Komodo Dragons (Varanus komodoensis)

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Auffenberg (1981) stated that the average weight of the largest males, captured by him, was of 47 kg (n=12), with the heaviest been of 54 kg. The heaviest male reported by Jessop et al. (no date) was of 81.5 kg, without apparent stomach content.

Jessop et al. (no date) gathered an average of 23.47 kg (n=226) for the dragons in Komodo island, but this figure is unreliable for comparison, as it mixed all the specimens, males-females-youngs. Sadly, they don't published (as far I know) the separated figures. Even then, the data showed that only the dragons of Komodo and Rinca do reach large sizes, while those on Gili Motang and Nusa Kode are less than half the size of the first ones.

The weight range of 79-91 kg (Wood, 1977) are by no means an average figure, like Wikipedia claims. An average large male should weight between 40-50 kg, in the best case.
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