4/15/2023 0 Comments Comodo dragon photos![]() ![]() ![]() “unfortunately, in the end, bureaucracy defeated us and we weren’t given a permit to export those dragons from Indonesia, so I’m afraid they’re still there.” Up close with a dragon during Forman’s 1956 trip to Komodo island. A pair of dragons blend with the dirt and underbrush on Komodo island. The camera offers a closeup of the incarcerated animal’s mouth and snout, a dangerous view without the rocks and sturdy wood preventing the menacing carnivore from doing anything more than peering into the lens. In a practice that has since been outlawed, the dragon wanders into a handmade trap the humans have set. “I hadn’t reckoned on him being so big, and to our dismay we saw that he could reach this hanging bait,” Attenborough says as Earth’s largest lizard dislodges slices of meat on its namesake island in eastern Indonesia. Renowned naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough introduced BBC audiences to the fierce predator in that year through a television segment, “Zoo Quest for a Dragon.” Attenborough’s familiar voice narrates black and white footage of one of the reptiles slinking across a forest floor, tongue darting as it catches the scent of a goat carcass suspended in a clearing by the scientist and his local guides. The Komodo dragon enjoyed a big bump in its global profile in 1956.
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