KOMODO DRAGON THE DEADLIEST

INTRODUCTION:

Face the deadliest Predator,Yes the Komodo dragon!The largest living specie of lizards in the world and ofcourse the great killer.This powerful and mascular reptile rules the

dry volcanic island of central Indonesia.Its size can go up to ten feet in length and weight up to three hundred and fifty pounds.Its favorite preys are deer, pigs,wild
horses,water buffalo and anything that it can overpower.Its hunting stretagies are almost depends upon opurtunities of taking chnaces,it uses cover in shades of
bushes,deep pits and behind long grass and attacks its prey suddenly that the prey gets nowhere to go.

HUNTING STRETEGY:

When it comes to teeth, the komodo is like no other lizard.Other lizards have simple peg like teeth but because of heavy and hard diet,Komodo have its own unique killing
weapon known as 'monster bite'.Definitely you think why this called as 'monster bite' its because the Komodo dragon’s saliva is full with bacteria (its saliva has fifty strains of
virulent bacteria),making a single bite lethal.Using this amazing feature,the komodo catches the prey then make the deadly monster bite.After that,it just has to wait for

poison to do its work.Komodo cannot run fast,but they have a great sense of smell.The komodo can smell its dead hunt flesh from the distance of about two miles and can
easily find the prey that is dieing from deadliest bite.Once the wild style feeding begins and the dragons start to eat, we can notice another unique thing about these lizard's
teeth.Their teeth are made to cut off huge pieces of flesh.Their mouth is more like a shark’s mouth than a lizard’s. Their teeth have razor sharp cutting edges like that of
circular saw.Their jaw is full of these saw like teeth,they have up to sixty teeth like that,which allow the great komodo dragons to tear apart their prey in no time.komodo

dragons have the special ability to recreate their broken teeth which breaks in catching prey or eating hard bones.In the meantime,just like a shark the komodo dragon has
rows of teeth one after another packed into the jaw.This means when one tooth falls it will replaced with the tooth behind it.Definitely the komodo dragon is one of earth's

most powerful and dangerous predators but they are no match for earth's greatest predator 'Man'.Just a few thousands of this great monster creatures remain in the wild only
becaue of poaching,loss of prey,and loss of habitat.Those who survive all these disasters are a reminder of nature’s brutal power.A power that has evolved over one hundred
million years.The Komodo dragon has make all of these years on savage skill alone, proving that the dragons bite is far worse than its bark.

PREFERABLE DIET:

Komodo dragons are for sure carnivorous but some know that they are also cannibalistic (those who eat people man eater).They usually eat large and big prey such as

deer,wild boar,goat.They basically eat anything they can dominate and this includes smaller lizards (including other Komodo Dragons).As we know, Komodo Dragon has
wide range possibility of prey.These lizards have a list of preys as their main servings of meal.From the droppings, humans are able to observe that the deer is the meal of
choice.Boars are also popular choice.Dragons acquire these animals by two ways: hunting, and finding dead remains.

SPECIAL FEATURE OF KOMODO DRAGON:

TOUCH :

Dragons have a special body armour like other reptiles that called as scales.There skin is covered with these scales its difficult for them to feel anything.This is why
dragons have special (sensors like spots) that are sensitive to touch.These spots are connected directly to nerves.These sensors are on every scale.The scales around the
ears,the lips,chin,and the bottom of the feet have at least 3 or more plaques.

BABY KOMODO DRAGONS:

The moment a Komodo Dragon is born it is left to fight for itself. At this time,the dragon is only about eight to twenty two inches long.The baby dragons look very different
from adult dragons and that's not only because of their size.The four ounce weighted dragon baby has sharply and brightly colored.It is greenish black and white with yellow
stripes like tecture.It also has small reddish circles around its body and alternating dark and light bands round its tail.These designs help to conceal the dragon in the shade
of the trees,where it will hide for its first year or two of life.

SNAKE MASTER OF RAIN FORESTS

Rainforests are full of unique and special types of creatures with the presence of suitable conditions like warmth and water.Snakes in general are found in greatest numbers
in tropical areas of Earth.

Most of the Amphibians and Reptiles lives in tropical areas.

Tropical areas have their own significance in wildlife world.Snakes attracts others animals around them in a two way as predator and prey.

Almost two thousands and seven hundreds species of snakes exists in this world but only thirty percent of them are venomous rest of them are non-venomous.

Without showing an exact figure of snakes living in rainforests,we assume that rainforests have similar proportion of venomous and non-venomous snakes.

Snakes use almost every type of habitat in rainforest,most of them live on and under the ground but some of them also use trees and water sources as their home or shelter.

Rainforest snakes are carnivores.They have several tricks to attack other animals.Non-venomous snakes can either pin their prey to ground or they wrap their own muscular
bodies around their prey in a coil and squeeze them until the victim dies with suffocaton.Venomous or poisonous snakes normally inject venom(poison) into their prey.

Boas (such as anacondas, boa constrictors and pythons) are probably some of the most popular rainforest snakes.

Amazon Snakes

Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainsforest having variety of snakes .
More than one hundred and seventy five types of snake live in this area called as Amazon forest.

Amazon basin have a large number of all types of reptiles in an area called as floodplains,and though many species of snakes lives in Amazonian floodplains are aquatic the
majority of them are most likely live in or among trees.Many Amazonian snakes,like boas,pit vipers and some colubrids,move to live in forest’s trees during floods.
Snakes’ Unique Anatomy

We all have read many stories about the amazing talent of snakes(like green anacondas and other large snakes)to swallow other species(animals) of truly astounding
dimensions(amazing size and shape).

Swallowing of larger and different shaped or sized preys is possible because of the unique physical construction of snake’s body.Paul Cutright has given us excellent description.

According to Paul Cutright:

“The structure of hard palate and the relationship of lower jaw to upper one are responsible for the unparalleled swallowing feats of which snakes are capable.The hard palate
is not rigid in snakes as it is in mammals,lower jawbones of which there are two instead of one as in higher forms,are loosely attached to the cranium by elastic
connections.In practically all vertebrates the lower jaw is firmly anchored(attached)to the upper,and no amount of pulling will sever the connection,as a result the size of the
throat or pharynxis limited and only small morsels may be swallowed.

The loose connections in snakes,on the contrary permit the lower jaw to be pulled away from the upper,so that the size of the object engulfed sometimes reaches perfectly
astounding(surperising) proportions.The existence of two lower jawbones connected in chin region only by elastic ligaments is also of advantage in increasing the size of oral
and pharyngeal cavities.Moreover it facilitates to a great extent the swallowing process,for snakes ingest their food by a process which may be called "jaw-walking."

Each half of lower jaw works independently.After the teeth of the snake have taken a firm grip on the animal the head end is invariably engulfed first,one half of the lower
jaw(the right side) for instance,is advanced a slight distance and then takes a new purchase while the left side holds and, at the same time, exerts a strong pull.The next
step is for the right side to pull while the left advances for a new hold.In this manner the body of the intended victim is slowly but surely "walked" into the gullet of the
serpent.

Snakes probably swallow other small snakes more rapidly than they swallow any other animals.Four or five feet large snakes have been known to swallow others of their
kind only slightly inferior in size in a time of less than ten minutes.While engaged in ingestion serpents can quickly disgorge(spit out) all that has been swallowed if they are
bothered or frightened.Frequently the entire animal has been swallowed and then regurgitated.”