![]() ![]() These five feet long, 12kg heavy creatures eat about 500gm-1kg of chicken, field rats and eggs every week. "We have had so much interest about these lizards," he says of the new residents. The idea was to give the komodo dragons the time to acclimatise to India. Their enclosure has only recently been opened to the general public. So we keep them in separate enclosures," he explains. In fact, the three lizards tend to fight with each other and the fights can get quite brutal. "They are the largest and heaviest lizards in the world and yet surprisingly agile. But he is not going to say that it is cool to pet these lizards either. "There is a certain aura around them that has developed over the years as a result of how these lizards have been portrayed in pop culture," says Allwin Jesudasan, the assistant director of Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. The lizards are here as part of an exchange programme that will see 12 gharials being resettled at Bronx Zoo. Photo courtesy: Madras Crocodile Bank Trust ![]()
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