Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons

Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by engineerworks on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:17PM (#19567706)

American, European, Arabs do routinely buy these exotic animals to keep them as pets.

But most of these are used for traditional Chinese medicine.

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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by microtherion on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:10PM (#19568006)

Komodo dragons would seem to be very poor choices as pets. Fast, aggressive, not very affectionate, and their bites can cause major septic problems: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,133163,00.h...

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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by sumedh on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:21PM (#19568590)

I dont think rich people want to cuddle a komodo, they just want it to impress their other rich friends.

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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by bredren on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:43PM (#19568177)

Seems like a series of really dumb choices leading up to that incident.

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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by tomhoward on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:24AM (#19569299)

I can't find any reports of Komodo dragons being used in Chinese medicine.

I can find news reports from 2017 of discoveries that compounds found in Komodo blood could have medical applications as an antibiotic, but I can find no mentions of it having started to be used in Chinese medicine.

Can you point to any evidence for this?

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