Birmingham Zoo's Komodo dragon celebrates birthday in style with Godzilla reenactment
It's the scariest day of the year, and we're receiving reports that a ravenous reptile is ransacking the Birmingham Zoo! Where's King Kong when you need him?
This mighty monster is Mad Max, a Komodo dragon that calls the zoo home, and Tuesday is his 5th birthday.
Max was born on Halloween in 2018, and his annual party is a big event at the zoo!
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Costumed employees show up in droves to celebrate the birthday boy, and this year, they decided to help him get back to his roots.
Max's enclosure was covered in cardboard buildings to stomp on, the lizard channeling his larger-than-life, long-lost cousin, Godzilla.
Komodo dragons are the largest, heaviest lizards in the world and, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, one of the few with a venomous bite.
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These powerful predators are known to eat just about any animal, from monkeys to wild boars, even other Komodo dragons!
Max, on the other hand, doesn't do much hunting these days. His birthday brunch was a feast of fresh fish scattered around his watering hole.
Here's wishing the mighty Mad Max a happy Halloween and an even happier birthday.