Friendty, NZP's Komodo Dragon
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Creator: Cohen, Jessie
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1988
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: September 1988
One of the two Komodo Dragons in the National Zoological Park's Reptile House. Friendty is six-and-a half feet long and weighs 30.8 lbs. at the time of this photograph. Both dragons were a gift from the Government of Indonesia to the people of the United States.
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in TORCH, September 1988
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: September 1988
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1988
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Indonesia
96-1372
Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 4h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Medium: Photographic print