Baby Caiman Mostly eats small fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects. As they grow they begin to eat larger fish including piranhas, catfish and perch. The black Maiman lives in South America. South America Caimans are native to Central and South America.
Found beyond the Amazon, caimans live in rivers, swamps and forests all throughout Central and South America.Just like other reptiles, caimans spend most of the day basking in the sun. Caimans have few natural predators because of their size and aggressive temper. Besides humans, jaguars are greatest enemies of caimans.
Caimans are well adapted to life in water.Female caimans build a large nest in which to lay their eggs. These nests can be more than 1.5 metres wide. Female caimans lay between 10 and 50 eggs which hatch within about 6 weeks.
Less than half of the 25 crocodile species have been involved in fatal attacks on humans, and only crocodiles about 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length or more represent a serious danger to humans, as smaller crocodiles are considered incapable of killing adults.
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