Komodo Dragons

More than twenty years have passed since Walter Auffenberg's monumental The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor . In the intervening years the populations of Komodo dragons—native only to a handful of islands in southeast Indonesia—have dwindled, sparking intensive conservation efforts. During the last two decades new information about these formidable predators has emerged, and the most important findings are clearly presented here. A memoir from Walter Auffenberg and his son Kurt is follo