Dragon Boat Race
Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii
Unknown Date, ~2002
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What could a magnificent but arrogant dragon have to do with ecological change? Everything, perhaps, if we can be influenced by myth and metaphor.
For the longest time, people believed that the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, killed its prey with a dirty mouth.
For centuries local villagers who lived around what is now Komodo National Park in Indonesia fed slaughtered animals to their neighbors, giant Komodo dragons.
Definitely breaking new ground around here. A recent paper in PLoS ONE examines the hypotheses surrounding the ecology and evolution of Komodo Dragon saliva.