I believe it has venom as well, I can't remember what show i saw it on, but a researcher found they had a venom glands. Ugg i really wish i remembered the show, it was on Animal Planet i remember that much. Anyways the bacteria alone is pretty nasty stuff.
Is It Actually Legal?
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Dr. Bryan Greg Fry did the research. if you do a google search, you will find his paper on it.
a.gigas told me that they eat the meat from where the adults were eating and they get the bacteria that way so if it was raised from an egg without the other komodo's saliva on their food they would not have the bacteria
As an addition to this, their venom increases bleeding, causes blood vessels to become "leaky" causing internal bleeding and ultimately results in vascular collapse and unconsciousness/death.snakeguy101;4738018; said:
And yes, if your country is in CITES then you cannot dream of legally owning one outside of an institution (Zoo).
heh, there are some in private hands atm. not legally, but we wil see how it turns out. should be interesting
and reGARding CITES, once its in the country CITES doesnt apply.
and reGARding CITES, once its in the country CITES doesnt apply.
In Europe as well in other places there are private keepers with komodos. The main obstacle to get one of these is not Cites regulations as there are plenty of cb ones but the individual country legislation. Here in Europe at least, people with them have relationships wth zoos and as such cannot qualify as an average keeper but they are privatly kept none the less. For example most of the cb komodos in Europe come from a breeder in he Canary Islands.
