Night of the Caimans. Tui De Roy.
by De Roy, Tui; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 24Science. Publisher: National Wildlife, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Animals -- Food | Caimans | Pantanal (Brazil) | Poaching | Reptiles -- Behavior | Social behavior in animals | Wildlife conservation -- South AmericaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Six of the world's 21 species of Crocodilians are found in South America. The Paraguayan, or common, caiman is a smaller relative of the American alligator, reaching a length of ten feet at most. It is the widest ranging of the South American species; today [2003], hundreds of thousands of the animals are found in the Pantanal." (NATIONAL WILDLIFE) This article describes life at a caiman hole in the Pantanal region of Brazil and explains how landowners 15 years ago saved the caimans from poachers.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Night of the Caimans, Feb./March 2003; pp. 34J-34O.
"Six of the world's 21 species of Crocodilians are found in South America. The Paraguayan, or common, caiman is a smaller relative of the American alligator, reaching a length of ten feet at most. It is the widest ranging of the South American species; today [2003], hundreds of thousands of the animals are found in the Pantanal." (NATIONAL WILDLIFE) This article describes life at a caiman hole in the Pantanal region of Brazil and explains how landowners 15 years ago saved the caimans from poachers.
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