the Imlay you.

encounters with wildlife.

some of my favorites.

I have been jumped.

for a tree frog.

He's on your hat.

buddy.

He is big.

See how strong he is?

Yes, I do.

hand by a nasty bug.

by this guy.

quite nasty.

Oh, good.

Good to know.

everything.

right.

Oh, yes, he does.

He does.

I didn't know he bit.

Really?

Got you.

Yay, biologist.

my heart.

cutest animal.

Animal I have seen.

with coyotes.

All right.

and he kept coming back to me.

Are you a good boy?

I think you are.

I think you a good boy.

Yes, I know.

out of.

You guys don't walk.

coyotes.

At times, they were playful.

herself.

everyone.

Carmine, the wild coyote.

Trusting me this much because I love bats.

handle them.

I think they are beautiful.

Wow, that is a big bat.

Whoops.

Give me that.

I wanted you to see your thumb.

There's her thumb.

have a total of four.

Okay, so.

through the actually see, I can.

see the joints there.

She's big enough.

I can actually see her.

Beckham Smith bats.

letting me hold one.

kill this bat to check for rabies.

You're beautiful.

Her name is Isis.

woke her up.

having the smoke 03:00 in the morning.

bat.

Whoa.

Don't go anywhere.

Hang tight.

great.

You can support her that way.

And sometimes.

There you go, Miss Phaedra.

this.

them feel good.

Yeah.

There you are.

bat in Georgia.

important role.

it is almost move.

This is incredible.

Told you it was nice down here.

they're just everywhere.

Yeah, yeah.

for food right away.

for insects, searching for water.

feed.

Did they make milk from.

Yeah, yeah.

When the pups.

called.

It's a pup.

most mammals, they need that lactation.

milk.

that these are indeed mammals.

this.

they never actually bump into my body.

And they're really amazing.

by frame, so you can see what's happening.

looks like a blur.

science.

see it closer.

off.

Hey, buddy.

right?

Yep, yep.

little claw right there.

rocks.

around and then.

privilege.

You bet.

if that's a juvenile?

Yeah.

underneath with calcified yet.

fill in.

I can see.

see one.

This is an adulthood.

so we should probably let her.

Let him or her go.

fingers and she'll fly off.

There she goes.

Wow.

Excellent.

Very cool.

They're so incredible.

Yeah, they really are.

They're amazing.

Amazing critters.

From bats to snakes.

world.

many of them up close.

professor of ecology lab near Augusta.

not harmful.

snakes, and you have to be careful.

electricity.

can kill us if we don't use it.

Right.

you don't pester it.

rather, and have going down a kill it and they didn't have to.

around and bit them.

but they tend to be docile.

be found throughout the southeast.

design on its like indian corn.

and mice.

Georgia.

snake or a rat snake.

do.

in several colors in several climates.

we would see population.

balanced.

variety of animals.

and they are rattlesnakes, eat one of those.

immune to the venom.

constrict it.

around and eat it.

venomous snakes.

Latin.

commander.

through the snake.

snake.

The indigo is iconic, handsome snake.

longest snake in North America.

half feet.

imagination.

wilderness of southern Georgia.

vast, undisturbed when indigoes significantly.

and chew on their head and kill them.

first.

hurting on.

just walk by it.

search of timber mountains.

rare.

here, they just had babies.

give birth to live young.

moment.

at our approach.

Absolutely.

Definitely.

island.

always stay with me.

Scientists call her Coretta.

destiny.

instinct.

her body across the sandheen.

waves, she is tired.

overwhelming.

She begins to dig.

extinction.

as loggerhead.

biologist Mark Dodd, Resources.

shot to actually loggerhead.

three main loggerhead nesting beaches.

Ossabaugh, and Blackbeard.

have a lot of turtle nesting.

been doing of time.

There is another reason.

hand, and that means turtles and their see a nesting you're looking looking forward down the beach.

the next no nothing so far.

she is.

capture this doesn't seem to mind at all.

as she can, it away.

eggs or more.

able to belly up beside her.

yeah, it is.

It's a Georgia turtle.

fantastic natural history, here on a.

On a Georgia beach.

Sassaba island.

from an egg, nearby island.

become sexually years.

ocean for a long time.

Well, be her first nest.

pong balls.

this is.

and lay about 100 eggs every time.

she's so regardless of finishing up trying to camouflage the nest.

using her front camouflage the and eat them.

We don't move until she does, sea.

She stops often to rest.

the sand using only her flippers.

she's not built to move quickly.

fairly easily.

structure or the definitely a struggle.

extremely graceful underwater.

This is where they live.

stranded, or see a male.

the world.

crushing things like crabs and lobsters.

birthplace to lay the coast of their bodies sand.

crawl back to the ocean.

loggerheads whenever possible.

on here.

Oh, she didn't like that.

She didn't like that.

role.

beaches during nesting season.

where the turtles come from.

for life.

how far tags are questions, like, how many events do gives us some as well.

she's free to go.

She's been tagged.

All right.

Go, girl.

see why all of this is worth the effort.

programmed to move bunny.

toward the ocean.

an obstacle.

nothing else matters.

And that is true.

Nothing else does matter.

to make it to the ocean.

confuses them so much.

They go for the surf.

open water and start their power stroke.

system of ocean Atlantic Gyre.

all the way back across the equator.

just start to float.

planktonic.

driftwood.

the wind out there, and so they.

of the ocean current patterns.

high seas, living off those nutrients.

know, you're majority of the the coastlines.

eaten by predators.

million years, but protected under endangered.

In Georgia.

things on earth, conscience of mankind.

appear to be lifespan we don't begun.

bittersweet.

to adulthood.

else.

to understand how really is.

I'm Sharon Collins.

We'll see you next time.