re: Should Komodo dragons be exterminated?

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Komodo dragons are fricking brutal!

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Grizzly bears are similar. One of their best feeding times of the year is elk calving season. Immediately after birth the mother elk will stash the baby somewhere until it has its legs under it and can walk. Grizzlies take this as an opportunity for an easy meal, and they're great at finding the new calves. Because they're defenseless the bear doesn't have to expend much energy at all to take it. They'll often just hold it down and rip flesh from it while the calf is still alive. The cries of the calf alert the mother and she starts making a ruckus. The whole scene is just brutal.

The opposite of that in the world of the grizzly is probably when they go moth hunting, mainly in Wyoming and Montana. They'll spend hours and hours on sunny hillsides flipping rocks and other debris to find army cutworm moths. They can eat up to 40,000 a day when hunting is good.

So, if you have an army worm problem in your lawn or garden, get yourself a couple grizzly bears. They'll help.*





*Despite what some ill-informed poster once said, Grizzlies are omnivores. They'll eat anything from roots, pine nuts, and berries, to roadkill, moths, elk, and people.