In 09, an incident occurred in a zoo in India where a monitor lizard bit and killed a lion, and the lion bled incessantly after being bitten, wilted, and died soon after! Why can Komodo dragons bite lions to death? After expert investigation, they found that people's previous perception of monitor lizards turned out to be wrong! The main way monitor lizards kill their prey is with the assistance of poison glands!
The zoo where the incident took place is located in Udaipur, India, and the management is relatively evacuated, and the infrastructure in the zoo is relatively dilapidated, which gives the Komodo dragon the opportunity to meet the lion! In other words, a zoo with standardized management, different animals are separated, and there will be no problem!
This Komodo dragon that killed the lion is a strong male monitor lizard in his prime! According to reports at the time, this monitor lizard is close to 2.6 meters long and weighs about 120kg, which is a well-deserved big guy! To add a little (monitor lizards weigh an average of between 80 and 100kg)
The Komodo dragon broke the wooden fence and ran out of its territory, and after a spin around, it came to the territory of a lioness. Although the lion's territorial consciousness is not as strong as the mountain king like the tiger, but when he sees a big guy break in, he can't be indifferent!
The lion stepped forward to drive the Komodo dragon, roaring and ready to attack at any time!
But the Komodo dragon is not a good lord, after all, it is also a steppe hegemon that can single out bison! Addendum: (Komodo dragons like to eat carrion, but they also eat fresh meat, the key to which is the ease of obtaining food and whether it wants to eat it)
The Komodo dragon is not afraid of threats, and the lion is not willing to be discouraged, and the two tentatively fight. In terms of flexibility, this lioness has an advantage, as well as weight! But this lion, who grew up in the zoo, only inherited the temper that a lion should have, but did not practice the hunting skills of the grassland overlord! Supplement (lionesses generally weigh around 130 to 150 kg)
Under the fight between the two, the Komodo dragon was also bitten by a lion, although it was protected by scale armor. The lion was also injured during the attack! Both were injured, and after some temptation, both knew that the other was not easy to mess with, so they stopped.
The lion just realized that he was injured and stopped to avoid losing both! But the Komodo dragon deviated from its usual habit and did not return to its territory, but found a place to start waiting! The monitor lizard stopped, but waited for dinner.
Seeing this, everyone may have known before, knowing that monitor lizards eat carrion, there are many bacteria in their mouths, and strong pathogens that cause disease and death! Therefore, everyone would think that the Komodo dragon is waiting for pathogenic bacteria to play a role in the lion's wound!
But in fact, the cause of the lion's death is a certain deviation from this, and the pathogenic bacteria are not enough to play a role in such a short time!
The lion in the zoo is dead, and the Komodo dragon appears in the lion's territory! Local zoo officials reported the incident. The incident has aroused the attention of animal researchers because of the help of surveillance.
Although there is no picture of a lion fighting with a monitor lizard. But the time when the monitor lizard entered the lion's territory was filmed, combined with other surveillance footage! The approximate time from injury to death of the lion was calculated.
Experts overturned the previous common understanding: (monitor lizards rely on germs in their mouths to hunt their prey), because relying on germs will not attack so quickly, through research and investigation, it was found that the mouth of the monitor lizard is a poisonous gland, it will use poison!
This discovery overturned previous popular belief, and several proteotoxins were found in the venomous glands of monitor lizards, similar to the proteotoxicity of snake venom (the kind that fails in case of high temperature).
The real way for Komodo dragons to kill their prey actually relies on poison glands, through the process of biting, injecting the toxic proteins in the poison glands into the prey's body, and then waiting for the toxin to attack!
Another point is very interesting, to add to everyone: Komodo dragons like to eat carrion, in fact, because of its bad teeth, carrion is better to tear, chewy than fresh meat, eating is not so painful!
Why? Because the monitor lizard's teeth do not have incisors, canine teeth, and posterior molar teeth, all its teeth are the same, similar to sharks, and need to be replaced frequently, so it is very easy to damage its teeth in the process of feeding!
Although it can be replaced after toothache and tooth damage, the pain is real, so it would rather eat some rotten meat with bad taste! Under the same conditions, the meat bitten by the monitor lizard will rot much faster than normal meat, and the germs in its mouth are indispensable! (Remember that there was a video controlled trial of this)
Sometimes, this guy will wait for the meat to rot before eating, the teeth are not good, and he is forced to do so! #Science# #动物 #
