Komodo
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Komodo as the biggest lizard in the world can grow up to 3 meter long and more than 100 kg weight. Their skin is hard and rough, stregthened with a bone plate called osteoderms. They have a big and strong claw to help them find their prey.
Komodo's tail have the same length with their bodies, and about 60 pieces of sharp-toothed teeth, which often change. In his teeth there is a gingival tissue that is often torn apart while eating. Therefore, it is often found a little blood in the saliva of Komodo dragons. This saliva creates an ideal growth environment for a kind of deadly bacteria.
Komodo doesnt have sense of hearing, even tough having ear holes. This lizard is able to see up to 300 m, but it is bad in seeing in the darkness. Komodo uses his tongue to detect taste and smell something, like other reptiles. With the help of the wind and his habit of tilting his head to the right and to the left while walking, this dragons can detect the presence of carrion as far as 5 kilometers.
Birds and eggs, small mammals, monkeys, wild pigs, goats, deer, horses, buffalo, invertebrates and other reptiles (including smaller komodo) is their prey. Komodo are active during the day, although sometimes active at night. Komodo dragons are solitary animals, gathered together only during meals and breeding. They can run fast up to 20 kilometers per hour at close range, can swim dives to as deep as 4.5 meters and also good at climbing trees using their strong claws
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Komodo dragons live in open grasslands, savannas and tropical forests at low altitudes, the largest lizards like hot and dry places. Usually around 95 Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) with 70 percent humidity on the island of Indonesia. This dragons dig a hole 1-3 meters wide for their shelter. Because of her large body and sleeping habits in the hole, dragons can maintain body heat during the night and reduce the time of sunbathing the next morning.
According to the International Union for Nature Conservation, dragons are considered vulnerable to extinction. The World Foundation Animal estimates the number of Komodo dragons in the wild around 6,000. The population is divided between islands, among others 1,700 on the island of Komodo, 1,300 on the island of Rinca, 100 in Gili Motang and about 2,000 in Flores. They are protected within Komodo National Park.
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