>>35122864>They approach the prey and use their toxic fumes to poison them and run away afterwards, similar to the way a komodo dragon huntsthis has been disproven, Komodo dragons are active hunters. The problem is, like many large carnivores, they only actually catch and consume a fraction of what they set out to hunt (lions have something like a 30% success rate iirc). The difference between Komodo dragons and other carnivores is that Komodo dragons have an anticoagulant in their saliva, which prevents wounds from healing. This, combined with the fact that two of their favored prey animals, water buffalo and pigs, use bacteria-infested mud pits to wallow in and cool off, causes the animals to weaken to the point where one or more dragons pick up on it and march to its location, taking little potshots until someone gets a good hit in then devouring the prey animal. Frequently, the original dragon who led to this isn't even present.
