Komodo Dragon

Endangered species
By Group 4
 Where does it live

• The komodo dragon hot seasonally areas.

• The komodo dragon will live in grasslands ,savannas
and nonscoon forests.
• They mostley live in lowlands but have been found in
highlands,
 What color,weight,and size of the
komodo dragon.
• The komodo dragon is black ,green or gray with
patches of yellow,brown or white.
• The males normaly weight up 550 lbs and the
females weight up to 150 lbs
• They normaly get up to 9 to 10 feet.
 What does it eat

• They eat sunda deer birds snakes fish crabs snails and
small mammles.
• They also eat pigs water bufalo eggs wild horse and
even sometimes younger komodo dragons.
 Young (offspring)

• The komodo dragon will have about 3 eggs per time.

• They normaly live 30-35 years.
 Predators for it.

• The komodo dragon has 1 predator that is humans.

 How many are left.

• The estimate is 1700 are left in the world.

• Their are actually 5000 left.
 Why is it endangered

• They are endangered do to vanlnerble deiscase.

• Also it has been having volcanic activity.
• Last an competion to man and feral dogs
 Why are we protecting it

• One way we are keeping it in zoos and feding it every

day.
• Also we are breding them and sending them back to
the wild.
 Other interesting facts

• The komodo gives of a strike of venom in its claws

when it strikes.
• It is the biggest lizard in the world.
• Komodo dragon stands for the king of lizards.
 Works cited

• SmithSonian national zoogical park “komodo

dragon”internet http:/national .zoo siedu.16oct2012.
• Torontozoo.”komodo
dragon”internet.<http:/torontozoo,com>17oct2012.
• Woodlandparkzoo.”komodo
dragon”<http://zooorg.