"Anaconda"
Eunectes murinus gigas
Photo copyright Erwin and Peggy Bauer/Bruce Coleman, Inc.,
Courtesy Ron
Kalasinskas
| Name: | Andaconda |
| Description: | A non-poisonous snake. A relative to the Boa Constictor. It can grow to over 30 feet long. The Andaconda is as thick as a telephone pole. The Andaconda squeezes it's prey for several hours and then eats it. |
| Habitat: | The Andaconda usually lives in Marches, brushes, and swamps. You'll find them in Northern South America. |
| Diet: | The Andaconda's diet consits of Capybara, tapir, frogs, turtles, caiman, alligater, water birds |
| Predators: | Animals that prey on the Andaconda are Crocodile, jaguar, ocelot, caiman, and alligator when the Andaconda is young. |
| Name: | Crocidile |
| Description: | The Crocodile is an endangered species. Crocodiles have 60 strong teeth. This animal can pull a full grown Wilderbeast in to the water in 20 minutes. Crocodiles can live to be over 100 years. |
| Habitat: | You'll find them any where in South America and as well as many other parts of the world that's near water. |
| Diet: | Their diet consits of fish, birds, other reptiles, and mamals. |
| Predators: | Preditores of the Crocodile are pochers, otherwise known as humans, and in South America Andacondas. |
"Nile freshwater crocodile"
Crocodylus niloticus
Photo courtesy/copyright John White
"Spectacled
caiman eating a piranha in Venezuela"
Caiman crocodilus
Photo © W. Perry Conway /CORBIS, Courtesy Ron Kalasinskas
| Name: | Caiman |
| Description: | The Caiman belongs to the Alligatoride Family. The largest Caiman, the Black Caiman a threatened species, grew to 15 feet. The Dwarf Caiman is the smallest of this species usually grows up to 5 feet long. They are very rugged creatures and adapt to their environment very quickly. |
| Habitat: | The Caiman usually lives in the river systems of Centeral and South America. In South America they live in the Amazon Basin. |
| Diet: | The Caiman's diet usually consits of Amphibians, fish, reptiles, birds, and somtimes larger animals. |
| Predators: | The Enimies of the Caiman are Humans, hunters who hunt them for their hide, and lizards who try to get their eggs. |