Comments on: Anyone for a Sunday Outing?

By: Virgil Samms

Virgil Samms — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:01:34 +0000

Even if the dragons had managed to catch one of them, the neoprene would likely have been too tough to chew anyway.

Well then, it's a good thing Komodo dragons don't chew their food.

By: cthulhu's minion

cthulhu's minion — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:44:10 +0000

Actually, recent research has shown the komodo’s bite to be venomous, not just full of toxic bacteria

By: podblack

podblack — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:18:51 +0000

Actually, the dragons are aggressive enough to try to kill, by simply biding their time after a bite.”One of the ways Komodo dragons kill very large prey is by lying in ambush and taking out big bites as the prey animals go by. The lizards’ mouths are generally storehouses of bacteria from all the dead things they scavenge, so the wound from the big bite is likely to get horribly infected and weaken and eventually kill the prey. We learned that the correct scientific term for this killing mechanism, according to Elliot Gould narrating on some Discovery Channel documentary, is “Mouth of Putrefaction”.”Children have died as a result of dragon attacks, due to blood loss. Keeping the dragon away was the best approach?http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1881632.ece

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:18:22 +0000

Am I the only feeling sorry for the dragons? These divers barged into their territory, threw rocks at them, ate their mussels and generally messed up their habitat. Even if the dragons had managed to catch one of them, the neoprene would likely have been too tough to chew anyway. Now the divers are likely going to publish memoirs about the “ordeal” and the dragons aren’t going to get any royalties either.It sucks to be a reptile.