Even in my line of work running wildlife photography tours around the world, it’s not every day I see a dragon, let alone two big male dragons, fighting, right beside me! Although they didn’t have wings and were spitting venom rather than fire, the sheer scaly bulk of these two 80-90 kg male Komodo Dragons battling it out so close that I had to back away, was enough to momentarily transport me back to the Jurassic Period, if not the pages of fiction! This was just a few days ago on Rinca Island, in the Komodo National Park. Of course, I left a GoPro (and a 360-degree Theta S camera) in amongst it all and got some awesome footage! Enjoy!

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  1. At this part 0:28 they just started danicng aggressively and then hug each other aggressively then fight again VERY EPIC 🤘🤘🤘

  2. Have to appreciate the respect to not use their deadly bites in conflict.

  3. Looked more like a dance then a fight! They should be on ABC's new show "Dancing With The Dragons."

  4. 1) I never expected komodo dragon's to be wrestlers .
    2) They look like they are hugging which adds a cute factor to the komodo dragon for me now.

  5. This is more interesting than some episode of that show from wrestling company

  6. I was recently on Rinca Island. I met a park ranger by chance at the bar at Puri Sari beach resort. He told me how it was working on Rinca Island. These two fellas in the video are semi tamed. They get hand fed when tourists aren't around. Their names are Norm and Cliff.

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