Posted on 04/26/2023 8:41:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The phrase ‘like a sitting duck’ comes to mind when watching this. In the below clip, we get to see a Komodo dragon approaching two ducks – the reptile is fast but the ducks actually have plenty of time to get away. For some reason, they leave it too late! The dragon approaches one of the ducks but it flaps its wings furiously and seems to be escaping. Meanwhile, the second duck assumes that it is safe and stays close by – thanking its lucky stars that it was not the target of the reptile’s attention. What a mistake that turned out to be! The Komodo dragon switches its attention to the second duck and the rest is as gruesome as it is predictable.
What Do Komodo Dragons Normally Eat?
Komodo Dragons are large and carnivorous reptiles that live in the wild in south-east Indonesia only. They are termed opportunistic predators and will target a wide variety of prey which changes with the Komodo’s life-stage. As hatchlings, they live almost exclusively on insects – mainly grasshoppers and beetles. As they mature, they start to eat larger insects as well as birds and their eggs and small lizards. Soon, they extend their diet to include larger reptiles such as geckos and small snakes and further birds. At this stage, they will also target small mammals so their diet now includes rats and shrews.
As fully grown adults, they have the ability to successfully hunt much larger animals including those that are bigger than they are. Komodo dragons have been seen hunting wild boar and water buffalo as well as Sunda deer. They can now take on larger snakes and cannibalize smaller Komodos! If they live near human settlements, they will pinch livestock such as goats. They are also perfectly happy to feed on the carcasses of dead animals – they have no taste buds!
How do Komodo Dragons detect and catch prey?
These formidable creatures have a snake-like tongue that extends out of their mouths and moves up and down. This allows them to detect odor chemicals in the air and drag them back to their vomeronasal organs to interpret them.
As we see here, they creep up and ambush their prey, grasping it by clamping the jaws quickly.
We also see here the thrashing motion that Komodos use to kill off the prey. The Komodo keeps thrashing until the prey stops moving. They have venom in their saliva so they may also just wait for the prey to die!
Those cats were fast as lightning.
They can smell blood 2 miles away.
You stay 3 miles away, yuh hear?
Word is, Putin just ordered a Baker’s Dozen of those Komodo’s from Florida. He has certain experiements he wants conducted during the warmer seasons. Bio Warfare type experiements..
...for a NOVEL he’s writing in leisure time, of course! //
Need to turn about two or three thousand of those things loose in Shitcago to help bring the feral population under control....LOL.
I saw a video recently on these things and about how far they can smell blood and one thing it said was for women on their period to stay far away from these things.
No thanks, I like ducks more than lizards.
And I heard their saliva is poisonous!
I think that one is kind of true, they have a complex system of something like 68 different things in their saliva to help digest food and such.
Imagine in the age of dinosaurs. These are the small ones that other dinosaurs ate.
Rapters bigger and T-Rex’s etc. and move faster then humans.
No wonder our ancestors burrowed into the ground or climb way up in the trees!
Any damned thing they want to or can reach Including Humans that are sleeping or not paying attention to Situational Awareness.
And the district of corruption !!!
Too cold. Send ‘em to the border.
Good thing those aren’t in America, or where Americans roam, they’d all be shot by wannabe tough guys, and another of Earth’s rare creatures extincted.
I think couple dozen released in Chicago , Portland, New York City , Philly & San Francisco would work out just fine.
Damn!
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