Viscous Killer Fish? Or Simply Misunderstood? The lack of understanding lends a mysterious aspect to these fascinating fish. Here are 13 Interesting Facts About Piranhas! SUBSCRIBE for the latest videos: https://goo.gl/7xzjzR Don't forget to CHECK OUT our latest upload: https://goo.gl/LUB8Xw The lack of understanding lends a mysterious aspect to these fascinating fish. Here are 13 interesting facts about piranhas. 13. Piranhas Go Back Millions of Years Fossil records put piranha ancestors on the map 25 million years ago, with modern species dating back about 1.8 million years. According to a study in 2007, researchers found that the tough guys we encounter today derived from a common ancestor 9 million years ago. 12. Piranhas as Pets Piranha’s attract this specific type of pet lover— those who understand their pet’s capability to bite through bone and remove a finger entirely. 11. Some are Vegetarians Not all piranhas seek flesh and blood. Some species of piranha are omnivorous, feasting off seeds rather than meat, with some seeking satisfaction through plant-based sources alone. In fact, piranha owners will see the occasional nibble taken out of any plant life inhabiting the tank with their playful pet. In the Amazonian rapids of Para, Brazil, researchers have found that a species of piranha known as Tometes camunani survive solely off riverweed alone. 10. We Eat Them Too When in doubt, dine on a delicious bowl of piranha soup. The tasty razor-toothed fish is a popular delicacy made into soup and other delights by grilling and frying them. Extremely popular in certain regions of Brazil, the dish is served on a banana leaf with garnishes of ripe tomato and fresh lime. 9. Piranhas: More Predator or Prey? Another fact to aid in the exploitation of piranhas as predators are that they only stick to giant pacts or shoals. The most well-known of the pact hunting species are the red-bellied piranhas, yet these groups stick together not for strength but for safety. 8. Their Attraction is Threefold: A piranha can sense a drop of blood in a 200-liter area of water. As they tend to hunt the weak and wounded, sudden commotion like splashing and movement attract them just as it would a shark. So be forewarned, a calm swim in the Amazon may turn vicious if anyone is bleeding or has a rowdy child along for the ride. 7. Piranhas Bark In a third and final utterance, should the foe refuse to back down, the piranha will gnash its ravenous teeth together and chase its rival to the death. These noises are emitted using the fishes swim bladder, where a gas-containing organ helps keep the animal afloat. When they contract and relax these muscles, a succession of noise to either welcome or ward off predators ensue. 6. Piranha Teeth are Replaceable Their tooth enamel structure is like that of a shark, in that it resembles a blade and is completely suitable for a diet used to tearing apart meat and muscle. Interestingly enough, piranhas are known to lose several teeth throughout the span of their lives. 5. What’s Worse, Their Bark or Their Bite? In a 2012 study by Scientific Reports, an online journal covering natural sciences, researchers found that the largest modern species, the black (or redeye) piranha, can bite with a maximum force of 72 pounds— that is, an astonishing three times the size of their own weight. 4. Don’t Mess with Them or Their Eggs While these two are considered the most dangerous and antagonistic toward humans, South American swimmers typically emerge from piranha-infested waters without harm. The real danger is known to present itself if the water level falls particularly low, food resources are scarce, or if a swimmer happens to disturb a nest of eggs buried in the riverbed. 3. Piranhas are Cannibals For piranhas, a typical diet consists of insects, fish, crustaceans, worms, carrion, seeds and other plant material. These fickle fish, however, are known to take a hefty bite out of a fellow piranha independent of whether it’s living or dead. As red-bellied piranhas are known to consume about 2.46 grams per day. 2. Preying on Humans & Capybaras After They’re dead While a teeming pact of piranhas is certainly capable of stripping the flesh from a 180-pound human in five minutes time, this feat would require the work of 300 to 500 extremely famished fish. In the case of heart attack or stroke and the afflicted drowning in a South American body of water, evidence proved markings from tiny piranha nibbles. Yet again, the victim was already gone by the time the piranhas sought out their snack. 1. Where the Myth Began In 1913 Roosevelt toured South America and among his many exotic encounters, the eye-witness account on several species of piranha found fans fascinated. In his book, the author writes: “They are the most ferocious fish in the world.
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