For those of you not familiar with the species, let me introduce you to the MOST AWESOME CREATURE IN THE WORLD: the Komodo Dragon! These beasts are strong, fierce, and courageous. I read in the very cool "Book of Animals" that komodos are the largest living lizard and are the top predators on their Indonesian island homelands.
Komodo dragons enjoy communal killings and young dragons are forced to spend the earlier times of their lives hidden in the treetops. The most fascinating fact concerning these lizards are their survival tactics. They are an extinct species and it has been recently observed in 2006 that female dragons were able to conceive without any contact with a male. These virgin births resulted in faces, like below, being hatched as the new 'Komodo Jesus' youngsters:
This one was birthed by parthenogenesis in a London zoo. The beasts are also well known for their fatal saliva which contains 15 virulent strains of harmful bacteria. They eat once a month and swallow the body of their prey whole, which is ofter regurgitated later. Mating rituals between komodo dragons is described as 'violent' and the males have two penises.
***All Hail the Komodos!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome! I didnt know they were extinct!
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