the 1st is an adult C lat. Pic was taken at St Augustine Gator park. They arent very pretty as adults. The other pic is Gator over 3 yrs ago. She's still pretty yellow now like she was back then.



>>She's a 4' C lat. like most people have guessed. Had her since she was in the egg, she's 6 this year. Shes great and I'm impressed with her colors. Esp since the adult C. lats I have seen are pretty drab. Chris's quick glance was definately easy to confuse with a gator as they look pretty close, esp with jaw shape. I often just call her a spec caiman to people bc more people are familiar with those.

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>>>>Hey Danny,

>>>> Good to meet ya over a kingsnake forum . I don't know how close your caimans are in appearance to this guy because I haven't seen them. But he/she definately isn't a brown. As Mr. Dupont pointed out the patterns not one that belongs to either fuscus or crocodilus, and only some latirostris keep banding on the bottom jaw. That probably shouldn't be a solid indication of what it is. Fuscus do have a green hue to their eye colour, but we can't judge that based on a photograph as camera flashes do wonders for distortion. My biggest hint and what got me looking twice was the head shape. Broad Snouted Caiman is called so for a reason :P. I stand by my call but lets ask the owner, as he's probably having as much fun reading this as we are talking about it..

>>>> Thanks Guys,

>>>> KyLE

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