The aim of thecaiman appeared to be to get the head of the tortoise in his mouth; but whenever he attempted this, the latter suddenly drew his head within the shell, and repeatedly disappointed him.
The caiman was not one of large size, else the turtle would have fled from it, not that even the largest caimans are feared by the full-grown carapas.
Neither tortoise nor caiman paid any attention to their presence, but fought on pertinaciously.
The river Amazons at Caicara had sunk one season to a very low point, so that the port and bathing-place of the village now lay at the foot of a long sloping bank, and a large caiman made his appearance in the shallow and muddy water.
The caiman never attacks man if his intended victim is on his guard, but he is cunning enough to know when this may be done with impunity.
Sometimes as in Caiman sclerops, Jacare and Teleosaurus, the scutes completely invest the body, being so arranged as to form a dorsal and a ventral shield, and a continuous series of rings round the tail.
The barbed blades had taken hold, and the caiman was secured!
The mother seized her by the arms; and was about raising her out of the water, when the caiman swept forward open-mouthed, caught the limbs of the little girl, and with one crunch of his powerful jaws severed them from the body!
The caiman was still there; and she turned, and stood for a moment as if considering what to do.
When out of the water a caiman may be shot in the soft elastic skin behind the fore-shoulder; but this is a very uncertain method of killing one; and several shots fired into his body at this part will often fail to prove fatal.
When the Caiman snaps at the prey the points of the hook, on straining on the line, penetrate into its flesh.
In Brown's "Natural History of Jamaica," he asserts that he has known the Caiman to live several months without food.
Many children of poor negro women become a prey to the Caimanin this locality.
We began to find a great many jacarés (Caiman fissipis) or crocodiles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caiman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
