on building hotels there...). seeing these fantastic beasts up close even during the night was one of the highlights of my life!!!! If you really plan to go there, i can give you contact info for the best guide.
My daughter was there last week. She spent four days sailing around the islands on a very old rickety white boat. Sleeping in different locations every night and exploring during the day. They visited a village where the locals performed a Komodo dragon dance for them, which after quite a few beers, her tour group tried to replicate on the beach that night 🤦🏼♀️😂 She had the best time ever. 😊
@@MrBeeMeR320D They sailed around all the small islands too, not just Komodo island. They visited Kelor Island, Manjarite Island and Kalong Island. I’m not sure which island the village was located on. They only spent an afternoon on Komodo Island itself, with the rangers. It was basically four days island hopping, snorkelling at Sebayur Island and relaxing on Pink Beach to name a few. She’s currently on a sleeper train in Thailand. She’s been solo travelling all around Indonesia for the last two months and my nerves are wrecked 😂
How fast can a Komodo Dragon move? Or is a slow moving reptile? Thanks for letting Kennan live his dream visiting places like this one. And show us fotage of awesome animals. We wouldn't get to see usually.😊
I had no idea how big these lizards got, 300 pounds ?. So it can easily eat, me ?. I honestly do not remember them being this big, but wow. The biggest reptile I ever saw was at a place in Cancun, Poncho and Willy's, those are the names of two "famous" crocs in the lagoon, 14-15 feet long. They don't do this anymore, but at one time you could feed a Croc like that, about 20-25 years ago. We got to feed him a red snapper on this rickety old dock, it was like a seating area for customers. I think he could have lashed out and broken the entire dock, everyone was just sure he would never do that, like he was a tame Croc or something. Something seemed very miscalculated about that whole situation, It was quite freaky being that close, I will never forget that baby dinosaur. Do Crocs this big go under people's docks in Florida, there's not many ?. I think they need to be at least made of metal, the one I was on years ago seemed much too weak and barely sensible. What if another croc came, they started fighting right there ?. I dunno. People did a lot of dumb things back then, like smoking in airports. He was like 5 feet from the dock, head at least 40 inches long, just a massive powerful dinosaur waiting to munch on some dumb tourists like me, waiting for me to get drunk and slip off the dock in my flip flops, fully aware of Murphy's law.
It is snowing here in Beloit Wisconsin Kenan i wish I could be there in florida up here where I am from it is cold outside i hate the cold weather i wish it was hot and humid
So it's the SSP and TSA, Busch gardens, wildlife /fishery, UACR, USArk who allow stock collection of exotic animal trustees *KampKenan* Can you please Revisit the huge Komondo dragon zoo in Arizona please? It's been over 5 years since the last update 😅
In the 17th minute, the Komodo was not trying to push a large piece of meat down its throat, the piece was small, but had fur attached to the meat. The dragon didn’t want to ingest anymore fur. So first it tried to shake away the fur (but it was too light). Then the dragon tried to rub the fur away against the mesh, and that is the part you noticed in between your talking. What it was f
I got you Kenan. There are between 50 - 80 types of bacteria with pathogenic properties in the mouth of the Komodo Dragon. The ones with simple, minimal nutritional needs and versatile metabolisms in anaerobic conditions grow the fastest, particularly two: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pasteurella multocida. The bacteria form colonies on the surface of it’s teeth via fimbrial adherence as a means of maintaining homeostasis and resisting phagocytic and antimicrobial elements, pH changes, and fluctuations in temperature. The actual type and number vary with location and diet. The lizards’ exposure to these pathogens for generations have enabled them to evolve antibodies and immunologic components to render the bacteria harmless to the lizards themselves. There, now show us your nictitating membrane... 😂
not a wild one for sure , there already one dude who got bitten on his leg , when he went rogue without guides in komodo island , you dont get away without being in the news
no expert but i think its different since wild monitors tend to go for rotten meat as well , there was a case where a private keeper got bitten by his mangrove i think if i remember correctly , it didnt heal , guess what , test shows that he got infected with salmonella , which obviously came from raw chicken or raw eggs
He's so "cute" I grew up seeing then vis BBC nature - and they only showed the impressive fully grown adults (probably females) and they are *scary*. So seeing this sub-adult. . . you'd think he was sweet and harmless and think it was a "different" asian water monitor. . . compared to the ones on TV.
That’s amazing to see wish people could get a permit or a license like you kenan not us 😂 we would all die. Do you have a round about guess of his age looks so small. Slinky could have him for breakfast
I know they’re way different the a female leachianus gecko will test the male and she may not accept him as a mate and sometimes females will kill males . I have a pair that bred for two years and now she ripped his tail off and I had to split them up
If I watch a you tuber that makes me think you are doing this for more views… I just stop watching and unsubscribe. Some of these are big names in the animal you tube category. But I don’t think we as viewers should encourage idiots. Usually they end up bitten. Kenan keep doing what you do. ❤
My 23 year old daughter is currently traveling around Indonesia and last week she spent four days exploring the Komodo Islands. Yep…..I was pretty jealous 😂
I lived in Indonesia 🇮🇩 for 3 years in the middle of the jungle in Sumatra. Monitor lizards used to hang out on the front door step of my house. It’s a very amazing place to discover and so many islands !
@@mcastereptiles2837 Oh wow, lucky you. Monitor lizards hanging out on my door step sounds like my kind of heaven 🤩 the other jungle nasties 🕷️🕸️ not so much 😂
This is why we love you, because it's not about your RUclips channel and getting people to watch for shock value. It's about the animals and education. Keep up the good work. Thank you for taking us along with you to see this magnificent animal.
Thank you Jim for allowing Kenan, Matt and Tom to join you so that we can learn and see for ourselves and kudos Matt on the excellent footage it was like we were there watching it for ourselves and I love watching how excited Kenan gets watching these reptiles you can just see and hear the passion in voice and eyes while watching them!!
Thanks for slowing this to us Kenan!
I wish Kenan can have a Komodo Dragon
Working with Reptiles is a awesome job i love the reptile hobby
OMG TOM MADE ANOTHER APPEARENCE!!! Tom how are ya Buddy?? So good to see you!! Hope the fam is good too!! Does this mean Tom will be making more appearences?
I bet Kenan has the spot picked in his yard for a Komodo Dragon, That would be so awesome Kenan if you had one!! I do see these in the hands of private keepers, especially people like you who are responsible. This was so cool to watch!! Thanks guys & Cheers to all!! Hope we see you more often Tom!!!
gonna try to get to FLA more often Cindy! - Tom :)
That would be amazing Tom!!
Mr Komodo really is enjoying his rabbit. He’s very majestic in the way he acts. What an incredible experience 👍💯🖖
:)
Rom Whitaker took cultures of komodo dragon saliva but I can't remember what the bacteria was. You should look up his documentary on komodo dragons and see if it's on RUclips.
❤
when i was about 15, me and my family went to indonesia for the holidays, and i nagged until my mom promised we are going to visit komodo. When we went we first did the tourist tour, which was very boring, because all we did was went up some hills into a fenced enclosure and some komodo dragons where sleeping outside the fence.
What was a lot more exciting the next day, when we had breakfast, some komodo dragons walked around the breakfast place. Some of the locals where throwing their boots (not at the dragons, but so the dragons react to the sudden movement). We took that as a good reason to make some great pictures. In hindsight it was probably the most dangerous thing i ever did, since it was fully grown komodo dragons full of energy, especially my brother who was about 10 could have seen as prey, but we felt save with the locals around, and luckily nothing happened. Still one of the best moments in my life. Thanks for remembering this.
For Matt's sanity (and our viewing experience) I hope you guys stick with the two camera setup even when back at your place. It's nice having the classic and more personal GoPro footage but also nice for the higher quality camera shots of the animals to be sprinkled throughout.
Thanks for showing us this one Canon is a beautiful f****** intelligent animal man I love watching Komodo dragons
Bro you really need to get a pair of Komodo’s they would really be the pinnacle of the camp and be a real drawcard for you also you could then contribute to learning more about these majestic reptiles and possibly contribute to their conservation. Your property would be perfect as would be your enthusiasm, knowledge and reptile abilities! And of course slinky gets to have two fine examples of his bigger cousins!
This is one cool lizard they are the dinosaurs of the reptile world love the video
Agreed. Thanks Katrina!
I absolutely love komodos!!
Komodos are my favorite monitor. They're majestic!
His colors are just beautiful ❤
Wow, Kenan!! This was incredible footage to watch! A Komodo Dragon, ripping & tearing his prey like you’d see on Komodo Island. What a majestic creature. I’m going to make a prediction that one day, you will have a pair of them🦎❤️🦎
Crazy
fingers crossed Lori!
Stunning Creatures!!!
Awesome! Komodo dragons interestingly evolved in Australia and dispersed westwards into the Indonesian islands where the species resides today, and fossils have been found as far as Java as well. And in Australia the species we’re living with other Australian megafauna such as megalania, the giant monitor lizard and the giant land crocodile called quinkana.
Komodo’s are the king like you said I love them so much monitor’s in general are so awesome I love how much they think
Absolutely my favourite reptile ❤❤❤
Thanks to Jim for letting you guys in to video this amazing creature.. what a beautiful boy!
Komodo from Indonesia 🇲🇨
Yep...
Yet again, a video makes me appreciate Slinky all the more!
Good boy, Slinky.
Today, we let you have that rabbit that's been slumming around your enclosure! Just don't go "komodo" on us!
PS -- That "komodo dragon" they used in the Matthew Broderick/Marlon Brando movie, "The Freshman," was actually a water monitor like Slinky! He was a big one, too. Marlon was a strong man and that monitor was bulky for him!
It's crazy just how fast these creatures are it's like they learned how to be so fast they teleport and border on time travel u blink and they're on you
Thanks Jim, awesome to watch, Linds, Edinburgh, Scotland 👍🏴
Komodo's are too damn cool! Thanks for posting!!
agreed, thanks for watching
I’m sure you know that once a buffalo is bitten by a Komodo, the Komodo leaves the injured buffalo alone, as it doesn’t want to get trampled or gored, and so follows the buffalo from a safe distance. Not only the original Komodo follows, all the Komodos who get the scent of a supporting wound, start following. They follow till the buffalo can travel no more, and sits down, helpless.
That is when all the Komodo’s attack from the back (from which side they are safe), and start eating the buffalo alive. Buffaloes have been known to stay alive for hours while still being eaten alive.
You should get a Komodo Dragon at Camp because they can swim and climb trees and could run on their legs and dig holes to find food and they could use their tails as weapons and they could have poison and their from Komodo inland that probably how they got their name of Komodo Dragon .
They just opened the biggest Komodo dragon exhibit in the U.S. at the Nashville Tennessee Zoo, they are so much bigger in person 😮
Why, oh why... did I wait until I sat down to eat to watch this! 😂
That saw action with his mouth is really something! 😳
I can't imagine that rabbit fur is either tasty or nutritional for this dragon. How funny that he ate the fur but also that he had to work for it. Xxx❤
Where did you see this ?
That little dude is jacked
Keep doing what you are doing Kenan!
When he described how the animal went to sleep with that deer leg sticking out of its mouth, I had to think of that old, late nineteenth century cartoon 'Max and Moritz". When they fall asleep, after acrobatically steeling and eating all the roasted chickens of widow Bolte, each has still a bit of a leg sticking out of his mouth.🙂
Wow…really special, thanks Kenan👍
That was awesome 😊
Pretty sure that wrinkle on the stomach disappeared by the end of the video 😮great stuff broski
Can’t wait to see Jim come see your amazing habitats
Komodo island is awesome (or was, coz they were planning on building hotels there...). seeing these fantastic beasts up close even during the night was one of the highlights of my life!!!! If you really plan to go there, i can give you contact info for the best guide.
My daughter was there last week. She spent four days sailing around the islands on a very old rickety white boat. Sleeping in different locations every night and exploring during the day. They visited a village where the locals performed a Komodo dragon dance for them, which after quite a few beers, her tour group tried to replicate on the beach that night 🤦🏼♀️😂 She had the best time ever. 😊
@@mrsb1212 no village when we were there, only a few buildings where the rangers sleep. With komodo dragons sleeping in the toilets too, btw :p
@@MrBeeMeR320D They sailed around all the small islands too, not just Komodo island. They visited Kelor Island, Manjarite Island and Kalong Island. I’m not sure which island the village was located on. They only spent an afternoon on Komodo Island itself, with the rangers. It was basically four days island hopping, snorkelling at Sebayur Island and relaxing on Pink Beach to name a few. She’s currently on a sleeper train in Thailand. She’s been solo travelling all around Indonesia for the last two months and my nerves are wrecked 😂
@@mrsb1212 i loved indonesia, lovely people there, guess you got nothing to worry about, but i understand you do ;)
@@MrBeeMeR320D I was hoping she’d be home for Xmas but she’s fallen in love with Bali so who knows 😂
Having Jim visit the Kamp would be cool
being that close to a komodo is the most awsome thing i have ever experianced
I'm imagining Komodos getting loose in Florida, and taking over the golf courses. They could probably fix the retic and green iguana problem!
I'm geekin out in the kitchen watching this as I cook breakfast lol loved this thank you ❤❤
Thank you Jim we appreciate you!! What a beautiful boy, will he keep those yellow and orange colours as he gets older or is that a juvenile colouring?
Amazing animal 😍
I remember when Slinky pulled a python through a small hole in his old cage. I think it was a Black Head Python.
That made me laugh when Kenan was taking about his wife being the boss and king of the house
I saw two bald eagles fighting in the sky at a park in Illinois it was amazing to see two bald eagles in the sky
I would love to see Slinky next to a komodo dragon to compare in size. Slinky doesn't appear that much smaller!!! Xxx❤❤
Great video
How fast can a Komodo Dragon move? Or is a slow moving reptile? Thanks for letting Kennan live his dream visiting places like this one. And show us fotage of awesome animals. We wouldn't get to see usually.😊
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hey kenan hello from commack long island love the videos
Thank you !
I had no idea how big these lizards got, 300 pounds ?. So it can easily eat, me ?. I honestly do not remember them being this big, but wow.
The biggest reptile I ever saw was at a place in Cancun, Poncho and Willy's, those are the names of two "famous" crocs in the lagoon, 14-15 feet long. They don't do this anymore, but at one time you could feed a Croc like that, about 20-25 years ago. We got to feed him a red snapper on this rickety old dock, it was like a seating area for customers. I think he could have lashed out and broken the entire dock, everyone was just sure he would never do that, like he was a tame Croc or something. Something seemed very miscalculated about that whole situation, It was quite freaky being that close, I will never forget that baby dinosaur.
Do Crocs this big go under people's docks in Florida, there's not many ?. I think they need to be at least made of metal, the one I was on years ago seemed much too weak and barely sensible. What if another croc came, they started fighting right there ?. I dunno. People did a lot of dumb things back then, like smoking in airports. He was like 5 feet from the dock, head at least 40 inches long, just a massive powerful dinosaur waiting to munch on some dumb tourists like me, waiting for me to get drunk and slip off the dock in my flip flops, fully aware of Murphy's law.
It is snowing here in Beloit Wisconsin Kenan i wish I could be there in florida up here where I am from it is cold outside i hate the cold weather i wish it was hot and humid
Hi Kenan and hi Matt how are you doing today
Great!
So it's the SSP and TSA, Busch gardens, wildlife /fishery, UACR, USArk who allow stock collection of exotic animal trustees *KampKenan*
Can you please Revisit the huge Komondo dragon zoo in Arizona please? It's been over 5 years since the last update 😅
In the 17th minute, the Komodo was not trying to push a large piece of meat down its throat, the piece was small, but had fur attached to the meat. The dragon didn’t want to ingest anymore fur. So first it tried to shake away the fur (but it was too light). Then the dragon tried to rub the fur away against the mesh, and that is the part you noticed in between your talking.
What it was f
Looks like he ate more fur than anything else.
I got you Kenan. There are between 50 - 80 types of bacteria with pathogenic properties in the mouth of the Komodo Dragon. The ones with simple, minimal nutritional needs and versatile metabolisms in anaerobic conditions grow the fastest, particularly two: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pasteurella multocida. The bacteria form colonies on the surface of it’s teeth via fimbrial adherence as a means of maintaining homeostasis and resisting phagocytic and antimicrobial elements, pH changes, and fluctuations in temperature. The actual type and number vary with location and diet. The lizards’ exposure to these pathogens for generations have enabled them to evolve antibodies and immunologic components to render the bacteria harmless to the lizards themselves.
There, now show us your nictitating membrane... 😂
Its venom actually
Hi tom how are you doing today
I would love to go face to face with Komodo dragons
not a wild one for sure , there already one dude who got bitten on his leg , when he went rogue without guides in komodo island , you dont get away without being in the news
And to think that Australia once had its own monster monitor lizard
And Komodo dragons
hmmmm komodo island , i heard it , lol
How is Slinky and where is he.?
Amazing ❤
cannon The fold the animal has on its stomach is called a pleat Like as in a skirt a pleat in a skirt,
What’s the difference between Wild dragons mouths and captive breed mouth would it still be the same bacteria!?
no expert but i think its different since wild monitors tend to go for rotten meat as well , there was a case where a private keeper got bitten by his mangrove i think if i remember correctly , it didnt heal , guess what , test shows that he got infected with salmonella , which obviously came from raw chicken or raw eggs
Yes it's Kim hoto 😂
Kenan are you considering a komodo drageon to be with your kamp?
I believe you cannot own them privately. You have to be a zoo.
That's the plan. some day, some day hopefully
Tyty 🙃
Thats a big ass rabbit
Strange that I couldn't see the size of the rabbit's buttocks.
He's so "cute" I grew up seeing then vis BBC nature - and they only showed the impressive fully grown adults (probably females) and they are *scary*. So seeing this sub-adult. . . you'd think he was sweet and harmless and think it was a "different" asian water monitor. . . compared to the ones on TV.
viewer discretion advised....
That’s amazing to see wish people could get a permit or a license like you kenan not us 😂 we would all die. Do you have a round about guess of his age looks so small. Slinky could have him for breakfast
If you feed them clean good food not rotten food
I know they’re way different the a female leachianus gecko will test the male and she may not accept him as a mate and sometimes females will kill males . I have a pair that bred for two years and now she ripped his tail off and I had to split them up
💚💜💜💜💚
I still think slinky is bigger
But being bitten by a human also sucks. You can lose your arm because of the infection.
If I watch a you tuber that makes me think you are doing this for more views… I just stop watching and unsubscribe. Some of these are big names in the animal you tube category. But I don’t think we as viewers should encourage idiots. Usually they end up bitten.
Kenan keep doing what you do. ❤
Thank you!
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
That was an amazing video. Good job guys! How lucky are you!
Thanks so much Deb!