According to the passage, the Komodo dragon's management of body temperature enables it to do which of the following? A. Continually adapt to fluctuations in the availability of prey on the islands that it currently inhabits. B. Obtain food energy from either animal or vegetable sources with equal efficiency. C. Successfully resist predation by mammalian carnivores of comparable size. D. Survive in a climate whose temperature extremes rule out the presence of mammalian carnivores of comparable size. E. Survive in places where the supply of food would be insufficient for mammalian carnivores of comparable size.