{"id":2481,"date":"2026-01-04T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:18:16","slug":"smooth-fronted-caiman-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/international-field-herping\/smooth-fronted-caiman-up-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Smooth Fronted Caiman Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/crocodylia\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"663\">crocodilian<\/a>, the Smooth-Fronted Caiman. These little guys live in smaller streams and hills in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/amazon\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"211\">rainforest<\/a>, and have a lot of attitude for such a little guy. This one had no trouble at all letting my camera lens know who&#8217;s boss when it got a little too close. Got the shot first, though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paleosuchus-trigonatus-_3863-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paleosuchus-trigonatus-_3863-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paleosuchus-trigonatus-_3863-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paleosuchus-trigonatus-_3863-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paleosuchus-trigonatus-_3863-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paleosuchus-trigonatus-_3863-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite crocodilian, the Smooth-Fronted Caiman. These little guys live in smaller streams and hills in the rainforest, and have a lot of attitude for such a little guy. This one had no trouble at all letting my camera lens know who&#8217;s boss when it got a little too close. Got the shot first, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[664,663,1,665,666],"tags":[210,211,667,668],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alligatoridae","category-crocodylia","category-international-field-herping","category-paleosuchus","category-trigonatus","tag-peru","tag-amazon","tag-crocodilian","tag-caiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}