ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the dragon in some sort of scholarly fashion falls into either mythological studies or symbolic analysis in literature. It finds animal phobias and other prey-related phobias, such as fear of open spaces. This chapter suggests by biocultural anthropology that certain universal cultural constructs should in the absence of evidence demonstrating diffusion from some cultural center be investigated from the standpoint of their possible biological origins. The dragons image was of necessity expressed through the customary artistic conventions of a culture manipulated by the artistic individual biologically based design motifs. The dragon's looks and behaviors derived from a monitor lizard and the same said for the python or the 'flying dragon' lizard of Java or the alligator and crocodile as the models of the world-dragon. Specific reactions to alarm calls identifying various types of predators have been demonstrated globally in arboreal primate populations, further the vervet monkey situation is indicative of a widespread behavior pattern among arboreal primates.
