Black Caiman

[Dark Jaguar]

The brazilian Biologist João Paulo Krajewski graduated in Australia, also a diver, wildlife documentarist, wildlife photographer... and with 25 years of career, after being on Black Caiman captures expedition in Mamirauá - Central Amazon, João talks a bit about Black Caimans and their behavior on drought season.

https://gshow.globo.com/programas/doming...ento.ghtml#

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''Their heads are very impressive its so wide and I've seen Crocodiles everywhere in the world and I find Black Caimans very impressive because of the width of their heads.''

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''During drought season in the Amazon the rivers vary alot and sometimes they grab and eat those White Herons that walks around it and also sometimes Black Caimans kinda hunt together.''

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''The Bony fish called The Silver Arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) in the drought seasons the river narrows and turns into many lagoons and small canals, it agglomerates so many caimans because in that situation they don't have how to go away from the water so the area gets smaller.''

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''These fishes start to get stuck and the feeding frenzy of Caimans starts with Black Caimans jumping out of water while hunting and the big fishes trying to get out of the areas that is getting dry and we filmed Black caimans of several sizes and when all this loud noises in the water starts many animals come and when Herons gather around it starts to stuck the fishes in one single place and the hunting gets bigger.''

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''When you see a bird here and there or a small cub caiman its cause there are lots of fishes and when the agglomeration gets too intense the fights for food start and sometimes Black Caimans attack Herons if it has the chance and you can't mess around with this animal and one very interesting thing is that most of these animals seen that are huge they're males who are much larger than females and they are a bit territorial and could be more aggressive.''

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