Digging Up A Nest of Baby Animals!

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Let's show everyone just how big our fouryear-old monkey teeth have gotten.

[00:00:06]Let's see what you got in your bag.

[00:00:08]Let's see. Come on. We got one for Ti.

[00:00:13]Okay, there you go. And then this is for Alfie. Look at that yolk sack. So, right now, he is actually absorbing all of that. Uh, I'm not liking this. [music] This is feeling really disgusting. I'm spotting one. I'm spotting a second one.

[00:00:28]Look at this. and a third. We are pulling our first tortoise egg.

[00:00:39]What is up, guys? Welcome back to the channel. Hope you all are having a beautiful, amazing day so far. So, guys, in today's video, we're going to be digging up creatures that are living underground. Now, these mysterious creatures are actually tortoise eggs.

[00:00:50]So, we have a giant tortoise nest to dig up and our giant tortoise enclosure. But first, we're going to be heading in with Theo and Alfie, my capucha monkey, because we have some crazy enrichment we've set up. They're going to go absolutely nuts for this. So, I'm very excited to see their reaction. And of course, we have to give them their daily monkey vitamins. So, without further ado, guys, let's hop straight into today's video. Now, right behind our secret curtain, can you guess what that is, guys? Do you hear those little baby cries?

[00:01:18]Hello?

[00:01:20]Who's Who's home? Who's in here?

[00:01:24]Oh my goodness. I'm hearing some cries.

[00:01:27]Let's see what it is in three, two, TJ and Alfie. Hey, we have Titi. We have Crazy Alfie. And they're very excited cuz they know we're going to come inside. I have some goodies for you guys. I have some enrichment. I have your gummies for your tummy, your vitamins. All right. Well, we're going to head inside. Let's unlock the door.

[00:01:55]Oh my goodness. Hey. [gasps] Hey. [screaming] Oh my god. No.

[00:02:05]So, we have just cleaned our monkey enclosure out and we brought them some fun fun enrichment. Now, even though this looks like just some random brown bags, our monkeys absolutely love this.

[00:02:16]Our monkeys are very curious. They love to discover things. And we actually set up some crazy enrichment this time. So, let's put this down. Guys, come on over.

[00:02:25]Explore your bags. You can see our monkeys are looking inside. They're trying to find what we put in. Titi got a little baby biscuit. Oh my goodness.

[00:02:35]Can you share with your sister, though?

[00:02:36]Here, share with Alfie. Or wait, can can I actually have some? Can I have some right here? Here. What? Can Can you give me some? Oh my goodness. She's being naughty. She won't share today because it tastes so good. All right, Alfie.

[00:02:49]Let's see what you got in your bag.

[00:02:52]Let's see. Come on.

[00:02:55]Oh my goodness. We have the best funnest enrichment. So, we actually have some strings inside some toilet paper rolls that our monkeys are absolutely going to love. Look at this. It's okay, guys. I mean, you don't have to share. We We We have plenty to go around. But look what we also got. We got some crazy stuff in here. Look. Oh, this is so exciting. Ti is pulling out our paper.

[00:03:19]Uh, okay. She pulled out the paper, but they're very curious what's going on in here. We have Oh, man. Titi went for the Oh, Titi went for the toilet paper roll and dropped it. You got the toy. You got the prize. Let me show you. It shakes like this. You can play with it. Here.

[00:03:39]Do you hear the rattle?

[00:03:42]Wow. That's the coolest thing in the world.

[00:03:47]Here, [screaming] Titi. Maybe Titi wants it. Do you want your new toy? Oh my goodness. And in less than 30 minutes, I mean at 30 minutes, less than 5 minutes, we're going to have a bunch of monkey teeth marks in here. You can see Titi is already using her massive canines to bite into her new toy. Can we see your teeth? Just how big they've gotten.

[00:04:10]Look, let's show everyone just how big our 4-year-old monkey teeth have gotten.

[00:04:16]Look at that. That's crazy. Now, if these monkey teeth were to bite you, you would surely need stitches. And Theo Theo's about to be 5 years old. So, she's only going to be getting bigger.

[00:04:26]Her teeth are only going to be getting bigger. And [laughter] she is only going to be getting crazier.

[00:04:32]That's so fun.

[00:04:35]You're playing with the string. Look, you can actually pull it out like this.

[00:04:40][gasps] Wo! Look, this is how you do it. You pull it. Pull it. Can I show you? Oh, I think she's a bit jealous that I'm actually touching her toy. Kabuchins get very jealous. They're very intelligent.

[00:04:50]At full maturity, they're actually as smart as a 5-year-old. And just how they are everyday. You can just see how developed. Oh, how developed they [laughter] are. I think she just Ti just tried to catch a fly. And Alfie is off with our little string. Does that taste good? Yeah, that tastes so good, daddy.

[00:05:08]Yummy. And right in my hand right here, we actually have our monkey gummies. So, even though our monkeys are animals, they still need vitamins just like humans to keep them healthy. So, we got a vitamin split in half. We got one for Titi. Okay, there you go. And then this is for Alfie. There you go. Oh, that's so yummy. It tastes like some fruit. Can I actually have some? I'm honestly very jealous that they're eating this right now. Growing up, I remember eating the Flintstone gummies and they taste really good. Is that good? So, even though we just cleaned our capin enclosure, it's going to be a disaster in.5 seconds. And Alfie Alfie just dropped all of her string on my head right here, guys. I'm wearing some uh cute new hair accessories. But we're going to leave Alfie and Theo to play with her enrichment. AND WE'LL SEE YOU GUYS LATER. OKAY. Can I have a hug? Goodbye.

[00:06:01]Oh, I see you later.

[00:06:05]And this is what I mean when I say my monkeys are attached to my hip. I mean, Theo won't even let me leave the enclosure. She She knows. She's so smart that she knows I'm about to leave them to let them enjoy their enrichment. She like won't even It's okay. She's like gripping onto me for dear life. It's I'm not going to leave you. I'll play with you for a little bit. I know you want me to stay.

[00:06:30]So, you can see when raising animals just how strong the bond you can form.

[00:06:34]Ti doesn't want to leave me. I don't want to leave her. But I I can't stay here all night long. Or maybe I can.

[00:06:41]Maybe we'll do a video sleeping in my monkey enclosure and being here for 24 hours. Okay, so we have made it into our incubating baby room. And right behind me, we have hundreds and hundreds of baby incubating eggs. Now, we have turtles, we have tortoises, we even have some crazy iguanas incubating in here.

[00:07:00]Now, if we go ahead and open it up, you can just see at all the different sizes of eggs that we have. So, we have one massive one right here. I think these are a bit smaller. And these babies, these babies are actually hatching out.

[00:07:14]Let's go on ahead. Let's pull this little baby out. And right in here, we have a freshly hatching little baby redfoot. Look at him. Oh my goodness.

[00:07:24]This guy is absolutely gorgeous. Look at him. Oh, look at his markings, his pattern. He is so so tiny. And these are the babies that we're actually going to be digging up today. Look at his red features on him. This is one beautiful little baby redfoot tortoise. You can even see how his yolk sack is like just dried up, but he is so fresh. We're going to put him right back in and get him into the incubator. Now, here we have some more baby tortoises. And then right in here, we actually just pulled all of these eggs. These are a bunch of little turtle eggs. I mean, this is insane how many we got. Now, I don't want to reveal them because they're in the incubating process, but this has to be like probably like 50. We have made it outside and we are making our way to our red foot tortoise enclosure. And right here we have our little egg carton to put our eggs in. I mean, I'm hoping that there is only uh 1 2 3 4 5 six eggs because if there's more, um we don't have any room. And we're stepping right on in. And you have to be extremely careful when stepping into this enclosure because we have probably 30 or 40 redoot tortoises. We have a million nests in here. And there is constantly babies hatching out that get lost in this thick grass. Isn't that right, buddy? Honestly, if you look at the tip of his mouth, it looks like he might have been eating maybe an egg. Look at that. What? What? What did you eat, buddy? What is that? That looks like the outside of like an egg right here.

[00:08:57]That's crazy. I don't know, guys. This is looking a bit crazy. Maybe he found a nest and was eating the eggs. And you can just see throughout our entire tortoise enclosure that we have tortoises literally scattered everywhere. They're even like digging burrows right here. And sometimes they've laid their nests here. They've laid them here. We even have them all under this tree. Hello. Is anybody home?

[00:09:21]And riding here. You can see that we have even more tortoises. I mean, this is crazy. This is their giant tortoise den. And right up in the corner, we actually have a heating lamp. So, when it gets really cold down here in South Florida, it's really important that we put our tortoises in here because that can put them in shock with such a sudden drop in temperature. So, they need to stay warm. That's poop.

[00:09:41]>> Oh, there is poop. There's poop there.

[00:09:43]>> Right here, guys. This is the nest in question. This is what we're going to be digging up. Now, it was just pouring down here in South Florida. So, this whole area is just like complete muck. I mean, this is this is what we're digging digging into right now. I mean, this is going to be absolutely disgusting. But, let's get into it. All right, let's see.

[00:10:00]It's kind of a lot harder to find the nest like this, honestly. I think we might wait because if we try digging like this, we could possibly break all of the eggs.

[00:10:13]>> Wow, baby tortoises.

[00:10:16]>> What do you think about that?

[00:10:20][laughter] >> She looks so cute. [snorts] Do you want to go in there with them?

[00:10:25]You can't go in there. They're barefoot.

[00:10:27]They're barefoot. You can't be in there with them. Look, he coming to see you.

[00:10:33]He coming. He coming. [laughter] Hey, baby tortoise.

[00:10:44]Wow.

[00:10:46]Boop.

[00:10:47]>> Wow. To touch it.

[00:10:50]>> It is the next day. We have made it inside our tortoise pen and we have a giant. Let's see what this is. A giant male tortoise. You can see that he's a male tortoise cuz you can see the bottom of his shell is concaving in. So he can actually mount on top of a female. So we have a male tortoise that was just sitting on top of our nest. So we're just going to push him to the side right here. Send him on his merry way. And right here is the nest in question. Now yesterday it was way less muddier, but it's been very rainy down here in South Florida. So we're going to have to dig this nest up even if it looks like this.

[00:11:26]And we're diving right in, guys. Oh. Uh, I'm not liking this. This is feeling really disgusting. Really mushy. Oh, and look at this. Literally pure muck because it's been raining literally every day down here in South Florida. We need to feel around for the soft spot. I don't really know exactly where this nest is. So, we're feeling around and we're just going to keep digging around until we can find the soft pocket. We have been digging and digging and digging for quite a while and we still haven't found the nest now because it's been raining. You can see just how compacted it is. The water has gotten real deep in here and it's really hard to find it. But I think we're getting somewhere. Guys, look at this. We are starting to find like this soft area right here where I'm able to keep digging. So, I think we might have possibly found the nest. But this is disgusting, guys, because this is not only mud, but I'm also digging in tortoise poop. And we're pulling this whole area up. You can see just how soft the ground is. And I think we might have hit the jackpot. This is exactly what we're looking for. We're looking for that really soft ground. And is that an egg? Or is that a rock? Wait, wait. I Oh, I think it's a false alarm. I think we just we just hit another rock. But look at this. Just how it keeps going deeper and it goes all the way here. Oh.

[00:12:54]Oh.

[00:12:55]Oh my goodness. This might be a massive tortoise nest. And we have maybe mama.

[00:13:01]Mama tortoise coming to check it out.

[00:13:03]This could be mommy. This could be daddy. Let's see. Oh, this could be mommy tortoise trying to see her babies.

[00:13:12]Oh my goodness, guys. This is the face of pure happiness because we have finally hit the nest after digging and digging for quite a while. Look at this.

[00:13:22]I don't know if you can see it, but we're seeing the white of an egg right here. I don't know. Right there. Look at that. That's crazy. I'm spotting one.

[00:13:31]I'm spotting a second one. Look at this.

[00:13:34]And a third. Look at all of these babies. Now, they were actually laid pretty deep. Mama was doing her job protecting these babies, but we need to make sure that we dig them out very carefully. Now, with tortoise eggs, you cannot move them whatsoever because it'll actually mess up the embryo inside and actually kill the baby. So, unlike bird eggs, we have to be very careful placing it in the same position that it was laid. So, we're going to keep digging around it until we can get a good hold of it. And we are pulling our first tortoise egg. Look at this.

[00:14:09]beautiful round tortoise egg. What a stunner. Now, I'm hoping that these little babies are fertile. We're going to go ahead put it right in our egg carton very carefully. Wait, I might actually add some dirt. So, we have filled our egg carton up with dirt so we can easily place our egg inside. And just like that, guys, we have our first tortoise egg. Now, we have probably about like three or four more to go, but I'm hoping we're able to fit all of them in our egg carton. We are pulling the second baby out and we are going to carefully place it right next to its sibling. All right, we want to make sure that we don't displace it. And beautiful. Look at that. And I'm already spotting another egg, guys. Look at this. This little baby is poking out right here. So, we kind of have to dig a little bit further. Trying to also remove these rocks so the rocks don't fall in it. But, we're just going to dig slightly around the egg. This is what we've been doing. We're going to like maneuver our fingers.

[00:15:11]Like, it's kind of difficult, but we're going to try to get a good hold on it.

[00:15:17]And I think I think this is a go. There we go. We have got the third little baby. And we're placing this little guy right on in. And just like that, we have already three tortoise eggs. Okay. So, I think this might be the fourth and final egg, but we're going to go ahead. We've already have it pretty dug out. We're just going to place it right on in very carefully. And you can kind of see that all of our eggs are pretty round, but this one even is a bit smaller than all of the others. But if we head back to our little nest right here, we're going to try and dig a little deeper.

[00:15:55]You can see how this pocket kind of keeps going. And this could be from a previous nest or it could be mama just dug the nest really deep cuz we want to make sure we're not missing any babies.

[00:16:07]We leave any babies behind cuz they will surely either pass away or actually hatch. And it is safe to say that we have got all of our babies. Now that we've gotten all of our eggs, guys, we are going to cover our nest back on up in case any future mama tortoises actually want to come and lay their nests here. All of our tortoises will actually reuse the same spot. So if a mommy feels comfortable, like this is the perfect place, she'll actually dig this hole again, place her babies in here, and just like that, it was a successful day getting these guys. Look at them. We have four more beautiful tortoise eggs to add to our giant collection of incubating eggs. So, we're going to head inside and go put them in the incubator. So, we have made it back into our incubation room. We have our eggs and all we're going to do is we're going to close them on up and we're going to start the incubation process.

[00:16:57]Now, obviously, it's already started as soon as these babies were laid in the ground. But very, very soon, these babies will hatch out. And oh my gosh, guys, are you seeing this? Literally yesterday, this egg, this baby was not hatched out.

[00:17:14]Let's pull this out. Let's take a look at it. This is a freshly freshly like probably hours old baby redfoot tortoise. Oh my goodness. So, when I showed you him yesterday, he was still in his egg. And look at this. He is soaking up all of his yolk. And even inside of the egg right here, you can still see the yolk. Oh my goodness. His egg is still really wet. He is still really wet and really slimy. Let's see if we can we can pick him up. He actually might still be connected to his egg. Yeah, look at this. This is crazy.

[00:17:52]But this is one of the coolest things ever. Look at that yolk sack. So, right now, he is actually absorbing all of that yolk sack, which is giving him all of his nutrients to jump start him at life. So, right now, this is what he's feeding off of. This is what's going to feed him for the next couple days. He's going to absorb this and just like you saw the other one yesterday, it'll soon be completely flattened down. And just look at his teeny tiny little face, his little nails, his just gorgeous pattern, and his gorgeous little red body. Oh, I think he's a little frightened right now. Do you hear the noises that he's making? And if you look very closely, you can actually see his little egg tooth right above his mouth. You guys might not actually be able to see it cuz there's there's a like uh what is this called? I guess um his like bedding on his face. mulch. I kind of I'm I'm blanking right now, guys, what this is called. But look at him, guys. He is adorable. And this is one of the coolest things to be able to experience.

[00:18:52]Watching these little babies hatch out.

[00:18:54]Has to be one of my top favorite. But we're going to go ahead. We're going to put him back and we're going to get him back in the incubator so he can absorb all of his yolk sack. And just like that, we've got him in the incubator.

[00:19:05]We've got our eggs in the incubator. And guys, that's going to end today's video.

[00:19:08]If you enjoyed today's video, give this video a big thumbs up. Comment down below if you think there's more nests in our giant tortoise enclosure. And if you guys had fun today and want to stick around and watch us dig up more tortoise eggs in the future, well, all you have to do is subscribe to my channel, the link down below.