You’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and go against the recommendations of your tour guide to stay close and not venture off alone. What’s the worse that could happen? I mean you just had to pee. What could possibly go wrong in that short period of time?<\/p>\n
In this Komodo Dragon Survival Guide, you’ll learn how to prepare for and how to survive a komodo dragon attack.<\/p>\n
Komodo dragons are some of the more formidable reptiles on Earth. They are large, getting up to about 10 feet in length and sometimes weighing as much as 300 pounds, and have powerful jaws that they use to take down prey.<\/p>\n
The most troubling aspect of a komodo dragon bite isn’t necessarily the teeth or the jaw strength though: it’s the venomous cocktail in the mouth that spreads through the body and slows down, and then kills the dragon’s victims. Preparedness and emergency response to wounds inflicted by these animals is pretty similar to how you should react when attacked by any other.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, in the case of these big lizards, you’ve also got to account for the environment where they live and the deadly venom in their mouths, which makes them exceptionally dangerous.<\/p>\n
As your doing your business in a patch of overgrown savanna grass, you catch the prowling gaze of a set of crystal-blue eyes encased in thick grayish scales. At that moment you are transported back through time to a bygone era where dinosaurs roamed the earth.<\/p>\n
Maybe you adjust your glasses a bit to make sure you’re seeing correctly. Sure enough, you’re standing meters away from a full-grown adult male Komodo dragon lurking in the shade of a Jackalberry tree. The hair on the back of your neck raises as a bead of sweat forms on your forehead. You feel like a deer staring into approaching ominous headlights. You freeze.<\/p>\n
If only you had listened to your instructor and stayed with the group. Now they are out of eyesight, and you can only hear their faint footsteps far-off down the trail. This was supposed to be your vacation, now you’re experiencing an existential crisis facing your own mortality head-on.<\/p>\n
You take a slight step backward, but when you do, the great lizard notices and takes a menacing step forward with a confident flick of its forked tongue. What are you going to do? How do you survive a run-in with a komodo dragon?<\/p>\n