🦎Komodo dragon

Varanus komodoensis Ouwens, 1912

Комодският варан (Varanus komodoensis) е най-големият гущер в света. Принадлежи към семейство Варани. Достига на дължина до около 3 m и тегло около 70 кг, а рекордният доказан екземпляр е 166 кг, заедно с погълнатата несмляна храна. Обитава единствено пет индонезийски острова, между които Флорес, Комодо и Ринка. Предполага се, че е потомствен вид на австралийската мегалания. Добър плувец е и в търсене на храна може да преминава от остров на остров.

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vs you

≈ 1.4× your weight

Also called

Ora, Komodo Monitor

Conservation status

ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable

Key measurements

Body mass: 87 kg
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: 149 N
Maximum lifespan: 62 years

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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Komodo dragon

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

87 kgrecord 110 kg · ReptTraits

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data quality: questionable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Bite force

149 N

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MEASURED in vivo, highest of 200 bite peaks across 10 captive animals of 25-75 kg, contact anterior on the tooth row. Strikingly weak for the body size -- the paper's point is that the animal supplements a poor bite with a 336 N ventrocaudal pull. Finite-element modelling of one individual gives 39 N at optimal gape, which the authors treat as concordant. Ignore the 696 N figure scaled from alligators; the same paper rejects it.

Source: D'Amore, Moreno, McHenry & Wroe 2011, PLoS ONE 6(10):e26226 · see citation

Maximum lifespan

62 yearsrecord 62 years · ReptTraits

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data quality: questionable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation

49 days

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