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5 Haziran 2014 Perşembe

Here’s what it takes to catch a dragon !

The lizards also scavenge—they’re opportunists,

always on the lookout for food, alive or dead.

Scavenging takes less energy than hunting, and

the dragons can detect the scent of a rotting carcass

from miles away. Little is wasted: The big lizards

aren’t picky about which body parts they eat.

Despite the dragon’s somewhat off-putting

habits, islanders do not necessarily respond with

fear and disgust. An Indonesian folk story tells of

a prince about to slay a dragon. His mother, the

Dragon Princess, appears and cries, “Do not kill

this animal. She is your sister Orah. I bore you

together. Consider her your equal, because you


are sebai—twins.”




Modern times have not entirely quashed this

belief. In Komodo village I climb a crooked

wooden ladder to the house on stilts of an elder

named Caco, who guesses his age to be 85 years.

My guide says this slight, bespectacled man is a

dragon guru; the elder doesn’t refute the title. I

ask him how villagers feel about dragons and the

danger they pose. “People here consider this animal

our ancestor,” he says. “It is sacred.”

In years past when islanders would kill a deer,

he said, they’d leave half the meat as an offering

to their scaly relative.



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