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Tata Starbucks owned and operated Starbucks outlets in India as Starbucks Coffee "A Tata Alliance". [217] Starbucks opened its first store in India in Mumbai on October 19, 2012. [218] [219] [220] On February 1, 2013, Starbucks opened its first store in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, [221] [222] [223] and its first location in Hanoi in July 2014. [224]
Copious amounts of red saliva the Komodo dragons produce help to lubricate the food, but swallowing is still a long process (15–20 minutes to swallow a goat). A Komodo dragon may attempt to speed up the process by ramming the carcass against a tree to force it down its throat, sometimes ramming so forcefully that the tree is knocked down. [43]
The Varanidae are a family of lizards in the superfamily Varanoidea and order Anguimorpha.The family, a group of carnivorous and frugivorous lizards, [1] includes the living genus Varanus and a number of extinct genera more closely related to Varanus than to the earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus). [2]
First scientific description ever of Komodo dragon by Peter Ouwens. 18 November: The modernist Islamic organization Muhammadiyah was established by Ahmad Dahlan in Yogyakarta. 1914: World War I breaks out; the Netherlands is a neutral country in the war. [65] 1917: East Indies trade with Europe cut off by the war. [65] 1919: May
The Komodo Biosphere Reserve and National Park is situated between Flores and Sumbawa in Indonesia. It is renowned for its population of about 5,000 giant lizards, called 'Komodo dragons' (Varanus komodoensis). They exist nowhere else in the world and are of significant interest to scientists studying the theory of evolution. [1]
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The adult length of extant species ranges from 20 cm (7.9 in) in some species such as Varanus sparnus, to over 3 m (10 ft) in the case of the Komodo dragon, though the extinct megalania (Varanus priscus) may have reached lengths of more than 7 m (23 ft).
The creature was supposedly a Komodo dragon. The name is derived from "yakexi" (Chinese: 亚克西; pinyin: yàkèxī), which is the Chinese transliteration of a Uyghur term "yaxshi" (Uyghur: ياخشى), which means "good" or "great"; "xi" also means "lizard" in Chinese.