Five Komodo dragon hatchlings have been born at a zoo in Spain, the first successful breeding of the world's largest lizard - an endangered species - in the country for a decade.
"This is a great achievement for all of us," Milagros Robledo, the head of the Herpetology department at the Bioparc Fuengirola zoo in southern Spain and self-described "mother" of the dragons, told Reuters on Tuesday.
"It was a great task, very tedious and time-consuming, but one that has given us a lot of satisfaction," Robledo said, adding that the hatchlings represented "a hopeful future" for the species. In 2021, these apex predators native to four Indonesian islands were added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's "Red List", as only about 1,500 specimens remain in habitats that face the threat of climate change.
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