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Komodo dragon is one of the many animals becoming endangered cause of pouching and deforestation. It is also endangered because of loss of food.some zoos are capturing these animals to protect and breed them. those zoo also also funding programs to protect them.

komodo dragons are at the top of the food chain, they have no predators. they are carnivores and will eat even the bones of a carcass. they eat large prey such as pigs, deer, goats, wild boar, horses, water buffalo, and smaller komodo dragons. they attack buy running quickly and hunting stealthily, then crushing their prey intro the ground and ripping it with its claws and teeth.



komodo dragons live in Indonesia, in the places such as lesser sunda regions. these places are the islands of komodo, rinca, and padar.it can also be found in savannah forests.komodo dragon only have to bite an animal once to kill it because it has over 50 types of bacteria in its saliva which infects the wound. komodo dragons reproduce annually between the months of June and September.

komodo dragon females reproduce annually between June and September. they lay up to 30 eggs, then big a nest chamber to bury her eggs and cover it in dirt and leaves.this is so that the eggs can incubated, and the eggs can take up to eight months to hatch. After hatching, the young dragons are left on their own and move to forested areas so as not to fall prey to adults or other species. Female Komodo dragons reach sexual maturity at approximately nine years, and male dragons at about ten years.

Komodo Dragons are listed on CITES Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which prohibits international trade. They are also listed on the U.S. Federal List as endangered. Their main habitat, Komodo, for which they are named, and the surrounding islands, are protected within Komodo National Park. However, Flores is outside the national park boundaries and, as a result, the dragons on this island only receive basic protection. The European Conservation Breeding Program in London felt this was a concern, so they began trapping Komodo dragons and keeping them in captivity, mainly in zoos. Together, the zoos that house these dragons fund the project and implement infrastructural development, social awareness, and environmental education programs. This has assisted in research into the wild population of Komodo Dragons and their distribution patterns.



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