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Aulfenberg 
Figure 12. Phalangeal area of left hindfoot of 320 kg domestic water buffalo attacked by a 2.8 m monitor 
(killed by villagers during attack) near Nggoer, Flores. Wounds of the upper jaw appear above the base 
of the hooves on the anterior surface (left) and of the lower jaw on the posterior surface (right). An 
infection has already begun in the latter (see Auffenberg, 1973, for importance of septic wounds caused by 
V. komodocTisia) . 
