Six Senses of a Komodo Dragon

Touch : dragons come covered in body amour. These bumps are called scales. With a skin made of these scales, it is difficult to feel anything. This is why dragons have special spots that are sensitive to touch. These spots are connected directly to nerves. These plagues are on every scale. The scales around the ears, the lips, chin, and the bottom of the feet have at least 3 or more plaques.

Sight : The eyes of the dragon are big and brown, with round pupils. They are like that of a mammal. Dragons have good vision and can see in color.

Hearing : Dragons have visible ear holes, but act as though they are deaf sometimes. They can hear very well though, although they just don’t respond to most sounds because they are not interested in them.

Smell : At the end of a Dragons snout, you can see the nostrils. These monitors can smell through their noses, but it does not work as well as ours. That is because the lizards do not have a diaphragm, and so they cannot draw air into their noses. The only way it is able to get information is if a breeze passes by or the object is only a few feet away.

Taste : There are no taste buds in the mouth of a dragons. However, they are able to detect flavor of items in their mouth. This is due to an organ at the roof of the mouth that performs a job similar to taste buds.

The sixth sense : this sense is called vomero-nasal, it is a combination if smell and taste. The dragons special forked tongue gathers chemical information from the air and when it withdraws into its sheath, the chemicals rub onto the pads on the floor of the mouth. The pads then are pressed against the two pits on the roof of the mouth that contains a little organ to translate the chemicals into information that the brain can process. That is why dragons flick their tongues outside their mouth.