[Steve] We're about to enter the world of the dragon,
the rare, mysterious, feared and magnificent reptile.
The largest and certainly the most dangerous lizard on earth,
the legendary Komodo dragon.
G'day guys, my name is Ryan.
I'm one of the reptile keepers here at Australia Zoo,
and one of the amazing animals I get to work with is the Komodo dragon.
And today's a really exciting day for us because we're going to take Ragnar out
into the Crocoseum for the very first time.
Now, this is exciting
because we've been working towards doing this for the last 12 months.
Using this target here, hopefully we're going to be able to lure him outside
and get him moving around, and he'll be able to experience
a new area of the zoo he's never been to before.
And hopefully it goes well, and this will become part of the show.
And the crowd can also enjoy Ragnar in all his glory.
So we're just going to go and get him and we'll see what happens.
Come on.
Sweet. To the Crocoseum.
[Keeper] You ready? [Ryan] Yeah, I'm so ready.
[Ryan] Yeah, I'm pumped.
Hey big fella.
Hey.
Ragnar, what's this?
You coming out?
Come on.
[Sami] Ragnar. Come on.
[Sami] Come on.
So it's going really well. Obviously he's so stimulated and picking up
all the new scents, the smells. As we do this more and more,
he'll become more familiar with the Crocoseum and he'll start
exploring a lot more of it.
What he's doing right now is he's rubbing that back end
trying to get as much of his tail
and his cloaca into the grass as possible, and he's just kind of marking
his own scent around the place. This is all very new to him
so he wants to put his own scent around,
feel a bit confident, let other dragons know that he's there.
So we're just kind of letting him investigate the area, make it his own.
So that's what he's doing right now.
So of course, him going into the water is all up to him.
He's feeling a bit more confident now it's a bit shallower.
It's all very new to him though.
He hasn't really been out of his depth being able to swim before.
So as you can imagine, he's a bit wary of it.
But once he knows, once he understands that there's no danger,
he'll probably quite enjoy it.
So he's just on his on his tiptoes right now.
So he can still touch the bottom.
So we'll just bring him out nice and slowly at his own pace.
And of course, if he doesn't want to, he doesn't have to.
Hey you're swimming.
Don't know about eating in the water though.
Hey?
There he goes.
He's kind of doggy paddling there
rather than using the tail.
He's not too sure how to do it yet.
Ragnar is doing exceptionally well with his training.
So check out the next episode
where he'll be ready for his big debut.