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The American crocodile grows up to 4.6 metres (15 ft) long with a weight of around 2,000 pounds, or up to one metric ton. [11] American crocodiles have been known to attack, and even kill, humans and domestic animals that drink at the water's edge. [12]
These are the American alligator (making up an estimated 6% of fatal crocodilian attacks), [3] West African crocodile (often considered quite harmless, [5] but has been involved in several attacks, also fatal), [6] American crocodile (only a few documented fatalities), [4] [7] [8] the Morelet's crocodile (typically considered a relatively non ...
Caimaninae is cladistically defined as Caiman crocodylus (the spectacled caiman) and all species closer to it than to Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This is a stem-based definition for caimaninae, and means that it includes more basal extinct caimanine ancestors that are more closely related to living caimans ...
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The black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is a crocodilian reptile endemic to South America.With a maximum length of around 5 to 6 m (16 to 20 ft) and a mass of over 450 kg (1,000 lb), [6] it is the largest living species of the family Alligatoridae, and the third-largest crocodilian in the Neotropical realm.
Due to partial consumption, recorded fatal attacks are likely predatory rather than defensive in nature. [45] [46] [47] The only natural predator of the Morelet's crocodile is the jaguar. Predation of a Morelet’s crocodile by a jaguar was captured for the first time on a camera trap in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve of Yucatán, Mexico in ...
Crocodile attacks on people are common in places where crocodiles are native. The saltwater and Nile crocodiles are responsible for more attacks and more deaths than any other wild predator that attacks humans for food. Each year, hundreds of deadly attacks are attributed to the Nile crocodile within sub-Saharan Africa. Because many relatively ...
The range of the yacare caiman includes Argentina (north), Bolivia, Brazil (south), and Paraguay. [11] It is one of three species of genus Caiman in South America, the others being the broad-snouted caiman (C. latirostris) and the spectacled caiman (C. crocodilus), with more easterly and northerly ranges, respectively. The yacare caiman is one ...