What do you do when a giant carnivorous lizard heads straight for you? Try giving it a good scratch behind the ears
YOU would know how it feels to catch a dragon's eye if you have ever locked gaze with a sparrow that has your sandwich crumbs in its sights. There's a sense of bright intelligence, at once familiar and oddly alien. That's fine if the eye belongs to a fluffy little bird, but right now I'm inside the lair of a giant carnivorous lizard. The humid atmosphere isn't the only thing making sweat course down my temples. I have piqued the curiosity of Raja, a Komodo dragon, and he's heading straight for me.
My adventure started with some careless talk over a post-work pint with a New Scientist editor. I passed on a snippet I had read recently in a zoo newsletter: that Komodo dragons can be taught to ...
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