Komodo+Dragons



PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Komodo dragons are the world's heaviest living lizards. With an average length of 8 feet (2.5 meters) and weight of 200 lbs (91 kg.). Females are usually under 8 feet and weigh about 150 lbs. (68 kg.). Their teeth resemble those of a flesh eating sharks.Their skin is made of snake like scales. It has two small beady eyes. It also has a fork like tuonge that is split at the end. A komodo dragon is venemous. Which helps kill its pray. Komodo dragons are immune to there own poison. The dragons tail is about as long as the body.It has long feet with five claws at the end of each foot.

Distribution and Habitat: The distribution of Komodo dragons is restricted to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Rinca, Komodo, Flores and the smaller islands of Gili, Montang and Padar. The total range is less than 1,000 sq. km. The komodo dragons habitat is not at all suited for a human.These volcanic islnads have steep slopes and really little water.the average temprature is 80 degrees. Komodo dragons were found after the World war 1.

Behavior: Komodo Dragons are usually distant except during breeding season.Territeries are dependent on the size of the dragon. A dragon will allow other dragons to cross its territory when they are on a food run. Dragons maintain burrows within their core ranges and occasionally males will swim from island to island over long distances.

Diet: The Komodo is carnivorous and cannibalistic and it has a prodigious appetite.In the wild they can kill something as big as pigs or bulls or as small as deer.But in the Zoo they are only fed frozen rats. A komodo dragon can eat a 90lb pig in 20 min.

Reproduction and Growth:

The life expectancy of a Komodo is between 20 to 40 years. As noted above, Komodo dragons are generally solitary animals, except during the breeding season.The male Komodo dragon presses his snout to the female's body, and flicks her with his long, forked tongue to obtain chemical information about her receptivity. He then scratches her back with his long claws, making a ratchet-like noise. If unreceptive, she raises and inflates her neck and hisses loudly.The female wild dragons will utilize the nest mound of a brush turkey in which she will lay a clutch of up to 30 eggs. Hatchlings are about 15 inches (40 centimeters) and weigh 3.5 ounces (100 g.).

Adult colors vary from earthen red to slate gray and black.

**Status:** Endangered species.Only 3,000 to 5,000 left in the wild.


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