An adult black caiman only has one natural enemy: the giant river otter. In a pack, they have been known to attack adult caiman. However, young caiman are easy prey for a wide variety of animals, like giant river otters, anacondas, and even adult caiman.
Small caiman are eaten by anacondas, jaguars and bigger caimans. Nothing eats big caimans such as the black caiman.
Jaguars do kill and eat small sized caimans, but not much of the large black caimans.
The black caiman is on average 10 to 16 ft long, and weigh 300 to 880 pounds. There are some black caimans that grow 20 ft long, and weigh 2400 pounds.
Alligators do not live in tropical rainforests, but their cousins the caimans do live in and around the rainforests of South America - the Black Caiman, for example.
Yes. Large black caimans have been known to prey on adult jaguars and anacondas.
Green anacondas prey on small caimans and small black caimans. Jaguars are known to kill and eat female black caimans, but not the large male black caimans.
Green anacondas, jaguars, and black caimans prey on common caimans.
Spectacled caimans and common caimans are common food for anacondas and jaguars. Large black caimans have no predators.
Small caiman are eaten by anacondas, jaguars and bigger caimans. Nothing eats big caimans such as the black caiman.
A very large green anaconda could kill and eat a black caiman. Jaguars can kill black caimans on land.
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The black caimans
Black caimans live in south america.
Green anacondas kill small caimans usually by ambush. It will coil around the caiman and squeeze it to death, and keep its head away from the caiman's jaw. Anacondas won't attack black caimans. Jaguars eat caimans all the time. They have been recorded to kill even black caimans by biting their skull.
Black caimans are more active at night and afternoons.
Because people are hunting black caimans for their skin to sell $1,000 for it.
Jaguars do kill and eat small sized caimans, but not much of the large black caimans.