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Did you know that about. Komodo dragons live in the present?
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Did you know that:
- There is a serious hypothesis that it served as a prototype Komodo Dragon Chinese ...
- Adult Varanus komodoensis exceed three meters in length and weigh more than one and a half kilograms. It is the largest lizard in the world: a single stroke of the tail, he kills a deer.
- With such a champion dragon can develop a speed of 30 kilometers per hour (it is recorded with a stopwatch in hand). He is an excellent swimmer and easily crosses the straits between the neighboring islands.
- The first few years of the life of a young dragon holds in the trees. It has no natural enemies and can live up to 50 years.
- Komodo per day can eat up to 80% of its own weight, and can generally do not have a few months (live at the expense of fat deposited in the area of the tail).
- The long forked tongue lizard is also an organ of smell (like a snake, not like most of the other lizards). It is very effective - the dragon captures the smell at a distance of 8 kilometers!
- Contrary to popular myth, it is not particularly fond of carrion (like a dog - bone :-) Just smell stink of meat on there ...
- Contrary to another myth, his saliva does not contain poison. Just in it, as well as in gastric juice, contains a number of quite brutal enzymes and bacteria (which allow it to digest and almost all) that is indeed quite a bite. You can then, slowly, go for the victim, which sooner or later will fall ...

Do not remember it, a stranger ... In other thousand years ...