Thursday, March 24, 2011

Komodo Dragons

Dragons, or a full-called Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), is the world's largest lizard species that live on the island of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Gili Dasami in Nusa Tenggara. This iguana by the natives of Dragons island is also called by local names ora.

Including family members Varanidae monitor lizards, and Toxicofera klad, dragons are the largest lizards in the world, with an average length of 2-3 m. Large size is associated with symptoms of island gigantism, the tendency to be a giant body of certain animals that live in small island linked to the absence of mammalian carnivores on the island where dragons live, and the rate of metabolism kecil.Karena dragons of his body, these lizards occupy position of a top predator that dominates its place of living ecosystems.

Dragons are found by western researchers in 1910. Her body is great and terrible reputation makes them popular in zoos. Dragons in the wild habitat has been shrinking due to human activities and therefore the IUCN include dragons as a species vulnerable to extinction. These large lizards are protected under Indonesian law and a national park, namely Komodo National Park, established to protect them.

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