Video: The Jaguar Tears and the Crocodile Tears, a Battle of Contextual Clues

Tear

1. Pull apart or into pieces by force; rend.
2. A drop of clear salty liquid that is secreted by the larchrymal gland of the eye to lubricate the surface between the eyeball and eyelid and to wash away irritants.

Enough from the dictionary. It’s time for a rumble in the actual jungle.

In one corner, wearing (oddly enough) the leopard print, we have a rare melanistic jaguar weighing in at average of 167 pounds of stalk-and-ambush, throat-rending fury.

In the other, a spectacled “you wouldn’t hit a reptile with glasses would you” caiman. The caiman tipped the scales at around 60 pounds and is possessed of skull-crushing jaws that are almost unmatched in South America.

Ding ding.

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Benjamin T. Lambright

I'm a poet and and author. I received my BA in Creative Writing from Central Michigan University and I am pursuing my MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. My work has appeared in The Greatest Lakes Review, The North Central Review, Dexter magazine, Open Palm Print, newspapers, magazines, bathroom stalls, the backs of highway billboards, under bridges and other, stranger, places.