Citation

Haddad V, Fonseca WC. Wilderness Environ. Med. 2011; 22(1): 62-64.

Affiliation

Botucatu School of Medicine-UNESP, Univ Estadual Paulista and Postgraduation Program in Zoology, Biosciences Institute, Univ Estadual Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.wem.2010.11.010

PMID

21377122

Abstract

We describe a fatal attack by a black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) on an 11-year-old child with comments on the reptile's aggression mechanisms and the conditions under which this kind of incident takes place in the Amazon region.

Language: en