The vendors tried their hardest to sell hard, but we had taken only a small sum of cash along, so couldn't just get into the shopping frenzy they all clearly wanted us to get into. That was a bit unexpected, but we had a look around all the same.

That is not a word you would associate with these dragons at all.īefore reboarding our “floating coffin” we were steered towards the local souvenir market on Komodo Island. But this set-up is probably only sustainable because their habitat is so small that the unfairness balances out in the mid to long term. Seems unfair, doesn't it? In fact, in that sense they are a bit of Darwinian puzzle too. Some other dragon may happen upon it first and take advantage of this. What is so unusual about this technique is that the dragon who bites the prey in the first place may not be the same one that later finds the corpse and eats it. Within a few days their prey will slowly succumb to the festering wound. The dragons can then just sit back and wait.

Thanks to their toxic bite they don't need to get into a fight with their often much larger victims in order to kill them (a buffalo can weigh 500kg!). Their prey includes unusually large animals such as water buffalo, deer and goats. The dragons use this evil saliva cocktail to great effect when hunting.

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