The Komodo dragon, locally called "ora," is the largest lizard in the world, measuring up to 10 feet and weighing up to 300 pounds. On the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Padar, Flores, Rintja, Gili, Mota, and Owadi Sami, they are at the top of the food chain. They are fast, clever, and have been known to eat humans. Their saliva is poisonous and they even gobble the bones.

The growing human population is making their habitat shrink. There might be between 4,000 and 5,000 dragons left, but the tragedy is that there are only 350 breeding females.