Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger) are crocodilian and an endangered species. They are large, meat-eating reptiles that spend most of their lives in water. They live in freshwater habitats in South America, including the Amazon basin. They live in slow-moving rivers, streams, and lakes in rain forests and in seasonally flooded savannas Black Caimans are most active at night. They have about 75 long, sharp teeth which are used for catching and swallow their prey whole.
Small black caiman can be distinguished from large spectacled caiman by their proportionately larger head and shorter tail, as well as by the color of the jaw, which is light colored in the spectacled caiman and dark with three black spots in the black caiman.
They were also mentioned in Matthew Reilly's best selling book Temple, where they are constantly eating people that fall in the water.
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