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   ocr: cameramtan. Burden wanted to bring back specimens and film footage of dragons; he also wanted to bring one back alive. Burden wrote "Here was a monster- -huge. : - . He stalked slowly and sedately along, obviously hunting for something in the grass, his magnificent head swinging ponderously this way and that.' - Eventually they did capture two nine-foot Komodo dragons and transported them live to New York City, where they became popular with visitors to the Bronx Zoo. The Komodo dragon is the Monese laiavo largest surviving member of the - monitor lizards, a family most abundant in Australia, ...