Baby Caiman Description

Today I’m going to a lake to see baby black caimans hatching out of their shells. My friend here is seeing if the mother of the baby caimans are around. PHEW she isn't, we can go near the baby caimans.




So we went and it was the perfect timing because they were hatching. It takes 40 to 90 day for a black caiman to hatch by the way. We saw the baby black caiman hatching.




It was so cool and they were so cute but I didn’t want to go too close because they will probably call their mum and we don’t want that to happen. They looked pretty scaly,slimy and spiky but very cute. The babys can’t stay too long in their mother’s protection.




Eventually they have to get to the water to get their own food because their mother can’t feed them forever. It’s a dangerous track for newborn caimans. When they go into the water they might not survive because they might drown because they don’t know how to swim but I think they will be just fine.




One of my other friend is really good at mimicking the baby caiman. He did it and the mother of the baby caimans came rushing back to see what was wrong.