Forrest Galante's sloth encounter comes with a blunt pet warning
Jacob Feder's Florida rescue tour brings Galante face-to-face with capuchins, unusual turtles and a black jaguar named Noir.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 378,251 views a day, 5.6 times a normal first day on this channel (66,952).
Private Tour of Florida’s Best Backyard Animal Sanctuary
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- 0:33Feder introduces Rufus the ruffed lemur and rescued macaws, including Sunshine.
- 2:09Inside Baby Bean's temperature-controlled enclosure, the sloth encounter leads to a blunt warning about keeping sloths as pets.
- 11:10Feder handles Winks, a Eurasian eagle-owl, and feeds her quail meat.
- 12:44Capuchin monkeys receive blueberries through an overhead basket system beside their elevated tunnel.
- 15:16Galante and Feder hang a fish inside Noir the black jaguar's enclosure.
- 17:57A final turtle reveal begins inside Feder's house.
Forrest Galante visits Jacob Feder's Florida home, where a backyard tour means meeting rescued macaws, feeding an eagle-owl and hanging a fish inside a jaguar enclosure.
But one of the clearest exchanges happens indoors, beside Baby Bean, a two-toed sloth living in a temperature-controlled enclosure. Galante asks, "Are they a good pet?" Feder's answer: "Horrible pets."
It's a useful contrast in a video full of animals that might tempt someone to imagine otherwise. Rufus, a black-and-white ruffed lemur, gets an early introduction; later, capuchin monkeys collect blueberries through an overhead basket system connected to their elevated wire tunnel. The tour makes room for the arrangements behind the encounters, not just the animals themselves.
"Private Tour of Florida's Best Backyard Animal Sanctuary" reached roughly 261,000 views in its opening 12 hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience. Sanctuary visits are familiar territory for Galante: his private tours of animal rescue centers in India occupy several places among his most-watched regular videos.
The comments are looking beyond the backyard, although Galante explicitly invites that response during the visit. He floats an Everglades outing with Feder to catch invasive species, and viewers take up the suggestion, with some already calling it Expedition Everglades. For now, the pair's shared itinerary runs from a sloth's indoor quarters to Noir's fish delivery.
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What viewers say
Expedition Everglades. Already sounds like a show
@ayesnapsnotsSee it on YouTubeGo hunt the Everglades with Jacob. Will be an amazing video.
@bradcraft4200See it on YouTube16:45 noir gave the fish one good smack just to show it who the boss is hahaha
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I’m rather introverted, but the videos on this channel have been inspiring me to go out and enjoy nature.
I’m starting to want to go visit some of these crazy species I see on this channel 😅@BootedUp3sSee it on YouTubeHunt with Jacob! These tours are awesome but nothing beats being really out there
@JaredS23See it on YouTubeLet’s go !!! Love this series
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- Channel
- Forrest Galante
- Subscribers
- 3,020,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 17,310,068
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,623,806 (on a normal day: 2,954,706)
- Video published
- October 17, 2026
- Video views so far
- 260,900 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 378,251
The numbers
The sanctuary tour has made an unusually fast start, even as viewing across Galante's channel runs below its usual daily pace.
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What kind of owl is Winks, whom Feder feeds during the tour?
Feder introduces Winks as a Eurasian eagle-owl during the aviary visit.



