Here it is, i Want to show you how amazing is my place Flores Island, Indonesia.This is a story about a Dragon. Not only a legend, but really a dragon who still inhabit the Islands of the eastern and central Indonesia. Giant reptile world has a reputation as a top predator in its class. Since the first on the island of Komodo, Flores Islands, Indonesia, has emerged the story of a giant dragon. Many sailors say that the dragon is more like a scary monster.
Until the early 1910s, there have been reports of the Dutch fleet combat troops based in Flores about the mysterious creature allegedly "Dragon" inhabit a small island in the Lesser Sunda Islands (now Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara). Dutch military sailors gave a report that the creature is likely measuring up to seven meters in length, with a huge body and a mouth that is always fire. Lieutenant Steyn van Hensbroek, an official of the Dutch colonial administration in the area of Flores heard these reports and the stories that surround the island of Komodo. He also planned a trip to Komodo Island. Having armed himself and took a team of trained soldiers, he landed on the island. After a few days on the island, Hensbroek managed to kill a strange species. She took him to headquarters and measure the length of the catch with a length of about 2.1 meters.
The shape is very similar to a lizard. Animals were then photographed (documented) by Peter A Ouwens, Director of the Zoological Museum and Botanical Gardens, Bogor, Java. This is the first documentation of the dragon. Ouwens interested in finding strange animals. He then recruited a cunning hunter to capture specimens for him. The hunters managed to kill two dragons measuring 3.1 meters and 3.35 meters, plus the capture of two puppies, each measuring one meter below. Based on the catch of the hunters, Ouwens conduct research and concluded that the Komodo dragon is not a flamethrower, but including the type of monitor lizard (monitor lizard) in the reptile class. The results of this research were published in a newspaper published in 1912. In that proclamation, Ouwens suggest the giant lizard Varanus names
instead of nicknames Komodo (Komodo). Recognizing the importance of the dragon
as an endangered species, the Dutch government issued a regulation and
protection of dragons in 1915. Be the region as a dragon conservation area.
Findings komodo dragon living legend, a curious world. Several scientific
expeditions from different countries take turns doing research on Komodo
Island.
Prehistoric Animals that Survived
After World War I, a scientific expedition designed to conduct research
dragons. In 1926, an expedition led by W. Douglas Burden of the American Museum
of Natural History with the most modern research, doing research for months. The
expedition which involved dozens of people were arrested 27 Komodo dragons. They
perform surgical anatomy and identification of species. From the first
scientific report about the dragon made. Explained that the dragons have a
large head and strong, has a pair of shining eyes, her skin was hard, thick and
wiry. Having Kelambir wrinkled skin below her neck. The shape is similar
to a lizard, with four legs and a tail fat meaty too long.
Has 26 sharp teeth, each measuring 4 cm, has a
bright red forked tongue. When viewed from a distance, the extended tongue want
to fire, because dragons are often stuck out his tongue like a snake. Komodo
also an excellent hunter. He relies bites and bacterial toxins in their saliva
to paralyze their prey. He will follow the prey has been injured for days,
until he died, then he ate it. As a carnivore and scavenger (carrion), dragons
are found only on the island of Komodo, Rinca, Padar, Gili Motang, Owadi and
Samiin. Komodo also known as swimmer animals. That's how he explored the
islands around Flores.
Fossil
Meanwhile, in the mid 20th century, in Australia, fossils of ancient
creatures that once studied very similar to dragons. Based on tests of carbon,
fossil believed to be from the period 60-30 million years ago. This means that
dragon once inhabited the Australian continent in prehistoric times. However,
researchers are still puzzled by the relationship with the dragon fossils from
Australia.
Although the geological history
of the earth shows that the former Australia and some islands of Indonesia is
one of the dishes, but Komodo thought to have formed about 1 million years ago.
While based on research, prehistoric dragons are extinct at least 30 million
years ago, before the island of Komodo formed. So why dragons are found only on
Komodo Island and the surrounding area? Since when dragons inhabit? While never
found traces of bone dragons elsewhere (except Australia). It is a mystery that
requires further research.
Komodo Island residents
Komodo Dragons are native to the
island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. Island occupied most dragons are named
according to the name of this animal when it was discovered in 1910, the Komodo
(Komodo). This giant lizard including
endangered animals with a population of less than 4,000 wild birds. To protect
the Komodo dragon, in 1980 agreed to establish a conservation area in the form
of Komodo National Park on Komodo Island and the small islands in the vicinity.
Distribution and population that still exist in the past three decades has been
declining and endangered, mainly due to poaching deer, as its main prey. Even
the population at Padar known to have disappeared since the late 1990s, whereas
in the early 1980s, the dragon can still be found there. Attention and
conservation of this species should be given in particular, because the dragon populations
on the verge of extinction. For some residents of the island of Komodo, the
animal is considered more dangerous to humans than alligators, because the
content of bacteria in saliva that can cause severe infections. Typically, the
mating season occurs between June to July. In August, a female Komodo dragon
will dig a nest of birds nest mound former Sandbar (Megapodius Reindwardt) on
the hill and nesting holes in the ground, to lay eggs which can reach 38
points. Eggs are usually guarded by its mother, but the newborn child in
February or March is not and is often eaten. Komodo dragons take five years to
grow to the size of two meters and can live up to 30 years. Entering 4-5 years
is the beginning of dragon sexual maturity.
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