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Komodo Dragons and Their Islands
by Brenna Lorenz
(All photography on this page was done by Brenna Lorenz. ...
Komodo dragons are the worlds largest lizards. They live on the islands of Komodo, Rinca and other tiny surrounding islands, and on the westernmost part of Flores Island in Indonesia. Komodo is west of Flores, east of Sumbawa, and north of Sumba.
If you are an ordinary person, you can only reach Komodo by boat. ...
Komodo and Rinca are odd islands. ... As you approach from a distance, you see Komodo as a low, hilly island.
As you get closer, you can see the barren, rocky terrain of Komodo. ... Both Komodo and Rinca belong to a National Park system designed to protect and preserve the endangered Komodo Dragon. ...
Check out Crocodile Hunter: Steves Most Dangerous Adventure, a video documenting Steve Irwins encounter with Komodo dragons and other reptiles.
If you want to see the big Komodo dragons, you should get to the park early, before 6:00 a. ... You can also see a lot of the little Komodo dragons, the young ones, who must spend their first several years in trees to be safe from their elders, who would gladly eat them. Komodo dragons are cannibals who eat their own young, and even other adults when they can pull it off. ... They tell us that the dragon is called ora locally, and they talk about their habits and behaviors. ... Komodo crossing. ...
As we were walking along the path, a large dragon came along. ... We did this, and the dragon swung by us, eyeing us and flicking his tongue. ...
Like other reptiles, the Komodo dragons detect chemical signals such as odor and taste with their long, forked tongues. ...
Once the sun gets high, the Komodo dragons head down the river bank to the dry stream bed below, to the left on the picture below. ...
Komodo dragons drool copiously, as shown below. Their saliva is not venomous, but the mouth of a Komodo dragon is so full of bacteria that a bite from one almost always leads to infection. ... The dragon attacks the prey, and may succeed in killing it on the spot. ...
You can find the excellent video, Wild Discovery: Dragons of Komodo, at Discovery Store.
Komodo dragons are a kind of monitor lizard.
Approximate Word count = 1862
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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