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u/therealsix 18h ago
Ok, now change the forced perspective and he the guy stand next to it. But yeah, itās big.
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u/JKrow75 17h ago
Honestly, even with experienced handlers, thatās about as close as they want to get to one to take a picture
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u/PhoenixARC-Real 7h ago
Yeah, but it still kinda throws off the message of the post, sure you don't wanna be right up on it, but the perspective makes it look closer to gator or small tiger levels of size, rather than the medium-size-dog that they are.
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u/Mr_Fluffyhair 9h ago
Yeah kind of ruins it for me. If it were actually big they would show it's true size. Not camera tricks
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u/Natural-Estimate-228 18h ago
That kid is about to die. One of the most dangerous animal on earth. Not to be played with .
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u/Turbo-Reyes 18h ago
One bite and its good night after a few days of painful agonies as the infection spread
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u/Far_Spread_4200 17h ago
Too right, mouth is more poisonous than anything else and a gruesome, long death
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u/kazhena 16h ago
Please do not try to eat (or kiss?) the komodo dragon.
They're not poisonous, but testing still says no.
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u/Jezzer111 15h ago
Komodoās have long been thought to not be venomous and most of the world has been going on this incorrect info for years, but it is now known that they do produce venom.
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u/Thatnakedguy0 16h ago
I donāt know if it would be considered venomous or infectious because what kills you isnāt venom itās bacteria.
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u/kazhena 16h ago
The venom doesn't have to kill you, but my point was simply that they're venomous, not poisonous.
If you bite it and die, it's poisonous.
If you get bit and die, it's venomous.
Komodo dragons are just OP and have more than one deadly mechanism, lol.
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u/Turbo-Reyes 16h ago
Dont forget the one that shoot lasers!!! Or was it in a video game...
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u/vercetian 15h ago
I just want fricken komodo dragons with fricken laser beams attached to their fricken heads!
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u/skittlz61 10h ago
Poison is ingested, venom is injected. Thats exactly it. I explain this so much to people when discussing reptiles.
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u/tiptoemicrobe 15h ago
I believe the bacteria hypothesis has largely been rejected in favor of actual venom doing the job.
Here's one study on it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2690028/
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u/MysticFangs 15m ago
The venom kills you by not allowing your blood to clot. The venom forces you to bleed out so yes the venom is what kills you.
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u/pervyjeffo 13h ago
"Komodo dragon venom is as potent as that found in the inland Taipan, the world's most venomous snake."
I'm pretty sure it is venom that kills you.
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen 8h ago
Please do not try to eat (or kiss?) the komodo dragon
You're right. With creatures like that you can't play it slow.
Straight to the Dragonussy.
/j Of course. Please nobody go for Dragonussy.
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u/818VitaminZ 16h ago
More poisonous than my ex-gf mouth, damn
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u/SoupahCereal 15h ago
It's the bacteria in their mouths that will take down prey. They just need one bite and they'll follow and wait. Doesn't take long.
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u/Seeker369 14h ago
This used to be repeated for quite a while until it was revealed that komodo dragons having harmful bacteria in their mouths was in fact a myth.
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u/CrashAndDash9 14h ago
Yup. Itās the water the animals run to, to get away thatās got all the bacteria.
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u/MysticFangs 13m ago
What infection? The venom is not like rattle snake or black widow venom. The venom of a Komodo Dragon stops your blood from clotting and this forces you to bleed out and it will kill you much faster than any infection could.
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u/N4TETHAGR8 16h ago
- Thatās a grown man
- Why does he look like Moe Howard
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u/re-goddamn-loading 15h ago
The komodo is the second most dangerous thing in this video after that haircut
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u/HeldDownTooLong 17h ago
And heās talking about wrestling the dragonā¦seriously???.
Even though I think he was being facetious, he needs to stay the fuck away from this wild animal. Regardless of whether itās held in captivity or not, at its brainās primal level, itās a wild animal.
This dragon could make a meal out of OP in short-order. Actually, heād be one of the dragonās easiest meals and the āfightā would end very quickly and very badly for this young man.
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u/Upstairs_Ad_5574 17h ago
No. No he's not talking about wrestling it..
He's talking about why he shouldnt wrestle it, just so his audience can go "oh, this guy wrestles"
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u/HeldDownTooLong 16h ago
Ohhhhhā¦okā¦thanks!
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u/Upstairs_Ad_5574 16h ago
I mean... I get it. My first thought before hitting play was, in fact, "why is he in a gator wrestling position?" Lol but thankfully, with the exception of being within licking distance, he's not that dumb.
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u/SoupahCereal 15h ago
That kid? The camera man is right in front of that thing. I'd say that's way worse of a position lol
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u/sd_saved_me555 10h ago
I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on their temperament... but this definitely seems like a bad idea. I do know if that lizard decides he wants that dude dead, that dude's gonna be dead.
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u/WallabyBubbly 1h ago
Komodos salivate when they're hungry, while they're pretty chill when they've recently fed. This one looks chill
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u/Clear-Chemistry2722 18h ago
They are one of the most impressive animals on the planet to me.Ā Ā
So much bacteria in their mouth that scientists have gone back and forth from venomous to non venomous repeatedly since the discovery of them.Ā I say this because if you're bit and it goes untreated you are all but surely going to die of INFECTION.Ā Not a venomous wound. Quickly at that.Ā Ā
They are fucking fast enough to catch land animals, they can swimthey can climb and sometimes they use their tails as a whip.Ā Ive seen marks that they have left.Ā Very very impressive.Ā They dont look much, one of the deadliest creatures on the planet.Ā
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u/kazhena 16h ago
They have a type of hemotoxin venom.
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u/wvsfezter 4h ago
This is a pretty hotly debated subject. They found glands in the lower jaw of Komodo dragons that the researchers identified as venom glands, however other researchers contested these claims. The argument is that even though these oral secretions have a hematoxic effect, there's speculation that they could play a broader role and the classification as venom glands as opposed to salivatory glands could be narrow-minded. All of this is still pretty cutting edge as these findings came out in 2023
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u/I-RateBoobies 18h ago
No its definitely venom. And you don't die from the infection you die from the venom. The venom causes your blood to be unable to clot so you bleed to death (which would cause your body to go into shock) and your BP rapidly drops which then causes a whole other set of problems.
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u/therealhlmencken 15h ago
New science just released no venom itās crazy it goes back and forth.
Jk itās like of course once we discovered the actual venom mechanism we had the answer.
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u/davegrapes 11h ago
āThey donāt look much??ā They look like Sir Lancelotās fevered nightmare come to life, what are you talking about!?
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u/Necromancer_Vermin 14h ago
Its also funny to see them eat whatever is stupid enough to be infront of its snout. Like they just got delivered fastfood
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u/aoi_ito 18h ago edited 18h ago
I'd be more scared to stay near a giant komodo dragon then a saltwater crocodile. At least a saltwater crocodile can't chase you down on land but these guy can easily outran a human if they want.( they have insane stamina and can run and track their prey for days.)
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u/Crikepire 17h ago
They probably filmed this after it ate. Like crocs, they are more docile after they have fed.
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u/Balls_McDangley 14h ago
100%, they literally eat almost their body weight in a sitting. That boys belly is full af, hes about to nap.
Still wouldnt get that close to one in a million years.
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u/OmahaWinter 15h ago
Oh cool, so the massive venomous unpredictable reptile is 15% less likely to rip his arm off in one bite. With that favorable swing in his favor, it makes total sense to stand next to it! Perfectly safe!
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u/BLKxGOLD 18h ago
Bro is way too close to that beast.
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u/oficious_intrpedaler 14h ago
He isn't very close, though. He's clearly standing a ways behind it.
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u/samwise58 11h ago
Forcing a perspective to make it look bigger as wellā¦
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u/oficious_intrpedaler 10h ago
Yeah, reading through these comments it seems like a surprising number of folks didn't realize that.
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u/samwise58 5h ago
Thereās a bunch of that on Reddit lately. Looks like Facebook type comments. Wouldnāt it be weird if it came out every sm company employed ādumb botsā that comment to feed the reaction TO the other reactions? South Park explained the outrage reaction in one of their later seasons. Itās really true. The outrage to the comments/reactions to the actual events.
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u/samwise58 5h ago
It drives engagement which equals money. So I guess the question is: āWhen does social media get a surgeon generalās warning like. cigarettes?ā
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u/Grid-nim 8h ago
Haha frfr. It looks more like a monitor lizard than a komodo dragon.
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u/samwise58 5h ago
It could be a newt and he has it far enough in front of him but just barely in front of the camera to make it look enormous!
DOWNVOTE this āabsolute unitā unless it is an absolute unit of a Komodo dragon!!!!
Donāt let clout chasers post crap to subs that arenāt relevant. When you get older, itāll really start to piss you off.
Like in my comic/superhero/anime subs where someone posts āpick a superpower but the next comment chooses to screw you in a very uncomfortable place, like the back of a VW Bug.ā Except itās 10 posts a day in different subs and itās so monotonous and so boring.
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
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u/OmahaWinter 15h ago
And with his escape path limited by the bush. Which may not matter since he canāt outrun it anyway.
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u/creaturefeature16 17h ago
What an idiot. The guy could end up like this deer (NSFL!!!).
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen 8h ago
Damn that's depressing to watch.
Poor thing.
Well I know what I'll be seeing in my nightmares.
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u/wmorris33026 18h ago
No way, Iād rather drive a Mercury into light pole than fuck with one of those things. Fn Darwin Award.
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u/Arcturian-WuTang 17h ago
Damn come to think of it I havenāt seen a Mercury on the road in ages
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u/GiveHerDPS 15h ago
The last model years were 2011 they are still out there but getting rarer like Pontiacs and Saturns
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u/the_admirals_platter 14h ago
šµI'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it right into a pole.šµ
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u/wmorris33026 13h ago
My mom had a badass 428 Cobra Jet Mercury Cougar in the 70s. Thing was a beast. Date night car in high school. Dad was an aircraft mech engineer. Total sleeper. Ran like a bat outa hell. Lmao.
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u/FetusGoulash420 13h ago
Itās not any bigger than any other adult Komodo, this is 100% forced perspective.
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u/ichkanns 17h ago
They are very big, but this shot is definitely forced perspective and the kid is not as close as he appears.
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u/TheStigianKing 17h ago
DAE initially think the dude was Sat on its back?
I had to double take. Lol
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u/Milk_Mindless 16h ago
Are there records of Komodos actively hunting humans? I MEAN if they eat deer alive and WATER BUFFALO like this fucko says what's stopping them
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u/OmahaWinter 15h ago
This is where a wildlife biologist chimes in and says we āarenāt their natural prey,ā etc. Meanwhile that thing would eat a chrome bumper.
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u/Grid-nim 8h ago
Yes and no. Any animal that develops aggression or taste for humans is immediately hunted/euthanized.
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u/Thatnakedguy0 16h ago
This guy must not think that a Komodo dragon has the range of motion necessary to grab him by the headā¦I also donāt think he fully realizes the danger that heās in.
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u/Tkinney44 13h ago
Is this guy really ballsy or stupid? Their saliva is super toxic and will kill you in a few days if that.
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u/LiveCelebration5237 11h ago
I never understand the stupidity of people being this close to something that , if it wanted to would absolutely fuck your shit and youād cry and not be able to do anything apart from become a victim of your own suicidal actions . Respect nature and keep well away . Main character syndrome got this idiot thinking heās got plot armour
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u/Maleficent-Crew-5424 9h ago
This is just the distance between the two. It's an average sized komodo
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u/ApprehensiveElk5930 9h ago
He is cheesing the perspective to make it look bigger. Its a pretty common cheese you see in Komodo dragon pics. especially this day and age. The biggest one on record was 10ft 360lb. Most are much smaller. Still a 5 foot dragon would absolutely kill and eat you. I've seen smaller dragons take down huge buffalo. They bite the stomach area and then follow the buffalo around till it dies from infection. Savage stuff.
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u/ernie3tones 2h ago
Exactly this. They feed on carrion and their bite is toxic due to the amount of bacteria in their mouths. They donāt need venom to kill.
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u/iammakishima 16h ago
A lot of yall keep saying poisonous lol. Theyāre venomous. They inject a venom into you once bitten. lol.
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u/nanneryeeter 15h ago
I'm guessing they are reasonably intelligent.
Probably wants to eat the guy but might understand that things will go very badly if it does.
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u/OmahaWinter 15h ago
Itās a reptile and you think itās contemplating abstract shit like the future and consequences?
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u/TayKapoo 15h ago
This one slipped through the evolution and natural selection crack. A special kind of stupid this one
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u/elhoffgrande 14h ago
Holy cow, the only way I would be that close to a Komodo dragon is if I was in a track runner start pointed in the other direction. There is no stinking way I would be lying down and unable to respond quickly if that freaking monster decided to turn around and nip at me.
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u/Spuzzle91 14h ago
The guy behind the dragon is his hype man. This is before the dragon has his first WWE event.
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u/PastMathematician874 14h ago
Those fuckers be fast bro, running won't save this guy if the wild animal decides to be a wild animal... Just saying...
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u/-UncreativeRedditor- 14h ago
A lot of people in the comments are overreacting. Is a komodo dragon dangerous? Of course. Will you immediately die from being bitten? No. With proper first aid and subsequent medical treatment, your chance of surviving is very high.
The bacteria in a komodo dragon's mouth can take more than a full day to kill an adult human, depending on the size of the person and severity of the bite. A komodo dragon bites its prey in the wild and follows it, sometimes for days, until the prey succumbs to infection. There is rarely anything instant about it.
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u/ClassicBookkeeper255 13h ago
(David Attenboroughs voice) Here we have the silly cunt in its un natural habitat were the silly cunt becomes dinner they are not the komodo dragons normal sauce of food but this is why the doodoo is extinct because it was a silly cunt
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u/GodPackedUpAndLeftUs 13h ago
Even the Dragon is thinking āhow fucking stupid is this hairless monkey Iām sat right here..ā
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u/Big_Virgil 10h ago
I wonder what was going on in the Komodoās mind seeing the cameraman and also sensing the doofus behind him.
āā¦food?ā¦ noā¦ food?ā¦ nahā¦ food?ā¦ā
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u/thunderbaby2 9h ago
How aggressive is this beautiful bastard? Do they only strike when hungry or are they territorial and aggro in general?
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u/kengboess 5h ago
We visited Komodo National Park two years ago and the tourists MOB the dragons. It's not a guarantee you will see one every day. The park rangers carry long Y-shaped sticks and tell people to stay far away from them, but people don't listen for shit.
The tour companies from nearby island like Flores rely on Komodo tourism and were striking to protest an increase in the park fees. But, honestly, the park could use more money to be better managed. There was a lot of trash around.
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u/chantsnone 3h ago
It can chase down a deer so Iām just gonna stand five feet away from it
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 3h ago
Sokka-Haiku by chantsnone:
It can chase down a
Deer so Iām just gonna stand
Five feet away from it
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/ernie3tones 2h ago
Forced perspective. Because the dude KNOWS he canāt get close enough to have actual perspective.
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u/WallabyBubbly 50m ago
One of the coolest places you can ever visit is Komodo National Park in Indonesia. Especially if you combine it with scuba diving around the island
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u/MysticFangs 7m ago edited 1m ago
So much misinformation about this animal. It's not hard to use Google and why do people keep repeating myths they've never cared ro verify for themselves?
Komodo Dragon venom is dangerous because it stops your blood from clotting and this gets rid of your body's ability to heal itself resulting in the victim being forced to bleed out. A bacterial infection is not what kills the victim and the venom itself is not deadly, its the bleeding out from the venom which is deadly and you will bleed out far earlier than any bacterial infection would be able to take you out.
If you get medical help soon enough you can be saved from bleeding out. I'm not sure where people are getting this "dies from bacteria after being bitten" from...
No this is not debated in the biology community, it's verified fact at this point.
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u/ElCondor_777 18h ago
And some people actually said they could beat this animal in a fight šš Not a single chance