Louisiana Deadly 60


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My name's Steve Backshall.

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You can call me Steve.

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I'm on a mission to find the Deadly 60.

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Ow!

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That's 60 deadly creatures from around the world.

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TIGER ROARS

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And you're coming with me every step of the way.

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Ow!

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We're here, in Louisiana, USA

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looking for the swamp beasts with the biggest bite.

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Louisiana is in the heart of the Deep South.

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It's hot and humid and there's a lot of water about.

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The perfect place for all sorts of cool deadly critters to hang out

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and in particular, reptiles.

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It's what many people call "gator country".

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And what's a gator?

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Well, it's a word you'll be hearing a fair bit in this programme.

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You could say it's my fee.

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This part of the States, the best known top-of-the-line predator

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is the alligator.

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And the first animal we're looking for is, well,

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it's a kind of alligator and this is its skull.

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But believe it or not, it's not a type of crocodile.

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It's not even a reptile.

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In fact, this amazing skull and that face full of teeth

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belong to a fish.

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The first stage for us to find one of these giant fish

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was to get some help from a few locals.

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And then we took to the water.

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This part of Louisiana is an absolute labyrinth of saltwater marshes

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and swamps and waterways.

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They call it the bayou.

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And beneath the surface of this is an incredible amount of life.

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Huge quantities of shrimp and crab and fish,

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and that obviously brings in the predators.

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To find our monster fish, there's really only one way...

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and that's to go fishing.

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So what we've got here is a bait fish, a mullet.

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On a hook there.

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It doesn't have a barbed end so it won't hurt the fish.

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And this - soft drinks bottle - is going to act as the buoy

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to float at the surface and tell us where the bait is.

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I'm going to chuck this in, and hopefully tomorrow morning

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we should have our next Deadly 60 contender.

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He's steering the boat while trying to do sound!

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STEVE LAUGHS

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You didn't follow that one, that was a good one!

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That was my first good throw!

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It's just after dawn.

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The sun has just broken up over the horizon, starting to warm us up

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and we're all really excited.

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I know Nick, the sound man's particularly excited.

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STEVE LAUGHS

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Because out there, about 45 minutes away,

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are all of our floats we put out last night

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and we have no idea what's on the end of them.

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But we're really, really hoping that our next Deadly 60 contender

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is waiting for us.

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All along the banks of the bayou are absolutely hundreds

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of herons and egrets. I've never seen so many in my entire life.

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The fact that there are so many of them means these waters

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must be absolutely stuffed with fish.

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They're fantastic hunters.

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You see them standing along the river edge almost motionless

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with their head back like this, and then wham, they strike like a snake.

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Incredible birds.

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Fabulous!

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Such regal birds.

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Shrimp boat!

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This is what Louisiana's really famous for.

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INAUDIBLE

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Johnny? Johnny? We've got one.

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Our first buoy - just there. Look, in front of us.

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-One back there.

-See them over there.

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No, nothing on that one.

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Ah!

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Eugh! Ha ha!

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OK.

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No go and a soaking.

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-What do you think of this, Nick?

-This is wicked!

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He loves his fishing!

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Oh! We got something!

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When a bottle starts swimming away from you like that

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it's definitely a good sign.

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Ah!

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STEVE LAUGHS

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This is the one. No!

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Look at the speed of that!

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So this...

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..is it.

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Oh!

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It's a drum.

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Wow!

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Right, off you go, big fella.

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Oh! It's swimming away!

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Did you see that? It dived!

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Oh ho-ho-ho!

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STEVE LAUGHS

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We've caught something big.

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STEVE LAUGHS Look at that!

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Well...

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I don't believe it! STEVE LAUGHS

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We've got our Deadly 60 animal.

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What we've got to do is figure out how to get it into the boat

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without losing fingers.

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OK.

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So this...

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is the Alligator Gar.

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Also known as the garpike.

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It's an absolutely magnificent creature.

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Take a look into those jaws.

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Look at those teeth!

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Now we've got a little bit of leeway

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with working with them out of the water.

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They can stay out the water for as much as two hours and still be OK.

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You can certainly see where they get their "alligator" name from.

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If I hold the snout up like that...

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And running down, those amazing scales.

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He certainly looks more like a crocodilian than a fish.

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Wonderful!

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It's reckoned they've been around for as much as 60 million years.

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This actually doesn't just catch fish around here,

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they'll even come to the surface and catch birds, even squirrels.

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And he really is ferocious.

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With a set of gnashers like that,

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the Alligator Gar is definitely going on the Deadly 60.

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Right...

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Oh.

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That's a big fish.

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Off he goes.

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A huge prehistoric armour-plated fish

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with two rows of deadly fangs.

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Not what you'd want nibbling on your toes.

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But great for killing with.

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# East bound and down Loaded up and truckin'

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# Are we gonna do what they say can't be done

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# We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there

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# I'm eastbound just watch old Bandit run... #

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It's one down and a drive to the north of the state for, well...

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another swamp.

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This swamp may look pretty grotty

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but if you look at any part of the water for any length of time

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just does seem to be alive.

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There's absolutely hundreds of tadpoles, small shrimp,

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tiny fish, all just playing around in the shallows here.

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And that means there's going to be something here feeding on them.

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That's what we're hoping to find.

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The snake of the swamps is called the Cottonmouth.

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The name comes from the inside of its mouth

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looking like the locally grown cotton plants.

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This snake is a specialist at hunting fish.

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Their colour makes them almost impossible to see,

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so to find one, we're going to have to get dirty.

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Every step and you get this disgusting stench

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coming up from the mud

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of rotting vegetation.

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It's hideous.

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This rather innocuous looking pile of sand here

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is home to not one deadly animal, but tens of thousands.

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Er, they're red fire ants.

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Not supposed to be in this part of the world at all,

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they come from South or Central America, and they've been brought in

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inadvertently by people.

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And if you're wondering why they've got a fierce reputation,

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all you need to do is get too close to this nest and you'll see.

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If I just tap it with my snake stick

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within seconds...

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you'll probably see an absolute volcanic eruption of ants.

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The watery world of the swamp doesn't bother fire ants.

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They can even cross the water by linking legs

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and floating like some sort of prickly life raft.

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Outside swamps, they can live almost anywhere.

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But wherever they do turn up, they cause trouble.

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In particular, their attraction to electricity

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means they often short-circuit important equipment.

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CAR HORNS BEEP

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They get the name fire ants because every single bite and sting

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um, feels like a burning hot needle being plunged into your flesh.

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Problem is they don't just bite by the ones or twos,

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they bite in their hundreds.

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They even have an attack signal that makes them attack at the same time.

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And, er...

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this backbone here is from a small mammal that was unlucky enough

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to either die near here

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or to be too close to here and got stung to death

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and it's been cleaned to the bone by these guys.

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Deadly and very cool animals.

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But I'm still holding out hope that I'll find myself a cottonmouth.

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Here!

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Big?

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It is a cottonmouth!

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Got it.

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OK. Come back.

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OK...

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Right...

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Out you come, fella. Oh!

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It made a strike at my snake hook.

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OK, I just want to get you out into the open.

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So you can see him.

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Easy, Steve.

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No, no. I know.

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Right...

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I'm hoping if I put him down here...

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Here you go, look at that display!

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Showing off the white inside of the mouth.

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And striking.

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Just hold there a sec. Not going to hurt you.

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Look at the tail.

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Going absolutely crazy back here. Flickering backwards and forwards.

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If Nick brings in his boom,

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we might just hear...

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Look at that tail going crazy!

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RATTLING

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When it hits dry leaves, it makes a sound

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just like a rattlesnake's rattle.

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I must have walked within feet of him and he didn't move at all.

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But then Nick the sound man, I guess stepped almost right on him

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and just screamed out for me.

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It really shows quite how much care they'll take not to be seen.

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Good spot, Nick!

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I'm not sure I screamed.

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STEVE LAUGHS You did!

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Now he's settled in place

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you can really see how effective the camouflage is.

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The dark mottled colours of the ground here

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match absolutely perfectly with the colours running down his back.

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It's only really when he shows off the inside of his mouth -

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that white, cotton-like interior -

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that that's when you see, not only how he gets his name

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but how he creates a threat to scare away other animals.

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What's particularly unusual though about the cottonmouth

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is the way that it chooses to hunt.

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The Latin scientific name for this snake is "piscivorus",

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means "fish eater".

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And this is a snake that, very unusually for the vipers,

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lives an enormous amount of its life in the water.

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It's a truly sub-aquatic snake.

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Which is very, very unusual for vipers.

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And though it will feed on all kinds of different things

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its main diet is fish.

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Vipers all over the world specialise in hunting warm-blooded mammals.

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But these snakes like nothing better than a nice cold fish.

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The cottonmouth...

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the master fisherman of southern America...

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RATTLING

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..with an incredible flickering tail threat display

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and a white mouth that's going to scare anything away.

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It's definitely going on the Deadly 60.

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Vipers that eat fish are about as common as pants on a parrot.

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And for that reason this fish fancying cottonmouth

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joins the Deadly 60.

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Ok, the snake was sensational.

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It's time to get back to the alligator theme.

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We couldn't come to these swamps without at least trying

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to find an alligator.

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During the daytime, although there's a lot of them around

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really all you tend to see is a fair of nostrils and eyes

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above the surface of the water, if that.

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But at night time, we do have one thing in our favour,

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which is that crocodilian eyes reflect light bright ruby-red

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so I've got a big torch here

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and I'm going to go out, see if I can spot some.

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Alligators are cousins of the crocodiles

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and belong to the same group called crocodilians.

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They're similar looking, but if you look at them side by side

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then it's pretty easy to tell the difference.

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Alligators on the left, have much broader, more rounded snouts.

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They can grow to 4.5 metres and weigh about five times more than me,

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which makes them by far the biggest reptile in the USA

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and top swamp predator.

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A rather magnificent raft spider.

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Just scampering over the surface of the steamy water.

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Very unusual to see them out completely in the water like this.

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Usually they just sit at the edge with their front two legs

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feeling the surface tension for anything coming close.

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Look at that!

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It's big as well.

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About the size of the palm of my hand.

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But he's right now hunting for small fish

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and invertebrates.

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Nick, torch!

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Just...just there.

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It's an armadillo!

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I don't believe it!

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OK, I know they're not deadly

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but I really want to see it.

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Whether it wants to be seen by us is another matter.

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It's somewhere in this thicket.

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Oh, no!

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Oh, which way?

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Do you see him?

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INDISTINCT REPLY

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Well, that was all rather embarrassing.

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He got away from me and ran straight between the cameraman's legs!

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STEVE LAUGHS

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Right, shall we go and find ourselves an alligator?

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Luck just wasn't on our side and the wild gators were not letting me

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get close to them. But if you can't win, then, well...cheat.

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I'd heard about some very special alligators in a nearby zoo

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that I just couldn't resist showing you.

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Deadly 60's all about animals in the wild.

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But here in the National Audubon Zoo in New Orleans

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they have these impossibly rare white alligators.

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They kind of look like a replica of an alligator

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that's been carved out of soap or porcelain.

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Until they move.

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And then all of a sudden they become very real.

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This is caused by a... Oh!

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You're giving me a big gape!

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See, all of a sudden, as soon as they move...

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turns into a real animal.

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This whiteness is caused by a genetic abnormality,

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which means they don't have the pigments that give them colour.

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He's incredible. He's like a ghost gator.

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This is Black Bayou wetlands.

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All of these cypress trees, turning autumn gold

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reflected perfectly in this glassy smooth water.

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It's about as beautiful as a swamp could ever be.

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But somewhere beneath these dark waters

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is a monster with one of the most powerful scalpel-sharp jaws

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in the whole of the animal kingdom

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and that's what we're hoping to find.

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The monster in question is called an alligator snapping turtle.

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They spend a lot of their time sitting still,

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looking a bit like a log.

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And the clever thing is they get their lunch to come to them.

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On the inside of their open mouth a fleshy growth wiggles invitingly

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to passing fish.

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Any who take the bait find themselves grabbed

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by some of the most powerful jaws in the world.

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To help find one, I've enlisted the help of an expert.

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This is Mitch. He's studying the turtles.

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The Black Bayou is pretty vast.

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And the water is, as you can see, it's pretty murky.

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So our chances of actually just happening across the animal

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we're looking for, are pretty slender.

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We put out these hoop net traps...

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And there's fresh fish bait inside.

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I'm really hoping...

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..that we've caught something special.

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OK, our first trap's empty. We've still got six more to try.

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I'm still confident that we're going to find something.

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I should never, ever say that on camera!

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STEVE LAUGHS

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Next trap's just in front of us here

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and it's a good deal lower in the water than the others.

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Which could mean that something heavy inside is keeping it down.

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Oh, wow!

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Yes!

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Oh, my goodness. Look at the size of it!

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Two! There's two in there!

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Oh, my God!

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Look at the size of it!

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STEVE LAUGHS

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Wow!

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Congratulations.

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We actually have three.

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I don't believe it!

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Look at the size of the head on that one!

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Mitch, is this a record for you?

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Three in one trap IS a record.

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Steve, you're my good luck charm.

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Look at the size of this one here!

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It's got to be a big male, hasn't it, Mitch?

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When they're that big, they're easy to tell male from female.

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I cannot tell you how heavy this is.

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That is an absolute monster!

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Two enormous males.

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And one smaller turtle.

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I was just starting to feel that, er, the day

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was going to have no results.

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We checked all our traps. This was the last one that was left.

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And, um, well...

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absolutely unreal.

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Three giant alligator snapping turtles.

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We're just going to be real careful, real gentle

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try to ease them out.

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Try and get the big male out first.

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You'll notice, as we're moving into the turtle,

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we'll keep our hands a lot further away from the head

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than you would expect.

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That's because it, actually... When it strikes,

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the head really extends forward from the front of the shell...

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a good distance.

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And, where as with the small one here, I guess I'd be in danger

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of losing a finger,

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I think it's pretty safe to say that if my hand or even my arm

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were to get too close to the jaws of this big fella

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then I'd probably lose it.

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Wow!

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Well done, Mitch.

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OK.

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Steve, if you hold what you've got

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-then just do your best to keep your fingers clear.

-Yeah.

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Just make sure your right hand doesn't stray from that spot.

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OK.

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Right...

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Good job, man. Good job. You've got him.

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Woo-hoo!

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That is a big turtle.

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Probably the largest freshwater turtle in the world.

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But that isn't really what's so impressive about him.

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Look at the size of that head!

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It's totally out of proportion to the whole of the rest of the body

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and most of that is just pure muscle power

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driving that jaw.

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At the edge of it is, well, it's incredibly sharp.

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It doesn't have teeth cos it doesn't need to have, really.

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It's almost like a great big curved kitchen knife.

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You can see the hooked snout at the end

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and... Actually, I'm not going to be able to hold him like this for long

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cos he's just too heavy.

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They can get to be heavier than I am.

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What do you reckon, Mitch, how heavy is this turtle?

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About 110 pounds, Steve.

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-110 pounds.

-Pound for pound, probably a lot stronger than you or I!

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That's for sure!

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Absolutely sure. I'm having so much difficulty holding him.

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Oh, look at that!

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You can see how I'm really straining to hold him

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but you can see how far the neck extends.

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And that's how he hunts.

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I mean, looking at the shape of the head and the body

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it's very irregular.

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The colour's quite dark and he blends in really, really well

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with all the vegetation at the bottom of the water here.

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And then as soon as a fish gets too close, the head snaps

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out like that.

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The jaws clamp shut incredibly quickly,

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and the fish is history.

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There's a lot of animals in this series that people say to me,

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"What on earth are you doing putting that on the Deadly 60?"

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I don't think anyone's going to say that

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about the alligator snapping turtle.

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He really is a living dinosaur.

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I'm going to put him back cos I just can't hold him any more.

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All right, big fella!

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In you go.

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It's not only going in the Deadly 60

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but also on my personal list

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of creatures that I never

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want to get bitten by.

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Monster-sized, monster-looking

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with monster jaws -

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it's a living monster.

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OK, big fella...

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..in you go.

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