Dragon Attacks Divers!!

[Treebore]

Never thought I would read a legitimate headline saying something like that.

Here is the article if your interested:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080608/ap_ ... sia_divers
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[Foxroe]

For some reason, I found this amusing:

Quote:
Thousands of tourists visit the area in eastern Indonesia each year to see the lizards in their natural habitat. They are normally shown around the arid and rocky island by guides who carry large, forked sticks to ward off the animals.

I'll have to have my players try this...
-Fox

[DangerDwarf]

Foxroe wrote:
guides who carry large, forked sticks to ward off the animals.

Sounds like the making of an angry mob...err....monster.

[Jyrdan Fairblade]

Crazy. Some people have no luck at all.

[serleran]

Did they get it on film?

[Foxroe]

"And the $10,000 grand prize winner of America's Funniest Videos is...
Pokes Dragon with Stick by Moustaf Lostanarm!"



-Fox

[bighara]

Wikipedia wrote:
n late 2005, University of Melbourne researchers concluded that the Perentie (Varanus giganteus), other species of monitor, and agamids may be somewhat venomous. It had been thought that bites inflicted by these lizards were prone to infection because of bacteria in the lizards' mouths, but the research team showed that the immediate effects were caused by mild envenomation. Bites on human digits by a Lace Monitor (V. varius), a Komodo dragon, and a Spotted Tree Monitor (V. scalaris) were observed, and all produced similar results in humans: rapid swelling within minutes, localized disruption of blood clotting, shooting pain up to the elbow, with some symptoms lasting for several hours.[21]

Komodo dragons also possess virulent bacteria in their saliva, of which more than 28 Gram-negative and 29 Gram-positive strains have been isolated.[22] These bacteria cause septicemia in their victim; if an initial bite does not kill the prey animal and it escapes, it will commonly succumb within a week to the resulting infection. The deadliest bacteria in Komodo dragon saliva appears to be a very deadly strain of Pasteurella multocida, from studies performed with lab mice.[23] Because the Komodo dragon appears immune to its own microbes, much research has been done searching for the antibacterial molecule in the hopes of human medicinal use.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon

[rabindranath72]

The bit about the asexual reproduction is astounding.