Caiman

We went to the Biôdome a few days ago, a most-see when you visit Montreal. One of its sections is the tropical rainforest, which is the most exotic one. I was happily surprised to see that they even have a caiman. Not only parrots and monkeys, but a bona fide caiman. I have a certain fascination for all lizards and saurians. Kind of scared fascinated, like all dangerous, cold blooded predators. I see a caiman, I get a shiver, because that thing is dangerous. And it feels even more real with the humid heat you feel in this "rainforest".

Jaguar Versus Caiman

 Oh the excitement one can find when one watches animal documentaries. Wolfie and I are really into the Netflix docu series Our Living World, narrated by Cate Blanchett. My favourite actress. I blogged about it already, see this post. Well, in one episode, we saw a jaguar (the animal, not the car) trying to hunt a caiman (the reptile, not the islands), on the caiman's own environment. I don't want to spoil it for those who have not seen the episode, but it was one epic fight. A short but gripping action scene. Hollywood has nothing on mother nature. I mean, you have in the South American jungle a young jaguar going after another apex predator, earth and water colliding, an unstoppable force against and immovable object, blood in water, the lot. Oh, and Cate Blanchett telling the tale, like she did when she was Galadriel. The series is worth watching just for that brief encounter. On a side note, the animal Wolfie and I were rooting for won. So we were very happy.

Saurien(s)

C'est une autre photo prise à à Amazon World lors de nos vacances à l'Isle of Wight que je partage aujourd'hui. C'est un caïman, enfin je crois. Je suis incapable de faire la différence (et toutes les nuances qui s'imposent) entre un alligator, un caïman et un crocodile, sans compter leurs autres cousins. Pour (re)commettre un calembour atroce, j'en saurien. J'imagine que, venant de l'Amazonie, ça doit être un caïman, peut-être un caïman à lunettes, selon mes notes. Dans tous les cas, ça m'impressionne toujours de les voir, même en captivité.