Black Caiman

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Biologist attacked by 4m+ Black Caiman.

https://uc.socioambiental.org/noticia/89543


Year: 2010

''The Mamirauá Reserve in the Amazon concentrates one of the largest caiman populations in the region. A biologist who left São Paulo in search of a dream - to live in one of the largest wildlife conservation units in the Amazon - ended up being a victim of this animal, lost a leg, but survived in a surprising way.

Some researchers assure that in Mamirauá there are 90 caimans for each inhabitant of the reserve. The Black Caiman is the largest predator in South America: Some measure more than 6 meters of length.

When such an animal bites someone, it is difficult for the victim to survive. In December, on New Year's Eve in Mamirauá, biologist Deise Nishimura from São Paulo was cleaning fish on the edge of the floating house where she lived, when she was dragged into the water by an over 4 meters long Black Caiman. Even unarmed, she decided to fight for her life.

Deise Nishimura : - "By that time, I thought I was dead, its gone. But then I remembered that I saw in a documentary that when you're attacked by a shark, the most sensitive part of the shark is its your nose. Then I thought: what will be the most sensitive part of the Black Caiman? I recall his head was right behind me then I put my hand on its head and I found two holes, I don't know if it was the nose or the eye, then and I stuck my fingers and squeezed it really really hard. That's when it let go of me and by that time I realized I was already without my leg" recalls the biologist.

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Deise swam to the edge of the house but she could not climb. She had to climb a log/trunk to get out of the water. Exhausted, she screamed for help but there was no one around. So she dragged herself to the radio room and asked for help. "15 minutes later, the reserve workers arrived. They wrapped a tourniquet around her leg and took the Biologist to Tefé. At the hospital, one hour later, the doctor was surprised.


Adalberto Villa Lobos (Doctor who operated on Deise): - ''That day Deise arrived at the hospital in shock. If it was someone else without Deise's resistence and luck wouldn't have survived this type of attack. ''

What drew the doctor's attention the most was that Deise's femoral artery remained blocked, even without the tourniquet. This prevented her from dying of hemorrhage.

Deise Nishimura: - "Arriving in the hospital the doctor was even surprised that I had not lost much blood. He (the doctor) thinks that during the attack in the moment the Black Caiman was spinning me around it twisted the artery as well and that stopped the blood.''

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In the eight months that she worked in the reserve, Deise took several pictures of the Black Caiman, it liked to sleep under the floating house where the biologist lived.

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The Black caiman even had a name, although it was a huge male it was called Dorotéia. On The following day after the attack, the Ribeirinhos (local residents) of the reserve killed the animal and found Deise's leg and took it to the hospital in Tefé. But according to the doctor, there was no way to try a reimplant.

"The reimplant was discarded because of the kind of injury the Caiman causes on a leg or any limb it attacks," says the doctor. But thank God, we were able to do a very good surgical intervention, we were able to clean everything and there was no infection at all".

The biologist returned to live in São Paulo, where she undergoes physiotherapy to receive a prosthesis and learn to walk again.
Despite of everything, she says she was sad when she heard that the Black Caiman was killed. She is against the liberation of hunting.

Deise Nishimura: - "If we allow the Ribeirinhos population kill the black caimans, They will exterminate all caimans because they already don't like caimans and If we allow them to, they will wipe them out" she says.

With the courage of who already faced a Beast and survived, Deise talks about the attack with calmly, and says she can't wait to go back to the jungle.

Deise Nishimura: - "I really want to go back to the Amazon to return doing the research that I was doing with the Red River Dolphin and a friend of mine who researches caimans will take me to see caimans during the night time he said that if we throw the strong light in their eyes, it shines. It's gonna be very cool." says the biologist.

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Another case of attack in Amazon.


''Caiman attacks on humans are extremely rare and as dangerous as they are terrifying. No one knows this better than Sebastian Gonzalez who was 8 when an accidental encounter with a Caiman nearly killed him.''

Sebastiasn Gonzalez - ''I was fishing with my dad and we were coming home, the caiman hit the paddle got my leg and pulled me into the lake, then it left''

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''Sebastian lost his leg but only a handful of attacks on humans have been recorded and many involves a caiman going after a human's catch a fish or a person getting too close to a nest.''

Attacking canoe

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Fisherman attacked by 4m long Black Caiman in Manacapuru.

https://portalcm7.com/amazonas/jacare-at...ens-fortes

Manacapuru- The case happened last Wednesday morning (24), in the community of Botafogo, while the man was fishing with his son.

According to preliminary information, the victim was going fishing with his son, until the canoe where they were hit a Black Caiman. The animal then attacked the man from behind. Sebastião Pinheiro Rozas, a 58-year-old fisherman was seriously injured in the attack of the Caiman which was approximately 4 meters long.

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According to the victim's relatives, the Caiman of the species Jacaré-Açu, bit him and shaken Sebastião around until his son pushed the animal away striking it in the head. The man was hospitalized at the Manacapuru hospital.

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Source: Amazonas é Assim.

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Man gets lacerated arm attacked by Black Caiman in the Guaporé river - Brazil.

he got attacked while bathing in the high tide river and received other peoples help and was rushed to the hospital.


He is lucky to be alive.

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Tests confirm that the remains found in Black Caiman's belly are from adult human's.

https://www.nortedotocantins.com.br/08/2...e-humanos/
''The remains found in the belly of a Black Caiman are of human's, he pointed out expert examinations made by the Scientific Police. The information is from the Tocantins Department of Public Security. The animal was killed in the municipality of Lagoa da Confusão on the 30th of last month after a man disappeared in the Javaé River - Brazil. The Civil Police said they are following the investigations to clarify the case.

The SSP has yet to report who the human parts found inside the Black Caiman is according to residents of the region the remains are of 47 years old Adilson Bernardes de Oliveira. He disappeared in July 28th while camping with friends by the river.''

"The owner of the place said he went to sleep around 10 p.m. [on July 27th] and when he woke up he didn't see Adilson. He looked for him and found his slippers and a lighter by the river," said Firefighter Sergeant Ronaldo Barbosa who helped with the search.

The military was called in and searched by land on the bank and along the river for two days. On the site the military saw more than seven Black Caimans, four of them adults with over 4 meters long.

Without success in the search, the firemen reported that the residents decided to capture one of the Black Caimans and killed the animal. Inside it bags and remains were found.

"The villagers believe that the animals devoured man. The Black Caiman had a full disproportionate belly. Inside the caiman were found bags and Adilson always carried bags in his pants."

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