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 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090519/sc_afp/scienceanimalkomodoaustralia_20090519073836
05/19/09  04:10pm

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 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

I saw that. I believe they will disprove it a few year from now with even more new eveidence. The theories and evidence about komodos has changed drastically throughout the past few years. But I have always believed in this version, where they actually have a poison/venom.
05/19/09  09:19pm

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 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

you guys wanna keep it down, please. this is a serious forum.
05/20/09  12:58pm

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 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

Realistically, if an animal is going to risk life and limb by attacking a large dangerous prey animal, it should have a reasonable chance of that animal dying in its territory, rather than running away and dying in somebody else’s. Anticoagulants, combined with very serious bite damage, have better chance of accomplshing that than waiting for a bacterial infection to take its course and eventually prove fatal.

The mouth bacteria might just be a side effect of having teth that generally kill by blood loss. If you’ve got serrated teeth for ripping flesh, it’s hard to floss. If you eat dead buffalo and don’t floss, you’re going to have a lot of bacteria in your mouth. But outside of science fiction shows, bleeding to death still kills WAY faster than any ubergerm.

I’ll admit, something about that infection theory has always sounded kind of "off" to me. It’s like hearing that your friend just got his throat torn out by a leopard and saying "Oh no! I hope he didn’t catch rabies!"
05/22/09  12:36am

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 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

Quote:

you guys wanna keep it down, please. this is a serious forum.



What are you talking about? We weren’t getting roudy or anything...wtf?
05/23/09  02:34pm

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 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

Also (sorry for the double post) but if there really is venom (there is, but it’s just an anti-coagulant) just do some freakin chemical tests on it...
05/23/09  02:36pm

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   Message To: Jelly_shrimp   In reference to Message Id: 2009860


 Komodo dragons proved venomous by scientist

actually since you wrote in red you were very loud



07/04/09  12:15pm


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