On the few patches of dry ground, tropical rattlesnakes lie low, and in shallow pools, spectacled caiman doze just beneath the surface. |
Neither tortoise nor caiman paid any attention to their presence, but fought on pertinaciously. |
No doubt the caiman had been attempting to plunder the new-laid eggs of the tortoise, and the latter had detected him in the act. |
In the wider region, the skins trade has had an impact on large cats, the black caiman, the giant river otter and howler monkeys. |
The caiman offers a range of option packages, from bristling-with-machine-guns, to monster-truck-field-hospital. |
It was not until we started working with local fishermen who knew their way into some of the most inaccessible lakes that we hit the mother lode of black caiman nesting sites. |