Does China have a Komodo dragon, is the Komodo dragon a lizard or a dragon

There is wood, only the island of Comodo has it.

This thing is not a crocodile, it is difficult to raise without the tropics, and I have not seen any zoo in captivity, the United States does not know, Europe does not have it, and China does not have it.

Lizard. The Komodo dragon generally refers to the Komodo dragon, which is an animal of the genus Monitor Lizard in the family Monitor Lizard. Also known as the Komodo Dragon, it is the largest known lizard in existence.

The Komodo dragon is ferocious, and adults eat the larvae of their own kind and sometimes other adults. Able to move quickly, occasionally attacking humans; However, it mainly feeds on carrion, and goes out of the hole every day to forage for food several kilometers away.

Komodo dragons prefer hot and dry places and usually inhabit dry, open grasslands, savannas, and low-altitude tropical forests. As a lizard, it is most active during the day, although it exhibits some nocturnal activity. Komodo dragons are solitary and will only gather together to breed and eat.

They are able to run quickly in short sprints of 20 km/h, dive up to meters, and skillfully climb trees with strong paws at a young age. To catch untouchable prey, the Komodo dragon may stand on its hind legs with its tail as support. As it matures, its claws are mainly used as **, as its sheer size makes climbing impractical.

Among the monitor lizards, the largest is the Komodo dragon. They live mainly on the islands of Indonesia, where they can reach a total length of 3 meters and weigh up to 165 kilograms. The objects of prey of the Komodo dragon include wild boars, deer, etc.

It is said that there was once a Komodo dragon that brought down a buffalo weighing more than 500 kilograms. They have a great appetite, and a Comodo dragon weighing 46 kilograms can eat a small wild boar weighing up to 41 kilograms at a time. According to reports, the Komodo dragon also attacks humans.

Since monitor lizards are all carnivorous, ecologically, they also play the role of carnivores among mammals. Especially in those places where there are no carnivorous mammals. In Australia, due to the local mammals.

There were only those primitive marsupials, and no carnivores like wolves, tigers, and leopards, so monitor lizards filled this gap. Currently, there are 31 species of monitor lizards in the world, including 24 in Australia alone.

The Comodo dragon is the largest known lizard in morphology, with an average length of 2 to 3 meters.

Weight: Male: over 90 kg Female: less than 50 kg.

The largest reaches 165 kg and has a length of more than 3 meters. Males are larger in size, but are almost indistinguishable from females in appearance. The cubs** are green, yellow, and black in color. Adult monitor lizards are black-brown in color.

As carnivorous monitor lizards, they feed on wild boars, deer, monkeys, etc., and sometimes prey on weaker species and juveniles. They also occasionally attack humans or forage for human corpses, and by 2010 about 12 people had died from monitor lizard attacks.

Monitor lizards run extremely fast, but monitor lizards rarely hunt their prey, and Komodo dragons have a keen sense of smell and will ambush their prey in their path before attacking when the time is right. When the prey is approaching (about 1 meter away), it will pounce on it, first violently knock the prey to the ground, or bite off the prey's hind legs, and after the prey is unable to move, it will tear open the throat or abdomen of the prey with its sharp teeth, and the prey will die due to heavy bleeding. At this moment, the monitor lizard uses its jagged teeth and powerful claws to tear its prey into pieces, and quickly swallows large chunks of meat.

Scientists have witnessed a female monitor lizard weighing no more than 50 kilograms eating a 31-kilogram wild boar in 17 minutes. The stomach of a monitor lizard is like a rubber sac that expands easily. Adult monitor lizards can eat up to 80% of their body weight in a single meal, so there is a big difference in weight between them before and after meals.

Carrion is a favorite food for Komodo dragons.

The scent of prey attracts monitor lizards that come to share their prey. There are rules for dividing meals, and in a group of Komodo dragons, it is usually older and larger that eats first. They will strike the younger with their strong tails to keep them out of reach of the food, followed by the submissive or "friends and family", and the unfamiliar diners are usually scheduled to eat last.

When the Komodo dragon runs out of prey, it buries the rest in the sand or grass and eats it when it is hungry. Wild deer, wild boars, goats and various species of monkeys that live on the island of Comodo flee when they see monitor lizards. A description of Komodo dragon predation:

The lizard looked at the prey with fierce eyes, and suddenly the lizard quickly rushed up and bit the buffalo, only a week later, the buffalo was poisoned to death, and then the lizard began to eat the buffalo, and the lizard directly bit off the buffalo's leg, which shows how strong the lizard is, but after a while, the whole buffalo was gnawed away, and only some bones remained. ”