Twisted Sifter: You might be surprised to learn that Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards, can actually be quite playful.
Professor Gordon Burghardt of the University of Tennessee has studied Komodo dragons for 20 years and gave them things like a paper bag, a ball, and a bucket. The more time the animals spent with them, the more playful they became. WATCH
I noticed the professor wasn’t inside the pen wrestling with them for some real action play. Yikes!!! I didn’t know that they disemboweled their prey…that carcass was a bloody mess! That was interesting!
They’re good at playing fetch, too…with humans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-7j8dnUAw
Yeah… something you will never hear: “Just relaxing on a Sunday afternoon with my lap dragon…”
Play or no play. Still not cute.
All kinds of animals like balls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ydHbl89F6E
That reminds me, the cats tried to kill me the other day. They wrinkled a rug and I tripped, bruised bibs, head bump. sheesh!
With these cats and if I had a dragon house pet I’d be more careful where I put my feet.
They will play with their food for about 2 minutes before eating it…..
They french kiss real good also…..
Playful, right. And I have some real estate in south central Florida I think you might be interested in.
Their size is impressive!!
And ISIS soldiers play soccer with human heads. “Playful” does not equate to benign.
Doubt a Komodo dragon really “plays”. Looks like the lizard was rehearsing an instinctive behavior to kill prey. A cat plays with a mouse before the mouse’s demise. Play can be kind of deadly – like torture.
Didn’t you see “The Freshman?” They’re playful & taste like a cross between Tilapia & turkey!
That’s where the old saying “More fun than a barrel full of Komodo Dragons” comes from.
They remind me of Nancy Pelosi.
That guy is probably one hell of a good dinner guest. Just imagine the stories he could tell.
They normally eat their prey by grabbing it and slamming head first into a tree to force it down whole.
It’s called the Kamala technique…
Moooooooom! Larry’s playing with his lizard again!
Since this beautiful beast is enslaved for your nonsensical “research” it is insanely bored and just occupying his time or trying to kill itself
I once had a Komodo Dragon for a pet.
It slept at the foot of my bed.