12-05-25 [VC/PMS] One Fateful Trip to the Pet Market

[Debatra]

Is the pteropus giganteus known for its long lifespan?

Bats in general tend to live much longer than most small mammals. Twenty years isn't unusual; and there's at least one documented case of a brown bat that lived past thirty.

Fun Fact - The Pteropus genus of bats don't have echolocation; their eyes are just fine.

[Storm-forge mystique]

Aren't komodo dragons known to attack humans?

[Fionn the Otaku]

Aren't komodo dragons known to attack humans?

Only if there Hungry or irratated.

[Error of Logic]

Aren't komodo dragons known to attack humans?

Only if there Hungry or irratated.

Read this as "Yes, they will unless currently too full of food to come after you". Komodo dragons will eat anything they can bring down, and they go through life with continuously torn and infested gums. It's what they use to hunt; one good bite, and the victim eventually drops dead of blood poisoning if the komodo dragons can't kill it on the spot for some reason. Imagine how you'd feel if your gums were always sore...

[Fionn the Otaku]

Aren't komodo dragons known to attack humans?

Only if there Hungry or irratated.

Read this as "Yes, they will unless currently too full of food to come after you". Komodo dragons will eat anything they can bring down, and they go through life with continuously torn and infested gums. It's what they use to hunt; one good bite, and the victim eventually drops dead of blood poisoning if the komodo dragons can't kill it on the spot for some reason. Imagine how you'd feel if your gums were always sore...

Recent studies have shown that there also mildly venomous, like Gila monsters the release a small amount of venom when they bite.