# How do you stop a Komodo Dragon Attack?

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**Created:** [May 24, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-stop-a-komodo-dragon-attack/540565 "2010-05-24T14:17:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-stop-a-komodo-dragon-attack/540565/21 "2010-05-27T20:47:26Z")

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> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#):
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> . . .their peculiar bite technique.

Please elaborate? I’m trying to picture any way to make a bite creative, but am coming up blank.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-stop-a-komodo-dragon-attack/540565/22 "2010-05-27T23:30:05Z")

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> Minor nitpit; there is some pretty compelling (conclusive, IMO) evidence that komodo dragons are, in fact, venomous in the traditional sense. They contain venom-producing glands between their teeth, which gets forced deep into the wounds during their peculiar bite technique.

Interesting. The first I’ve heard of this – everything else I’ve read claimed that Komodo monitors were _not_ venomous in the traditional sense.

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**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-stop-a-komodo-dragon-attack/540565/23 "2010-05-27T23:56:51Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Interesting. The first I’ve heard of this – everything else I’ve read claimed that Komodo monitors were _not_ venomous in the traditional sense.

meh. A recent study concluded that all snakes and most monitors are “venomous”. The problem is that the toxicity of the venom is either minute or incidental as they have developed other hunting techniques. :rolleyes: In the case of the Komodo, it may be more pivotal, but the massive blood poisoning and festering of the would seems to be the method of death. One that takes several days at that. I suppose that it’s fair to call that “venomous”, but in relation to other venomous animals, even the mild ones, this effect should really be categorized as something else.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-stop-a-komodo-dragon-attack/540565/24 "2010-05-28T01:10:29Z")

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[Maybe, maybe not.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12258973&postcount=62).

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