I will dedicate this post to the eating habits of the Komodo Dragon. After all, eating is important isn't it?
For starters (sorry, bad pun) komodo dragons are carnivores, and mostly feed on the carcases of dead animals, or carrion. The komodo dragon has a varied diet, including insects, other reptiles and birds. It can even eat deer, goats, horses and water buffalo. It has even been known to eat human corpses, burried in sallow graves.
Komodo dragons lie in ambush, until a suitable prey arrives. It will then charge and try to bite its throat. It can also knock down larger animals with its long tail. Komodo dragons can swallow prey up to the size of a small goat whole. For other prey, it will bite chunks out of its prey, but you already know that.
Komodo dragons have a very slow metabolism therefore, it can survive on as little as one meal every month. However, these meals are roughly eighty percent of its normal body weight. After eating, it will digest its food in a sunny location to speed up the digestion, as undigested food could rot and poison it. When the food is digested, it will regurgitate what is known as a gastric pellet. Similar to humans, it does not like the smell of its leavings.
I suppose that post was pretty gross, I guess I should have warned you about that. Oops, sorry about that.
For starters (sorry, bad pun) komodo dragons are carnivores, and mostly feed on the carcases of dead animals, or carrion. The komodo dragon has a varied diet, including insects, other reptiles and birds. It can even eat deer, goats, horses and water buffalo. It has even been known to eat human corpses, burried in sallow graves.
Komodo dragons lie in ambush, until a suitable prey arrives. It will then charge and try to bite its throat. It can also knock down larger animals with its long tail. Komodo dragons can swallow prey up to the size of a small goat whole. For other prey, it will bite chunks out of its prey, but you already know that.
Komodo dragons have a very slow metabolism therefore, it can survive on as little as one meal every month. However, these meals are roughly eighty percent of its normal body weight. After eating, it will digest its food in a sunny location to speed up the digestion, as undigested food could rot and poison it. When the food is digested, it will regurgitate what is known as a gastric pellet. Similar to humans, it does not like the smell of its leavings.
I suppose that post was pretty gross, I guess I should have warned you about that. Oops, sorry about that.
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