Transcription: The first animal we went to look for, three years later, was the Komodo dragon lizard. This was an animal, like most of the animals we were going to see, but which I knew very little. What little I did know was hard to like. They are man-eaters. This is not so bad in itself, and lions and tigers are man-eaters, and though we may be intensely wary of them, and treat them with respectful fear, we nevertheless have an instinctive admiration for them. We don't actually like to be eaten by them, but we don't resent the very idea. The reason probably is that we are mammals and so are they. There's a ...
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