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Perhaps the komodo dragon was the only megafauna to turn the tables on the new humans.
by sunstone 8y ago
Perhaps the komodo dragon was the only megafauna to turn the tables on the new humans.
- flukus 8y agoI suspect they just taste bad.
- vanderZwan 8y agoIIRC, their hunting method consists of having saliva that is so infested with pathological bacteria that they simply bit their prey and wait for it to succumb to fevers. Somehow, I doubt eating their meat is a healthy thing to do, even when cooked. EDIT: turns out that the BBC documentary I got that from has outdated information: > Although previous studies proposed that Komodo dragon saliva contains a variety of highly septic bacteria that would help to bring down prey, research in 2013 suggested that the bacteria in the mouths of Komodo dragons are ordinary and similar to those found in other carnivores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Saliva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Saliva
- sunstone 8y agoOn the other hand komodo dragons actively hunt humans which is pretty impolite. I would expect that bad habit would lead to their extinction on a small island but it hasn't.