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Figure 11. Transparency tracings of attack sequence of 42 kg monitor on 27 kg goat, photographed in Loho 
Liang, Komodo, April, 1970. (A) Instant before attack from a distance of less than 1 m. (B) First contact, 
goat grasped by neck (arrows show direction of lizard’s head movements). (C) Head of goat forced down- 
ward. (D) Goat violently jerked from side to side, then yanked toward monitor. (E) Goat pushed down 
onto haunches, then violently jerked back and forth in opposite directions. (F) Goat pulled laterally 
towards monitor and starting to go into shock. (G) Violent lateral jerking with posterior movement by 
monitor, apparently intended to throw goat to ground. (H) Sudden change of tactic by moving counter- 
clockwise and then pushing goat to ground with downward movement. 
