A green anaconda attacked the six-foot long caiman, in Pantanal, Brazil after finding it in the swamps of tropical wetland and the reptile later died.
The anaconda wrapping itself around the caimanC
At one point the caiman managed to bite its rival but it didn’t do any good in the long run
There was lots of splashing as the two reptiles battled it out
The caiman had all its legs broken by the caiman
The caiman’s head poking out of the water with the anaconda in the background
In the end, the sheer size of the anaconda was too much foe the caiman
The anaconda can be seen wrapping itself around the member of the crocodile family trying to suffocate the caiman.
Wildlife photographer Kevin Dooley, 58, was “lucky enough” to capture this extremely intense moment and says he has “never captured anything like this before”.
Kevin, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, US said: “I was sitting in a boat having our lunch when this happened. I couldn’t believe it all.
“I heard all of this splashing, and when I looked I could see the caiman was suffering. The anaconda just kept strangling the caiman. It had even broken all of the caiman’s legs.”
The wildlife photographer said he was sitting around 30ft away from the animals eating his lunch when he “turned to the right and witnessed an amazing sight”.
FIGHT TO THE DEATH
He added: “It all happened in around eight minutes I think eventually the anaconda ran out of oxygen and had to let go of the caiman. And at that point, the caiman then bit into the snake.
“But the snake managed to get away and slither out, I think eventually the caiman died.”
Kevin said this was a rare occasion in his photography career and thinks he will “be waiting a long time to see this happen again.”
