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Komodo Dragons Attack Villagers; Villagers Blame Environmentalists

KomodoTen-foot-long reptiles in Indonesia have the taste for human flesh, and it’s the fault of…the Nature Conservancy?

That’s what some of the locals are saying. According to the Wall Street Journal, a Komodo dragon killed a young boy last year near the dragons’ main home, Komodo National Park, and since then dragon attacks on people have become much more frequent. And one reason the Komodos have started feeding on the locals, they say, is that they have stopped feeding the Komodos.

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August 25th, 2008 Tags: ,
by Andrew Moseman in Pollution Solutions (& Disasters), The Wide (& Strange) World of Animals | 1 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >