| Peters refuted Gadow's record on the basis that Gadow's collections contained no specimens of caiman. |
| The jaguar, with his pliable paws and sharp subtle claws, is to them a more dreaded assailant than the crocodile or caiman. |
| Neither tortoise nor caiman paid any attention to their presence, but fought on pertinaciously. |
| On the few patches of dry ground, tropical rattlesnakes lie low, and in shallow pools, spectacled caiman doze just beneath the surface. |
| 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. |
| Even a fearsome spectacled caiman is unable to escape an anaconda's fatal embrace. |
