From the lizards existing now on Earth the biggest is a komodsky (komodossky) monitor lizard, also known as huge Indonesian monitor lizard. Both names of an animal are closely connected with an area of its dwelling in the wild nature.
Where komodossky dragons liveHuge lizards which were already christened komodossky dragons are widespread on a number of the Indonesian islands. Most of all they live on Komodo - the island which is mentioned in the name of huge reptiles. There population of monitor lizards makes about 1700 individuals. According to scientists, about 1300 animals live on the island Rincha. In the territory of the Indonesian island of Flores about 2000 huge monitor lizards are recorded. A small amount (about one hundred huge lizards) lives on the Dzhili Motang island.
According to researchers, relying on results of long-term scientific work, the homeland of komodossky monitor lizards most likely is Australia. Most likely exactly there about 900 thousand years ago this look, and only could be created then monitor lizards began to move on the islands located nearby.
Huge lizards generally are active during daylight hours, however scientists managed to record also their night activity.
Komodossky dragons prefer to live in the dry and well warmed up by the sun areas. They are widespread also in the territory of savannas and dry tropical forests. From May to October while there is a heat, lizards try not to depart far from the rivers, periodically coming to coasts to find drop. Animals like to swim and are capable to overcome considerable distances, reaching even the neighboring islands.
What they - the biggest lizards in the worldThe weight of adult individuals can reach 70 kilograms - if animals live in the habitat. Scientists managed to record a monitor lizard which length of a body was 3.13 meters. This reptile more than 160 kilograms taking into account undigested food weighed. The copies reaching still the big sizes also occur among reptiles who live in bondage. A color adult animals dark-brown, on the surface of a body have small spots and specks of yellowish shades. At young monitor lizards the coloring is brighter, and on a back it is often possible to see the reddish-yellowish spots located ranks. The strong brawny tail at monitor lizards makes about a half from the total length of a trunk. Animals use a tail as a support when they want to get food which is on the eminence.
Komodossky monitor lizards, as a rule, prefer to live individually. In changeable groups the animals can unite only for feeding and also during the reproduction season.
The diet of huge lizards is quite various — monitor lizards eat both vertebrata, and invertebrate animals, eat Orthoptera of insects and crabs, fish and sea turtles and also snakes and lizards. Monitor lizards can catch birds and mice, and even deer, and boars. Cases when the run wild dogs, goats, buffalo s and horses fell prey of monitor lizards are known.