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In such a contest, the chances are good that both animals would die. The tiger, being much quicker and more powerful, would easily be able to get the neck bite in the dragon, and end the fight quickly. But, if the dragon got a bite on the tiger before it was killed, the tiger would eventually die from septocemia, or blood poisoning, as the saliva of the komodo dragon teems with bacteria that can be lethal. One way the dragon hunts is to ambush a prey animal such as a deer, and if the deer does not die in the initial attack, the dragon simply follows the scent trail of the animal until it dies, sometimes days later. Tigers are certainly able to kill reptiles as large as Komodo dragons, as they have been known to kill mugger crocodiles as large as 12 feet long. As in nature most times, however, large predators tend to avoid each other, so a fight most likely would not take place.

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