Komodo bites are highly deadly; on top of venom their bites also contain powerful flesh eating bacteria that they and very few other creatures are immune to
All I can think about is that guy who made a lesbian lizard army that took over his home and this fact feels funny for some reason I know it's not all lizards, it's just a funny thought
The bacteria is hardly flesh eating. The bacteria in a komodo dragons mouth is identical to those found in the mouths of other lizards, and this was discovered, iirc, around the 2012-2015 years? I dont know specifics, but they took a mouth swab from a komodo dragon and smeared it on a slab of raw meat, and basically nothing happened to it outside of nornal decay expected for the meat
Fun fact or not so fun fact: Komodo Dragons at one point had a Prehistoric relative named Megalania that lived in what is now Australia some 500,000 to possibly 40,000 years ago. In essence was your standard monitor lizard/Komodo dragon except the length of an school bus and possibly had just as toxic saliva as modern Komodo’s.
Correction, as it generally speaking came out in recent years, that Megalania (No longer a valid name), while certainly bigger than modern Komodo Dragons, weren't as large as we though, mostly clocking at some 4 to at most 5m long, much less than ones believed 8m
12:14 Our Iguana's name was Zilla. It escaped one day. By the time someone saw the posters and called us, animal control had already put it down. Breaks my heart just thinking about it.
komodo dragon's bite can be deadly though, not only their venom can causes massive blood loss, but also their saliva. their saliva contains more than 100 different types of bacteria of which 8 are the most poisonous.
calling a komodo dragon venomous is a bit of a stretch, they don't have venomous fangs like snakes do, instead the venom mixes into their saliva, so when they bite it's kind of just there on the teeth so it's not very efficient most komodo prey dies from blood loss because they leave huge wounds, venom or not.
Just because their venom isnt injected through their teeth doesnt make it a stretch to call them venomous Also, their venom acts as a sort of anticoagulant, preventing the clotting of blood and thus *forcing* their prey to bleed out You can run, but shock and bloodloss will drop you, and no matter how fast you run, a hungry komodo dragon can walk faster
No not all lizards can regenerate their tails. A good example is actually a commonly kept lizard called the creasted gecko of which i have 3. If they lose their tail which unfortunately is very common, they end up with little frog butts, thankfully none of mine have lost their tails... yet.
There’s a guy who has minks trained to hunt rats for farmers, and he decided to train a savanna monitor lizard to do the same thing in summer when the mink’s thick fur becomes detrimental.
A fun and scary facts: Komodo dragons have evolved to evolve to give birth without a mate in a process called parthenogenesis. I won't go over the science of it, it basically means the mother will insert her own dna into the egg than give birth to a female. If you don't know what that means, it means they have evolved to clone themselves. There's a lot more detail and specifics, but this is the gist
Komodo draagons do it: babies are (probably) fine. F*cked up humans try to do it: kid is in constant pain from the moment that it is born, then dies after a couple of weeks.
@@Moxie326There are several subspecies, but the lizard in particular you're thinking of are Whiptail lizards~ Not all Whiptails do it, but a notable amount of Whiptail subspecies do
Funny enough, for Komodos in particular, their form of Parthenogenesis due to the way reptile genes work, their offspring are all male rather than being clones of the mother, I forget the exact reasoning, and admittedly I could be wrong and its a seperate species of lizard, but Im 70% certain its Komodos
Little fact about Komodo dragons: Female tourists who are on their period are not allowed on guided hikes on the isles, because the dragons will smell their menstrual blood and think that they are injured, which to them means an easy meal
TierZoo actually DOES have a Frog Tier List, I believe, Camellia. Other lists on TierZoo’s channel I’d love to see you react to include Fish, Sharks, Snakes, Birds, Raptors, Ice Age, and Dinosaurs. He also has a bunch more “Are They OP?” videos, of which Horns, Elephants, and Crocodiles are very popular ones, and he also has several “How X Species Broke The Game” videos that are also great watches, his most recent of which focuses on domestic cats. Hope to see a bunch more TierZoo and other nature-based video reactions from you in the future, Camellia! Keep up the great work!
Lizard: *specs into autotomy*
TierZoo: "My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.”
"I don't know about the true facts series" Oh boy, that's a hell of a backlog to go through!
Komodo bites are highly deadly; on top of venom their bites also contain powerful flesh eating bacteria that they and very few other creatures are immune to
I never knew. They looked cute and innocent
@@camellia_vtHow?
All I can think about is that guy who made a lesbian lizard army that took over his home and this fact feels funny for some reason
I know it's not all lizards, it's just a funny thought
The bacteria is hardly flesh eating. The bacteria in a komodo dragons mouth is identical to those found in the mouths of other lizards, and this was discovered, iirc, around the 2012-2015 years? I dont know specifics, but they took a mouth swab from a komodo dragon and smeared it on a slab of raw meat, and basically nothing happened to it outside of nornal decay expected for the meat
@@Misto_deVito6009 look at its cute little face
Fun fact or not so fun fact: Komodo Dragons at one point had a Prehistoric relative named Megalania that lived in what is now Australia some 500,000 to possibly 40,000 years ago. In essence was your standard monitor lizard/Komodo dragon except the length of an school bus and possibly had just as toxic saliva as modern Komodo’s.
Komodo saliva isn't toxic, they have actual venom glands
Correction, as it generally speaking came out in recent years, that Megalania (No longer a valid name), while certainly bigger than modern Komodo Dragons, weren't as large as we though, mostly clocking at some 4 to at most 5m long, much less than ones believed 8m
@@lewycraft thanks for the newer info.
@@joshuamattingly1232 you are welcomed! And hey, it still retains the title of largest terestrial lizard of all times, even after downsizing.
@@lewycraft so not much has changed, except it’s now in an economic model
i recomment the cat tier list as well as dog and fish, shark too
12:14
Our Iguana's name was Zilla. It escaped one day. By the time someone saw the posters and called us, animal control had already put it down. Breaks my heart just thinking about it.
komodo dragon's bite can be deadly though, not only their venom can causes massive blood loss, but also their saliva.
their saliva contains more than 100 different types of bacteria of which 8 are the most poisonous.
That’s so fascinating.
calling a komodo dragon venomous is a bit of a stretch, they don't have venomous fangs like snakes do, instead the venom mixes into their saliva, so when they bite it's kind of just there on the teeth so it's not very efficient
most komodo prey dies from blood loss because they leave huge wounds, venom or not.
Just because their venom isnt injected through their teeth doesnt make it a stretch to call them venomous
Also, their venom acts as a sort of anticoagulant, preventing the clotting of blood and thus *forcing* their prey to bleed out
You can run, but shock and bloodloss will drop you, and no matter how fast you run, a hungry komodo dragon can walk faster
No not all lizards can regenerate their tails. A good example is actually a commonly kept lizard called the creasted gecko of which i have 3. If they lose their tail which unfortunately is very common, they end up with little frog butts, thankfully none of mine have lost their tails... yet.
There’s a guy who has minks trained to hunt rats for farmers, and he decided to train a savanna monitor lizard to do the same thing in summer when the mink’s thick fur becomes detrimental.
A fun and scary facts:
Komodo dragons have evolved to evolve to give birth without a mate in a process called parthenogenesis. I won't go over the science of it, it basically means the mother will insert her own dna into the egg than give birth to a female.
If you don't know what that means, it means they have evolved to clone themselves.
There's a lot more detail and specifics, but this is the gist
I do believe there's a whole species of Lizards that have pretty much lost males thanks to parthenogenesis, cannot remember their name though.
Komodo draagons do it: babies are (probably) fine.
F*cked up humans try to do it: kid is in constant pain from the moment that it is born, then dies after a couple of weeks.
@@Moxie326There are several subspecies, but the lizard in particular you're thinking of are Whiptail lizards~ Not all Whiptails do it, but a notable amount of Whiptail subspecies do
Funny enough, for Komodos in particular, their form of Parthenogenesis due to the way reptile genes work, their offspring are all male rather than being clones of the mother, I forget the exact reasoning, and admittedly I could be wrong and its a seperate species of lizard, but Im 70% certain its Komodos
Little fact about Komodo dragons:
Female tourists who are on their period are not allowed on guided hikes on the isles, because the dragons will smell their menstrual blood and think that they are injured, which to them means an easy meal
The kimono dragon absolutely deserves its name. If one day they just evolved wings, they wouldn't be very different from a Rathalos.
TierZoo actually DOES have a Frog Tier List, I believe, Camellia. Other lists on TierZoo’s channel I’d love to see you react to include Fish, Sharks, Snakes, Birds, Raptors, Ice Age, and Dinosaurs. He also has a bunch more “Are They OP?” videos, of which Horns, Elephants, and Crocodiles are very popular ones, and he also has several “How X Species Broke The Game” videos that are also great watches, his most recent of which focuses on domestic cats. Hope to see a bunch more TierZoo and other nature-based video reactions from you in the future, Camellia! Keep up the great work!