Jack: Hey, wait.
Don't move.
(crickets chirping)
Wah, yes!
I'm on a mission down under.
I'm in australia....
Wow!
...Digging deep.
This is an absolute monster!
Holy mackerel! Ah!
That's going to have to clean that up.
Exploring the most remote places...
...In search of the most elusive python...
Ah, snakes. Whoa!
This is crazy scary!
...On earth.
I've got something really big.
Wow! This is absolutely wild!
Look at those, oop!
My name is jack randall.
I found a bat cave.
Whoa! Yes. Woo-hoo!
Ever since I can remember, I've loved animals.
Then I met my idol, steve irwin.
With steve's encouragement, I became a zoologist.
Wow, look at that.
Extremely sharp teeth.
We've got one.
And now, I'm bringing awareness of these incredible creatures...
How cool is this?
...To the entire world.
We have to release a sloth into the wild.
He's just wrapping around my face.
No animal is too creepy...
Oh, that is a beauty.
Wow.
...Or too dangerous.
You see his head just popping out.
Ahh! Oh!
Oww! He bites!
I'm going to have to put a bandage on that.
♪ ♪
(chirping)
♪ ♪
I'm in the northern territory of australia.
This place is massive.
It's twice the size of texas
With less than ten percent of the population.
It really is the final frontier of australia.
It's 90 degrees,
But the sun's about to set,
So the temperature's going to drop about 15 degrees
In the next hour.
The animals that have been hiding
During the heat of the day
Will start coming out looking for food,
Which means that the snakes also will be on the prowl
Looking for their prey.
That is the perfect time to start looking for snakes.
This area is home to my favorite type of snake: The pythons.
They're non-venomous snakes,
So instead of using venom to kill,
They wrap their coils around and constrict
Till they suffocate their prey.
There are six different kinds of pythons in this area.
And I want to learn everything I possibly can
About every one of them.
Especially the most elusive python in the world,
The oenpelli.
And I'm not leaving here
Until I've got my hands on all six of them.
♪ ♪
Sun's almost down now, gavin.
Gavin: That's exactly what we want.
Jack: So I've teamed up with dr. Gavin bedford.
He's such an authority on reptiles here,
He's one of a few experts who can legally breed pythons
To help them survive,
And he's going to help me find all six pythons,
Starting with the water python.
Gavin: What we've seen in the last few years
Is the water python population has actually crashed.
Jack: Why is that?
Gavin: The vegetation has a bad year because of low rains,
There's no growth, no rats breed.
Therefore, not enough prey to eat.
Jack: Wait, I just heard some rustling in there.
There's definitely something in there.
Ah, there we are!
I can hardly get this thing out.
Gavin: What is it? Jack: Woo! Look at that!
That is an absolute monster of a blue-tongued lizard.
Look at that blue tongue coming out.
That is an iconic australian creature.
Wow!
Look at those tiny, little legs. They can't really go very fast.
Gavin: They just push through like a bulldozer,
Where they're going.
That's why we heard it.
Jack: Normally, if they're really grumpy,
They'll open their mouths up and show that blue tongue.
You would never see a tongue like that in any other animal.
They use that as a threat display
If any predator would come along.
Well, it's a great find.
Gavin: It is, it's very rare.
Jack: Fantastic!
Alright, let's put him back.
Off you go.
Back to your home.
Gavin: This is the place to see lots of stuff,
Lots of reptiles here.
Of course, the big water pythons, you know,
That's what we're looking for.
We'll just head down this way and go left around the swamp.
♪ ♪
Jack: Oh! Snake!
That looks like a water python.
No, it's not.
That's not a python at all!
That looks like a slaty gray!
Wow! I've never seen a slaty gray that big before.
They're normally very aggressive.
Actually, this one's okay.
Gavin: That's as big as they get,
I haven't seen one bigger than that.
Jack: It's completely non-venomous,
Got lots of teeth in there.
Gavin: Normally, they are the bitiest thing out here.
Jack: It's the snake that I would almost guarantee
Would probably try and bite me.
Gavin: But you're not getting bitten!
What's going on?
Jack: Oh, do you want a go maybe?
Gavin: No, I don't want a go, thank you.
Jack: You don't want a go? Gavin: No, thank you.
It's probably got to the point where it says,
"nothing can eat me, so why should I bite anything
Unless I really have to?"
Jack: You can see why they call it slaty gray.
Look at that gray coloration.
Just wrapping around me, knows I don't mean any harm.
Funny enough, where we were thinking we might find a python,
This snake is going to the holes
Where the water python are laying their eggs.
They actually eat the water python eggs.
It also has this kind of musk,
And I can actually begin to smell that.
So that's another defense mechanism
To try and get you to go away.
Ah, that stinks.
Gavin: I'm glad you're in a separate tent.
Jack: Ha, yes.
That's a beauty.
I love slaty grays.
I think it's time to put this guy away.
Let the snake go back hunting again,
But completely wrapped around my hand,
So it's going to be quite hard to let, ah!
He's really gone for me now.
Ah!
That really, agh, it went straight for my...
Ow!
(laughs)
He's just gone for my thumb.
That really hurt.
It went so deep into me.
Ooh, anyway, I'm gonna let this snake go.
Off you go.
Jack: I thought it was completely relaxed
And then put it down,
And it just went to have a last chew on me.
Ow!
And right there, you can see how much it's bleeding. Me.
That really does actually hurt quite a bit.
I'm lucky that this is a non-venomous snake,
But that's going to have to clean that up,
'cause its tooth has gone really deep in there.
Liam, have you got like something
I can clean this up with?
This is liam, our medic.
You see how deep that is, there.
Liam: Just the one here?
Jack: Yeah.
Well, let's catch some snakes.
♪ ♪
Gavin: You can see a croc out there.
Jack: Can you see a croc? Gavin: Yeah.
Jack: Oh, yeah, right there.
There must be so many water pythons in here
That we're missing all the time.
Gavin: Lots of bugs.
Jack: I'm going to take my boots off here
Because I might be able to feel for the snakes on my feet.
Gavin: I think you're crazy, mate, but.
Jack: It's gotta be a good tactic, though.
Gavin: Yeah, right.
Jack: I'm gonna leave them there for now.
(croaking)
I definitely feel things crawling around down there.
Gavin: Seeing all these bugs is a good sign.
Jack: Gavin, stop, you've got a leech on your leg.
Gavin: There's bucket loads here.
Jack: Look at him, just sucking all of that blood out of you.
Gavin: Thanks, mate.
Jack: Oh, he's really got onto you there.
Be careful.
Gavin: Nice.
Jack: We are absolutely infested of leeches in here.
No snakes yet, but loads of leeches.
Gavin: Do you find that everything looks like a snake?
Jack: Yeah.
Every shadow is a snake.
♪ ♪
(whispering) hey, wait, don't move.
Wah! Yes! Water python!
There you are, exactly where you said.
Whoo-hoo! Look at that.
That is an absolute beauty.
I finally found my first python.
Whoa, he's not too happy about me just picking him up.
This is obviously a python.
Most pythons have heat-seeking pits.
This guy is sensing any prey that's nearby
With these pits underneath here.
Gavin: As you're running it through your hands,
I can see there's a bulge in its gut.
Jack: Oh, it's eating. Wow!
Maybe a frog or something.
Gavin: Or a rat.
Jack: So he would have grabbed
And held that rat with his teeth,
Constricted around it, then swallowed it whole.
I'm just going to see the way it goes through the water here.
The thing is it's so hard to see these guys.
Gavin: Yeah.
Jack: They might be like ten meters away
And they're unbelievably camouflaged in this mud.
Wow, look at the way it's going into the water now, gavin.
You just can't see them, they're completely camouf--
Ah, look at the head just popping out.
That is so cool.
That's the ambush position, right there.
A bird would be sitting there or come in and would have no idea.
Gavin: Pythons are the ultimate sit-and-wait predator.
Some of the pythons that I have followed
Have sat in one spot for three and a half months, not moving.
Jack: Look at the way it's just gliding through.
Wow, just seeing an animal like this
Acting in its normal behavior is amazing.
I'm just right here looking at it.
It's going straight into these reeds.
I have no idea where that snake has gone now.
Where has it gone?
It's gone.
♪ ♪
So this is where the water pythons go
During the day.
Gavin: Oh, yeah.
A lot of the animals here are underground,
And they come out right on dusk.
Jack: Look at all the different holes here.
They're everywhere.
How deep do these holes go?
Gavin: Oh, they go a few meters underground.
Jack: Oh, wow! There is a snake down there!
Okay, snake hook.
♪ ♪
So I've got my snake bag, I've got this hook.
I don't know how big this snake is,
But we've got a big snake down there.
Okay, be really quiet because snakes can sense vibration.
Take that bag, gavin, in case this is a really grumpy snake.
I have no idea what kind of snake this even is.
Could be venomous. Ugh.
Wow!
Jack: We've got a big snake down there.
Be really quiet because snakes can sense vibration.
I'm in northern australia searching for pythons
With snake expert gavin bedford.
Take that bag, gavin, in case this is a really grumpy snake.
We just found another one, and I think he's really big!
Ugh!
Wow!
We've got a water python.
This is an absolute monster.
It's trying to get away.
Pythons are seriously strong.
I need to get it out before it goes down the burrow.
This snake doesn't want to budge.
Gavin: Do you want me to bust that up a little bit?
Jack: Maybe a little bit from the top.
♪ ♪
Gavin: Just hang tight, we'll get there.
This is working quite well.
Jack: Finding a snake in their home
Is one of the hardest things to do, honestly.
That is an amazing adrenaline rush.
Ah, we're getting further up the body now, gavin.
Okay, we're getting closer, it's coming out.
Gavin: It's coming out?
Good. Good. Good. You got him?
Jack: Here we are! Water python!
Whoo-hoo! Thank you, man.
Gavin: Well done.
Jack: Wow! Look at that.
That's almost a fully grown water python.
An absolute beauty.
Ah, he's, amazingly, with snakes--
Whoa!
He's getting a little bit grumpy there.
But you know what, I expect this to be a little bit grumpy,
And actually we haven't harmed this snake at all.
Wow, what an amazing effort, gavin.
This is the female looking for her burrow to lay a set of eggs.
And the amazing thing with most python species,
That they actually incubate their eggs.
She will sit on there as long as possible,
Get it the right temperature
So there's the best chance of those eggs to hatch
And give healthy young.
If you look there, there's actually a tick.
Reptiles get ticks, too.
It's a parasite.
For the snake it doesn't really do too much harm.
When it sheds its skin, that tick will come off.
But I'm going to do her a little favor and remove that tick.
Oop, there it goes.
Well, this is our second water python, gavin.
I think we should start our search
For the most elusive of them all.
I've heard that the oenpelli
Is the hardest python in the world to find.
Gavin: There's really only one place that I know
That we've got a chance to find an oenpelli.
It's so remote that the only way we can get there
Is by helicopter.
No roads, some of the most rugged landscape.
I'll see if I can arrange it.
Jack: That'd be amazing.
(vehicle approaching)
Gavin's managed to wrangle a helicopter for us
To travel to one of the most remote regions
Of australia's northern territory,
Arnhem land.
The python is so revered here that it takes on--
Oh! Wow!
Oh, yes! Wow!
That's a black-headed python.
Anything that's that color, that brown color,
Could be a venomous snake,
But that black head tells me that's a python.
It's one of the most gorgeous pythons out here.
It looks like it's been dipped in paint.
It uses that head almost like a solar panel,
Pokes its head out of a rotting tree trunk
Or something like that during the day
While keeping its body away from any predators.
And during the nighttime will have enough energy
To be able to go and hunt.
This particular python specializes
In eating other reptiles, including snakes.
Yeah, I almost ran over it,
So I feel like I need to put him over to the side.
Off you go.
(door slams)
Gavin is friends with freddy hunter,
Who's the aboriginal owner of the land that we're flying to.
I'm not going to be leaving
Until I get my hands on an oenpelli python.
It's a snake sighted so rarely
That it's known locally as "the ghost."
Gavin!
Gavin: Jack, this is fred.
Fred, this is jack.
Jack: Freddy, good to meet you.
Jack: I've been looking forward to getting out onto your land.
I just drove 150 miles from the city of darwin,
And now we're flying another 50 miles
To the east alligator river,
Which is the only place in the world
Where we will have a chance to find an oenpelli.
Jack: Whoa!
Whoo-hoo!
♪ ♪
Jack: Down there on the beach?
(birds chirping)
♪ ♪
This is just incredible.
(squawk)
There's not many places in the world
Where you really can get into the middle of nowhere,
And this is it.
This is like a last untouched area of the world.
Not many people have been here,
Just the indigenous people who know this area.
We need their permission to be right here.
This is a real privilege.
Get the oenpelli.
All these rocks. A perfect hiding place.
Jack: Yeah.
With so few oenpelli in the wild,
The chances of finding one, even here on its home turf,
Are slim.
Is this a good place here, gavin? Freddy?
Gavin: That looks like a good spot.
Jack: But all these hiding places,
And plenty of food sources around,
Make this area our best bet.
Gavin: There's a shed skin here.
Jack: You're kidding me.
Oh, my!
That is an absolute monster of a skin.
Jeez.
That's absolutely pristine.
I don't know what species that would be, I mean, that size.
That could be a python.
Gavin: Could be.
(sniff) jack: Ah, wow.
That smells like snake. That really does.
That is so fresh.
There's gotta be a snake around here.
Let's see if we can match the snake with the shed.
Let's go.
♪ ♪
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack in these rocks.
You feel like you see something, and then it's not.
There we are!
Thing is we've got a carpet python right in there.
Thing is, this is a non-venomous snake.
This is a constrictor snake.
It's a bit like the oenpelli.
He can sense that I'm here.
He's starting to crawl back.
I'm going to have to see if I can just pull him out.
I'm going to have to get my hand in there.
♪ ♪
I've got my hand right by his head.
Ah, he's strong. Really strong.
Jack: I'm looking for pythons
In one of the most remote regions of northern australia.
Thing is we've got a carpet python
Right in there.
And this one is trying to get away.
He's starting to crawl back.
I'm going to have to see if I can just pull him out.
I'm going to have to get my hand in there.
♪ ♪
I've got my hand right by his head.
♪ ♪
Ah, he's strong.
Really strong!
I've got him.
Come on, out you come.
Whoo-hoo!
There you are, carpet python.
Wow!
Look at that. That is amazing.
Look at that, he's not even acting aggressive at all.
Wow!
Under there he just, whoa!
(hiss)
He's starting to hiss a little bit.
He's probably a bit agitated
That I've just grabbed him out of his hole,
But there's no way we would have been able to see this snake
Without getting him out.
It has this amazingly beautiful look to it.
Its name was inspired by the colorful patterning
On middle eastern carpets.
This is actually the first species of snake
I caught in the wild.
I was working with steve irwin at the australia zoo,
And he sent me out to catch one of these.
I picked it up, and it bit me straight away on the arm,
And so my first reaction was that this snake would bite me,
But actually he's behaving beautifully for me.
It's quite amazing that you can hold a wild animal like this
And you kind of get to know it really intimately,
And because their numbers in the wild are declining,
Every one I can get my hands on is a gem.
You can see the shed there, and that just matches perfectly.
We know that's the snake that we were on the track of.
Gavin: It's the right time of year
For a female to be shedding.
Jack: This is breeding season?
Gavin: It's breeding season.
Jack: Wow.
And is it the right breeding season
For the oenpelli, as well?
Gavin: Ah, it is.
Jack: Would they live in the same area?
I mean, would an oenpelli realize
That there's a carpet python around here,
Don't want to be here?
Gavin: The very first oenpelli that was found
Was found in the same area with a carpet python.
Jack: Yes. That's awesome.
I want to hear that stuff.
Great.
Oh, man, that is special.
Look at the way he's wrapping up that tree.
Amazing.
So that's it, gavin. Wow.
See ya.
♪ ♪
I have a good feeling now
That we're going to find the oenpelli.
♪ ♪
(chirping)
We've found three of our six pythons
Here in the northern territory.
Before we keep searching
For one of the rarest snakes in the world, the oenpelli.
Up here?
Jack: Freddy, the owner of this land, is guiding me
To something left behind by his ancestors
Thousands of years ago.
Ah, yeah, there we are!
It's a little bit there, is that right, freddy?
Jack: That is the oenpelli, right there!
Jack: This is thousands of years old.
Freddy: Yep.
Jack: The ancient aborigines revered the oenpelli
And had a myth that this python was a god
That carved the landscape of australia
As it moved across the land.
I reckon that's the head.
And it just starts winding around.
And that's its tail.
Thanks so much, freddy, for showing me that.
That really has inspired me now.
We really, really need to find the oenpelli python.
Okay, let's go!
♪ ♪
I'm looking in these rock crevices now.
It's going to be much easier to see any reptiles,
Because this is when they're much more active.
They're out hunting.
Gavin: Hey, jack, jack, I've got a big snake down here.
Jack: What?
Gavin: A big python, I reckon.
You might need to take your shoes off.
Jack: Holy mackerel!
That is a big snake.
I think I'm just going to have to go in.
Oh, bloody, oh, I still got my sound things on.
Gavin: You alright, mate?
Jack: Whoa! Wow, this looks like an olive python.
Gavin: Yep.
Jack: This is a serious snake.
I have to be super careful with this snake
Because they're very bitey.
And I have a feeling.
I don't want to get bitten on the face.
Gavin: No.
Jack: She's acting okay.
Wow, that is amazing.
This is about the same size as...
Whoa!
Jack: Holy mackerel!
Ahh!
Wow, this looks like an olive python.
This is a serious snake.
I'm out finding pythons in the middle of the night
In northern australia.
I don't want to get bitten on the face.
And this one is in a grumpy mood.
This is about the same size as a...
Whoa!
I don't want to get bitten by the snake.
She's just going to keep grabbing on.
So, this is about the same size as the oenpelli.
Wow! What a find, gavin, can you believe that?
Right in the water!
Gavin: You've done well.
Jack: This is a big snake,
And if it'd bitten me, it would hurt a lot.
Olive pythons are among the biggest snakes in australia,
And the largest that I'm going to be catching.
And right now, he's showing
A little bit of aggression, actually.
He's looking at my face, man.
Hasn't tried to bite me. See that puff?
It's amazing.
Given that this snake
Is probably one of the largest predators out here,
Anything that normally would come along would be prey,
But I'm much bigger than its normal prey.
Gavin, have a go.
There you go.
Gavin: Oh, look at the big scar just between your hands there.
Jack: Oh, yeah.
So if you look there carefully, you can see the scar
That another animal has given it a go.
Possibly a big feral cat.
That's a little battle wound of that snake.
Wow.
That's a good sign.
Any reptiles out tonight, it's quite a warm night,
Means that there's activity.
See you, buddy.
Happy hunting.
♪ ♪
Of all the different snakes that are out there,
I must say the oenpelli has got
That slightly different feeling about it.
You call it "the ghost."
Gavin: It is a special animal.
It is a really special animal.
You would just hate to think that it's gone.
Jack: Mmm.
♪ ♪
So what do you reckon the plan is today, gavin?
Gavin: We're in prime oenpelli habitat.
So we're about here.
We'll travel along this fissure here.
It should have water in it.
It's heavily forested.
Jack: They're nocturnal animals.
Do you reckon it makes good sense
To find an area that looks like an area
Where the oenpelli might live and come back tonight?
Gavin: I think that's a good idea, yeah.
♪ ♪
This would be the sort of crack that I'd be checking.
Jack: This is a perfect place.
Gavin: Mark it.
Jack: Well, there we go.
We're going to check here tonight
When they'll be active and hunting.
Look at that.
And that looks like it goes really deep.
Gavin: My guess is there's a heap of bats and small rats
And things like that in there,
Which are prime oenpelli food.
It's like us eating jellybeans.
Jack: Oh, love it!
Have to mark the spot here.
Yes. Can't wait to explore down there.
Gavin: Hey, jack!
Freddy: Come quick.
Gavin: That's a king brown.
Jack: Oh, wow, king brown!
I've been checking out the cave over there,
But they've got a king brown, a venomous snake.
A snake that specializes in the eating of other snakes.
This is a venomous snake, so I'll have to be careful.
Gavin: I heard a noise and I looked down there,
And there was this thing.
Jack: Wow!
Gavin: My fingers are starting to get a bit numb.
Jack: Wait a sec, wait a sec. I'm coming out here.
If this thing bites me, my life as I know it could well be over.
Gavin: You have to go quick, you alright?
Jack: Yep.
Okay, have to let this guy just chill out.
This is the king brown.
This is the king of the australian outback.
And they've got massive amounts of venom.
The highest venom yield of any snake in the world,
More than the king cobra.
And he's grumpy.
Ah, look at that, the venom dripping on my snake hook.
You would not want that on my finger,
Especially out here in the middle of nowhere.
I've heard about people have been bitten,
And they just lose consciousness,
The pain is insane.
If I let go of this snake,
He's going to go down and towards the water,
And we really don't want to get bitten by this king brown.
♪ ♪
Okay, uh, that's the point where I really don't want the snake
Going above its own body.
It's starting to get a lot more active.
Gavin: Oh, nasty.
Jack: Whoa!
Jack: This is the king brown.
And they've got massive amounts of venom.
It's starting to get a little more active.
Gavin: Oh, nasty.
Jack: Ahh!
You have to, you really have to be careful
With a snake like this, because they're so quick.
And any venomous snake in australia is highly venomous.
It's definitely in the top 20
Most venomous snakes in the world.
Whoo!
Freddy, you want to handle the, uh, king brown?
Jack: Look at that, he's gonna bite the hook again.
I'm gonna put him down.
Everybody ready? I'm gonna release the snake.
Off you go. Okay.
Gavin: Yes.
Jack: Woo-hoo!
Gavin: Done right. Jack: Yeah!
Gavin: Sensational.
Jack: I'm sweating, whoa,
You can see the sweat coming down there.
The sun is just coming down now.
This is the perfect time to find reptiles.
They're becoming much more active,
And they'll start coming out.
So we might be able to find the oenpelli.
We're coming back to all the different areas
We've scouted out during the day.
♪ ♪
That's our x.
This is where we thought this was a good area, right here.
Gavin: Oh, yeah. That's good.
Jack: Oh, check that out!
Gavin: Oh, struth!
Jack: Man, okay.
So that is a children's python.
Jack: Wow. Okay.
Gavin: That's beautiful.
Jack: That's exactly how you expect to find these animals.
A children's python will be hunting any rodent,
Or actually reptiles as well.
If the snake senses any kind of sign of an animal nearby,
It'll go into an ambush position and stay as still as possible,
Waiting for prey to come along.
It's one of the smallest pythons in australia, right here.
Gavin: Definitely.
Freddy: Hey, jack. Gecko! Gecko, here!
Jack: Gecko? Oh, my lord!
Ah, look at that, that's so cool!
Okay.
That's a giant cave gecko.
What a find that is.
Well done, freddy. That is wicked.
Gavin: The snake was waiting for something.
So, there's a good chance that that was going to be dinner.
Jack: Yeah, ha ha.
Look, he's got his mouth open.
These guys are notoriously a little fighty.
And you see there, they don't have any eyelids.
So they use their tongue in there to just, agh!
(gavin laughs)
Jack: Didn't try and bite me.
They got a tongue in there that wipes their eyes.
And that is how they manage to clean them.
Wow, they've got a massive little gob.
Look at him!
That is so cute.
This is a really good find, giant cave gecko
And a children's python in the same place.
That is one hell of an experience.
Do you want have the honors of, you found the gecko.
Jack: Okay, that makes our fifth python species!
That means the only one left is the oenpelli.
(twang)
Gavin: Did you hear that?
Just up there, then.
Jack: Yeah, it was a little pop.
Gavin: Just up there somewhere.
(twang)
Jack: Ah, yes! Here we are!
Cane toad.
Ah, look at that grumpy little guy.
That's a little grumpy one.
Gavin, here we go.
We have to be a little bit careful
Because they've got an extremely toxic poison.
And the problem is that the oenpelli
Would definitely see this as food.
It's not a good idea, because if he ate it,
Then he would have a heart attack and die.
Almost definitely.
Gavin: Absolutely, spot on.
And that might be why we're seeing a decline
In a whole heap of different species.
Jack: Australian scientists imported cane toads
All the way from south america, where they're native,
To control cane beetles, which were attacking the cane field
And hurting australia's sugar export.
The problem is that these produce
An unbelievable amount of tadpoles.
They lay 30,000 eggs twice a year.
And they are expanding all throughout australia
And totally adjusted the ecosystem.
You can actually milk the poison from the glands,
And these glands are right behind their ear.
That is a big bulge, two bulges there.
Gavin: That looks like that toad is completely ripe.
When you squeeze that, it's gonna come right out.
Jack: Let's give it a go, see if I can milk a cane toad.
Um, I have to be really careful that it doesn't get into my eyes
Because the poison in the, the bufotoxin
Can make you go temporarily blind.
Can you just grab that for a minute?
Gavin: Sure can. Jack: Thanks.
Gavin: Here we go.
Jack: Okay, cane toad.
Here we go.
Oh, wow!
That really did squeeze out.
Blimey. Whoa!
Check that out!
Oh, god.
But you can just see how much poison is in there.
And that, honestly, if I lick that,
I would be in seriously bad trouble.
This is potentially the reason
Why we're finding it hard to find the oenpelli.
What'd you reckon we should do to this guy?
Gavin: It is an animal that doesn't belong here,
So I reckon we'll put it in a bag and take it back with us.
Jack: Okay. See ya, mate.
I won't give you a kiss.
(twang)
♪ ♪
This looks familiar.
Ah, yeah, there you are.
There's the x.
This is that massive cave we saw earlier.
I'm keen as anything to get in that cave.
That looks crazy.
Gavin: It's just got snakes written all over it.
Jack: Okay, I feel like I need to go in.
Gavin: I think one of us has to, and I don't fit.
Jack: I'll see if I can squeeze myself through.
♪ ♪
Okay, in we go.
♪ ♪
Gavin: Wow.
Jack: I have to snake my way through there.
It's so narrow.
Okay, I'm in.
Alright, deep into the cave I go.
(grunts)
It's really tight in here, gavin.
God, if you don't like cramped spaces,
This is not the place for you.
Wow, this is really austrophobic.
It goes deep.
Really deep.
Blimey. Oh!
♪ ♪
Jack: Goes seriously deep.
I think I can see, uh, like an opening over there
Where I might be able to get a bit more headroom.
♪ ♪
Oh, wow, there's a bat.
You see that?
Cool.
They're tiny, the size of my hand.
We found our way into a bat cave.
If I was a snake, I would love to live here, for sure.
I mean, that's a lot of food for snakes.
Snakes love eating bats.
Ah! It just went on me!
(laughs)
Aw, jeez.
A bat just like, literally just went on top of me.
This is crazy scary, weird stuff.
Whoa, I see a snake.
Ah, blimey!
Another slaty gray.
Ah, jeez, he's having a go at me.
Ah!
He's only a little guy, but he's actually having a go.
Not venomous.
He needs to bite as much as possible to get any little prey.
Ahh, he's really aggressive.
Ah, he's got my, my lip.
Wow, oh, my god.
Right, off you go.
This is a perfect habitat.
If the slaty gray was active,
It's the perfect time for feeding for snakes.
I'm trying to be as quiet as possible.
Little vibrations I'm making on the ground
Snakes can feel, they might get scared.
Oh, wow!
A big snake!
There's a big snake right here.
Ah!
(grunting)
It's deep in that crevice right here.
Oh, wow, that's a big snake.
(grunting)
I've got it.
That is an absolute monster.
It's got to be at least 12 foot long.
Oh, my, he's around my neck.
Wow!
Can you believe that?
We managed to find an oenpelli python.
This is unbelievable!
Unbelievable.
Look at that.
That is so serene.
Look at the massive eyes on that.
Whoo!
It's a little bit grumpy.
Huge eyes!
That's characteristic of an oenpelli.
They've got those big eyes that gets them seeing in these caves.
This is one of the best finds ever.
I don't know how I'm going to maneuver this snake
Out of this cave.
I need to somehow crawl my way through here.
Can you imagine what gavin is going to say
When I've pulled this snake out?
They've got really strong muscles.
It's just getting onto every bit of rock.
Scrambling through a cave with a 12-foot-long snake.
It's definitely a first for me.
It's wrapping around my body, actually, really strongly.
This is seriously tight, this crevice down here.
His tail is around my eye.
He's just wrapping around my face.
If he gets too grumpy and decides to constrict,
I'm in big trouble.
Get this snake out.
♪ ♪
I'm really close now.
Probably only got another ten meters
To get back out of this cave to pull the snake out.
Gavin, I've got something really big.
A massive snake.
Gavin: I can see your torch.
Hold that.
Jack: Oh, wow.
Gavin: Oh, my god, that's an oenpelli.
Ah, that's lit up like a christmas tree!
Jack: Whoa! Get him off.
It's wrapped around my waist here.
Gavin: That is sensational.
Jack: Oh, in that light.
Gavin: Look at the yellows, the gold! Oh, man.
Jack: Look at that.
Gavin: You just don't see 'em, you know?
This is, this is the ghost.
Jack: I mean, literally, I'm, my heart is just going.
Gavin: Aw, mate, you've done so well.
Jack: Look how beautiful it is.
Jack: I feel so unbelievably privileged to be part of that.
Gavin: It's something specia
Jack: It is, isn't it?
That glistens, like, amazingly.
Gavin: For sure.
Gavin: The dna on this is, uh, is hard to come by.
So we need to record that.
I need you to open its mouth for me, while I take a swab.
It's probably not going to like this, but.
Jack: Wow! Look at those teeth!
They're absolutely monrous!
Gavin: There's only about 180 teeth in there,
So you'll be alright.
Jack: Wow, that is a huge mouth.
Gavin: Wriggle it around a bit, and that's all we need.
Jack: Whoo, big teeth.
Okay, sorry mate.
Okay.
You're just seeing me as a tree.
Cool.
Gavin: Your mentor would have gone crazy to see that.
Jack: Do you think steve had ever seen one of these
In the wild?
Gavin: I'm pretty sure he didn't.
I knew steve fairly well,
And when I was with him, he'd never seen one, so.
Jack: It gives me goose bumps thinking about that.
Gavin: Me, too. He was a great guy.
You carry on the legacy.
You take this stuff to the world.
Jack: Time to say good-bye.
Look at that, just slowly gliding away out of my hands.
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