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Nelson jacobson
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i did a job shadow at a local zoo today and got to walk and feed their komodo dragon. he is about 7.5 ft he was very tame, not what i expected. and yes it was a komodo dragon not a monitor.
12/20/05  07:28pm

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aewsome. you should have got pics.
12/20/05  10:00pm

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Actually, a Komodo dragon is a monitor lizard...the largest one to be precise. The entire family are known as Varanids and Varanus komodensis is its taxonomic name.
12/20/05  10:43pm

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mdc, i know that it is in the same family but if i would have just said " i feed a komodo dragon" ppl would be like " no you didnt it was mostlikly a big nile monitor or something". so i needed to say that.



12/21/05  10:29am

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not if you said it was done at a zoo. if you said it was done at your house we would think you were full of it. i still would have love too seen pics. i still love that pic on here of the komodo eating the tied up pig.
12/21/05  11:28am

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yeah i didnt take ne pics unfortunatly. i had to be at the zoo at like 7am and it was an hour drive so i was very tired and didnt think to bring a camra. i feed him 2 rats. he has been a picky eater lately so thats all he would eat. but it was still a very cool experience.
12/22/05  05:37pm

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Sorry nelson...I’m just a stickler for the truth. Perhaps saying "it was a komodo dragon, not some OTHER monitor" wouldv’e been better.

I only say it because some igorant rube who knows nothing of herps could pop on here, quickly read your post, and then think "well whaddaya know? Komodos aren’t really monitors"
12/23/05  10:28pm

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I only say it because some igorant rube who knows nothing of herps could pop on here, quickly read your post, and then think "well whaddaya know? Komodos aren’t really monitors"----I think that comment was kinda rude because there are many people on these forums such as myself that are here to learn and actually don’t know much about herps at all.



05/01/06  01:00am

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this post is still alive?
05/08/06  09:28pm

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did you really??? thats awesome!!!!
08/13/06  03:02am


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