The biggest and long lizard in the world, a komodsky monitor lizard, looks awful. Probably, because of it she is called sometimes Komodo's dragon. These lizards live in Indonesia and are protected by the law.
Komodsky monitor lizard - dimensions and appearance
The huge Indonesian monitor lizard possesses the biggest dimensions around the world. The average weight of these lizards about 90 kg, and their length about 2.5 meters, i.e. they considerably surpass the person in dimensions. Females usually more small than males.
Officially registered record of weight and growth of this lizard made 160 kg and more than 3 meters of length. The monitor lizard resembles both a lizard, and a dinosaur, and nobody a seen dragon superficially. However, legends of dragons can have the beginning in appearance and the huge sizes of this lizard. Natives consider that the lizard most of all is similar to a crocodile, and call a monitor lizard overland crocodile. Though the komodsky monitor lizard perfectly swims, but he does not live in water, only hunts, and that not always. Besides, this lizard perfectly gets on trees, despite the weight, and gathers very decent speed, pursuing production. Coloring of a monitor lizard dark-brown with yellowness impregnations, is terrible, sharp teeth. The structure of a jaw of a monitor lizard very much reminds a shark mouth, teeth more than 60 there.
Habitat and flavoring preferences
Business is also limited to external similarity to dinosaurs at a komodsky monitor lizard as to herbivorous this lizard cannot be carried in any way. Her preferences in food are very different: the monitor lizard can eat practically any living creatures and even insects, will not disdain also drop. Newborn lizards abandon mother right after hatched from eggs, for this reason. The hungry monitor lizard can attack also the person as cases of attack of a lizard even one production more largely than are frequent. Monitor lizards track down production in an ambush and most often break it a leg direct shot of a huge powerful tail. After a sting of a komodsky monitor lizard the chances to survive at the victim tend to zero as in a mouth it a set of dangerous bacteria, and in the lower jaw has poisonous glands. Inflammation after a sting happens very quickly, and to a monitor lizard time is enough to wait, being nearby - in it a secret of its success in a victory over larger opponents. The buffalo bitten by a monitor lizard perishes in 3 weeks. The people who are in a travel in the homeland of Komodo's dragon should be extremely careful - at lizards very much keen sense of smell and even the insignificant scratch with a smell of blood can attract an aggressive individual. The people accompanying tourist groups in Indonesia always carry on this case with themselves arms. Monitor lizards only in the afternoon day hunt.