Komodo Dragon Deadly 60 Bites

'I've had loads of incredible animal encounters.

'Here's just one of my many favourites.

'This is Deadly 60 Bites.'

Whoa!

My crew and I are leaving civilisation behind

and heading to a place where dinosaurs still rule.

We've come to Indonesia to find the mighty Komodo dragon,

the largest lizard and the biggest venomous animal on earth.

To show you just how fearsome they can be,

I ventured into the dragons' lair

to try out one of our Deadly experiments.

'I'm hoping to encourage some predatory behaviour from the local dragons.

'But first, I need to entice them

'from their midday slumber in the shade.'

OK, we've already got interest, guys.

So...yeah.

Right, OK, let's move, guys. Which direction are we going?

'The dragons' reaction took us all by surprise.'

OK, guys, go, go, go.

HE TALKS IN INDONESIAN

OK, here they come.

Greg, Greg, Greg!

Look at that. It's a completely different animal.

Back up. Back up.

I cannot believe the total change

in attitude of this animal.

No, no, no, no, no.

As soon as they've got food on the brain,

they change from a slumbering,

slow-moving creature,

into a predatory dinosaur.

And all of a sudden, they're not just hunting the meat,

they're hunting us.

No, whoa, whoa, whoa!

OK, one of the dragons has the meat.

Over there, look. Tearing into it.

Wow!

I can see into its mouth,

the curved, backward facing teeth.

And look at the tail, thrashing around.

Komodo dragons have very, very occasionally attacked

and even killed human beings,

but you can see that once an easy source of food is available,

they're not focusing on us any more.

They're just centred on the meat.

'In all my years of wildlife watching,

'this has been one of the very few times I've genuinely felt

'like an animal would attack me if it got the chance.

'A scary, but remarkable experience.'

There is no doubt the Komodo dragons had to go on the Deadly 60.

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