Sep 14, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 15 segments
In this episode we are joined by Matthew Wallace (IG @wallace\_untamed ) to talk about his youth herping in the highlands of Scotland, his first steps into the neotropics in Mexico, and all his…
Matthew WallaceGuest
Bryant McDowellHostNateHostYeah, people fail to realize just how much crocodilians dig, especially the smaller species.
Yeah,
yeah.
So in Suriname, we have the two dwarf caimans and also the spectacled caiman.
which you have in the Amazon, which you also have, which is kind of crazy to think about, Guyana and French Guiana, the bordering countries with Suriname, have Black Cayman, but not in Suriname.
because they have connections to the amazon which surname doesn't but still you'd think like big dinosaur-like animals surely it can just cross because the borders are rivers yeah but we don't have any black caiman in certain so there's really the the caiman species that we have the two dwarf caimans they both max out like under two meters and speckled spectacled caiman a very very big one is like two and a half meters and they don't want anything to do with people so out of
uh not that i'm aware of no no no so it's not it's not very it's not a very diverse area for crocodilians but again biasly i think the dwarf caimans the paleosuchus that genus are are among the most amazing crocodilians because they look so dragon-like.
Sometimes if you catch one, a lot of people think you've been bitten because your hands are cut and bleeding, but it's just the osteoderms are so sharp.
Yeah, the ridges on their osteoderms are so much more pronounced than other crocs.
They really are.
Yeah, you try and jump on one, you're like, don't want to.
Yeah, people fail to realize just how much crocodilians dig, especially the smaller species.
Yeah,
yeah.
So in Suriname, we have the two dwarf caimans and also the spectacled caiman.
which you have in the Amazon, which you also have, which is kind of crazy to think about, Guyana and French Guiana, the bordering countries with Suriname, have Black Cayman, but not in Suriname.
because they have connections to the amazon which surname doesn't but still you'd think like big dinosaur-like animals surely it can just cross because the borders are rivers yeah but we don't have any black caiman in certain so there's really the the caiman species that we have the two dwarf caimans they both max out like under two meters and speckled spectacled caiman a very very big one is like two and a half meters and they don't want anything to do with people so out of
uh not that i'm aware of no no no so it's not it's not very it's not a very diverse area for crocodilians but again biasly i think the dwarf caimans the paleosuchus that genus are are among the most amazing crocodilians because they look so dragon-like.
Sometimes if you catch one, a lot of people think you've been bitten because your hands are cut and bleeding, but it's just the osteoderms are so sharp.
Yeah, the ridges on their osteoderms are so much more pronounced than other crocs.
They really are.
Yeah, you try and jump on one, you're like, don't want to.
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