Un jaguar prend en chasse un caïman (2)
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00:00 With its massive and muscular body, the elegant jaguar is undoubtedly the most formidable of all hunters.
00:07 With a marked preference for the recalcitrant prey that knows how to defend itself.
00:14 Surprisingly, the caiman occupies a predominant place in its diet.
00:27 But the old reptile can be particularly lively and agile.
00:32 The jaguar needs a lot of patience and discretion to fill the gap that separates it from its dinner.
00:45 (Music)
00:49 Defeated, the jaguar falls back on the prey a priori easier.
01:13 After its cowardly camouflage, it is once again spotted by a pack of peccaries that immediately spread.
01:21 In any case, it still has the banks of the river where the capybaras live, the largest rodents in the world.
01:42 Once in two, this attempt to capture fails.
01:45 Like most felines, it is an opportunistic predator that is content with what it finds.
01:51 Hunting in the Caimans is obviously not without danger.
01:56 With more than 900 kg of pressure, its bite is one of the most powerful in the animal kingdom.
02:02 But the jaguar does not give up.
02:06 (Music)
02:09 The effect of surprise is decisive.
02:20 It must neutralize the huge reptile before it is a chance to bite it.
02:31 It plants its canines in the skull of the caiman, piercing the thick shell to break its cervical vertebrae,
02:37 while holding it underwater so that it drowns.
02:41 (Music)
03:08 Once its victim is done, the exhausted feline is not yet safe from danger.
03:14 It must transport the huge prey of 100 kg on the bank before other caimans come to ask for an account.
03:21 (Sound of water)
03:24 (water splashing)