What+They+Eat

The caiman's diet consists of fish, reptiles and mammals such as capybara. juveniles eat mainly invertebrates (crustaceans terrestrial invertebrates such as coleoptera) where as adults includes a greater proportion of fish in their diets in additions to a variety of aquatic (e.g crabs, mollsec shrimps ) and terrestrial invertebrates. Black caiman's are big enough to take even the largest amazon land animal. When an animal approaches close to the river bank, the caiman will lunge forward and grab the animal, pulling it under the water where it quickly drowns. Black caimans eat fish, turrtles, snakes, and frogs.