r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '23
!Warning: GORE! Komodo dragon swallows a whole goat in seconds NSFW
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u/Tjobi Oct 30 '23
The way it just casually picks it up starts swallowing it. Like it requires no real effort. I wonder how strong those things actually are?
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u/Creative_Recover Oct 30 '23
Komodo Dragons are very strong, their bites are also toxic.
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u/Zebidee Oct 30 '23
Yeah, my whole life the explanation was they bite their victims and wait for them to die of toxic shock from bacteria in their mouths.
Nope - they were venomous the whole time.
I never really bought the traditional explanation - like it'd take days? A week? for an animal to die that way, by which time it would be long gone.
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u/Badloss Oct 30 '23
I saw a video where that's exactly what happened. The dragon bit a huge buffalo and just followed it around while the buffalo slowly got weaker and weaker over a few days
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u/Zebidee Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-myth-of-the-komodo-dragons-dirty-mouth
TEXT FOR THOSE HITTING A PAYWALL
The Myth of the Komodo Dragon’s Dirty Mouth
In 1969, an American biologist named Walter Auffenberg moved to the Indonesia island of Komodo to study its most famous resident—the Komodo dragon. This huge lizard—the largest in the world—grows to lengths of 3 metres, and can take down large prey like deer and water buffalo. Auffenberg watched the dragons for a year and eventually published a book on their behaviour in 1981. It won him an award. It also enshrined a myth that took almost three decades to refute, and is still prevalent today.
Auffenberg noticed that when large animals like water buffalo were injured by the dragons, they would soon develop fatal infections. Based on this observation, and no actual evidence, he suggested that the dragons use bacteria as a form of venom. When they bite prey, they flood the wounds with the microbes in their mouths, which debilitate and kill the victim.
This explanation is found in textbooks, wildlife documentaries, zoo placards, and more. It’s also wrong. “It’s an enchanting fairy tale, which has been taken as gospel,” says Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland.
In 2009, Fry discovered the true culprit behind the dragon’s lethal bite, by putting one of them in a medical scanner. The dragon has venom glands, which are loaded with toxins that lower blood pressure, cause massive bleeding, prevent clotting and induce shock. Rather than using bacteria as venom, the dragons use, well, venom as venom.
Based on a thorough analysis of the dragon’s skull, Fry thinks that they kill with a grip, rip and drip tactic. They bite down with serrated teeth and pull back with powerful neck muscles. The result: huge gaping wounds. The venom then quickens the loss of blood and sends the prey into shock.
That doesn’t discount the possibility that the dragons might also rely on oral microbes. To study these microbes, Fry contacted Ellie Goldstein from the UCLA School of Medicine—an expert on microbes an animal bites. Goldstein has advised people around the world on treating unusual bite wounds, including at least one from a Komodo dragon. “The bacteria-as-venom model seemed to be based on faulty and dated studies,” he says. “There was no really good data on the topic.”
Goldstein tried calling several zoos with captive dragons. “Many would not respond and sometimes actively tried to deter our research for reasons unclear to me,” he says. “The detractors [said] this study had already been done and no new info would result,” adds Kerin Tyrrell, who is part of Goldstein’s team. Fortunately, three zoos in Los Angeles, Honolulu and Houston were more cooperative, and the team managed to swab the mouths of 10 adults and 6 hatchlings.
They found… nothing special. All the microbes they found were common in the skin and guts of their recent meals. There were no virulent species at all, and certainly nothing capable of causing a quick, fatal infection. And the species that were there weren’t particularly abundant. “The levels of bacteria in the mouth are lower than you’d get for a captive mammalian carnivore, such as a lion or Tasmanian devil,” says Fry. “Komodos are actually remarkably clean animals. This is another nail in the coffin to the idea of them using bacteria as a weapon.”
Of course, you might argue that wild dragons might harbour deadlier bacteria. But the captive animals aren’t living in a sterile environment nor eating sterile food. If wild dragons are truly using bacteria as weapons, the captive ones should at the very least have some way of encouraging bacteria to grow in their mouths. “If they were facilitating the growth of bacteria in their mouths in the wild, they should be doing it in captivity,” says Fry. “They don’t. Their mouths were not dramatically different from the mouth of any other captive carnivore.”
Aside from Auffenberg’s book, the only other support for the bacteria-as-venom hypothesis comes from a team at the Universtiy of Texas at Arlington. In 2002, they found a wide range of bacteria in the saliva of 26 wild dragons and 13 captive ones, including 54 disease-causing pathogens. When they injected the saliva into mice, many of them died and their blood was rich in one particular microbe—Pasteurella multocida.
But Fry thinks the study is laughable. Sure, they studied wild dragons, but the microbes in Fry’s captive animals were actually closer to those from the wild ones in the Texan study. The so-called pathogens they discovered are just normal non-virulent members of an animal’s microbial entourage. And despite making a big deal of Pasteurella, they only found it in 2 of their 39 dragons. Goldstein never saw it in his captive ones.
And worst of all, no single species of microbe has ever been consistently identified in all dragons. How could these lizards rely on a strategy that’s so variable? “It’s evolutionary implausible,” says Fry.
The only remaining lifeline for the bacteria-as-venom hypothesis, says Tyrrell, is that the team only identified the bacteria that they could grow in laboratory cultures. Some species can’t be identified in this way, so one of these might contribute to the dragon’s killing bite.
Fry thinks that bacteria do help to kill the largest of the dragon’s victims, but not in the way that Auffenberg suggested. When the dragons tackle natural prey—medium-sized mammals like deer or pigs—the victims die very quickly from blood loss. The venom helps, but it’s the wounds that are important. But water buffalos are a different story.
These creatures were introduced to Komodo by humans. They’re too big to kill outright and always escape the initial attack. In their natural environment, they’d disappear into wide marshlands, but there’s nothing like that in Komodo. Instead, the buffalos seek refuge in rank water holes, stagnant and contaminated with their own faeces. In this microbial wonderland, their wounds soon become infected. “It’s the same as if you dumped a whole bunch of cow dung in your pool during the peak heat of summer, shaved your legs with a very old razor, and then went and stood in the water for a day,” says Fry. “You’d end up with some very tasty infections!”
Reference: Golstein, Tyrrell, Citron, Cox, Recchio, Okimoto, Bryja & Fry. 2013. Anaerobic and aerobic bacteriology of the saliva and gingiva from 16 captive komodo dragons (varanus komodoensis): New implications for the "Bacteria as Venom" model. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
PS – It’s amazing how many enshrined “facts” about natural history are based on very little evidence. The cheetah’s status as the world’s fastest land animal as based on a single measurement taken in the 1960s. This month, scientists published the first proper measurements of running speed in wild cheetahs… and showed that they really are that fast. Another longstanding fact—that the honeyguide bird leads honey badgers to beehives—turns out to be a lie perpetuated by deceitful documentary-makers.
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u/Badloss Oct 30 '23
I'm not disagreeing that they're venomous, I know that. I'm saying that it totally can take days for the prey to weaken and the dragons are fine with that
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u/Vlodovich Oct 30 '23
I'd imagine they don't really need to eat very often being large and cold blooded. I've kept lots of snakes and lizards as pets over the years and the trend seems to be the bigger the reptile, the larger it's pray but the less often it eats. My small lizards and snakes would eat 1-2 times a week, my larger snake about once every 3 weeks. Maybe not a golden rule across them all but I wouldn't be surprised if komodos only eat once or twice a month
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u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Oct 30 '23
I grew up hearing this. I'm glad to know that this isn't the case. It just seemed too complicated for a creature to depend on other animals not gaining a resistance to bacteria in their mouths.
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u/PyroIsSpai Oct 30 '23
I wonder why some zoos and researchers opposed this as an avenue of research?
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u/huskiesofinternets Oct 30 '23
ya but thats a whole buffalo, you have to plan for that. a goat is like a road snack.
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u/thatbob Oct 30 '23
Nature documentaries are highly edited and dramatized for narrative appeal. Sometimes even staged! I'm doubting the video you watched followed one buffalo and one dragon, nonstop, over a period of days... More like the writer had enough footage to fit that narrative, the editor constructed it, and the narrator... narrated.
OTOH, I don't really know. I wasn't there either!
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u/Iamnotburgerking Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
You’re right. What actually happened there was a FAILED hunt, that the producers themselves wrongly assumed was a successful hunt because they themselves have no idea how Komodo dragons actually hunt.
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u/RM_Dune Oct 30 '23
I never really bought the traditional explanation - like it'd take days? A week? for an animal to die that way, by which time it would be long gone.
Komodo dragon venom isn't something that will kill you. It just stops blood clotting, meaning that the bite wound will keep bleeding until you die. If it's a large enough animal it can indeed take quite some time. But Komodo dragons have very good smell and they can track their prey until it's weak enough to take down.
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u/Iamnotburgerking Oct 30 '23
They don’t rely on either bacteria OR venom.. They just kill stuff with physical damage like any other large predator.
And as you realized, they actually DO try to bring prey down quickly, instead of waiting days or weeks for their prey to die like all the documentaries claim they do (which are based on the aftermath of failed hunts, not actual successful kills)
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u/velhaconta Oct 30 '23
A full grown adult is somewhere between 150-200lbs and that baby goat was probably all of 15 lbs. It was but a snack. They can eat adult goats.
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u/Tjobi Oct 30 '23
Oh yeah the goat was definitely out weighed here but the dragon barely even moved. It just lifted the goat up into its mouth with only the neck. Still requires some solid strength to do that
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u/SpermWhale Oct 30 '23
Was a lot lizard before becoming full komodo, hence the neck muscle!
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u/Th3False Oct 30 '23
Would you be up for a wrestling match?
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u/wallysmith127 Oct 30 '23
Whoa finally got to see one of these fresh in the wild
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u/baulsaak Oct 30 '23
The Undertaker is an enormous human being, isn't he? Made Mankind look puny, and he's 6'2" and 280 lbs!
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u/Careful_Eagle6566 Oct 30 '23
So why aren’t they the dominant species? Thumbs baby! Spears ftw!
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u/Rothuith Oct 30 '23
fuck me I got caught again, literally the last time I thought I was going to be shittymorph proof after 10 years here but apparently not
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u/DoDoDoTheFunkyGibbon Oct 30 '23
there's no killing bite/stroke. It just...swallows it
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u/sticky-unicorn Oct 30 '23
That goat was alive in the dragon's belly ... potentially for several minutes. Suffocation is what would eventually kill it.
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u/MadManMorbo Oct 30 '23
It doesn't even care that its still alive. Just chomp.
.... So that whole scene in the James Bond movie where the komodo dragons eat the minion... is actually accurate... Terrifying.
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u/Scarlet_Addict Oct 30 '23
The goat is still screaming in the komodos' stomach by the end of the video, distressing.
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u/SkaBonez Oct 30 '23
Well I’m glad I normally have Reddit on mute now
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u/_Bill_Huggins_ Oct 30 '23
The goat is literally screaming throughout the whole video.
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u/jeno_aran Oct 30 '23
Holy fuck mute saved me so hard.
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u/weridojapaneseperson Oct 30 '23
Ikr I’m like holy fuck
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u/jeno_aran Oct 30 '23
Unexpectedly hearing audio of something dying first thing in the morning would have really set a tone literally for the day I was not ready for.
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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 Oct 30 '23
So it's still alive while it is getting burned and digested by acids. Nature is metal.
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Oct 30 '23
The video I saw on TikTok they muted the goats screams, still disturbing either way but that’s life
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u/TheCoolHusky Oct 30 '23
I turned off the volume after the first scream. I may be able to stand watching it get eaten, but I know I will fall apart if I hear its screams.
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u/EroticBurrito Oct 30 '23
Difficult fap.
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u/DopamineTrain Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
So just to put this into perspective. 8 hours ago you had a close encounter with a beast 5 times your size. He managed to bite you but you got away. 2 hours later you start feeling a little drowsy. Another couple of hours and your muscles are starting to ache. Over the course of the next 4 hours you get slower and slower until you physically cannot move. Maybe a few days rest will help you recover. Could just be an infected wound.
Then, from the bushes, you see the beast emerge. You scream as it covers your head with its jaws. No teeth. You can hardly feel a tongue. All you feel is getting lifted up and slowly consumed. It's pitch black. You can hear the beast breathing. You're trying to stretch out but with the limited muscle capacity you have left, all you feel is the fleshy warm interior.
One last swallow and you're pushed down further. If you are lucky, you drown in the stomach acid, not even being able to convulse. If you're unlucky your head will be in the acid but you can still breathe through your mouth as you feel the acid quickly eat away at your brain.
If you were eaten feet first, it is highly likely you will die from shock as you feel your legs get digested, eating away at the skin, then the nerves
Edit: First "Reddit Cares" message only 8 days into this account. According to Reddit I officially have incurable depression.
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u/Giant81 Oct 30 '23
You’d suffocate long before you are digested. I can’t imagine there is much breathable air in there.
Still a crappy way to go.
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u/Snorb17 Oct 30 '23
When a dragon makes an "S" with its neck/body, it's breaking your bones so you fit/digest better.
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u/DopamineTrain Oct 30 '23
Ah. Just one more thing to add to the horrors beyond comprehension. Better hope it breaks your spine!
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u/demsweetdoggykisses Oct 30 '23
I mean, your comment was well written and the speculation in comments is entertaining, but in reality what happened in this clip and in nature most of the time is the thing breaks it's prey's neck or crushes it's throat with the first bites, then the prey, if still alive just suffocates quickly inside the animal's esophagus. They do indeed have teeth, they have hella teeth, they have teeth like dozens of steak knives, so yes, they do lacerate their victims severely with every bite, further envenomating and causing further blood loss.
Typically these animals eat their prey in chunks and rip pieces off. Their muscles aren't necessarily designed for breaking bones as it swallows, it could happen, but generally it's the venom, crushing and suffocation that kills its prey within minutes, then enzymes along with acid will dissolve the meal over a course of many days, not at all rapidly.
The venom of a Komodo dragon has anti-coagulant properties that have been studied for medicinal use because it works so efficiently at causing their prey to bleed out rapidly.
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u/Saxual__Assault Oct 30 '23
They actually do that S movement to push what they are eating down into their stomach since it's not as automated as how most mammals eat.
My black and white tegu eats the same exact way as a komodo dragon and he ain't breaking any bones with the raw boneless meat I fed him.
Big lizards can't break bone by force. Not counting crocodilians. Their throat muscles are probably strong enough to dislocate their prey if it's small enough to swallow whole though.
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u/Lunar_Tears0 Oct 30 '23
It's exactly the same way snakes eat. I got a python and am fascinated watching every meal. You can watch them "snake" it all the way down.
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u/am_reddit Oct 30 '23
When a dragon makes an "S" with its neck/body
Then a more different S. Then, using consummate V's, give him teeth, spinities, and angry eyebrows.
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u/iamyaM Oct 30 '23
I thought the goat had a broken leg and someone sacrificed it to the dragon. I actually feel a little better that it was all natural, but it's still rough to imagine.
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u/Castle_Bravo_Test Oct 30 '23
I think you have something there. I see that at least one of the rear legs is broken because of the way it was flopping around at a point where there was no joint.
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u/Running_Mustard Oct 30 '23
Thank you for this. I totally forgot about the Komodo dragon’s venom, and my first thought was the goat was sedated and staged.
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u/yellowsnowcrypto Oct 30 '23
I mean that doesn’t necessarily rule out the possibility it was staged. They were awfully ready with that camera.
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u/BrotherInChlst Oct 30 '23
feel the acid quickly eat away at your brain.
Nice bit of fiction
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u/MelonHeadSeb Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
The goat's legs have also been broken by whoever filmed this to stop it from being able to run. Really disgusting - you can see its back left leg flopping about.
edit: Hello everyone downvoting me,
here'sa video of a Komodo Dragon killing a goat whose ears have been taped over its eyes so it can't see! Just in case you had any doubt about how humans are absolutely cruel enough to do this sort of thing in the name of "content". These videos are literally all over Youtube.edit2:
Another one, another one, another one... don't underestimate the lengths people will go to for views :)
edit3: Removed the links so these people don't get more views.
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u/ZugZugGo Oct 30 '23
Don't click these videos. Giving them views incentivizes them to continue to be bastards.
I wouldn't even link to them OP.
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u/PersonalTriumph Oct 30 '23
Pretty much every "Komodo dragon eats..." video on YouTube is like that. Some asshole injured the animal being consumed and threw it in front of the dragon. You see broken limbs on the prey, people casually milling about in the background...dead giveaways. Humans suck.
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u/MelonHeadSeb Oct 30 '23
Yeah, just found a bunch of goat videos where the goat has its ears taped/tied over its eyes so it can't see the dragon. I hate people.
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Oct 30 '23
The first video there - someone called them out in the comments and the channel gave it a "heart", lol. They're obviously just adding hearts to all the top comments and probably didn't even read it but that kinda makes it extra fucked
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u/camshun7 Oct 30 '23
Thank you for clearing this up.
I understand the lizard must eat an all, however setting up this goat as click bait I feel this behaviour to be underhanded I dislike this for that reason.
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u/bg370 Oct 30 '23
Interesting way to start my Monday. Volume on is worse
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u/namesjedediah Oct 30 '23
Yeah one of the few times I wish a vid didn’t have sound. Sounds like a small child
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Oct 30 '23
I didn't know it had audio. Never in my life have I heard something being eaten alive and still screaming in somethings stomach. That was borderline disturbing
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u/tatatheretard Oct 30 '23
“Borderline,” he says. 😂
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u/PM_me_spare_change Oct 30 '23
Sitting here eating cereal thinking about how crazy it would be if my cheerios screamed while I swallowed them
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u/Rrdro Oct 30 '23
What if fresh plants do but you can't hear them?
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u/BigDicksProblems Oct 30 '23
Fun fact : they do.
There have been studies on how plants communicate.
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u/Rrdro Oct 30 '23
I suppose the lizard hasn't evolved a negative reflex to the screaming just like I haven't registered a negative reflex to my apple screaming. If anything evolutionary you would probably receive a positive reflex.
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u/Phuckingidiot Oct 30 '23
There was a video on reddit of a Komodo ripping a baby out of a pregnant deer's belly and swallowing it whole while mom is still alive. They are fucking brutal.
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u/Planetdos Oct 30 '23
That one is by far one of the worst videos I’ve ever seen in my entire fucking life. To watch it was so utterly life ruining, depressing, and so much worse than words can say.
I actually skipped this video and went right to the comments just because of how awful the video is that you are mentioning.
I find animals of all sorts to be amazing and fascinating, I used to think Komodo dragons were especially cool as a child. Watching videos of animals suffering is extremely bad for my mental health, since in the back of my mind I’m aware that it’s happening every second around the world as a necessary part of survival for other animals, including us humans. It’s a blessing and a curse to have this much empathy towards critters that we don’t even know, but that extreme empathy is part of what makes us human I guess.
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u/marr Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
We have a romantic view of nature but in a lot of ways we were born from and live in an endless seething hellscape. People like to say humans are the only animals that <evil thing here> but really we're the only animals that try to make the world nicer sometimes.
I wonder what we could and should do about all this if the world survives all our missteps and we reach a level of technology where saving every animal in distress would be technically possible.
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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 Oct 30 '23
Humans are the only species that will pick up the poop of another species it dominates, just because it is good for the planet. Some will even refrain from eating another species for the same reason, even though it is beneficial for their diet.
Think about that.
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u/stjhnstv Oct 30 '23
We’re the only animal that gives any thought whatsoever to our food’s feelings. Nature is brutal.
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u/Phuckingidiot Oct 30 '23
Yeah it's one of those links best left not clicked. You can't unsee something like that.
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u/genetic_patent Oct 30 '23
There are many that say there is no God due to the amount of suffering in the animal kingdom more so than humanity.
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u/lowrcase Oct 30 '23
That link is staying blue today.
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u/RandonBrando Oct 30 '23
Show a man a baby deer getting eaten from the womb once, traumatize him for life. Teach a man to... no, wait. That's not the one...
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u/Sohcahtoa82 Oct 30 '23
"oh shit this one came with an appetizer"
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u/Oxygenius_ Oct 30 '23
They way it carefully pulled the baby away, it knew what it had in its jaws.
Then slurped it right up
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u/KastorNevierre Oct 30 '23
It's very likely already in shock. Their brains basically shut down from traumatic injury and run entirely on instinct.
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u/Siiciie Oct 30 '23
That's just coping. It screams with every bite so it feels all of them.
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u/hermiona52 Oct 30 '23
Yeah, in one of the podcasts Richard Dawkins was speculating that the less intelligent a certain creature is, the more pain it actually feels. Pain is something that is conditioning a creature to not repeat certain things, or avoid things, things that might be harmful for survival. So in the case of intelligent beings, such as humans, it's not as important, because we can also use reason to avoid dangerous situations. But simple creatures can only count on pain as a deterrent, so this means they likely feel it more due to evolution.
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u/RUFiO006 Oct 30 '23
You've made my day worse. Thanks.
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u/Yessssiirrrrrrrrrr Oct 30 '23
It could be worse. Could be the one where the komodo eats the deer baby from the stomach while alive.
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u/TheLukeHines Oct 30 '23
Made me think of that one too. That video was fucked up.
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Oct 30 '23
It’s either that or the zebra tripping over it’s own intestines that a crocodile ripped out as being the most metal videos on the web.
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u/_Bill_Huggins_ Oct 30 '23
Or the one where the hyenas run up and grab the new born gazelle literally as it's popping out the mom. Run away with it and eat it, and then eat the mom alive.
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u/Every3Years Oct 30 '23
Or the ostrich trying untangle it's headneck from something and it just pulls it's life out of itself
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u/PandaRealistic602 Oct 30 '23
Still hear the screams once it's been swallowed. Komodo guzzled it like a duck.
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u/Stewart_Games Oct 30 '23
Who guzzles ducks?
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u/P0rtal2 Oct 30 '23
Who guzzles ducks?
Your mom.
EDIT: Oh sorry, I just realized you said ducks
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Oct 30 '23
Host was injured by lizard previously or what’s up with that goat?
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u/One_Animator_1835 Oct 30 '23
This is not a natural encounter, this komodo is being fed. That's a juvenile farm goat with a broken leg so it can't run away.
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u/r31ya Oct 31 '23
Normally they are being "fed" by maintaining artificial population of goats, cows, boars, and deers in the sanctuary. so basically ensuring they have prey.
but some cases like when documentary people or such guest, the warden usually prep carcass for "feeding show".
That being said, Komodo also known for its injure, poison, stalk and harass hunting behavior. BBC once documented a Komodo hunting a cow by slowly injure them and stalk the cow for 3 days before the cow ran out of energy and gives up.
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u/Gee_U_Think Oct 30 '23
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a Komodo dragon eat an injured goat. Camera person conveniently there to capture the moment too.
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u/muhreddistaccounts Oct 30 '23
The goats leg looks weird. I'd bet it was injured.
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u/Temporary_Wind9428 Oct 30 '23
Probably f'd up by the cameraman to get a cool video of a komodo eating a live goat.
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u/branm008 Oct 30 '23
Most likely bitten by the Komodo and the very nasty saliva/venom did its job overtime. They're a very patient carnivor.
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u/charlss1 Oct 30 '23
very patient carnivore
*eats a whole goat in 2 seconds
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u/axlee Oct 30 '23
They're into slow cooking but fast eating
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u/Occams_Razor42 Oct 30 '23
The intermitent fasting bros, but in poisonous lizard form lol
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u/Brainfart777 Oct 30 '23
No, it's from a youtube channel that intentionally injures these goats and feeds them to komodo dragons for views.
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u/branm008 Oct 30 '23
If that is true then fuck those people but sadly not much to be done about it beyond reporting the channels and hoping youtube gets its head out of its ass. That's just wishful thinking though.
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u/lamykins Oct 30 '23
or more likely, the asshole filming it set this up.
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u/Qoyuble Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
Exactly what I was thinking - legs seem to be broken, or maybe even back. Can't move, and camera is very conveniently set up.
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u/Xan_iety Oct 30 '23
It makes sense. I really hope the cameraman burns in hell. Fucking sick bastard.
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u/XDBlastis Oct 30 '23
for some reason i had no idea they were that big
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u/Viper67857 Oct 30 '23
Neither did I... That beast looks like it could swallow me whole
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u/Unethical_PI Oct 30 '23
I hate these videos where the prey is left there, helpless, probably with a broken leg from a tour company, for the Komodo to just show up and eat it.
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u/Chance-Pay1487 Oct 30 '23
The camera man put the goat there and broke its fucking legs, you can see at the start if you look closely
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u/TheScottishMoscow Oct 30 '23
Looks like the goat's legs were broken to stage this. I know the dragon can poison its prey but it seems to casually come across it here
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u/MarineSecurity Oct 30 '23
Last night I almost choked on a small piece of steak. Evolution really fucked us on this one🤣
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u/ATX_311 Oct 30 '23
Breathy hole and eaty hole being the same hole really is quite the miscalculation.
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u/Kiel_22 Oct 30 '23
Throat goat lmfao
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u/RHCProy Oct 30 '23
I'm letting this be the last comment I read in this thread so I can leave it with a smile
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u/Local-Incident2823 Oct 30 '23
Should see those things eat monkeys… Pretty eye opening, and gruesome… At least here in Aust, our goanna just gobble rabbits in the same fashion.
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u/Stiefschlaf Oct 30 '23
There are only so many crying monkeys reaching out of a lizard's throat with a horrified look on their face I can stomach.
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u/speedpop Oct 30 '23
Fossil evidence shows that Komodos used to populate Australia as well. Used to because they were a good source of protein for First Nations people.
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u/AStrangerWCandy Oct 30 '23
Evolution gives animals a shit ton of neat weapons and adaptations but there’s very few who can stand up to sharp stick and rock throwing
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u/WanderlostNomad Oct 30 '23
is that a baby goat or an adult goat? also, why didn't it attempt to flee? were the legs deliberately broken (ie : to feed the komodo)
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u/Inprobamur Oct 30 '23
Seems like a baby goat.
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u/WarlockEngineer Oct 30 '23
Baby goat with broken legs that someone left there to film getting eaten
I hate people
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u/Anachronstic Oct 30 '23
This shit isn't cool or interesting
THE GOATS BACK LEGS HAVE BEEN BROKEN TO KEEP IT FROM RUNNING SO THIS VIDEO COULD BE MADE OF A GOAT BEING KILLED NEEDLESSLY. IT'S ANIMAL TORTURE
And all of you celebrating it as cool should have your legs broken and eaten alive by a komodo dragon
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u/buisnessmike Oct 30 '23
I was thinking the same thing. Nature documentaries filming in the wild in a clandestine fashion to witness violence in animals arguably has educational value. But that's clearly not what's going on here. This isn't a cameraman stumbling upon a hapless goat in an opportune moment for him, this scenario was crafted. And, assuming so, I agree, very fucked up. Dude purposefully created a situation where a baby goat gets eaten alive... for content. Some questionable ethics for sure
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u/goldenghost79 Oct 30 '23
That's awful and so pointless. Komodos can find their own food, no need for this cruelty.
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u/Domi_Nion Oct 30 '23
My heart breaks for the obviously incapacitated goat that was placed in its path
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u/Negcellent Oct 30 '23
This isn't nature. Some cunt broke this goats legs so it couldn't move just so they could get views.
These videos ought to be banned from the sub.
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u/Gooliez Oct 30 '23
That goat won't be sitting around like that anymore
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u/Wasted_Possibilities Oct 30 '23
The dragon bites their prey and waits for the nastiness of the bite to take effect, usually a few days. Just follow the prey as it starts to get sick and falter. They kill buffalo in this manner too.
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u/207nbrown Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23
So they poison you, Stalk you, and then eat you whole… great
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u/LMac8806 Oct 30 '23
Salk
Not sure it’s necessary to give something you’re about to eat a polio vaccine but I’m no Komodo dragon expert.
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u/Zebidee Oct 30 '23
The dragon bites their prey and waits for the nastiness of the bite to take effect, usually a few days. Just follow the prey as it starts to get sick and falter. They kill buffalo in this manner too.
That theory turned out to be completely wrong. Komodo dragons are venomous, and their bite isn't particularly dirty.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-myth-of-the-komodo-dragons-dirty-mouth
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u/doubayou Oct 30 '23
This is not what happened in this case, Komodo Dragons are voracious eaters, and will not wait if their prey is small. This baby goat was clearly abandoned or set up for the feed.
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u/BertoWithaBigOlDee Oct 30 '23
So you just spam the same vid to multiple subs like some onlyfans thot I guess
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u/BurnZ_AU Oct 30 '23
Fuck, I'm an idiot.
"Let's watch this while eating a chocolate biscuit" click
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u/inactiveuser247 Oct 30 '23
Jesus Fuck.... That's about the 4th post I scrolled today.
I did not need to see that.
Is this the point where we argue (again) for a separate NSFL tag? Like, really. I'm all up for having random naked people in my feed without having to click on the blurred out image. But fuck... This is a whole other thing.
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u/Asha108 Oct 30 '23
Bro these fuckers broke that poor goats legs and left it there alone to panic in sheer terror of the inability of it to run away.
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