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@thewildhanbury

Passionate for potentially dangerous animals, adventure, sometimes I lift weights married to the woman of my dreams @themrswildhanbury
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@themrswildhanbury hitting 525lbs tonight for a new pr! My little monster came to play today, and certainly if I knew the beast was so anxiously waiting to crawl out from under her skin tonight, we would have planned her jumps a little better! You never know when your body will stop being able to do things it has never done before, so we do our best to allow them when they are ready! The gym isn't our life, but rather just a small piece of it, but I still watch with childlike wonder every time Lindsey decides to get under big weight! 🎶 the only way is up by APOC 🎶 #mywifeisstrongerthanyours #coupleswholifttogetherstaytogether #justahobby #justaweightlifter #girlswholift #strongisfunctional #strengthtraining #squatbutt #squat #legday #friendsdontletfriendsskiplegday #ifyoudontknowthisyoudontknowsquat #fitnessmotivation
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10 hours ago
My boy kolibri going into the soaking tub, for a moment he thought of climbing over me to avoid going in the tub and I decided to avoid letting him do it. A lot of people ask what good snakes are to humans, and the real answer is this... No animals existence should have to be justified by their usefulness to a species that after nearly 4 billion years in development are, for the most part, willfully ignorant, superstitious, science deniers. We are all lucky to be here. The universe is not "fine-tuned" for the emergence of life. Not when life is so rare in the cosmos that it can only live temporarily on the skin of this one tiny planet and nowhere else in the entire system. Most life will die instantly anywhere else, and everywhere else we might survive is so far away it would take generations to get there. We live in a cosmos of 78 trillion lightyears (that we can observe) of wasted space and instant death, where most places cannot harbor life of any kind. If the universe were fine-tuned for life, then it would be more like science fiction movies where there is life on practically every world and even in deep space and remote asteroids. Such is evidently not the case, the universe is, if anything, fine tuned for death, where despite our best advances in technology we remain effectively trapped on the one and only island in a vast abyss where we can live but a moment. The cosmos is incomprehensibly vast, and the one thing we can be sure of is it was not created with us in mind... what's all this mean? We are not special, just another animal... oh and snakes are cool 🎶 ghost of you (acoustic) Crispin Earl & The Veer Union 🎶 #chicksdigguyswithbigsnakes #parselmouth #parseltongue #snakesandweights #snakes #snakesofig #forestcobra #cobra #cobrasofinstagram #najamelanoleuca #najasubfulva #snakelivesmatter #ilikebigsnakesandicannotlie
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1 day ago
Moving @themrswildhanbury 's snouted cobra the other day for cleaning. He is currently deep in opaque cycle, meaning he is preparing for ecdysis, or shedding his skin. If you keep larger collections of snakes you will notice if one is getting ready to shed that you will have others doing it as well. It's well documented to see snakes in close proximity shedding their skins around the same time, however the mechanism for such behavior is poorly understood. Snakes shed their skins for many reasons, including growth, injuries, and even attempted parasite removal, but they also use shedding as a time of communication. Snake sheds are generally covered in pheromones, this is why wild snakes do not shed where they live as it can attract unwanted attention. In studies where they tried to train dogs to sniff out snakes, most dogs could not find a living snake, but rather only shed skin. Snakes really don't have a smell, mostly just smelling like their substrate, it's a good survival tactic. This is also why your reptiles will poop in their water bowl, in the wild it is a good idea to leave your home and do your business somewhere it might wash away as not to attract the attention of predators. Anyway, more random thoughts but hopefully you learned something. 🎶 harboring the hurt ive caused by Cory Wells 🎶 #chicksdigguyswithbigsnakes #parselmouth #parseltongue #snakesandweights #snakesandtattoos #snoutedcobra #cobra #cobrasofinstagram #najaannulifera #snakelivesmatter #snake #snakesofig #venomoussnake #venomoussnakesofinstagram
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2 days ago
Needed to pull out kryptonite, our western diamondback rattlesnake yesterday for an educational program so first I had to remove our timber rattlesnake because he has a very strong feeding response and immediately moved to the front of the enclosure. Kryptonite is so named because I needed 24 vials of antivenom years ago after he bit my left index finger. That was a smooth $250,000 hospital bill, it wasn't really all that painful but the swelling did stretch down my arm to my chest and back. I really was only in danger of losing my finger realistically, but rattlesnake bites are extremely costly because antivenom is very expensive. While $250,000 might sound expensive, it was nothing compared to my beautiful wife @themrswildhanbury , whose bill from her rattlesnake bite was $750,000 after staying 10 days in the hospital and receiving 59 vials of antivenom! She had 35lbs of swelling in her leg and it took a year for her to get back to squatting like she had before! Kryptonite was not my first rattlesnake bite, my first was in 2006 by a mottled rock rattlesnake on the same finger. It was not too bad, it took around 3 hours to get to the hospital from where we were hiking and by then I only had a fat hand and wrist and it was not very painful so I declined antivenom knowing I would likely get bitten in the future and have worse symptoms. Many people are under the delusion that you become more resistant to venom the more times you are bitten, and although there have been a few who did, 99% of the population will actually become more sensitive every bite and more sensitive to the antivenom as well. I have a friend who has been bitten by enough rattlesnake over the last 40 years of keeping several hundred of them that if he is bitten again, the antivenom would kill him. I guess the point of this post is that everyone assumes that since I keep cobras that they are super dangerous, but the most dangerous animal in my collection is a native species. Cobras have nothing on rattlesnakes when it comes to strike range striking speed and accuracy. 🎶 dark place by Micah Ariss 🎶 #chicksdigguyswithbigsnakes #rattlesnakesofinstagram #rattlesnake #westerndiamondback
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4 days ago
Grim was very needy tonight after he came back inside. Normally, he heads straight to his bed, but he needed about half an hour of foot rubbing before bedtime today. Grim is very picky about his attention, and he really wanted belly rubs, but he throws a fit if I move to get closer so I can reach his belly. He also doesn't like it if he rolls over for belly rubs and isn't getting any... obviously, it's a very difficult life being an indoor pig! When he was young, he wanted attention every night, but the older he gets, the less he asks for it, so I definitely treasured this bonding time tonight. Anyway, I have a lasagna that's almost done in the oven! 🎶 talk to you by Carter Ryan 🎶 #notsominipig #minipig #minipigsofinstagram #minipigdad #vietnamesepotbellypig #potbelliedpigsofinstagram #potbelliedpig #potbellypig #pig #pigsofinstagram
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6 days ago
Our little red dragon, Pendra, the giant white beard centipede, enjoying a frozen thawed pinky mouse and leaving behind only a bit of skull! I mentioned before that the species of this centipede is a bit foggy, most say Scolopendra suspinipes, others say Scolopendra dehaani and still others assume it is an undescribed species. I would like to believe they are an indescribed species because... well because I just think it would be cool haha! Species turnover time is generally 500,000 to 3 million years before descent with modification changes an animal so much that they are no longer compatible with the original species. Molecular biology has found that interbreeding resulting in viable offspring also stops around 3 million years, a great example is the horse and donkey. Their nearest common ancestor was 4 million years ago, they can interbreed successfully, but their young are not viable. Dogs and wolves on the other hand are not separated by nearly that amount of evolution and can readily interbreed and their hybrid young are also able to breed. There are more examples than can be mentioned here but those are probably the most well known. What does all this talk about evolution mean you might ask, and the answer is this... animals are cool 🎶 magnetic by Wage War 🎶 #squashfearnotbugs #chicksdigguyswithbigbugs #ilikebigbugsandicannotlie #notactuallyabug #giantwhitebeardcentipede #giantwhitebeard #giantcentipede #centipede #centipedesofinstagram #scolopendrasuspinipes #scolopendradehaani #scolopendra #invertebrate #invertebratesofinstagram
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6 days ago
Mosag putting on a show as usual, always defensive and eats her frozen thawed rat pup later on her own time! Burgundy goliath birdeating tarantulas (theraphosa stirmi) are second only to Goliath birdeating tarantula (Theraposa blondi) in average weight and are generally the same size. They are the largest of the spiders in body mass (6.2 oz) and body size (5.1 inches) but second to the giant huntsman spider (Heteropoda maxima) in leg span (12 inches). The largest of the arachnids isn't a spider however, it's likely a horseshoe crab. The Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) can get 24 inches long and weigh upwards of 11lbs. Speaking of horseshoe crabs, many believe, or at least refer to them as living fossils. This is because they look extremely similar to the fossil horseshoe crabs, which first showed up around 440 million years ago, but the modern family of horseshoe crabs, Limuidae, didn't appear until about 250 million years ago. So have modern horseshoe crabs remained unchanged in all that time? No! They aren't living fossils, but rather something called a stabilomorph. They have completely different molecular structures and DNA but physically resemble older species with similar morphological features with a similar adaptive strategy, something known as stabilizing selection. Modern horseshoe crab species have only been around about 25 million years... OK I'll stop 🎶 greed by A Killers Confession 🎶 #chicksdigguyswithbigspiders #theitseybitseyspider #squashfearnotspiders #spiderlivesmatter #ilikebigbugsandicannotlie #arachnophobia #arachnid #arachnidsofinstagram #burgundygoliathbirdeatingtarantula #burgundygoliathbirdeater #goliathbirdeatingtarantula #birdeatingtarantula #theraphosastirmi #tarantula #tarantulasofinstagram #invertebrate
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9 days ago
Making sure to let Chebani know I don't need his help while moving Medusa, our massive female monocled cobra out of her enclosure and into the soaking tub for cage maintenance. Despite my bald spot and my food baby, I successfully moved our most difficult snake without being bitten, so to celebrate, let's talk about how snakes kill their prey. It's important to note that many snakes unambiguously use venom or constriction, but many use neither, and some use both... A lot of people don't realize that there is a ton of snakes that just seize their prey and swallow it alive, probably the most recognized would be hognose. These snakes sometimes subdue their prey first by crushing it with strong jaws or pinning it to the ground with a coil (which hardly counts as constriction but could be an evolutionary precursor). Around 11% of snakes only use constriction and mammal-eating is a driver of the evolution of constriction it seems, but depending on the size of the prey they may not even use it. As far as venom goes, their are those snakes who use venom that is medically significant to humans and there are plenty more that use venom that you and I wouldn't notice. There are around 720+ species of medically significant venomous snakes, 90+ venomous snake species who are not medically significant and keep in mind these include the largest groups of snakes and most have not been studied well enough to know if they are venomous. Wow, this got big, fast (that's what she said)... I'll talk more later 🎶 make me real by Cypecore 🎶 #chicksdigguyswithbigsnakes #snakesandweights #snakesandtattoos #parseltongue #parselmouth #justyouraveragedadbod #heavybreathing #snakelivesmatter #snake #snakesofig #monocledcobra #monocledcobrasofinstagram #najakaouthia #cobra #cobrasofinstagram #venomoussnake #venomoussnakesofinstagram
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10 days ago
@themrswildhanbury received her white coat today, representing the end of the didactic portion of her veterinarian doctoral program and the start of the clinical rotation! I had the honor of presenting her with her white coat, and I could not be more proud of her! #futureveterinarian #futurevet #futuredvm #mywifeiscoolerthanyours #mybetterhalf #whitecoatceremony #whitecoat
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11 days ago
Feeding Joy, our two toed amphiuma! She was actually pretty docile here, many times, she lunges several inches out of the water with mouth agape when I feed her! Amphibians may not seem that formidable these days, but they once ruled the earth, or at least the land, for nearly 100 million years! Creatures like Eogyrinus ("dawn tadpole"), a slender, crocodile-like amphibian, measured 15 feet from head to tail! Mastodonsaurus ("nipple-toothed lizard") reached around 20 feet long, and their head made up nearly 1/3 of their body length! Long after reptiles took over the land, there were still amphibian holdouts that dominated certain areas like the 15 foot long Koolasuchus, which thrived in Australian swamps in the middle Cretaceous period! While the first amphibians appeared some 370 million years ago during the Devonian period, modern amphibians didn't appear until the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. The first true salamander is believed to have been Karaurus, an 8 inch long, big-headed amphibian that lived in late Jurassic some 150 million years ago in central Asia. Karaurus is believed to have even eaten the same way Joy eats, using suction feeding via the enlargement of the buccal cavity on small fish and invertebrates. 🎶 the fight within by Memphis May Fire 🎶 #phallussalamander #penisshapedanimal #twotoedamphiuma #amphiuma #amphiumameans #amphibian #amphibiansofinstagram #salamander
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12 days ago
Name a more behaved forest cobra, I'll wait...! Removing my boy Kolibri from his enclosure and placing him into a soaking tub so I can clean his home. Very few African snakes have a more fearsome reputation in the hobby than forest cobras, and certainly, I have seen them at their worst, but for the most part Kolibri is a perfect gentleman if I am as well. Forest cobras are the longest of the true cobras, but a few venomous snakes still have the ability to get longer, namely bushmasters, black mambas and of course the largest of all venomous snakes, the king cobra. Interestingly, king cobras aren't actually cobras, but like many snakes in the elapid family (and some outside of it), they have convergently evolved a hood to appear larger to potential threats, just like their closest relatives, the mambas, sometimes do. 🎶 john by Jeris Johnson 🎶 #chicksdigguyswithbigsnakes #snakesandweights #snakesandtattoos #parseltongue #parselmouth #justyouraveragedadbod #snakelivesmatter #snake #snakesofig #forestcobra #forestcobrasofinstagram #najamelanoleuca #najasubfulva #naja #cobra #cobrasofinstagram #venomoussnake
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13 days ago