Komodo Dragons

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The Komodo Dragon

This PowerPoint is all about how the Komodo

Dragon has adapted to its habitat. You will find some interesting and shocking facts that will make your eyes pop out

• Diet

• Deadly saliva

• Habitat

• Smell

Diet

A Komodo Dragon’s beastly diet includes deer, wild boar, goats and other large mammals! Komodo Dragons will wait for hours on end for a meal to pass by and when one does pass by they will ambush them by charging at them with their deadly jaws wide open.

Frightening fact:

Komodo Dragons sometimes eat their young

Deadly Saliva

• The Komodo Dragon has a deadly weapon... poisonous saliva!

This monstrous saliva sends a Komodo Dragon’s prey to a slow and painful death. First of all the Komodo Dragon bites the leg of its prey, injecting poison. Then follows the unfortunate victim until it dies. Afterwards the Komodo Dragon feasts on the dead carcass.

Revolting fact:

After a meal a

Komodo Dragon lies down in a sunny spot and regurgitates a pile of horns, fur and teeth.

Habitat

• The Komodo Dragon is only found in Indonesia. The island that the Komodo Dragon lives on dries up completely between March and November but the

Komodo Dragon is able to go for long periods without water.

Smell

A Komodo Dragon can smell its prey from up to four kilometres away! It doesn’t actually smell with its nose, it smells with its tongue and Jacobson’s organ. It works like this, the tongue picks up the smell and the

Jacobson's organ analyses it.

The End

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