Komodo Dragons
The Biggest Living Lizards
Guest: Tim Jessop, academic at Deakin University’s Centre for Integrative Ecology
Komodo dragons are the largest lizards in the world and the apex predator of a select few islands in Indonesia. Their hunting method is a mixture of ambush and sheer force.
Medieval Bestiaries
Guests: Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum; Larisa Grollemond, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum
Despite the empiricism of modern science, contemporary perceptions of animals have sometimes been shaped by medieval bestiaries.