Encountering a Blind Worm Snake | Primal Survivor: Escape the Amazon

[Music] I'm losing daylight. This is an expanse of grassland, and it has what I need for a shelter: all this grass that I'm gonna cut down. I'm gonna either turn it into my bed or use it for my roof. It's the rainy season, which means you better count on it raining. What? No, wait! Oh my gosh, I cannot believe this!

[Music] While I was chopping, I, uh, chopped up a clump of grass, and under the dirt clod, I just saw this little bit of color. I would have never thought in my entire life I would see one of these in real life. This is a blind worm snake! It has a little flickering tongue because it's a digging machine. It uses its nose, which is one big, large, hard scale, and it uses it like a shovel or a wedge. It's able to dig through the ground and look for its prey.

It's a seven-striped blind snake, a truly bizarre species. It spends its life deep underground, so sightings are incredibly rare. When you're out here, you're up to your knees in mud. You have funguses and parasites and all the wounds that get infected. The rain—if you don't love these little things like this along the way, this place would destroy you.

[Music] Here, just a few hundred miles from the equator, the light goes out like a switch. I've got to get back to my shelter. [Music] You