Javier the Cuvier’s dwarf caiman has been living at the Victoria Butterfly Gardens after being seized by Canadian officials investigating wildlife trafficking
Javier the tiny caiman floats calmly in the warm waters of its tank at Victoria Butterfly Gardens, thousands of kilometres north of where its relatives live in the wild.
Falon Lancey, animal curator at the gardens, is the caiman’s main caregiver and said she is pleased to see how well it has settled in. Word went out from Environment and Climate Change Canada about a year ago that the caiman needed a home and Butterfly Gardens applied. Fresh-water caimans are on the International Union for Conservation and Nature’s red list of threatened species. Their range is vast, including Brazil, Trinidad and Peru.
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