Their troubles, however, were far from over. They had found their way to Rinca Island, where an estimate 1, dragons live. The attacks began almost immediately, the Telegraph reports.
A relentless lizard repeatedly came at a Swedish woman, who smacked it with her diving weight belt. It chewed at the lead belt while other divers threw rocks at its head, she said, all the while eyeing her bare feet. For two days and two nights, the traumatized divers contended with dragons and the tropical heat, surviving off of shellfish they scraped from rocks and ate raw.
In , year-old Muhamad Anwar set out to gather sugar apples from an orchard on Komodo Island. A misstep that sent him falling from the tree proved to be his undoing. Two Komodo dragons were waiting below, and sprang on Anwar. His neighbors heard the commotion, and ran to his rescue minutes later.
By the time they arrived, however, Anwar had already suffered fatal injuries, and was bleeding from bites to his hands, body, legs and neck, the Guardian reports. Anwar died shortly after the attack, in a clinic on Flores Island. Other accounts, however, contest some of these details.
CNN writes that Anwar — a fisherman — was actually trespassing on the island, and was in an area forbidden for people to enter. This account also reports that Anwar bled to death on the way to the hospital, and was declared dead upon arrival.
Even if CNN got this right and Anwar was guilty, however, death by dragon seems an overly steep punishment for eating a bit of forbidden fruit from the garden of Komodo. In , Maen, a fellow guide like Mr. Safina, headed to the staff office as he would any other morning. But just as he was about to spear it, his mother appeared, revealing to him that the two were brother and sister. Several dragons lingered nearby, drawn by the rancid smell of fish drying on bamboo mats beneath the blazing sun.
Also strolling by were dozens of goats and chickens. The dragons eat 80 percent of their weight and then go without food for several weeks. Amin and others say the dragons are hungry partly because of a policy that prohibits villagers from feeding them. Villagers recently sought permission to feed wild boar to the Komodos several times a year, but park officials say that won't happen. The attack that first put villagers on alert occurred two years ago, when 8-year-old Mansyur was mauled to death while defecating in the bushes behind his wooden hut.
People have since asked for a 6-foot-high 2-meter concrete wall to be built around their villages, but that idea, too, has been rejected. The head of the park, Tamen Sitorus, said: "It's a strange request. You can't build a fence like that inside a national park! Residents have made a makeshift barrier out of trees and broken branches, but they complain it's too easy for the animals to break through.
Eventually we were able to chase it up a hill by throwing rocks and yelling 'Hoohh Hoohh. Then, just two months ago, year-old fisherman Muhamad Anwar was killed when he stepped on a lizard in the grass as he was heading to a field to pick fruit from a sugar tree.
Gone are the days of goofing around with the lizards, poking their tails, hugging their backs and running in front of them, pretending they're being chased, said Muhamad Saleh, who has worked with the animals since Then, repeating a famous line by Indonesia's most renowned poet, he adds: "I want to live for another thousand of years.
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