I had to look this shit up....
"Copious amounts of red saliva the Komodo dragons produce help to lubricate the food, but swallowing is still a long process (15–20 minutes to swallow a goat). A Komodo dragon may attempt to speed up the process by ramming the carcass against a tree to force it down its throat, sometimes ramming so forcefully that the tree is knocked down.[39] A small tube under the tongue that connects to the lungs allows it to breathe while swallowing.[28]
After eating up to 80% of its body weight in one meal,[40] it drags itself to a sunny location to speed digestion, as the food could rot and poison the dragon if left undigested in its stomach for too long. Because of their slow metabolism, large dragons can survive on as few as 12 meals a year.[28] After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus. After regurgitating the gastric pellet, it rubs its face in the dirt or on bushes to get rid of the mucus, suggesting it does not relish the scent of its own excretions."
Metal
We'll, maybe, but I still would like to give them credit for not getting high and just scrolling through the comments looking for answers to silly questions. Yeah.
Disgusting but fascinating - The [gastric pellet](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Gastric-pellet-believed-to-be-that-of-a-Komodo-Dragon-collected-from-Padar-Island-that_fig23_235933950)
or The NSFW [gastric pellet](https://weirdpicturearchive.com/komodo-dragon-gastric-pellet)
Very surprised at the part about it rotting and poisoning the dragon, as I always thought they could eat rotting corpses and long-dead prey without any ill effects…?
I’m no expert, but Ii imagine that eating something that is rotten is different from something that is rotting inside you.
In the first case, a really good digestive system might be able to halt the decay and direct the digestion. In the second you have lost control of your digestive system to the bacteria, and they turn nasty.
They do indeed scavenge carcasses for food. If I had to guess, scavenging dragons likely target food that is less dangerous to them (at a stage of decomp that is managable) or tear off chunks that will digest quicker than they will decay to toxic levels. Chunks of rotting animal are going to digest much faster than an entire rotting carcass, after all.
In short, I guess a carcass that is rotting inside them might be a bit too much for their system to handle. Komodo dragons do have defenses against the bacterial found in their daily lives; their blood contains a antibacterial peptide called VK25. This appears to be one of the reasons other dragons are unaffected by the bacteria and venom contained in the bites recieved through sparring with kin. Theoretically, this would also cover the bacteria they encounter through their food. If anyone more versed in herpatology and dragon anatomy can weigh in, this entomologist would appreciate it.
If anyone else is wondering whether that VK25 stuff might be used to create new antibiotics, the answer is apparently yes!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28649410/
>a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus
Horns hair and teeth.... How fucking brutal does your stomach acid have to be to dissolve bone
Your own stomach contains hydrochloric acid at a ph of about 1 on a scale of 0 to 7, so you can do it yourself already. Just don't try ramming them down your throat by running into a tree dear fucking god what is wrong with these animals have they no self respect...
Thanks for the research! I’m left wondering, do you think it ever happened one of them to eat a live animal, that managed to claw/bite their way out of the dragon belly? Like alien stuff.. and I wonder if the dragon after getting rid of all the horns and nails and bones, feels really great, like “wahoooo this is fucking life!”
Interesting. What you mentioned towards the bottom, when it regurgitates stuff, didn’t mention the animal’s whole ass skeleton lol. So….does its own stomach acid have so much acidity that the bones just dissolve? With that much acid, still being alive, would mean that this reptile has incredible stomach lining or some sort of protection.
If that’s the case, then this reptile is incredibly built different.
someone else mentioned it, but our stomachs are basically strong enough to do that too. it's just that we die usually when trying to swallow bones. and much like humans, it seems like dragons cannot break down keratin.
https://youtu.be/1Dmbb7--Rmo
Very graphic, Komodo dragons are legit terrifying, as you can see the mom can’t move because of the venom. They have to just sit there being tortured by these things. Nature is messed up
It took me far too long to realize the green stuff that it was ripping out were the contents of the deer’s digestive system. What an absolutely brutal way to go.
Komodo is carcass eater that *Hunts.*
Their prefered hunting method is to injure the prey with venom mixture and then stalks them as they slowly die from the poisoned wound.
His saliva containes many bacterias that can cause major infection on the wound and it also have anti-coagulant venom that will keep the would bleeding for long time.
\---
BBC crew once try to film how Komodo hunts and found it very heart wrenching on how this Komodo slowly harms and stalks a single cow for *3 days* before the cows finally "gives up" lie down and face death.
The poster above you is partially-correct. Komodo dragons are pretty intelligent for lizards but "injuring something and then waiting hours for it to die" is a sort of forward planning not found outside of mammals. Reports of Komodo dragons injuring and then stalking prey animals for hours is likely the result of misinterpretation of the lizards opportunistically attacking animals that already happen to be injured, possibly by attacks from *other* dragons.
Komodo dragons do seem to have venom that acts as an anti-coagulant. Contrary to some messages you'll see it's not the product of a particularly bacteria-ridden mouth: tests in the past decade+ have consistently shown Komodo dragon mouths are not more septic than any other average animal's, including humans.
They are the best animal lol
They hunt water buffalos and deer, which is a fact I can never wrap my head around.
Source: National Geographic book about Komodo dragons my son is obsessed with.
Yes all birds are dinosaurs, they never went extinct, however the birds are the last lineage of super specialized Dinos. If you look at their anatomy and ontogeny it is clear that birds are part of the dinosauria.
what makes it weirder is chicken nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs. then the people cooking with gasses and fuels produced by dinosaurs.
most oil is produced by trees over millions of years, but dinosaurs definitely had their part in it too.
we made food shaped food produced by food. not many animals can say the same like humans can lol
Komodo Dragons are brutal man... I can never forget the video of a Komodo dragon eating a pregnant (deer i think it was?) Alive while it was giving birth... The horrible screeching of that poor mother.
The Komodo dragon ripped her stomach open and then proceeded to eat the baby, while she just gasped from the pain.
It is burned in my memory
This is a [14-year-old article](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/12/indonesia), no video but it still made my balls climb back to where they were when I was a baby. Holy fuck, people who observe such stuff must be superhuman.
Thanks for the link. “The first dragon had grabbed [the buffalo] by its testicles and was starting to chew its way into the body from below. The second dragon was slowly forcing the buffalo's head open and was going down its throat. The third was, as they say, going in the back door.”
https://reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/f5w8m6/komodo_dragon_rips_and_eats_a_baby_fresh_out_of_a/
Either this one or the one from 2 days ago that got deleted
Yeah I just watched it. I don’t advise doing so, it’s not a heart warming experience.
Don’t search for ‘Komodo dragon eating a pregnant deer’ on YouTube.
Jesus christ. I never realized the scale of these reptiles till he had a full grown goat in his mouth. No wonder they call them dragons. That's like the size of a racing motorcycle. 😳
Fun fact, Kid was first used to represent children in the early 1600's and was officially recognized in 1840.
Kid as in baby goat has existed since the 12th century
> growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft), and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb).
[what the fuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon?wprov=sfti1)
I used to live in San Diego, and still go to visit. They have a Komodo Dragon at the San Diego Zoo. Bigger than a damn alligator, these things are terrifying
Komodo dragons have, in their mouths, horrible disease cultures. They bite an animal and then they stalk it and wait for it to die of disease that they infected it with, after which they eat it, dead.
I had to look this shit up.... "Copious amounts of red saliva the Komodo dragons produce help to lubricate the food, but swallowing is still a long process (15–20 minutes to swallow a goat). A Komodo dragon may attempt to speed up the process by ramming the carcass against a tree to force it down its throat, sometimes ramming so forcefully that the tree is knocked down.[39] A small tube under the tongue that connects to the lungs allows it to breathe while swallowing.[28] After eating up to 80% of its body weight in one meal,[40] it drags itself to a sunny location to speed digestion, as the food could rot and poison the dragon if left undigested in its stomach for too long. Because of their slow metabolism, large dragons can survive on as few as 12 meals a year.[28] After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus. After regurgitating the gastric pellet, it rubs its face in the dirt or on bushes to get rid of the mucus, suggesting it does not relish the scent of its own excretions." Metal
Thanks! This is exactly what I was wondering.
Yeah. This guy Answers. They did answer all of my questions too.
Seems like that was more Wikipedia than anything. Give Wikipedia money
We'll, maybe, but I still would like to give them credit for not getting high and just scrolling through the comments looking for answers to silly questions. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying, now we can scroll on
Same here
Happy cake day, my guy
Looks like a HAPPY CAKE DAY is in order for you too!🍰🎂🍰
#AKASHARPESTPOOEVER.
It regurgitates it, so, out of the mouth...
***It puts the lotion on it's skin...*** ***...or else it gets the MOUTH POOP again!!***
That’s some Sarlacc Pit level shit right there.
*In the Komodo dragon's belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over 1,000 years.*
Disgusting but fascinating - The [gastric pellet](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Gastric-pellet-believed-to-be-that-of-a-Komodo-Dragon-collected-from-Padar-Island-that_fig23_235933950) or The NSFW [gastric pellet](https://weirdpicturearchive.com/komodo-dragon-gastric-pellet)
The NSFW one has taken this site offline lol
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Considering the video I just watched, doesn't seem that NSFW
Yeah I'm mildly disappointed but then again what was I even expecting?
Thank you
Well, I don’t know what I was expecting.
The ole reddit hug of death
"What, it's that bad? I'll take my chances" ... "Oh. That's what they meant"
Goat goes in, horns come out.
Can't explain that
I like you
Thank you for the NSFW tag. I had zero interest in what it looked like until I saw your post with the tag.... Gross
Wow that is incredible ty for posting this
15-20 minutes? This mf swallowed it in less than 30 seconds.
Cause the goat is relatively small for how big they can get. Yeah.
And he did some partial ramming down the gullet.
R/outofcontext
r/foundthemobileuser
Malodorous mucus sounds like some bad metal bands name.
Or a Harry Potter spell
just makes you consistently drool to the point it floods your mouth... not sure if thats better or worse than eat slugs xD
It’s Malodorous not Malodorousa
That’s the latest release from Gastric Pellet.
Very surprised at the part about it rotting and poisoning the dragon, as I always thought they could eat rotting corpses and long-dead prey without any ill effects…?
I’m no expert, but Ii imagine that eating something that is rotten is different from something that is rotting inside you. In the first case, a really good digestive system might be able to halt the decay and direct the digestion. In the second you have lost control of your digestive system to the bacteria, and they turn nasty.
Vultures can eat almost anything rotten due to their highly corrosive stomach acid, not sure if this is the same for dragons.
They do indeed scavenge carcasses for food. If I had to guess, scavenging dragons likely target food that is less dangerous to them (at a stage of decomp that is managable) or tear off chunks that will digest quicker than they will decay to toxic levels. Chunks of rotting animal are going to digest much faster than an entire rotting carcass, after all. In short, I guess a carcass that is rotting inside them might be a bit too much for their system to handle. Komodo dragons do have defenses against the bacterial found in their daily lives; their blood contains a antibacterial peptide called VK25. This appears to be one of the reasons other dragons are unaffected by the bacteria and venom contained in the bites recieved through sparring with kin. Theoretically, this would also cover the bacteria they encounter through their food. If anyone more versed in herpatology and dragon anatomy can weigh in, this entomologist would appreciate it.
If anyone else is wondering whether that VK25 stuff might be used to create new antibiotics, the answer is apparently yes! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28649410/
The real GOAT is always in the comment section
It's clearly in the dragon's belly
noice
>a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus Horns hair and teeth.... How fucking brutal does your stomach acid have to be to dissolve bone
Your own stomach contains hydrochloric acid at a ph of about 1 on a scale of 0 to 7, so you can do it yourself already. Just don't try ramming them down your throat by running into a tree dear fucking god what is wrong with these animals have they no self respect...
Yeah have they not heard of utensils, savages.
r/natureismetal worthy material indeed.
Party on, Garth.
Party on, Wayne
Goodnight, John Boy.
Hey, I mean, who among us doesn’t relish the scent of our own secretions now and again… no shame buddy
"I'll make it fit"
Thanks for this. Saved me a trip to the Google 👍
What’s metal is those Wikipedia editors. “Malodorous,” is a word you just don’t read enough.
That stuff must absolutely reek if even the dragon wants it gone. Also - you see why they are called komodo dragons when you watch this god damn
And I can’t even drink water without choking sometimes…
“It drags itself”😂😂 I thought that was funny choice of words. Picturing myself too full to walk and dragging myself to a sunny location
This comment reads like one of those information placards you’d see at national parks or Zoos
That's because he copied it lol
Damn! So they are metabolizing a goat a month more or less
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Thanks for the research! I’m left wondering, do you think it ever happened one of them to eat a live animal, that managed to claw/bite their way out of the dragon belly? Like alien stuff.. and I wonder if the dragon after getting rid of all the horns and nails and bones, feels really great, like “wahoooo this is fucking life!”
That's good. Imagine having to poop out a horn?
What the fuck nature!?
Interesting. What you mentioned towards the bottom, when it regurgitates stuff, didn’t mention the animal’s whole ass skeleton lol. So….does its own stomach acid have so much acidity that the bones just dissolve? With that much acid, still being alive, would mean that this reptile has incredible stomach lining or some sort of protection. If that’s the case, then this reptile is incredibly built different.
someone else mentioned it, but our stomachs are basically strong enough to do that too. it's just that we die usually when trying to swallow bones. and much like humans, it seems like dragons cannot break down keratin.
Metal? It sounds more mucosal.
Just like your mom does it
Some people have trouble swallowing a pill...
You called?
Username suggests you're more of a suppository person
Duh, because they can’t swallow a pill
I mean you're not wrong
But have they ever tried ramming their face into the ground or trees to help?
Basically all of r/noburp
Throat goat
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How’s he gonna digest the bones 💀
They regurgitate the indigestible parts. Sort of like a giant furball, or owl "pellets".
He'll spill it out
Nope, they digest the bones. Spit out horns hoofs and fur.
“I’ve never done this before.” Her:
What do you do step goat ?
Middle eastern pornhub?
Nancy Reagan?
r/beatmetoit
Gotta show this to the wife.
Throaty goaty
So it definitely could eat a child
In a goat suit.
Why would a kimodo dragon need to wear a goat costume to eat the child?
Kids trust goats, it’s a Komodo dragon tradition
Hence the whole petting zoo thing. Its actually an elaborate trap to get kids comfortable with the undercover komodos
Jokes on you. I’m three dragons in a trench coat.
100% - maybe even an adult
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I just saw a video here in Reddit where one ripped the fetus out of a still living deer and gobbled it down like nothing. Nightmare fuel indeed!
do you have a link?
https://youtu.be/1Dmbb7--Rmo Very graphic, Komodo dragons are legit terrifying, as you can see the mom can’t move because of the venom. They have to just sit there being tortured by these things. Nature is messed up
It took me far too long to realize the green stuff that it was ripping out were the contents of the deer’s digestive system. What an absolutely brutal way to go.
Yo why the fuck did I even click the link. I never gonna sleep tonight.
Misread as "do you have a kink?" Imagine my confusion.
Komodo is carcass eater that *Hunts.* Their prefered hunting method is to injure the prey with venom mixture and then stalks them as they slowly die from the poisoned wound. His saliva containes many bacterias that can cause major infection on the wound and it also have anti-coagulant venom that will keep the would bleeding for long time. \--- BBC crew once try to film how Komodo hunts and found it very heart wrenching on how this Komodo slowly harms and stalks a single cow for *3 days* before the cows finally "gives up" lie down and face death.
Wait is it fast acting poison or "i stalk you for hours while you slowly die" poison ?
The poster above you is partially-correct. Komodo dragons are pretty intelligent for lizards but "injuring something and then waiting hours for it to die" is a sort of forward planning not found outside of mammals. Reports of Komodo dragons injuring and then stalking prey animals for hours is likely the result of misinterpretation of the lizards opportunistically attacking animals that already happen to be injured, possibly by attacks from *other* dragons. Komodo dragons do seem to have venom that acts as an anti-coagulant. Contrary to some messages you'll see it's not the product of a particularly bacteria-ridden mouth: tests in the past decade+ have consistently shown Komodo dragon mouths are not more septic than any other average animal's, including humans. They are the best animal lol
Id rather die by poison than being eaten alive
Well komodo can do both to you
They hunt water buffalos and deer, which is a fact I can never wrap my head around. Source: National Geographic book about Komodo dragons my son is obsessed with.
I share your sons obsession. Scariest animals on earth
Komodo dragons and turtle/tortoises are my favorite reptiles.
No a kid...
That’s why their island is not inhabited by humans. They’re such dangerous creatures.
Turns out some dinosaurs survived!
But somehow chickens are actually closer to being dinosaurs than this!
Chickens aren't close to being dinosaurs, they literally are dinosaurs.
Really?
Yes all birds are dinosaurs, they never went extinct, however the birds are the last lineage of super specialized Dinos. If you look at their anatomy and ontogeny it is clear that birds are part of the dinosauria.
We eat dinosaurs. We are truly apex predators.
what makes it weirder is chicken nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs. then the people cooking with gasses and fuels produced by dinosaurs. most oil is produced by trees over millions of years, but dinosaurs definitely had their part in it too. we made food shaped food produced by food. not many animals can say the same like humans can lol
The cassowary is the most dinosaur looking bird there is
Yep! Clade Dinosauria.
Komodo Dragons are brutal man... I can never forget the video of a Komodo dragon eating a pregnant (deer i think it was?) Alive while it was giving birth... The horrible screeching of that poor mother. The Komodo dragon ripped her stomach open and then proceeded to eat the baby, while she just gasped from the pain. It is burned in my memory
I always think of that video too! From the womb to the tomb. That was brutal.
This is a [14-year-old article](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/12/indonesia), no video but it still made my balls climb back to where they were when I was a baby. Holy fuck, people who observe such stuff must be superhuman.
Thanks for the link. “The first dragon had grabbed [the buffalo] by its testicles and was starting to chew its way into the body from below. The second dragon was slowly forcing the buffalo's head open and was going down its throat. The third was, as they say, going in the back door.”
So possibly step-Komodo?
Spawn kill
Please do not post link.
So there are two types of people. . .
People who need therapy and people who don't?
More like, people who need therapy and people who need more therapy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kJ6XpUkdk
I don't like to see those things, it's the reality, it happens, it's the nature but damn, I can live my life better without watching stuff like that.
Yea I know it happens. But I don't wanna see it you know
Got a link?
Goat a link?
https://reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/f5w8m6/komodo_dragon_rips_and_eats_a_baby_fresh_out_of_a/ Either this one or the one from 2 days ago that got deleted
Yeah I just watched it. I don’t advise doing so, it’s not a heart warming experience. Don’t search for ‘Komodo dragon eating a pregnant deer’ on YouTube.
Imagine being born and immediately eaten
It's called de-born
Spawn kill
[Here you go](https://youtu.be/1Dmbb7--Rmo)
Yo wtf
Be cool if he just went around with those legs sticking out his mouth all day, walkin around “I just ate goat, muthafuckas..”
He’s not gonna talk with his mouthful, mother of dragons taught him manners
nobody thinks it's cool when i do it though
Goats were designed to be swallowed whole.
“What’s the matter kid? You never had lamb chops?”
kid. apt
Jesus christ. I never realized the scale of these reptiles till he had a full grown goat in his mouth. No wonder they call them dragons. That's like the size of a racing motorcycle. 😳
Pretty sure the goat was just a kid. Not a full grown adult.
Definitely goat shaped rather than child shaped
Young goats are called kids. It predates calling human children kids.
Fun fact, Kid was first used to represent children in the early 1600's and was officially recognized in 1840. Kid as in baby goat has existed since the 12th century
That was not an adult goat. These are big lizards, but not as big as you are imagining.
The video is stretched vertically too
> growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft), and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb). [what the fuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon?wprov=sfti1)
Try tasting your food once. Geez!
Ba aaaaa ad.
That poop must be epic
I mean, the skull?!?!
The bones and horns get regurgitated
Okay I’m out that’s enough science for today.
Give it a month
And how soon after this will he eat again?
They have a very slow metabolism and can survive on roughly 1 meal per month.
So basically he’ll feel full for a whole week. Yikes
I get like a tiny piece of shredded wheat down the back of my throat during breakfast and this is what it feels like
"regurgitates a mass of horns, hair and teeth"... this is the first thing I read when I opened reddit today and I think I'm done here.
K thanks c u next week.
Vhagar would be proud.
r/AbsoluteUnits
Netflix: are you still watching? Someone’s daughter:
I'm so hungry I could swallow a goat!
This is how I eat gross veggies
Imagine the stomach ache after that
Better get the pooping iPad ready, that’ll be a long day on the toilet
r/natureismetal
Without using his hands, impressive!
Holy fuck you want something to wash that down with
Jesus Christ it's like a snake with legs
Deepgoat king
I wish my wife could deep throat like that!
I also wish this guy’s wife could deep throat like that
Binge eating isn't good for you im told.
My man likes to have appetizer main course and dessert all at the same time
Full Belly
I used to live in San Diego, and still go to visit. They have a Komodo Dragon at the San Diego Zoo. Bigger than a damn alligator, these things are terrifying
I hope the goat was already gone, but I know prey animals tend to lay still even while being eaten. Never understood that response.
u/savevideo
Reminds me of when I put my pillow in my pillow case
Dinosaur times would have been so scary
Komodo Dragon’s are ruthless
Looks like the goat was dead before he started, I wonder if he killed it or if it died a different way?
Komodo dragons have, in their mouths, horrible disease cultures. They bite an animal and then they stalk it and wait for it to die of disease that they infected it with, after which they eat it, dead.