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The fact you think anyone was being confrontational or emotional tells me all I need to know about how much time you spend arguing with people online
>It's still debated
Not really. Here is a paper about the anticoagulant properties of lizard venoms.
>https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/11/5/255
The Komodo dragon’s venom is less potent than a green tree monitor’s, and while they do have bacteria in their mouths that can potentially cause deadly infections that’s nothing different to any other carnivore. Even if it was debated, biting prey and waiting for it to die of infection is just not something that they do.
>that article I posted was from 2023
It’s also full of misinformation and is basically just a fun facts list. It says that they have low hunting success rates and take a long time to kill prey. Prey is usually killed immediately with a surprisingly high success rate, and when prey does escape with injuries it’s usually killed soon after by another dragon. A Komodo dragon bite could cause a fatal infection, but they don’t use it as part of their hunting strategy. Waiting for prey to die of infection would just result in it escaping or being stolen by another dragon
>During 2002–2009, TSJ (Tim Jessop) recorded 17 observations of lizard attacks on large prey, deer and pigs: 12 were successful (fatal) and 5 (30%) were unsuccessful (4 deer and 1 pig). When prey escaped the initial attack, they sustained bite injuries that included lacerations to limbs and rump. An escaped prey can subsequently recover, be killed soon in a second attack by other lizards, or succumb to its wounds and/or infection hours or days later. Of these 5 escapes, one animal was soon attacked and killed by a second lizard (Fig. 1), two died within hours without further attack, one was pursued by 4 other lizards as it fled, and one limped away without pursuit by other lizards. Thus 1–2 of 17 attacks resulted in prey that may have survived long enough to become infected.

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