KOMODO DRAGONS
Reptile - Vertebrate - Carnivore
Reptile - Vertebrate - Carnivore
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Male: Bull, Cock
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Female: Cow, Hen
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Young: Calf, Chick, Hatchling
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KOMODO DRAGONS ... MONITOR LIZARDS
- Reach about 10 feet in length.
- Are the heaviest lizards on earth.
- Can run up to 12 miles per hour.
- Has an excellent sense of smell.
- Eat carrion, deer, pigs, small Komodo Dragons, water buffalo and humans.
- Can swallow prey as large as a goat.
- Their saliva is poisonous.
- They can swim.
- Live for about 30 years.
- Komodo Dragons eat up to 80% of their body weight in a single meal.
- Newborn Komodo Dragons climb into trees in order that their parents cannot catch and eat them (the parents are too heavy to climb the trees).
