 Chad, today we're here at Alvea Sanctuary and I'm going to show you around. And my guest today is Maya. Hello, everybody. Coming through the door. Hello. You're like, why are you pushing the wall? Chad, today what we're going to be doing is we're here at Alvea Sanctuary. It took me a damn near an hour to get here. Stand by. I'm standing. It's been a long time since me and Maya did a stream together. Usually I learn a lot whenever I'm streaming with Maya. The last time I learned about ladies and how they function, I didn't remember anything. But I did learn and made for a good YouTube video. As I know, it's how to use a diva cup. Use a DSLR? Diva cup. Oh. Diva cup. What was the diva? Oh, yeah. That was, that's weird. You have no idea what I'm talking about. I forgot about that. I kind of blocked that on my memory. All right, so welcome to Alveas, everybody. We're going to go down to the parrots. Espan's going to meet the parrots. Parrots Hilton? If you had a hotel for parrots, you'd call it the Parrots Hilton. That's really good. It's really clever. Can I touch this goat? You can try. Hello. That's beetle. I think she got jealous. Would you also like a touch? Beetle. Don't try to pet her. Whenever they make noises, what are they trying to communicate? It depends. They make lots of different noises. You guys, this was the first enclosure that was put up here. Alveas Espan has seen it, but has never entered it. Is that correct? Oh, I have not actually entered this one. OK, we are going to enter this enclosure. We have four parrots in here, and I'm going to introduce you to all of them. Most of them. Two of them don't like anybody, basically. And one of them only likes women. So. How does it know if you're a woman? That's a good question. Do men and women smell different? I don't know. Is this hot? Yeah, it is. I don't want the goat in here. OK, do we close? Dude, it's crazy that roosters actually sound like that, because that sounds like a default noise. It's like a soundboard, yeah. Yeah. Siren. Oh, hello. Guys, this is Siren. Hello. That's so nice. She's your guys. Are you sure she hates men? Yeah. Can I feed her? No, I can't sure about you. Oh, really? You can give her this. If it bites me, will I die? No. Siren. That's nice. Oh, that's good. Hello. Oh, look at her, look at her, look at her. She de-shelled it. Kind of crazy, right? Wow, she knows how to do that. They're very handy. They're very good at ripping stuff up. We have the parrots talk about the pet trade, because a lot of people think they want them as pets. Turns out they're like awful pets. Yeah. And they're so loud, and they chew through wood, and they bite, and they cause hearing loss. Are you hearing loss for humans? Yeah, they can scream really loud. Really? Yeah, but she can also sing. She likes singing happy birthday. Can you sing happy birthday? Happy birthday. That was not happy birthday. Is it was? Wait, what did she say? Happy birthday. Happy birthday. What is so funny? It's like, Bella. Chad, did that sound like happy birthday, yes or no? Is that a happy birthday? Siren. One more time. Happy birthday. She didn't go away. No, she's saying birthday. That was actually good. It was pretty good. Esmer, maybe if you sing, she'll sing. OK. Do you sing? Nothing's going to change, mother, for you. You know I never know how much. She's like, if there's a birthday, she's like, hell yeah, I'm getting food every birthday. Hey. See, she likes me more, she likes me more. That is Mia. She's an African gray. Mia. OK, let me show you guys something. Check this out. Here's an example. OK, so we've recently repainted, but you see how all this wood is like gone? Chew off. That's the little birds that can do this. These two that you just met. Yeah, they chew through wood. These birds that are much larger, they did this. Dude, these birds? Yeah, that was like a three by three foot platform. Oh my gosh. And they just ripped it up. They just get bored and they just start biting away. Yeah, and they can, all right, stay away from these ones. They can scream louder than an ambulance, so it can cause hearing loss. These guys lived like 60, 70 years. Dude, these look like, when you think of parrots, like they look like this. Yeah. Like the cartoon parrot. This is the cartoon parrot, you know? Signs talking. OK, yo, you should go away. Sign, do you have something to say? When you start paying attention to them, they give you nothing. When you're not paying attention to them, she never stops. Yeah, sure. It's like having a toddler for 60 to 70 years that can chew through wood and rip your skin open and break your fingers. And cause hearing loss. So, you know, they say the two-year-olds or they call them the terrible twos. Yep, exactly. Because babies are like two-year-old kids. They're like just walking around trying to find like the most dangerous situation to possibly put themselves in. That's why this one was surrendered as a pet. This is Miley. Tico was dropped off in a box outside of an SPCA in California. What? You want to see how strong their beaks are? Yeah. You want to try to crack this nut? Yeah. You honestly, you might be able to, actually. How many do you have? Here, this is for you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, ready? OK. Set, go. She's even going to leave. Oh, my God. She's going to go do it over there because she's really cocky. Give me another one. Nope, that's it. You got to crack the, oh, you lost. What the frick? You lost really bad. Good job. I broke it. Yeah. Did you think you weren't going to break it? Well, I thought maybe it would survive. You want some? Anyway, their beaks are really strong. I don't know if you guys got a good look at Miley there. Do you see, yo, happy birthday. So which one of these is faster at flying? About the same. Mia, maybe like slightly. Which one of these is smarter? Like if they were to do standardized testing, which bird is smarter? From what they've done, they've done more studies on African grays than any other parrot species. They're supposed to have the widest vocabulary or ability to memorize words. Siren talks way more than Mia does. Mia makes a wide variety of noises that are like actual, like actually sound like the noise. Like she'll do like a backup beeper. She'll do all the birds in the area. Really? She's a really good pro. She says, hey, Siren just never stops, but it's mostly just like. So this one talks a lot. And then this one just is, confidence is shot because somebody else is always talking. Maybe. I mean, she talks less, but when she talks, it's like more enunciated. Can you make them not talk? Siren, halt. If both of us stopped talking and looked at her, she might stop. She really just likes talking while I'm talking. Anyway. They're kind of like chat. Yeah, kind of. Parrots are going to like chat. Just like, whatever you say, then they just say it back. Wide hordeaux. Wide hordeaux. Wide hordeaux. Is that an air noise? No, she's just. I don't know what it is. Wide hordeaux. Wide hordeaux. It sees air noise. What are you, African gray? Mia? Mia bird. Wide hordeaux. Mia learned her old owner's phone number. That's hilarious. Because she kept flying away. And so she taught her phone number so she could say it. And when she told me that, she was like, oh, it's so cool. She knows my number. And I got labcams. And I was like, that's not cool. That's not cool. But she has yet to dox her old owner. Because she's so nice. Isn't that so nice? Dude, as soon as you're talking, you're just talking. It's actually unreal. Do you want to see the chickens? Yeah. OK. I was going to skip them, but you can go in there. Chad, let's see if Mia can open this. Take her two tries. Welcome to the chicken coop. Oh my gosh. It's nice and cool in here. Yeah, it's nice. They're shade. They have fans. They have a little ice bath. So which one's the alpha chicken? This one, we have one male. His name is Oliver. He's a rooster. You want to feed him some mealworms? No words are disgusting. Oh, no, no. I don't want to touch it. S-Pan. No, I don't want to touch it. S-Pan. No, you know what's crazy? One time I touched mealworms, and my hand got itchy afterwards. So I'm scared I'm allergic to them, actually. Dude, chickens. Oliver, I got at a feed store for $5 because he was a reject rooster. This is Oliver. He's a genius. Oliver, what is the capital of Peru? What is it? Man, a few words. He doesn't know. Sometimes the smartest ones say the least. And then. Happy birthday. They don't do that. And then that's Henrique, and this is Nugget. Henrique? Yeah. Nice. Like Henrique, but. Like as a hen. Yeah. Wait, but a hen is a girl. What? Isn't a hen a girl chicken? Yeah. So she's a girl. Henrique is a boy's hen. OK. So we're going to be Henrique? Yeah, it is. It is now. These are the chickens. Yeah, you could have called her Henrietta. I have a Henrietta. We have one now, hey. Where's Henrietta? At my house. Oh. She's retired. Hey, what is a Cornish hen? Someone in chat says Cornish hen. I don't know what that is. Isn't that a food? Sounds like food. The chickens don't have Netflix and TikToks. Sorry. Do you think if you put a movie on a TV, the animal can watch it and comprehend what's going on? It depends on the animal. Our Marmosets love Netflix, they have an iPad. Really? Yeah. Can they pick their own movies? No, we put on like Trash Truck and Thomas the Tank Engine, Cocoa Moon. Really? Yeah. That's crazy. What's up, Stompy? So hello. Stompy looks like a dinosaur. Stompy has a dinosaur. Open the door. OK, OK. Thank you for that, Stompy. Just taking a fat dump right here. Really? This is Stompy. Have you ever heard of the phrase, don't shit where you eat, Stompy? Stompy's, and he likes hugs. And S-man's going to give him a nice big hug. Yeah? He closes his eyes. Do I hug him? Yeah. Hi. Do I just hug him? Yeah. Hi. Good hug, S-man. Thank you. Well done. Now show him your hat. I think he wants it. He wants to see it. Show it to him. Stompy? Is it my hat? What do you think? It's not food. Yum yum. I smell it. Stompy's the first ambassador we got here. His parents didn't sit on his egg, so he was incubated in captivity in California at a zoo. And then they sent him here. Really? Yeah. Stompy ate one of my rings. Do you remember that? Oh. Because I was at the house when it happened. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever find it? Yeah, it's this one. I feel like I saw it. Stompy? No, it's in my hair. It's Stompy's right in my hair. Yeah, he likes curls. Sorry, I should do that. Stompy ate this ring when he was 16 years old. And he did not pass it. It was taken out via endoscopy. You stick your hand in there? They stick a tiny camera in there with little. From here or from here? Here. Really? Do they take a metal detector and find where it is? They did an X-ray. Was that why it's bent? Maybe. But yeah, the vet gave it back to me in a little while. He was like, I got it. And I said, OK. And then I disinfected it. And I still wear it because I like it. It still stinks. It doesn't stink. Stand there. Wait for the donkey to come to you. He's a little shy. OK. The horse can't see, right? We're down to where it's black. No, he's distracted right now. OK, don't be weird about it. You see you're being weird about it now. He's like, what the hell? OK, hold it straight out. Guys, this is big. This is Serrano. Serrano was rescued from an equine rescue in central Texas. He was going to a feedlot to be slaughtered either for pet food like cat kibble, dog kibble, or for meat or because they still slaughter 5 million donkeys a year. 5 million donkeys a year for traditional medicine. So they'll boil donkey hide and make this gelatin. And they think it's a cure-all for anemia, blood circulation, reproduction, a bunch of stuff. But 5 million donkeys a year, they boil their hides for. This gelatin is called Ixiao. And so a lot of donkeys from the US are now exported to meet that demand. Here you go. You guys are friends. It's great. Peach. Dude, you need to teach the guys how to use the toilet. They're like animals out here. It's ridiculous. The other thing about that 5 million number you guys is, oh, wow. He doesn't usually have people touch him. The other thing about that is about 20% of those donkeys die in transport. So we've got 5 million a year, 20% dying in transport for no reason. It's pretty crazy. What do you think, Stomp? Wow, he's getting so many carrots. Here goes the last one. Yeah, I think animals like me. He does like you. That's great. Bonnie's cat claimed me as its owner. Really? It just falls me around the whole house all day. I go streaming and she just sits behind me and claims I'm streaming. Then I go to bed and then she comes and waits outside my door. I'll let her in. Oh my god, he really likes you, S-Fan. That's crazy. I'm an ass just like you. Yeah. Over here, we have a pooping baby cow. Hello, baby cow. S-Fan. Hello. This is Winnie the Moo. Winnie the Moo. Hello, Winnie. She's about a year and a half old. She's a red Angus cow, beef cow. I got her off of a beef operation in Oklahoma. She is past the point of where she would be slaughtered for beef. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, nice, so you can let her free. Yeah. But red Angus, you've seen Angus beef in the grocery store. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's marketed the same. So it's red Angus, black Angus, Angus beef. And so, yeah, we obviously have heard to talk about the beef industry. In general, you guys eat less beef. We produce it at a completely unsustainable rate. We're going to kill our planet just by consuming too much beef. I've been eating a lot of salad lately. Yay. That's how I was chickening it. That's OK. Chicken has way, produce, that poultry has way less emissions than beef. Really? So much lower. I've been thinking a lot of emissions. Only four at a lot, like methane. Is that true? Farting and burping, they produce methane. Winnie's a ruminant, which means she has four stomachs. And she produces methane as a byproduct of ruminating. And then, and methane is a greenhouse gas. So she'll fart and burp it out. And then it's a greenhouse gas. And then global warming. And that's why it's so hot outside. That sucks. Yeah. Because it's super hot in Texas right now. You know what's funny? I remember being in second grade, and we were learning about global warming. And I told my teacher. And I said, global warming don't make no damn sense. I told her that. Those words, exactly. I said, global warming doesn't make sense. And she said, why? And I said, you just taught us about equilibrium. So if it gets hotter, doesn't it also get colder? And she was like, well, that's not what the scientists say. Fast forward 20 years. Guess what? Guess who was right. That's right, Miss Mack. Wow. Oh, my god. That works. Esfand is a genius. Anyway, but it sounded like a real name. It was crazy. Esfand? Yeah. Thanks. When it comes to eating animal products, if you're thinking from an environmental perspective, eating poultry way less of a footprint than eating beef. Do you want to see Stompy in her splash pad? Splash pad? Yeah. Stompy loves. Is that this? No, it's this pool. Oh, Stompy, you want to show off your splash pad? Oh, he knows. He loves his splash pad. It takes a second to turn on standby. So the water comes out from all the sides? From all the sides, yeah. Oh, it just plays in the water? Yeah. Wait, you have monkeys? Yeah, man. Sick. You don't keep up with me at all. Wait, this is cool. I should get one of these. You want to go in there? Yeah. You can get it in Stompy if you want. It's your socks, bro. Ew. Ew, you're just OK with that. This is amazing. Hi. I can't believe you're OK with that. What? You're just going to have wet socks for the rest of the stream. It's OK. It's hot. Who do you think I am? Grayson, why don't you try to punch me in the liver? Oh, dude, that's so funny. We walk around, we just beat up Grayson all day now. What? Well, he deserves it. He's one of my favorite people in Austin. I only see him once twice a year, but I love Grayson. Me too. Dude, Grayson is like a night bird. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Night owl. Hello. Hi. This is Peewee. Hello, Peewee. Can I pet you? Hi. And that's Tripper. Hello, Tripper. Is she in after Threes Company? No. She's short and she runs in between your legs and you trip over her. It's an attack. Hello, gentlemen. So this is Appa and Momo. Can I hold them? If they jump on you, that's fine, but they probably won't. Wait, this room is sick. Kind of dope, right? What? This is better than my room. Yeah, this one's Appa. He's a common marmoset. He has white tufts on his ears. And then this is Momo. He's a black tufted marmoset. Hello, Momo. Momo has had more than half of his teeth removed because of dental disease. It's like if you feed a kid just like only fruit loops or something, their teeth rot out. Really? It's like that, yeah. Hello, can I have this? No, don't take anything from a monkey. Oh, really? Yeah. They're really important for their natural habitat. These are Brazilian monkeys. Oh, come to Brazil. They're seed dispersers. So their job is to eat fruits and stuff and then swing around the forest and poop everywhere. Oh, really? That helps the forest regrowth. But that's really awful for, oh, I don't know if you've seen a hat like that before. Oh, you just bit me. OK. Yeah, it probably didn't taste very good. You think is this food? Like, surely I didn't buy hard enough. So it helps with forest regrowth. He just peed on that. Ew. Not on your hand on that. Silicone. Oh, god. Hey. Hi. I don't think he's ever seen a hat like that before. Oh, really? Papa, what is that? Hi. Who is that? I'm Papa one. What? Wait, what? Are you showing him? Baldur's Gate. Oh, hello. Over here and try to kind of, yeah. Do you want to watch it here? OK, never mind. Papa, are you going to bite them? What would this be called? A shelter? An enclosure. An enclosure. Yeah. We're going up to the crow enclosure. Warning. The crows are pretty cautious. You're going to have to take your hat off for sure. Oh, I bet crows love this hat. I don't think so. Hi. Hold me. Is that Abbott? That's Abbott. A friend. Hi, buddy. He's Abbott. Who's here? Oh, he's drooling. Yeah, a little bit. Let's see how that one's named. Coconut. Coconut will not come down. Come over here. Hey. Put your arm up. Hello. Good boy. You're in central Texas. Blown out of the nest as a baby. Pick me, pick me. Was raised by people and he imprinted on people. So if you find a wild bird, don't raise it because it'll end up like this. Dependent on people for food and water and what to be afraid of and where to migrate to and who to breed with and how to act. And so he's non-releasable for that reason. It's an irreversible change that happens in the brain of birds when they're babies. Oh. Give me that. If you find a wild baby bird, call a wildlife rehab center. You can look them up. There's probably one in your area. So do they rehab them to go back out in the wild proper? They'll raise them without imprinting them, which is ideal, and then release them into the wild. But Abbott is non-releasable because he's imprinted. So look at this. They have like, is that normal? But the back of his head is like, oh. He picked him. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. It's not so bad, though. Yeah, you can see like his neck, like a. He's got a little bald spot. Like a skin, yeah. You can show them that and hold your arm up. Nice. I'm a bird master. Bird's your arm. So do you have like very rough, like callous bands from like gauntlets built in? Does it hurt you? No, but I'm just wondering if like over the years, like you develop like. They're a little bit sharp, you see? They're a little sharp. They would dual-wheel them? Coconut? That was so brave. No, I don't. That was so brave. I can't believe it. That was an incredible throw. I just want to put that out there. I don't usually throw that well. Wait, you threw it as you caught it in there? I think you got you. Really? Whoa, my bad. All right, ready? Oh, my gosh. He caught it. No way. What the frick? You want to be sprayed with this? It's hot. Do you want me to get there? It's rose water. It's good for the skin. Here's the foxes. Oh, I bet foxes are sick. They are sick. They're very shy. Really? We got to move a little slow in here, be a little chill. OK. We got the foxes from a zoo in California. One of them was born in the wild, orphaned in the wild, raised by humans, non-releasable. The other, this one, was a confiscation from the illegal pet trade by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. So somebody bought him, tried to make him a pet. Especially his curious Cinderella. Nice. Yeah, cutie eyes. Hugs for cutie, very good. So they're American red boxes. That is Finn. He's not red. He's gray. Hey, hey, behind the camera, buddy. He was bred for the pet trade, so they breed them lots of different colors because people want them to look more like a dog, ironically, to have them in their homes. So this will naturally occur in the wild this color, but it's pretty rare. Yeah. But he was bred like this in captivity. That's not good. Or is that good or bad? It sounds like bad. Bad. Foxes are also not pets. Yeah. They like being outside. It's not good for their welfare. He has. Hey, look. So he's really scared. Hi. Finn, look. Hi, I have food. Tuck your thumb. Aw. He's a little scared. Who is that? I just fed this Finn more than I've ever fed Finn in my life. Big man, big cat, huh? It's F-E-N-N, if that makes it any better. Oh, good. OK. Yummy chicken. Hi. Mm. Like that, Finn? I don't think he'll let me pet him. No, he won't. I'm like, feels so bad. He's like, he like recoils every time he eats because he's like scared like I'm going to like, like he's like, what's the catch? Yeah. So despite Finn being born and raised in captivity, foxes are just not like dogs. Like they're not going to, yeah. They're way more cautious because they're wild animals and it's in their blood. They like being outside. They like having the space. It's just really unfair to put them inside of a house also. They're seed dispersers as well. So they're omnivores that eat fruits and stuff, run around the forest, poop everywhere to help with forestry growth. And they sent post, which is marking. So any new thing you put in here, they will pee on. They will poop on. And they'll do that in your house too. Did you know in Japanese foxes, kitsune, very good. The other reason we have these foxes is to teach people about the fur trade. Fur is less popular than it used to be. But the fur trade is super gnarly because it doesn't really matter. It's not like meat is affected. The quality of meat is affected by how stressed an animal is. But for fur, it doesn't matter how stressed the animal is. It's just they want the pelt. And so to get a perfect pelt, one of the approved methods of slaughter in the fur trade is electrocution. But they'll hang the fox upside down and do it through the mouth and the anus. And so they'll send an electric shock all the way through the fox. And that way, fox dies but with no marks. And so they get a perfect pelt. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. Yeah, it's crazy. I looked up, it's also crazy in Texas. You can get a fur propagation permit for like 95 bucks. It's like a page. You just fill it out, pay an application fee, and then you can hunt foxes and kill them and sell their fur. It's crazy. Yeah, so the fur trade is super fucked up. I usually try to give people options of like, oh, do this instead. If you still want to, just like don't buy fur. Just don't wear fur. It's never. So what if I want to? Never good. What should I get instead? They have faux fur. I would not wear it as an influencer because I don't want people to see it and think it looks cool and think that it is fur. But as a normal person, I guess you can wear that. What about like sheep, like wool? Wool is okay? I think that also depends. I haven't done much research on wool. But you don't have to kill a sheep to get wool. Yeah, I always assumed like the wool was good because maybe the sheep get hot and maybe they like shear them. So they're getting hot anyway so they can be like nice and cool. But I don't know. Do you like his ASMR? Yeah, sheep, they shear sheep every year to get wool and they have to be sheared. We won't go over there because he'll get scared but we do have another fox. His name is Reed. He is a more traditional look of your American red fox and he was born in the wild but he was raised by humans. And he doesn't have to compare himself either. Yeah, yeah. So we can't get close to that one? He's too scared. He's much more shy than I was. No way. Okay, roll over. Nice. Oh, very nice. We're all still humans. We're also animals. Red's wild. But we're like the alpha animal of the animal kingdom because we own the planet. Do you know there's more humans on planet earth than any other animal? Have you seen the population in China and added it to the population in everywhere else? It's a lot. It's a big country. It's a bigger planet. Do you wanna come? Maybe just listen to me today. You excited for football season? Oh yeah. Do you wanna come with me to a tailgate? The last one we did was pretty scuffed. I'll do it off stream. What? Dude, I can't believe I flew to Alabama with you. That was fun though. It was scuffed, but it was fun. It was fun. What do you say you go get a coffee off stream? Right now? No. I'm busy. Wait, when? Thank you guys for watching. Thank you for learning. I really appreciate you guys sticking with it. I know I do a lot of education. I know that part is kind of boring. Sorry. I hope you learned it. I hope it wasn't too boring. I hope you learned a little bit and had fun. I actually had a blast today. And again, chat. Huge, huge, huge hearts on the chat for Maya and for Alvea Sanctuary for doing this whole stream. Basically entirely her plan. Everything was her plan. She even hooked it up with getting flip and the running the camera and stuff. So we were using all her IRL stuff too. I had a blast. I learned a lot. I think chat learned a lot today. I think Maya probably learned more than all of us actually. Combined. Combined. Yeah. That's about it. Goodbye. I did want to also mention, before we go, that we're going out.