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KOMODO DRAGON’S

Do you know what is the largest Lizard? This Lizard is called Komodo it lives in the scrub and wood land of a few Indonesian island.

Komodo dragon is the word’s heavy lest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pound (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2,5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg).

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizard as well as large mammals and are sometime cannibalistic.

The komodo dragon’s teeth are all must completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating and ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the komodo dragon’s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in it’s victims. A dragon will bile its prey, the follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.

This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.

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