Research

The Dutch, realizing the reduced number of animals in the wild, Komodo dragons hunting ban and limit the number of animals taken for scientific research. Komodo Expedition halted during World War II, and it continued until the 1950s and '60an when done studies on feeding behavior, reproduction and dragons body temperature. In those years, an expedition designed to examine the other dragons in the long run. This task fell to the Auffenberg family, who then lived for 11 months on the island of Komodo in 1969. During that time, Walter Auffenberg and his assistant Putra writer, captured and tagged more than 50 Komodo dragons tail. The results of this expedition was very influential to the growing captive dragons. Subsequent studies which later gave a more candid and clear about the nature dragons, that biologists such as Claudio Ciofi can go deeper study.