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   ocr: whereas older dragons become too large to climb and feed on the ground. Large dragons actively seek out their prey or ambush it along game trails. They can bring down wild pigs, deer, goats, dogs, and even water butfaloes and horses, but carrion is also an important source of food. Though normally shy of human beings, dragons have been known to attack people and also, sometimes, one another. The three specimens on display at the American Museum of Natural History were collected on a 1926 Monese laiavo expedition led by Museum trustee W. - Douglas Burden, who went to Komodo Island along with hi ...