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Sorry Jackie, the Komodo Dragon was mine. I'm not a science professor but I do try to research and see where my art fits in the show. Here is the definition I went by although I am sure you can get different definitions from different places. I really didn't research it any further.
There have been shows especially with animals and plants native to certain regions that have been really confusing to me. I will take wrong on this particular show but you can see by the definitions I found below how I came to my conclusion.
My reference from Wikipedia:
However, recent research suggests that the large size of Komodo dragons may be better understood as representative of a relict population of very large varanid lizards that once lived across Indonesia and Australia, most of which, along with other megafauna,[7] died out after the Pleistocene. Fossils very similar to V. komodoensis have been found in Australia dating to greater than 3.8 million years ago, and its body size remained stable on Flores, one of the handful of Indonesian islands where it is currently found, over the last 900,000 years, "a time marked by major faunal turnovers, extinction of the island's megafauna, and the arrival of early hominids by 880 ka."[7]
Show prospectus:
When a friend saw the title of this show, she asked if Crocodile Dundee was eligible. "No," I answered with a laugh. "But all of the other brilliant and unique wildlife of the Australian continent are." Certainly, marsupials are the first group of animals that come to mind, but the biodiversity of Australia goes well beyond Kangaroos and Koalas. So long as the animal is indiginous to Australia, it's fair game.
What is indigenous: (a couple of definitions I found)
1. originating or occurring naturally (in a country, region, etc.); native
Native to a particular region or environment but occurring naturally in other places as well. The American black bear is indigenous to many different parts of North America.
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