[PW] being eaten alive

[B.H.]

Kevin, you are SO sadistic to send unsuspecting folk to this thoroughly repulsive description of Komodo Dragons feeding. I saw the
story a couple of hours ago and I'm still trying to get the pictures out of my head.

BTW...my assumption was that the twitching was a result of the dragons movement, as the buffalo couldn't possibly have still been
alive by that point....I hope.

(Did you also find the article through Reddit, as I did?)


Brian Henderson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin O'Kelly [mailto:rkokelly at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:54 PM
To: list at project-wombat.org
Subject: [PW] being eaten alive


The patron is me, so no rush, but I would appreciate some insight into the physiology behind the events described in the link below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/12/indonesia

How could the water buffalo have endured being devoured without dying of shock and blood loss almost immediately? And surely the
twitching described at the end of the story is merely the result of random, post-mortem firing of neurons and not any indication the
animal is still alive.?