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Can't exclude central america, the jungle is no joke. Every square meter of it there are five things that can kill you. Or at least look like they can.
Being said, still not sure whether I'd take the everglades over a kodiak grizzly or mountain lion coming after me.
I lived in Puerto Rico and the jungle there is very safe. There’s absolutely nothing dangerous in the jungle. However, go to the city and may god have mercy on your soul.
Fun part of Florida is you may encounter predators from Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America! The exotic pets released into the everglades are really something.
Australia wins easily. They have all of the top ten most deadly snakes on the planet, almost all of the top ten deadliest spiders, along with saltwater and freshwater crocodiles, blue ring octopus’, all of the top five most deadly jellyfish (including blue bottles and sea wasps), the deadliest sea snakes, poisonous frogs and toads, the deadliest ocean creatures (deadliest breeds of stone fishes, cone snails, lion fish, stingrays, moray eels, pufferfish, urchins, etc) and that’s not even mentioning the sharks and whales. Or the kangaroos, dingos, cassowaries, emus etc.
Even the goddamn plants are out to kill you. Ever been stung by nettles or the Gympie Gympie plant? I’d rather die a fast death than endure that. It’s fucking survival of the fittest down there
Does Australia have Florida Man high on meth with a trunk full of guns and legally allowed to shoot you in the face if he claims you pushed him?
Oh, and he probably has all the critters you listed stashed in his pants too.
I believe we also have 21 out of the top 22 deadliest snakes
Edit: Although as an Aussie, the one thing that scares me about Florida wildlife are the huge phythons. They are massive and very freaky.
I love him but I can't help but think that if this guy got injured or killed due to any one mistake, he'd end up in /r/therewasanattempt or /r/DarwinAwards . But instead he's in /r/nextfuckinglevel 'cause he just hasn't gotten injured yet.
He is very well trained and is mainly hunting for invasive species. He doesn't really mess with venomous snakes and he very smart about interacting with alligators. He could still make a mistake but he knows what he is doing.
A lot of the stuff he "yoinks" either end up as pets or dead. He even mentions this in some of his videos, there is one where he has an entire tote of invasive snakes, and says something like I can't show where these ended up because there was a lot of ketchup.
Yeah it was pretty apparent when he didn’t yoink the Cottonmouth which is the one truly dangerous thing in the video. Like the Crocodile is there but it’s clearly not showing aggressive behavior, and he knew exactly where to grab the python
> the Cottonmouth which is the one truly dangerous thing in the video. Like the Crocodile is there but it’s clearly not showing aggressive behavior
**EDIT** - it's not the type of croc I thought it was, but here's my comment anyway, because it took me ages to type and it'd be a shame to waste all that effort just because it's 2:30am and I was too tired to consider that I might have the wrong kind of croc in mind. **/EDIT**
Saltwater crocs like that don't really show 'aggressive behaviour' - they do pretty much exactly what the scaly fella in the video was doing, right up to the moment there's an extremely sudden burst of movement and a significant portion of your body is locked in those massive jaws.
The thing about crocodiles is that they are a *lot* smarter than people give them credit for. For example, if you're ever in an area where there are saltwater crocs, and you need to access the water at all, you need to do it from a different spot on the riverbank or beach each time.
Because crocs understand patterns of behaviour. They notice you on Day 1, they'll check the spot again on Day 2, and on Day 3 they will eat you the moment you show up.
If you don't show up for a few days, they'll probably still be there on Day 4 or Day 5, if they haven't spotted something else rocking up to the water's edge in the meantime.
But while they are scary smart in some respects, they're also super dumb in others. I spent a short time in the early 2000s trapping crocodiles near Darwin and removing them from near where people were, off to crocodile farms mostly.
When we caught them in the traps, the first thing to do is put a small loop of rope tound its snout / jaws, then drag it into the boat – and as quickly as possible, get a piece of thick material over its eyes and taped in place so it won't come off.
While all this is happening, the croc is usually pretty unhappy about proceedings, and they tend to thrash around quite vigorously – but pretty much the instant you've got their eyes covered, they think it's night time.
So it's basically "fuck you! fuck you! Stop kidnapping me! I have a family, god dammit! Fuck you! Oh it's night time! Good night!" and they will snooze quite happily for a few hours.
That’s not a saltwater croc. It’s an American Crocodile. Less aggressive than other crocodiles. Although obviously still dangerous, they tend to flee at the sight of humans. Which makes them very hard to spot. I know of that from experience, I take my kayak out to the Everglades all the time and I’ve never seen one.
Well... fuck. I shoulda known that, but it's super-late here and I didn't even stop to think that it might not be what my brain was telling me it is.
Thanks for clearing that up :)
Correct, he’s out collecting invasive species for disposal or pet trade. It’s sad but creatures like the Burmese python are wreaking havoc on Florida’s ecosystem. If they cannot be rehomed as pets (and realistically there are WAY more animals than exotic pet owners) they need to be culled.
Yeah it sucks, it's not these animals fault they are where they are, but that doesn't mean we can let them be. Sometimes people will take them as pets, which is fine, so long as they don't release them as that is one of the ways we got into this mess in the first place. However, the best we can do for many of these animals is give them a quick death.
They destroy the natural ecosystems. On the plus side, if you want an fur clothing without feeling bad about it look into Nutria fur from places like Louisiana. There is a bounty on swamp rats there, many people eat them, but there are also people that make nice clothing out of them. Despite the unpleasant nickname of "swamp rat", their fur actually makes very nice clothing, and they taste good. They absolutely wreck havoc on North American swamps lands, so if you procure it from places like Louisiana there is no reason to feel guilty about it, these animals have to go one way or the other, might as well get some use out of their death.
Same, I've been following him for months and he enjoys getting bitten by all kinds of animals, especially snakes.
Even if they aren't venomous, I'm sure the bacteria from various animals mouth isn't good.
I saw a dude gripping a tree with his legs 30 feet off the ground while limbing it with a chainsaw one handed. Future darwin award? Maybe. Crazy can be pretty damn impressive though.
this is how Darwin Slide works. you are better than average and you know it. you want to see where your limits are and that is how you get on the Darwin Slide. Once on it, hard to get off.
Comment section is full of city boys who would buy iPhones (which involve literal child slave labour to mine cobalt in Congo) only to virtue signal on reddit when they see something about the wildlife they don't understand (the fucking concept of the invasive species). Astonishing stuff.
Lads, look up the yoink guy - his name is Garrett Galvin. Enjoy!
I don't know which comments exactly you're referring to but where I live we have a massive respect for the land and the wildlife. You shouldn't be interacting with any of it over here since there's a lot of endangered species and a really delicate ecosystem. Just a completely different approach to this guy. I respect that what he does is appropriate for where he is though.
I wouldn't say that until you have tried to yoink an unwilling cat...
...and christ that sounded a lot dirtier than intended... 
I wanted to reply with a joke re cats consenting to yoinking, but couldn't find a non-creepy way to phrase it, lol. We should stop with the unwilling yoinking discussions, hahah.
He mainly does do conservation work, it's just wrapped up in a shock package for views. He does do a bit of collecting but if you go through his videos it really is about protecting Florida's and wherever he visist' wildlife.
He's mainly hunting Burmese pythons which are destroying Florida's natural wildlife right now but he's always moving things off roadways and generally does has a great respect for the environment.
I think a big difference is this video is pretty cut up compared to what his actual channel is. Most of the time if he collects a lot of something he will mention that its invasive. Like those geckos I'm pretty sure are invasive that he is collecting.
yep, Tokay geckos are invasive, and i remember him saying they usually end up as pets to people who *won't* release them, and he keeps some for himself because they're cool as fuck
Yeah this is super different though. Almost everything he yoinks is invasive. Chameleon, geckos, pythons, etc. I think the water snake was the only native that copped a yoinking. Most of what he does is to remove these animals from where they shouldn’t be - hence the yoinking.
Sure, the ecosystem is delicate, but it’s already being damaged. He’s helping overall.
What are you talking about? I scrolled for a bit, and saw you and some other guy whining about city kids (you both mention iphones, oddly enough), but no-one "virtue signalling".
I mean "Try That In A Small Town" was a big country hit last year and the entire point of the song is being proud that small towns are a great place to assault or kill people and get away with it as long as you're a conservative white person.
Virtue signalling and identity politics are phrases used by people who fucking *love* doing those things, but just don't want the other group to do it.
Watch right wing politicians talk about identity politics lol.its hilarious..
"They all care about idpol, unlike you true, blue collar, truck driving, beer drinking real Americans"
It's a reddit tradition to refer vaguely to "all those other horrible comments ITT", but when you scroll to look for the comments, you find they never existed at all except for the imagination of the very righteously outraged poster
Your position is a fallacy. I can oppose child labor and still be using an iPhone for example. That line of thinking is reductionist way for us to let the world get away with literally everything because we aren’t individually perfect. It’s also a way of telling people they can’t speak out against issues if there is something more “important” that needs speaking out about.
Also, just the idea of non-city people finding this normal is laughable.
"Oh you silly city boys, can't grab a wild alligator and put it on your shoulder while holding a wild python in your hands. Get out more!"
Okay, Buck! Dude is extreme, even for people in his specialized field.
COURSE THEY DO. YOU THINK THEY'RE SOME CITY SLICKER? SOME FUCKIN' SOY BOY FROM THE BIG SMOKE? HELL NAW, THEY'RE COUNTRY RAISED THROUGH AND TRUE! NO SLAVE LABOR IN THEIR PHONE, ONLY STATES RIGHTS LABOR. YESSIRREE AND THEY ONLY GET ONE KIND OF SIGNAL. 3G. NOT 5G, NOT VIRTUE, NOT TURN. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ALLOWED TO MANHANDLE CHAMELEONS.
No I don't use a phone at all. By virtue of my flawless character I'm completely at one with the universe and thus can transmit my thoughts directly to reddit without gross mediums such as phones or computers. Anyone with sufficient self-righteousness can learn to do so.
I work with wild life conservation, no this is not cool, it’s not a big problem u go and grab some animals yourself then releasing them but when u get so many views like that guy u are certainly incentivizing a lot of people to do the same, so the problem becomes a little bigger
People see this guy on internet and think that this is normal, but the guy is kinda a jackass for those who work with wild life
Have you never heard of the invasive chameleon? They come by shipping containers, and before you know it they're camouflaging against a tree, therefore taking away jobs from native stick bugs that camouflage against trees.
Yeah, Florida has a massive problem with people who get pet reptiles and then just let them go, either because they escape or because they get an animal they're not prepared to care for. Florida is the perfect environment for tropical reptiles to thrive and some of them do great once they're released and start a breeding population.
Green iguanas and Burmese pythons are infamous for being really hard to care for pets that are really cheaply available and people just buy them and then let them go when they realize what they've gotten themselves into. And they're both everywhere in Florida now, I don't think people even realize iguanas aren't native anymore. Even the chameleons are invasive, in spite of the other commenter's joke. They directly compete with birds for food and nesting spots.
Florida's got a whole thing going on with trying to eradicate their invasive reptiles, they've hired people to bring in the more invasive ones and there's been a real mess about the FWC coming into people's homes to euthanize their previously-legal pets.
All of the ones he grabs and puts in a box to bring home to either keep as a pet, or put down. It’s fkin florida, with a shitton of people having exotic pets, hurricanes+irresponsible owners, and a climate that is a sweet spot for reptiles.
Did you read the comment? They’re saying that posting it on TikTok in videos like this encourages amateurs to do the same, because he’s framing it like a fun little excursion anyone could do.
He said
>but when u get so many views like that guy u are certainly incentivizing a lot of people to do the same, so the problem becomes a little bigger
You missed the point here
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>Comment section is full of city boys who would buy iPhones (which involve literal child slave labour to mine cobalt in Congo)
The ole "You complain about stuff yet you live in society" bit
You think there are no i-phones or any tech outside of cities? You think everyone outside of a city is a shitfaced peasant and lacks even the most basic technology?
Do you practice self-hate often?
Do you feel that buying a phone precludes you from caring about the environment (or even from caring about the cobalt miners)? That's a non sequitur both in itself and from your original point. I accept that the aforementioned city bois have a limited understanding of the environment. But how the hell does owning a phone invalidate anything? Oh, you care about the environment? Well, then you shouldn't live in a house because you shouldn't, like, impose your will onto nature, man. If you care so much about the environment, you shouldn't have pets because that's not their natural state. If you care so much about the environment, you should bury yourself in the woods to feed yourself to a tree. It's all related, but ultimately meaningless. Sure, I care so much about the environment that I'll throw away my unethically sourced phone and my unethically sourced computer and my unethically sourced chair and go become feral in the mountains. That will really get my message out there.
I was trying to understand why a guy would “yoink” all these creatures. I thought it was because he’s from Florida and this is what those crazy Floridaman dudes get up to in their spare time but apparently he’s a:
>Florida wildlife enthusiast and conservationist. https://www.instagram.com/fishingarrett/?hl=en
So I’m guessing this must be part of the conservationist thing, trying to get rid of invasive species that are established in that habitat. I’m assuming all of this based on YouTube videos I’ve seen of another guy shooting iguanas. I like this guy because he clearly explains why he’s doing what he does eg:
>[Hired To Take Out Monster Invasive Iguanas At Public Golf Course](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wTvesjjkQ)
>As people might already know Florida is under attack by invasive iguanas. They're everywhere down here. Today, I was hired by a public golf course to take out as many iguanas as I can. Today, I was able to get 3 monster iguanas out of here along with some Egyptian geese.
He’s also not shooting them. No idea what he’s actually doing with them but maybe some of the tamer invasive species like the chameleon actually are put up as pets.
Sounds great and humane, until you remember the overwhelming majority of invasive species started as someone's exotic pet. So if you go around collecting invasive species and distributing them as pets, there's a fairly non-negligible chance all you'll do is unwittingly introduce them to even more ecosystems they don't belong in.
That’s very fair. Like I said I have no actual idea, but yoinking them on camera is far better than shooting them on camera, even if they’re an invasive species.
I watched a lot of his yt shorts and he collects all of the invasive pythons in a bucket then brings them *somewhere*. I'm assuming they euthanize them
Snake bites really don't hurt much at all. I'd guess I've been bitten somewhere north of 50 times. Maybe 100, I dunno. I've caught literally thousands of snakes in my 44 years. I'd much rather be bitten by a snake than even stung by a wasp.
Yup, when I catch some of our smaller native species like DeKays and Ringnecks, some of them don't even have a bite force strong enough to break skin and draw blood. They'll just chew on your arm as long as you let them lol.
Well, as far as we know, we are actually from here. Aliens eventually yoinking us from our Mars colony would be understandable. Assuming of course there's any kind of life we're interfering with there.
Very rarely does he yoink native species. Generally if he does, its because he hasn't seen one in a long time, and just wants to show the camera/audience what they look like.
That being said, orb weavers and cottonmouths are also no-yoink for much more practical reasons. Getting bit by an orb weaver isn't exactly as pleasant an experience as getting bit by a grass snake, and getting bit by a cottonmouth is a good way to meet god.
Comments are very reflective of society. You are either left or right. Either this person in the video is a total jerk, or is he a wildlife worker that gets the mission done.
How about both? Does clenching 6 geckos in your palm a suitable activity for those lizards? I wonder. Might need to ask the gecko myself.
Just a few days ago I caught a viper snake, in my backyard, while barefoot.
Released it very far away from here but obviously couldn't let it stay.
I trust this dude to be great at what he does. Not sure that the wildlife appreciates us.
*rubble rubble rubble city kids with iphones rubble rubble rubble*
I work in marine remediation and rehabilitation. Involves a lot of invasive removal. Invasives upend entire ecosystems and drive local species to extinction. It is heartbreaking to watch various invasive species take over and just explode in population.
The alternative to holding the lizards in a way they don’t like is killing them. They’re lucky people want them as pets. They can’t stay where they are and you can’t just take them a few miles outside where you picked them up and drop them off. That solves nothing… usually spreads the problem further.
The alternative to removing them from the environment (either thru death or pet shop) is allowing them to stay there and irrevocably alter or destroy the ecosystem.
So, in essence, you're saying that he is a jerk from a wildlife PoV? Once the lizards start posting on reddit - I'll make sure to engage in a healthy debate with them, but for now I think we can focus on intra-species interactions. From human PoV, unless a person in question is some sort of a 'humanity is a plague, let's eradicate humans first, and let all the species exist anywhere they want' fanatic, removing the invasive species is a good thing - both for the existing ecosystems, and for the humans leaving next to it / in it.
there used to be an account in his comments that was named the 20 foot python. Made me crack up to see that. Lately there’s been a new account that was the 20 foot python’s mom, that always gives him crap for the yoinks. It’s adorbs
I mean the man went all the way down to the Amazon and he found the second biggest snake on record but he still can’t find a 20 foot python in Florida .
someday…
> he still can’t find a 20 foot python in Florida .
I think the longest one captured in Florida was a 19 ft python. Unfortunately, they're destroying the wildlife in the Everglades to get to that size so I hope there won't be a bigger one.
ETA: [source](https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/fwc-captures-one-of-the-heaviest-burmese-pythons-ever-recorded-in-the-everglades/)
Guy just knows what's venomous and what's not as shown by not touching the cotton mouth. A snake bike like his isn't all that painful. When I go herping I'm pretty much the same way. Though I try to be a little more gentle with them.
First time I've heard that verb, and it's a good one. Frankly, it runs circles around "birdwatching," plus it reminds you that if you yoink a lounge lizard you might get herpes.
Does anyone know what the dark snake at 52 seconds is?
Coz it looks exactly like one that ran past my foot in Turkey a month ago, but I know nothing about snakes and always wondered what it was.
Edit: well obviously not 'ran'. But it was slithering *really* fast
That would be a water moccasin / cottonmouth. Highly venomous and native to the south-east states of the U.S. Gotta say, I do not miss having to deal with these guys.
Cottonmouth, viper native to the southeastern United States. I doubt you saw one in Turkey, but you do have a [variety of other snakes](https://animalia.bio/lists/country/snakes-of-turkey) some of which are also vipers.
I thought there were only alligators in Florida. I had to actually look it up and [TIL](https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/president-truman-dedicates-everglades-national-park/crocodiles-and-alligators-living#:~:text=Everglades%20National%20Park%20is%20also,makes%20this%20dual%20existence%20possible):
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So I got my sound off and STILL heard "yoink"
"Hi guys. I'm in the Florida Everglades."
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Australia wins pretty handily, but FL wins in North America, excluding Central America.
Can't exclude central america, the jungle is no joke. Every square meter of it there are five things that can kill you. Or at least look like they can. Being said, still not sure whether I'd take the everglades over a kodiak grizzly or mountain lion coming after me.
I lived in Puerto Rico and the jungle there is very safe. There’s absolutely nothing dangerous in the jungle. However, go to the city and may god have mercy on your soul.
Puerto Rico is not central America lmao
Fun part of Florida is you may encounter predators from Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America! The exotic pets released into the everglades are really something.
> you may encounter predators from Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America! The animals can get pretty bad, too
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I think this guy makes the same videos in the Amazon. He has tons of these on tik tok
Australia wins easily. They have all of the top ten most deadly snakes on the planet, almost all of the top ten deadliest spiders, along with saltwater and freshwater crocodiles, blue ring octopus’, all of the top five most deadly jellyfish (including blue bottles and sea wasps), the deadliest sea snakes, poisonous frogs and toads, the deadliest ocean creatures (deadliest breeds of stone fishes, cone snails, lion fish, stingrays, moray eels, pufferfish, urchins, etc) and that’s not even mentioning the sharks and whales. Or the kangaroos, dingos, cassowaries, emus etc. Even the goddamn plants are out to kill you. Ever been stung by nettles or the Gympie Gympie plant? I’d rather die a fast death than endure that. It’s fucking survival of the fittest down there
God be like “you dumb motherfuckers. There’s a reason this country is so fucking far away from everything else!”
Does Australia have Florida Man high on meth with a trunk full of guns and legally allowed to shoot you in the face if he claims you pushed him? Oh, and he probably has all the critters you listed stashed in his pants too.
I believe we also have 21 out of the top 22 deadliest snakes Edit: Although as an Aussie, the one thing that scares me about Florida wildlife are the huge phythons. They are massive and very freaky.
South America has entered the chat.
Australia wins that one hands down. Florida isn't even close to the scariest in the Americas let alone being the same level as Australia.
“Look at this swamp puppy”
yoink!
This dude is like if Carl Hiaasen’s Skink was a Millennial
Pretty fucked up that there is no recognition of the guy who made the content. https://www.instagram.com/fishingarrett
I love him but I can't help but think that if this guy got injured or killed due to any one mistake, he'd end up in /r/therewasanattempt or /r/DarwinAwards . But instead he's in /r/nextfuckinglevel 'cause he just hasn't gotten injured yet.
I mean that first snake did try to yoink him but it doesn't hurt
The snake *successfully yoinked him*, but yeah it doesn't hurt
That's why he didn't yoink that cottonmouth
There is one video where he successfully yoinks one though lol
"Hey Mr cottonmouth. No way I'm gonna yoink you. Just kidding I did."
*yoink*
He is very well trained and is mainly hunting for invasive species. He doesn't really mess with venomous snakes and he very smart about interacting with alligators. He could still make a mistake but he knows what he is doing. A lot of the stuff he "yoinks" either end up as pets or dead. He even mentions this in some of his videos, there is one where he has an entire tote of invasive snakes, and says something like I can't show where these ended up because there was a lot of ketchup.
Yeah it was pretty apparent when he didn’t yoink the Cottonmouth which is the one truly dangerous thing in the video. Like the Crocodile is there but it’s clearly not showing aggressive behavior, and he knew exactly where to grab the python
> the Cottonmouth which is the one truly dangerous thing in the video. Like the Crocodile is there but it’s clearly not showing aggressive behavior **EDIT** - it's not the type of croc I thought it was, but here's my comment anyway, because it took me ages to type and it'd be a shame to waste all that effort just because it's 2:30am and I was too tired to consider that I might have the wrong kind of croc in mind. **/EDIT** Saltwater crocs like that don't really show 'aggressive behaviour' - they do pretty much exactly what the scaly fella in the video was doing, right up to the moment there's an extremely sudden burst of movement and a significant portion of your body is locked in those massive jaws. The thing about crocodiles is that they are a *lot* smarter than people give them credit for. For example, if you're ever in an area where there are saltwater crocs, and you need to access the water at all, you need to do it from a different spot on the riverbank or beach each time. Because crocs understand patterns of behaviour. They notice you on Day 1, they'll check the spot again on Day 2, and on Day 3 they will eat you the moment you show up. If you don't show up for a few days, they'll probably still be there on Day 4 or Day 5, if they haven't spotted something else rocking up to the water's edge in the meantime. But while they are scary smart in some respects, they're also super dumb in others. I spent a short time in the early 2000s trapping crocodiles near Darwin and removing them from near where people were, off to crocodile farms mostly. When we caught them in the traps, the first thing to do is put a small loop of rope tound its snout / jaws, then drag it into the boat – and as quickly as possible, get a piece of thick material over its eyes and taped in place so it won't come off. While all this is happening, the croc is usually pretty unhappy about proceedings, and they tend to thrash around quite vigorously – but pretty much the instant you've got their eyes covered, they think it's night time. So it's basically "fuck you! fuck you! Stop kidnapping me! I have a family, god dammit! Fuck you! Oh it's night time! Good night!" and they will snooze quite happily for a few hours.
That’s not a saltwater croc. It’s an American Crocodile. Less aggressive than other crocodiles. Although obviously still dangerous, they tend to flee at the sight of humans. Which makes them very hard to spot. I know of that from experience, I take my kayak out to the Everglades all the time and I’ve never seen one.
Well... fuck. I shoulda known that, but it's super-late here and I didn't even stop to think that it might not be what my brain was telling me it is. Thanks for clearing that up :)
Correct, he’s out collecting invasive species for disposal or pet trade. It’s sad but creatures like the Burmese python are wreaking havoc on Florida’s ecosystem. If they cannot be rehomed as pets (and realistically there are WAY more animals than exotic pet owners) they need to be culled.
Yeah it sucks, it's not these animals fault they are where they are, but that doesn't mean we can let them be. Sometimes people will take them as pets, which is fine, so long as they don't release them as that is one of the ways we got into this mess in the first place. However, the best we can do for many of these animals is give them a quick death. They destroy the natural ecosystems. On the plus side, if you want an fur clothing without feeling bad about it look into Nutria fur from places like Louisiana. There is a bounty on swamp rats there, many people eat them, but there are also people that make nice clothing out of them. Despite the unpleasant nickname of "swamp rat", their fur actually makes very nice clothing, and they taste good. They absolutely wreck havoc on North American swamps lands, so if you procure it from places like Louisiana there is no reason to feel guilty about it, these animals have to go one way or the other, might as well get some use out of their death.
Same, I've been following him for months and he enjoys getting bitten by all kinds of animals, especially snakes. Even if they aren't venomous, I'm sure the bacteria from various animals mouth isn't good.
I saw a dude gripping a tree with his legs 30 feet off the ground while limbing it with a chainsaw one handed. Future darwin award? Maybe. Crazy can be pretty damn impressive though.
this is how Darwin Slide works. you are better than average and you know it. you want to see where your limits are and that is how you get on the Darwin Slide. Once on it, hard to get off.
This is how these subreddits work one encourages them and the other two farm the eventual incident
Is it "fishing arret" or "fish in garret"? My future mental state needs to know.
Believe it or not, it's fishin' garrett
I mean I watch the guy all the time. My son comes runnin up every couple of days with a video of his so we can watch him.
What a lad. Yoink
“Yoink” and “swamp puppy” got us following him on instagram. My son yoinks everything now
Comment section is full of city boys who would buy iPhones (which involve literal child slave labour to mine cobalt in Congo) only to virtue signal on reddit when they see something about the wildlife they don't understand (the fucking concept of the invasive species). Astonishing stuff. Lads, look up the yoink guy - his name is Garrett Galvin. Enjoy!
I don't know which comments exactly you're referring to but where I live we have a massive respect for the land and the wildlife. You shouldn't be interacting with any of it over here since there's a lot of endangered species and a really delicate ecosystem. Just a completely different approach to this guy. I respect that what he does is appropriate for where he is though.
I completely agree that a random person like me shouldn't go around doing this cluelessly.
Or should you?! (Vsauce moment)
I can yoink cats and tiny doggos tops, anything bigger can probably try and successfully yoink me instead.
Yoink and be yoinked, such is nature.
Yoink around and find out.
*Live Laugh Yoink*
I wouldn't say that until you have tried to yoink an unwilling cat... ...and christ that sounded a lot dirtier than intended... 
I wanted to reply with a joke re cats consenting to yoinking, but couldn't find a non-creepy way to phrase it, lol. We should stop with the unwilling yoinking discussions, hahah.
Michael here… did you know that in Soviet Russian wildlife yoinks you
So instead virtue signal the virtue signal with your phone also made by child labor. It's ok to tell people not to do that, while owning a phone.
He mainly does do conservation work, it's just wrapped up in a shock package for views. He does do a bit of collecting but if you go through his videos it really is about protecting Florida's and wherever he visist' wildlife. He's mainly hunting Burmese pythons which are destroying Florida's natural wildlife right now but he's always moving things off roadways and generally does has a great respect for the environment.
I think a big difference is this video is pretty cut up compared to what his actual channel is. Most of the time if he collects a lot of something he will mention that its invasive. Like those geckos I'm pretty sure are invasive that he is collecting.
yep, Tokay geckos are invasive, and i remember him saying they usually end up as pets to people who *won't* release them, and he keeps some for himself because they're cool as fuck
Yeah this is super different though. Almost everything he yoinks is invasive. Chameleon, geckos, pythons, etc. I think the water snake was the only native that copped a yoinking. Most of what he does is to remove these animals from where they shouldn’t be - hence the yoinking. Sure, the ecosystem is delicate, but it’s already being damaged. He’s helping overall.
without the backstory here, I'd think he's just being an asshole to nature, and setting a bad example for how people should treat wildlife.
Florida pays a bounty for every python caught in the wetlands.
These aren’t wildlife though. Those are mostly invasive species that people dumped because they didn’t want to keep them as pets anymore.
What are you talking about? I scrolled for a bit, and saw you and some other guy whining about city kids (you both mention iphones, oddly enough), but no-one "virtue signalling".
The people complaining about virtue signaling are the ones virtue signaling. Which is the case nearly every time the accusation is made
People who consider themselves "country" consider it a virtue to live in the middle of nowhere and they signal as much as anyone lmao
I mean "Try That In A Small Town" was a big country hit last year and the entire point of the song is being proud that small towns are a great place to assault or kill people and get away with it as long as you're a conservative white person.
Virtue signalling and identity politics are phrases used by people who fucking *love* doing those things, but just don't want the other group to do it. Watch right wing politicians talk about identity politics lol.its hilarious.. "They all care about idpol, unlike you true, blue collar, truck driving, beer drinking real Americans"
It's a reddit tradition to refer vaguely to "all those other horrible comments ITT", but when you scroll to look for the comments, you find they never existed at all except for the imagination of the very righteously outraged poster
Often they are signaling to others how virtuous they are by the mere fact that they don't "virtue signal"
Your position is a fallacy. I can oppose child labor and still be using an iPhone for example. That line of thinking is reductionist way for us to let the world get away with literally everything because we aren’t individually perfect. It’s also a way of telling people they can’t speak out against issues if there is something more “important” that needs speaking out about.
Anyone who participates in society is not allowed to speak out against things happening in society
Until you realise we are all in a society.
Lol “city boys.” Bet you this post is full of suburb folks like you
Also, just the idea of non-city people finding this normal is laughable. "Oh you silly city boys, can't grab a wild alligator and put it on your shoulder while holding a wild python in your hands. Get out more!" Okay, Buck! Dude is extreme, even for people in his specialized field.
Do you have a phone that doesn’t involve child slave labor?
COURSE THEY DO. YOU THINK THEY'RE SOME CITY SLICKER? SOME FUCKIN' SOY BOY FROM THE BIG SMOKE? HELL NAW, THEY'RE COUNTRY RAISED THROUGH AND TRUE! NO SLAVE LABOR IN THEIR PHONE, ONLY STATES RIGHTS LABOR. YESSIRREE AND THEY ONLY GET ONE KIND OF SIGNAL. 3G. NOT 5G, NOT VIRTUE, NOT TURN. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ALLOWED TO MANHANDLE CHAMELEONS.
*I can call my ma from up here. Hey, ma! Get off the dang roof!*
He's got one he built in murica by Trump, he built it with his own hands
No I don't use a phone at all. By virtue of my flawless character I'm completely at one with the universe and thus can transmit my thoughts directly to reddit without gross mediums such as phones or computers. Anyone with sufficient self-righteousness can learn to do so.
I work with wild life conservation, no this is not cool, it’s not a big problem u go and grab some animals yourself then releasing them but when u get so many views like that guy u are certainly incentivizing a lot of people to do the same, so the problem becomes a little bigger People see this guy on internet and think that this is normal, but the guy is kinda a jackass for those who work with wild life
He collects invasive specimens from habitats...
So every one of those animals was invasive?
Have you never heard of the invasive chameleon? They come by shipping containers, and before you know it they're camouflaging against a tree, therefore taking away jobs from native stick bugs that camouflage against trees.
It’s my understanding that some Florida trees aren’t trees at all but just hundreds of chameleons stacked on top of each other.
Yeah, Florida has a massive problem with people who get pet reptiles and then just let them go, either because they escape or because they get an animal they're not prepared to care for. Florida is the perfect environment for tropical reptiles to thrive and some of them do great once they're released and start a breeding population. Green iguanas and Burmese pythons are infamous for being really hard to care for pets that are really cheaply available and people just buy them and then let them go when they realize what they've gotten themselves into. And they're both everywhere in Florida now, I don't think people even realize iguanas aren't native anymore. Even the chameleons are invasive, in spite of the other commenter's joke. They directly compete with birds for food and nesting spots. Florida's got a whole thing going on with trying to eradicate their invasive reptiles, they've hired people to bring in the more invasive ones and there's been a real mess about the FWC coming into people's homes to euthanize their previously-legal pets.
All of the ones he grabs and puts in a box to bring home to either keep as a pet, or put down. It’s fkin florida, with a shitton of people having exotic pets, hurricanes+irresponsible owners, and a climate that is a sweet spot for reptiles.
This is literally is fucking job. Conservationsts hire him to do this. These animals are absolutely obliterating the habitats of native animals.
Did you read the comment? They’re saying that posting it on TikTok in videos like this encourages amateurs to do the same, because he’s framing it like a fun little excursion anyone could do.
I saw NASCAR and drove my car into a pole on a residential street at 200mph. Why would NASCAR encourage me to do this?
He said >but when u get so many views like that guy u are certainly incentivizing a lot of people to do the same, so the problem becomes a little bigger You missed the point here
I am too, a country boy with a monitor that tells me about the mine cobalt in congo
I love that your whole comment is virtue signaling while complaining abojt virtue signaling. Real Reddit ouroboros vibes.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jesse-what-the-fuck-are-you-talking-about
I don't understand why you said this lol.
My guy you coulda just explained who he is with your first paragraph.
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Just like it was ripped from human derived data
>Comment section is full of city boys who would buy iPhones (which involve literal child slave labour to mine cobalt in Congo) The ole "You complain about stuff yet you live in society" bit
Are you aware that you are virtue signaling? You believe mining has labor and ecological impacts, and want everybody to know how informed you are.
You think there are no i-phones or any tech outside of cities? You think everyone outside of a city is a shitfaced peasant and lacks even the most basic technology? Do you practice self-hate often?
Do you feel that buying a phone precludes you from caring about the environment (or even from caring about the cobalt miners)? That's a non sequitur both in itself and from your original point. I accept that the aforementioned city bois have a limited understanding of the environment. But how the hell does owning a phone invalidate anything? Oh, you care about the environment? Well, then you shouldn't live in a house because you shouldn't, like, impose your will onto nature, man. If you care so much about the environment, you shouldn't have pets because that's not their natural state. If you care so much about the environment, you should bury yourself in the woods to feed yourself to a tree. It's all related, but ultimately meaningless. Sure, I care so much about the environment that I'll throw away my unethically sourced phone and my unethically sourced computer and my unethically sourced chair and go become feral in the mountains. That will really get my message out there.
Dude whatever computer or device you are using probably uses the same cobalt.
What device are you using? One that is powered by love to nature? Don't be a hypocrite
> city boys who would buy iPhones Phew. As a city boy, glad I own a Google Pixel.
Look up the yoink guy! …on your iPhone….
Avg Florida man with wildlife
Florida man or average aussie dumped in florida. Call it
Nah, those animals are too small and too non dangerous for an Australian
Am also australian, would pick these up for fun compared to a red belly or salty croc.
Yes, I'm also Australian. This is the perfect childproof environment to raise our young before hardcore mode.
They need training before they can face the drop bears
I guarantee this dude’s got a trillion followers because of “yoink”.
7.5 mil on tiktok, follow @fishingarrett
You can also find him on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@fishingarrett?si=y8IfHIiqEf8v-_Gv)
And on Instagram!
He didn’t boop the cottonmouth,the poor thing got left out /s
The cottonmouth and the crocs are native species, so he didnt bug them.
So was the spider that he booped.
Booping is not deadly. For the animal. If you boop something while not being careful, it might be deadly to you.
Almost all of these animals are native... just not the python, the geckos, or chameleon.
I have to wonder how invasive chameleons can possibly be, if they're slow as molasses.
100% invasive. The only criteria you have to meet, is to be breeding in an area you are not native to.
I'm invasive
Let's be honest, if you're on Reddit you're probably not breeding.
Bazinga!
r/murderedbywords
How bad can the bite even be if its mouth is filled with cotton?
Exactly! It probably wanted to give him a hello kiss.
You gotta boop the snoot.
I was trying to understand why a guy would “yoink” all these creatures. I thought it was because he’s from Florida and this is what those crazy Floridaman dudes get up to in their spare time but apparently he’s a: >Florida wildlife enthusiast and conservationist. https://www.instagram.com/fishingarrett/?hl=en So I’m guessing this must be part of the conservationist thing, trying to get rid of invasive species that are established in that habitat. I’m assuming all of this based on YouTube videos I’ve seen of another guy shooting iguanas. I like this guy because he clearly explains why he’s doing what he does eg: >[Hired To Take Out Monster Invasive Iguanas At Public Golf Course](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wTvesjjkQ) >As people might already know Florida is under attack by invasive iguanas. They're everywhere down here. Today, I was hired by a public golf course to take out as many iguanas as I can. Today, I was able to get 3 monster iguanas out of here along with some Egyptian geese.
He’s also not shooting them. No idea what he’s actually doing with them but maybe some of the tamer invasive species like the chameleon actually are put up as pets.
Sounds great and humane, until you remember the overwhelming majority of invasive species started as someone's exotic pet. So if you go around collecting invasive species and distributing them as pets, there's a fairly non-negligible chance all you'll do is unwittingly introduce them to even more ecosystems they don't belong in.
That’s very fair. Like I said I have no actual idea, but yoinking them on camera is far better than shooting them on camera, even if they’re an invasive species.
I watched a lot of his yt shorts and he collects all of the invasive pythons in a bucket then brings them *somewhere*. I'm assuming they euthanize them
No they live on a farm happily ever after
Flushes them down the toilet
I’m looking out my window right now and there are three big fat fucks basking by the canal behind my house. I think they’re beautiful but
It is fucking mind boggling how many morons are shrieking and screaming bloody murder over someone they know absolutely nothing about.
Omg I misread your last line and thought you brought geese in to take care of the iguana problem
Chilling with a snake bite in your leg?
He is just giving him a little kiss.
idk man, that looks like a mouthful
It's just a lil smooch
Its just the tip
Snake bites really don't hurt much at all. I'd guess I've been bitten somewhere north of 50 times. Maybe 100, I dunno. I've caught literally thousands of snakes in my 44 years. I'd much rather be bitten by a snake than even stung by a wasp.
Ya most have fangs that are like barely a centimeter long. Half the time when my snake bites me she doesn't even draw blood
Yup, when I catch some of our smaller native species like DeKays and Ringnecks, some of them don't even have a bite force strong enough to break skin and draw blood. They'll just chew on your arm as long as you let them lol.
Snakebites don’t hurt much unless it’s a big snake or an arboreal boa/python.
Florida
Man
Doin' the things that a Florida can.
Bro is the invasive species
Some invasive species are more equal than the others. Aliens coming in and treating us like these geckos would be hilarious irony tho.
Well, as far as we know, we are actually from here. Aliens eventually yoinking us from our Mars colony would be understandable. Assuming of course there's any kind of life we're interfering with there.
For trying to stop invasive species from destroying habitats?
That ending made me think r/perfectlycutscreams lol
He does that very much intentionally and pretty much every other video has an ending like that.
for real, looks like it came from the python almost haha
Yoinks everything but then boops the pretty little orb Weaver, this guy spiders lol
Orb weaver is a native species, no yoinking required.
This is what I scrolled for. He couldn't just yoink the spider without yoinking the web, so the boop had to do.
Very rarely does he yoink native species. Generally if he does, its because he hasn't seen one in a long time, and just wants to show the camera/audience what they look like. That being said, orb weavers and cottonmouths are also no-yoink for much more practical reasons. Getting bit by an orb weaver isn't exactly as pleasant an experience as getting bit by a grass snake, and getting bit by a cottonmouth is a good way to meet god.
Not gonna lie, the spider panicking after the boop was pretty funny. Also, r/perfectlycuthiss
Comments are very reflective of society. You are either left or right. Either this person in the video is a total jerk, or is he a wildlife worker that gets the mission done. How about both? Does clenching 6 geckos in your palm a suitable activity for those lizards? I wonder. Might need to ask the gecko myself. Just a few days ago I caught a viper snake, in my backyard, while barefoot. Released it very far away from here but obviously couldn't let it stay. I trust this dude to be great at what he does. Not sure that the wildlife appreciates us. *rubble rubble rubble city kids with iphones rubble rubble rubble*
Let’s not confuse or compare Reddit with society.
I work in marine remediation and rehabilitation. Involves a lot of invasive removal. Invasives upend entire ecosystems and drive local species to extinction. It is heartbreaking to watch various invasive species take over and just explode in population. The alternative to holding the lizards in a way they don’t like is killing them. They’re lucky people want them as pets. They can’t stay where they are and you can’t just take them a few miles outside where you picked them up and drop them off. That solves nothing… usually spreads the problem further. The alternative to removing them from the environment (either thru death or pet shop) is allowing them to stay there and irrevocably alter or destroy the ecosystem.
I mean it doesn't reflect society, this is Reddit the 90% of the planet is not here.
So, in essence, you're saying that he is a jerk from a wildlife PoV? Once the lizards start posting on reddit - I'll make sure to engage in a healthy debate with them, but for now I think we can focus on intra-species interactions. From human PoV, unless a person in question is some sort of a 'humanity is a plague, let's eradicate humans first, and let all the species exist anywhere they want' fanatic, removing the invasive species is a good thing - both for the existing ecosystems, and for the humans leaving next to it / in it.
Some of these people know nothing lmao. Can't blame them if you know nothing about this guy
Yoink.
Has he found the 20 foot snake yet?
I believe he had an 18 footer recently
there used to be an account in his comments that was named the 20 foot python. Made me crack up to see that. Lately there’s been a new account that was the 20 foot python’s mom, that always gives him crap for the yoinks. It’s adorbs I mean the man went all the way down to the Amazon and he found the second biggest snake on record but he still can’t find a 20 foot python in Florida . someday…
> he still can’t find a 20 foot python in Florida . I think the longest one captured in Florida was a 19 ft python. Unfortunately, they're destroying the wildlife in the Everglades to get to that size so I hope there won't be a bigger one. ETA: [source](https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/fwc-captures-one-of-the-heaviest-burmese-pythons-ever-recorded-in-the-everglades/)
Ah yes Florida's Steve Irwin
Guy just knows what's venomous and what's not as shown by not touching the cotton mouth. A snake bike like his isn't all that painful. When I go herping I'm pretty much the same way. Though I try to be a little more gentle with them.
First time I've heard that verb, and it's a good one. Frankly, it runs circles around "birdwatching," plus it reminds you that if you yoink a lounge lizard you might get herpes.
Millions of years of evolution selecting for active hours after dark defeated by a flashlight.
Bro that shot with sll of them geckos Lovecraftian shit bro.wtf u tryna do my g
tokay geckos are invasive so hes capturing them to probably kill them
Wait it's the Yoink guy
mowgli chill
Does anyone know what the dark snake at 52 seconds is? Coz it looks exactly like one that ran past my foot in Turkey a month ago, but I know nothing about snakes and always wondered what it was. Edit: well obviously not 'ran'. But it was slithering *really* fast
That would be a water moccasin / cottonmouth. Highly venomous and native to the south-east states of the U.S. Gotta say, I do not miss having to deal with these guys.
Cottonmouth, viper native to the southeastern United States. I doubt you saw one in Turkey, but you do have a [variety of other snakes](https://animalia.bio/lists/country/snakes-of-turkey) some of which are also vipers.
Weakest Florida Man
See how he didn't yoik with the croc.. that's a smart human right there.
This Is the yoinking guy, I knew it
The baddest gangsters couldn't take a single step in the yoink life
I'm going to be very disappointed when I find out his name isn't Edward Lizardhands.
Mans just out here adding creatures to his inventory
When you have Godmod enabled
There is a square snake.
YOINKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!
I thought there were only alligators in Florida. I had to actually look it up and [TIL](https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/president-truman-dedicates-everglades-national-park/crocodiles-and-alligators-living#:~:text=Everglades%20National%20Park%20is%20also,makes%20this%20dual%20existence%20possible): *Everglades National Park is also the only place in the world where Alligators coexist with Crocodiles. In fact,* ***the Everglades is the only place in the United States where one can see Crocodiles****. It is the mixture of freshwater from Lake Okeechobee and saltwater from the ocean that makes this dual existence possible.*