Carnivores

A carnivore is an animal that eats other living animals. They won't pass up a free meal for instance they might scare a smaller predator and eat the prey the animal caught. They are important to the food chain because if they over populate or under populate. There are different carnivores liveing in the Amazon. Here are some examples:

photo courtesy of Big Cats Online

Name:	Jaguars
Description:	Large, wild cat.It's on the Edangered species list.
Habitat:	The jaguar lives in caves that they make into dens(homes).
Diet:	The Jaguar hunts and eats: mammals, reptiles, birds, eggs, capybaras, tapirs, peccaries, turtles, and alligators.

Name:	Caiman
Description:	Medium-sized crocodilian. Young are yellow with black spots and bands; adults are a dull olive green with a whitish belly.
Habitat:	Caiman live in many areas, ranging from Central America and northern South America, also Southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil.
Diet:	They eat fish, amphibians, waterbirds, and reptiles.

Spectacled caiman eating a piranha in Venezuela"
Caiman crocodilus
Photo © W. Perry Conway /CORBIS, Courtesy Ron Kalasinskas

"Boa Constrictor"
Boa constrictor
Photo courtesy/copyright Sandy Wiseman

Name:	Boa Constrictor
Description:	A green snake with white bands. Can grow to be up to 2.2 meters long.
Habitat:	They live in shrubs and trees near water. For instance, swamps and marshes.
Diet:	Squeezes prey with long teeth. Eats birds and rodents.

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