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25/07/2009

David Attenborough recounts being one of the first people to film and document the life of the Komodo Dragon.

How would you feel if you were approached on a remote tropical island by a reptile ten feet long, with shiny grey scales and a long, yellow forked tongue whipping in and out of its mouth? Run?!

Luckily for us, David Attenborough stood his ground and became one of the first people to film and document the life of the Komodo Dragon.

These giant lizards live on the relatively small island of Komodo in Indonesia and Sir David recounts his utter amazement encountering such a formidable creature.

If solving the riddle of what they eat on the island wasn’t intriguing enough, Sir David also recounts the revelation when he discovered that females don’t really need males, because they can produce off-spring by cloning themselves.

8 minutes

Last on

Sun 26 Jul 2009 02:32GMT

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  • Sat 25 Jul 2009 10:32GMT
  • Sat 25 Jul 2009 23:32GMT
  • Sun 26 Jul 2009 02:32GMT