Black Caiman Conservation Dependent animal

The Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is a large crocodile. This is a carnivorous reptile that lives along slow-moving rivers and lakes, in the seasonally flooded Sabana Amazon basin, and in other freshwater habitats in South America. Once public, was hunted to near extinction for its skin especially commercially. Now listed as Conservation Dependent. Overall, a little known species, is not examined in detail until the 1980s, when the skin trade has taken casualties.

The Black Caiman has a dark, scaly skin. Skin coloration helps with camouflage while hunting the night, but also helps absorb heat (see termoregulasi). Mandible has gray banding (brown in older animals), and pale yellow or white band present in the sides of the body, although it was much more prominent in adolescence. This appeal only gradually fade as the adults. Ridge of bone extending from the eye under the spout, as seen in other Caiman, are present. Big eyes, as befits most evening activities, and brown colors. Mother's vigil near their nest tormented by blood sucking flies that gather around their eyes red leaves them vulnerable.

The Black Caiman are structurally different from other species Caiman, particularly in the form of a skull. Compared with other Caiman, it has clear eyes bigger. Despite the relatively narrow snout, skull (given the size of the species' much larger) is far greater than the whole other Caiman. Greatest length of skull can range over 62 cm (24 in). Black caiman crocodile relatively stronger than other comparable length. For example, a 3.9 m (13 ft) adults were found to have the skull of a heavier and longer than 4.8 m (16 ft) Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus).

Young black Caiman Caiman can be distinguished from large bespectacled with their head proportionately larger and a short tail, and the color of the jaw, the colored light and dark Spectacled Caiman with three dark spots on black Caiman.

The Black Caiman reptile is one of the largest remaining. This is the largest predator in the Amazon basin and the largest member of the family may Alligatoridae. Most adult black caiman 2.8 to 4.26 meters (9.2 to 14 ft) long, with a few old males grow larger than 5 m (16 feet) and weigh more than 400 kg (880 lb). Sub-adult male specimens around 2.5 to 3.35 m (8.2 to 11.0 ft) will weigh about 95-100 kg (210-220 lb), about the same size as adult females, but will quickly increase in the number of large and heavy. Secondary adult male 3.5 to 4 m (11-13 ft) weighs about 300 kg (660 lb).

The Black Caiman extensive overlap in size with American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), although on average larger at maturity. In some areas (such as the Araguaia River) this species consistently reported in 4 to 5 meters (13-16 feet) long, much larger than crocodiles (who rarely even reach 4 meters), although specimens of this size are rare.

Some broad-reported but not confirmed (and probably most of the anecdotes) reported that the source of black Caiman can grow to more than 6 m (20 ft) long and weigh up to 1,100 kg (2,400 lb). In South America, two other crocodiles reportedly reached the same size: American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and Orinoco crocodile (C. intermedius).