{"id":422,"date":"2013-02-17T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=422"},"modified":"2013-02-17T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:41:04","slug":"spectacled-caiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Spectacled Caiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=423#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-423\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-423\" alt=\"Spectacled Caiman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cayman-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cayman-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cayman-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cayman.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smaller than the <a title=\"American Crocodile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=264\">American Crocodile<\/a>, the Spectacled Caiman<em> (Caiman crocodilus)<\/em> is the only other member of the Crocodylidae family that lives in Costa Rica. The primary distinguishing feature is a transverse ridge in front of the eyes. Caimans are common in lowland rivers, streams, ponds, and mangroves, where there is a lot of rainfall. This one was photographed from a kayak near Tortuguero.<\/p>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smaller than the American Crocodile, the Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) is the only other member of the Crocodylidae family that lives in Costa Rica. The primary distinguishing feature is a transverse ridge in front of the eyes. Caimans are common in lowland rivers, streams, ponds, and mangroves, where there is a lot of rainfall. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,70,20,9,48],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brown","tag-caimans","tag-reptiles","tag-tortuguero","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}