a zoo spokesman said the rare lizards , believed to number less than 4 , 000 in the wild , all hatchlings in the previous 12 cycles and 14 eggs are keeping under observation . he calls it the hippos ' s most effective breeding month out at the zoo . the small reptiles first arrived in the early 1980s , but the new births brought their amount from 34 to 66 . the komodo lizard can grow up to 10 centimeters long and weigh as few as 150 pounds . they have a skin that can be deadly and can only be found in the wild on the eastern indonesian mainland of tsavo , padar and rinca .
A Komodo dragon can be 10 feet long.