Prague zoo breeds rare Comodo dragons

Seven young Comodo dragons, an endangered species extremely difficult to breed, hatched in the Prague zoo recently after 208 days of developing in the eggs, zoo spokesman Vit Kahle has told CTK.

This is for the second time that the Prague couple of Comodo dragons, the world’s largest lizard up to more than three metres long, has offspring. This is a great success that only few European zoos can pride in, Kahle said.

Comodo dragons, on the brink of extinction, are subject to an international breeding programme. The first European zoo to manage to breed them was the London one in 2006.

Before, in 2002, the zoo in Plzen, west Bohemia, was close to becoming the first, but the almost developed young dragons died a few days before hatching for unknown reasons.

The Prague zoo hailed its first young dragons in April 2007. Like this year’s ones, they are offspring of the adult couple the zoo received in 2004 as the Indonesian president’s gift to her Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus.

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