Caiman with fish hat

[SandyW]

A caiman with a plecostomus stuck on his head. The fish was still alive. It came off later as he dove into the aguapé.
Pantanal, Brazil.

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[Patrick M]

wow! Very unusual. Great shot

 

[ssheipel]

Cool!

 

[SandyW]

It was something you don't see every day.

 

[ssheipel]

It was something you don't see every day.

Was the tail 'just' caught in the gator's mouth?

 

[SandyW]

Was the tail 'just' caught in the gator's mouth?

I don't think so. If it was it was definitely not obvious to us. Plecostomus are very spiny. We were thinking that maybe the caiman was trying to catch the fish, but the spiny projections got caught on his scales when he rolled or something.