The Komodo Queen

This is a portrait of a Komodo Dragon, the largest lizard species in the world. Isn’t she pretty?

What did this image teach me?

I learned several things: That a Komodo Dragon’s bite contains poison, and that Westerners only encountered them in 1910, and (most importantly for me) the encounter with dragons on Komodo partly inspired the story of King Kong.


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