When our next guest found out
a Black Panther was on the show tonight, he turned
up with a duffel bag full of raw antelope meat. But he was sadly mistaken. He is the large predator
expert for Animal Planet, where on Sunday you
can watch Puppy Bowl 14. Please say hello to the
Canadian Tarzan, Dave Salmoni, everybody. Dave. [APPLAUSE] Hi. It's great to see you. How are you? Great. Yourself? Who's your friend? This is an Asian
water monitor. Have a seat. Oh. Come on. Now, these are dangerous. I know these are dangerous. I would never bring
you anything dangerous. You have, many times,
brought me dangerous things. I sometimes bring
you dangerous things, but this guy is great. Have a seat. So today, I'm going to show
you all kinds of adaptations. And this guy is
perfectly adapted-- Look, he's licking
ZZ Ward right now. So all the fun adoptions--
the first thing you're going to notice is his camouflage. He can hide with this. So anything smaller than
it, he can grab a hold of, and that becomes food. The tail.
Look at this tail. Come over and look at the tail.
- I'm worried about his head. I'm not worried about the tail.
- All right. Let's look at the head. That's where the
teeth are, right? So Here we go. Bring him around to you. There you go. There you go.
You got the head. So let's talk about
the head, then. Yeah.
This is worse, now, by the way. No, no, it's better. Hello, big guy. Now you can pet him.
Come here. Come pet him.
- I don't want to pet him. Watch. Why would I want to pet him? He doesn't want me
to pet him, right? He does like that wonderful-- You think he
likes to be petted? He does.
He loves it. So watch this.
I'm going to show you. Like a puppy, you go
right under the chin. - Like a puppy.
- Look. So you grab him like this. You can give him some nice,
big, hard pats like that. How about if I give him a
nice pat way here in the back? Yeah, try in the
back right here. He loves that.
- Oh, he does. Hi, big guy.
Good boy. - You think he really loves it?
- He does love it. I know he loves it.
And he'll lean into it. It actually helps calm him down.
- It does. So some of the-- What are you going
to do to calm me down? I could give you some meat. Would you like some meat? Just pet me a
little bit, will you? - Do you want to feed this guy?
- No, not at all. Yeah, come on. No, I don't. I want you take this. - What is that?
- It's a piece of meat. OK.
So I'll come around to his face. All right. Come with me. Now, this is what
you're going to do. You're going to show it to him. He'll eat that
big piece of meat? Oh, he would easily eat my hand. Now you do it. Oh, no. Just give it to him. I'm going to hold your hand. Don't hold my hand. - Come here, big guy.
- There you go. Hey. Hey. There you go. Wow. [APPLAUSE] One One of the
things that you're going to notice with this guy--
watch me. Have a seat back down here. You can continue to pet him. He's not going to get
into a frenzy now, is he? So he's not going to
get in a frenzy, no. He's perfectly calm and relaxed.
He knows that's his meat. So this is a great opportunity
to look at his jaws. So what he does-- he's
fast and he's strong. When he gets a hold of
something he wants to eat, he uses that big bite. He's got a really strong bite. His cousin is the
Komodo dragon, and they kill such big things that
they actually have venom sacs. - Oh.
- You're focused, right? He doesn't have a venom sac? He doesn't have his venom. He uses his power. So that jaw is
very, very strong. If he gets you with a bite-- Hey, chew it, man. You don't swallow it like that. You're going to choke.
Oh, wow. He just swallowed that. So he eats live
animals usually, right? He's a predator. He'll eat anything you feed him.
- He'll eat this. Do you know this guy? Well-- We've had a dragon stolen. Whatever they can
get bit can have them. So this one-- you
want some gloves? You can have gloves
on if you want. This one I need gloves?
All right. Yeah, I want gloves. Put your gloves on. Oh, well, that--
this one I need gloves? - You don't have to.
- For this cute little-- I do want to put
gloves on, yeah. Here, take your gloves off. I'm going to
keep the gloves on. Or put your gloves on. This is a hedgehog. So as we're talking of
wonderful adaptations, that's a lazier one. This is a busy one. The number one adaptation
that you're going to see here is that he's got quills. You feel those quills?
- I can't. I have gloves on. So if he feels
like a predator-- if he feels a
predator is coming, he'll roll into a
nice ball like that. Whoa, jeez. Why does he sound like
he's about to explode? Well, that's part
of his defense. So he wants to remind you he's
not really good at fighting away predators in any other way
except for poking with quills. So he makes a noise,
he jumps, and hopes that the predator goes, you
know what, that's too spiky. Do the quills jump
off of his body? No.
He can't throw it. He has to thrust them into it And porcupines, can
they throw theirs? No, they can't. Everyone thinks they
can, but they cannot. Oh, yeah, because
we watch cartoons and we think that's
what animals-- Yeah, they throw
them, but they don't. So this is a great example. I always try to tell people
these don't make good pets. All the animals you see me bring
out, they're not good pets. And this is a good
one where people think they're awesome pets. They're nocturnal. They don't want to play
with you during the day. Typically-- But on late night
shows, they like to be-- They don't mind
because they know they're going to get tons of snacks. When they come here,
they get overfed. This is what the Flintstones
used to use to clean their pots and pans, right? Exactly right, at the
[INAUDIBLE] scullery. So you can also see, as
they're about to go away, they have nice, short
arms for digging holes. And you can hand that over here. Feed this to the lizard. Yeah. So, Jimmy, I'm going to
need you to come around-- Hey, hakuna matata, you know? Take your gloves off. All right. Now I want you to come around. And I'm going to try to do this. God only knows what is
about to come out now. Come around with me. Here we go. - Holy-- oh, my god.
- Now, this. Hey, big guy. He's coming at us! All right. There you go, big guy. Why did he come
at us like that? Well, this is his stump. This is where he likes to be.
- OK. So come on. Come around with me. I don't want to be
that close to him. Just in case I didn't tell
you already he's, a vulture. - Yeah, I could see that.
- You're good. Stay with me just because
I want to keep feeding him. Now, they only eat
dead things, right? Right.
So they're scavengers. And we're talking adaptations.
We're trying to get people-- He doesn't mean-- when
he says you're a scavenger, it's not an insult. It's
just a technical term. He is one of the
best scavengers in the world, a vulture. That's what they say. You're one of the best
scavengers in the world. So the things that he's
adapted-- here, big guy. Come here.
- What kind of beef is that? Just regular old lean beef. It smells like a horse. Anytime we bring
animals out here, we want them to be
rewarded and have fun. He's obviously--
come here, big guy. I want you to face the camera.
- Yeah. So why do they eat
dead things only? Can they eat live things?
- They can. They can hunt.
They're not great hunters. If he does come off the stump,
you'll see they're very slow. So what they've adapted to do
is they eat off of other things that the predators leave behind. So a big line will
eat a carcass. There's still lots of meat. You see that big hook
beak that he has? He's going to be using-- that's perfect for
picking meat off of bones. The other thing that I think
is super cool is they can smell a carcass from a mile away. So they use those big--
see those big wings? Those big flight
feathers on the back-- they've adapted for them to be
up, soaring miles in the sky. They soar around.
They don't even have to flap. They see something or
they smell something. They come down on it. And then they wait until
the predator is gone. It's kind of a good-looking
animal, actually. They're beautiful. I'm complimenting you. - What's his name?
- Dexter. Oh, good, you named him
after a serial killer. I'm going to try
to-- if I could move. He wasn't creepy enough. Come here. All right. Well, let's take a
break and let this guy go out in the parking lot and
eat somebody or something. We are back with Dave Salmoni. Puppy Bowl 14 is-- it's the Super Bowl
on Animal Planet. It actually is. It's one of our best shows. It's puppies playing. There's cheerleaders. There's kitty halftime.
- Yeah. And is the porcupine on the-- The porcupine is not on it. But hey, any animal is a
good animal in my book. This is a North
American porcupine. We're talking adaptations. We're trying to teach people
how awesome conservation is. These guys are awesome. So if you feel-- if you pet a-- Now, those are
the spikes, right? So these ones
are a lot softer. If you see on the head up here-- see those little
smaller spiky ones? Yeah. And then back in the tail
there, those are the weapons. The big, spiky ones are here. You see those there? But if you were to
pet him this way, you'll get a sense
for how soft he is. If you were to try to pet him-- And he won't do
anything weird? No.
Nice and gentle. Do people use these
quills for anything? Decoration, for sure.
Certainly-- - Oh, he's very soft.
- Yeah. So the interesting
thing with these guys is that it's only defensive. They don't want to get you. This guy is super sweet. How do you know that, though? How do I know he's sweet? Well, how do you know
they don't want to get you? If I was a porcupine,
I'd want to get people. They don't want to get
anybody because they don't want to start any confrontation. The reason they're black and
white is there's contrast. They want to warn everybody--
hey, I'm dangerous. Just don't come near me. So if something does-- we talked about before they
don't throw their quills. They jam their quills. These quills actually
go in very smooth. If you try to pull them
out, there's barbs. It's sort of like scales
that will stick in. So once they're in, they're in. They're staying in. Yeah I'm going to
back away from the-- is this more pork or more pine? - I'm not sure.
- All right. Well, we're going to leave
the porcupine in here. I got one more fun thing here. And we have some other animals
that you're going to show us. Come on over here. These animals are adorable. Now, this is up my alley. This is the kind
of animal I like. Now these are
pot-bellied pigs. Do you want to hold one? Yeah, I'll hold a pig. Put you arm like a football. OK. Not like a football. Don't say football. Now hold him nice
and tight to your body. You're going to see
they're super comfortable. Oh, my god.
They're so cute. Now, we were talking
about Puppy Bowl. These guys are the cheerleaders. We have pigs as cheerleaders. Do they know they're
the cheerleaders for the Puppy Bowl?
- Yeah, of course they do. Who wouldn't?
It's a big honor. Yeah.
Wow. Look, they're eating my shoe. Well pigs are omnivorous. They'll eat almost anything. Well, don't mean
my shoe, guys. Wow.
They're really eating the shoe. How big will these pigs get? These ones are potbellies. They'll get maximum 20 pounds. But some pigs in the wild, they
can go over 500, 600 pounds. And why are they potbelly? Do they drink? They're potbelly
because they actually-- when they get old, they actually
do get a funny potbelly. Yeah, right. Well, guys, you guys are going
to be the cheerleaders, huh? Can you do a pyramid? [PIG SNORTS] Whoa. He answered me. Yeah, totally. - They are smart, right, pigs?
- Pigs are really smart. They're even smarter
than dogs, people say. They're easily trained. People often even have
them in their house. Wow. You see how this
guy is talking? Yeah. Could you take this on an
airplane as a comfort animal? I think you probably could.
[PIG SNORTS] Oh, you don't want
to go on an airplane? What are you saying? Is Dave squeezing you too hard? Yes. You don't want to be
on the Puppy Bowl? You want to be on
the piggy bowl? Yeah. Well, they hear
the word "pigskin" and I'm sure they're
not that thrilled. All right. Well, the Puppy Bowl airs-- Puppy Bowl 14, Sunday, 3 o'clock
Eastern on Animal Planet. Dave Salmoni. Thank you, Dave.
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