Monday, June 1, 2009

For residents of the Indonesian villages attacked by dragons.

In the Indonesian village, situated on the territory of Komodskogo National Park, in attacks komodskih dragons on people, the Associated Press.
In addition to the cases of bites in the past year and a half, there were two attacks were fatal. The victims of the huge reptiles were a boy of eight, who quit in the bushes behind the house, and 31-year-old fisherman, who stepped on a reptile lying in high grass.
Scared villagers demanded to set around the village dvuhmetrovy concrete fence, but the management of the park has denied them, saying that the fact that in the national park such facilities can not be installed. As a result, residents of the village to install temporary fencing of the branches.
The largest lizards komodskie dragons belong to the family varanov. These reptiles can reach three meters in length. Their weapons are sharp teeth and, according to recent studies, a poison. Because of the reduction in livestock deer and buffalo dragons forced to eat smaller animals - birds, rodents, lizards. Komodskie Dragons made to the Red Book.

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