Komodo Dragon

Do you know what is the largest Lizard ? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian Island.

Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2,5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg).

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.

The komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the komodo dragon’s saliva canses septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its pray, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.

This lizard species is threatened by hunting, Loss of prey spacies and habitat loss

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Television

Television

Television, or TV, is one of humanity’s most important means of communication. It bring pictures and sounds from around the wold into millions of homes.

People with a television set can sit in their and watch the president makes a speech or visits a foreign country. They can see a war being fought, and they can watch govemment leaders try to bring about peace. Though television, viewers at home can see and learn about people, places, and things in far away lands. Television even takes viewers out of this world as the astronauts explore outer space.

In addition to all these things, television brings its viewers a steady stream of programs that are designed to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more entertainment programs than any other kind of information media.The programs include action-packed dramas, light comedies, soap operas, sport events, cartoons, quizzes, variety shows, and mation pictures.

More than 83 million homes in the United States-or 98% of all the country’s homes-haves at least one television set. On the average, a television has an important influence on how people spend their time, as well as on what they see and learn. After they arrive from work, they usually watch TV. Then, the importance of television is proven.

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