What is the most terrifying thing in the world? Whether you live alone in an empty world, sink into the universe's largest black hole, or get lost in the no-man's land of Coco Ciri. These may be scary, but now we are talking about the Amazon River in the Amazon rainforest, the "lungs of the earth."
The 11-year-old boy unfortunately fell into the Amazon River
One day in September 2015, what was supposed to be a happy and happy day, but an unfortunate thing happened, on this day, a young boy in Peru and his family went to the Amazon rainforest to play, visited various attractions and still did not end, and finally the boy and the family went boating on the Amazon River to see a different scenery.
To say that the water level of the place where they were playing at that time was not deep, probably only to the waist of an adult, they relied on a small boat, and the whole family rowed leisurely to the center of the river.
At this time, a gust of wind blew, to say that it was strange, just blew the little boy's hat into the river, and when the little boy sat and could not reach the hat, he finally decided to stand up and pick up the hat.
As the little boy got up to pick up his hat, the hull shook, his body could not maintain balance, and he stumbled and fell into the river. However, in 20 seconds, the river was red, and my grandmother was too frightened to pull it, desperately paddling to the shore, shouting for help while paddling.
When the staff realized the seriousness of the matter and rushed over, the river was already red, and when the boy was salvaged with tools, his whole body had been eaten by the piranha, and he was unrecognizable, and the boy fell into the water for only 20 seconds. Imagine how terrible the Amazon River really is. In addition to the fearsome piranhas in the Amazon River, there are also electric eels that are more powerful than piranhas and the swamp king forest grasshopper.
Top killer electric eel
If you think that electric eels are slow to move and therefore take it lightly, you are very wrong. In the Amazon River, which has the largest flow, watershed and most tributaries in the world, the maximum voltage of electric eels here can reach more than 800 volts when discharging, and the safe voltage that people can withstand under general environmental conditions allows continuous contact with a safe ultra-low voltage of 50 volts, and the general electric eel can release a voltage of 300-600 volts when attacked or hunted, which is enough to electrocute an elephant.
The reason why the electric eel can discharge, this is inseparable from its unique body structure, in the electric eel body there are some cells like small stacked batteries, when the nerve sends a signal, ions can pass through its cell membrane. When an electric current is generated, a very high voltage is generated on the head and tail, which, when released, is enough to kill the prey.
However, the discharge capacity of electric eels is not always there. As fatigue or age increases, the discharge capacity of electric eels also decreases. Therefore, the high voltage released by the electric eel can only be maintained for a very short time.
But electric eel injuries also occur from time to time, and such incidents have occurred in the Amazon River. At that time, more than 20 researchers came here to study, due to improper operation, the hull overturned, all the personnel fell into the river, coincidentally, there was just an electric eel in the river, when the rescuers arrived, these people have been electrocuted. In addition to the electric eel, the Amazon swamp king Mori is also an extremely terrifying existence.
The King of the Swamps, Mori
If there is anything most terrifying here, I think it is the world's largest snake - Sen. There are three types of snakes in the world, namely snakes, pythons, and cockroaches. Snakes are smaller and like to use poison, and the size of the python is relatively thick, and the larger than the python is the grasshopper. Although pythons and cockroaches are non-toxic, their large bodies alone are enough to hang their prey alive and swallow them in one bite.
Amazon forest hopper is the world's largest snake, mainly living in the swamps of South America, is oviparous, it is said that it can give birth to about 70 at a time, can grow to more than 5 meters in adulthood, and even more can grow to 10 meters, weighing more than 225 kilograms, in the face of such a large creature, think about it is terrible.
The snakeskin of the Amazon forest crab can be stretched freely, because there is no chin, when the forest grasshopper eats, it can swallow creatures much larger than themselves in one bite, and then slowly digest, the forest grasshopper often feeds on capybaras, caimans, tapirs and other animals. Humans generally don't attack humans, but we can't provoke them either.
Snakes are particularly sensitive to moving objects, once you provoke snakes, they can lock your position with the infrared band and the odor particles of the air, plus its speed is far greater than the speed of your running, once it is caught up by the forest grasshopper, with its huge body, it is enough to strangle you to death, and then swallow it in one bite, and since then there is one less you in the world.
brief summary
In addition to the above-mentioned piranhas, electric eels, forest hoppers, there are many terrible creatures, such as poison dart frogs, parasitic catfish, marching ants, etc., once you see these creatures, you must avoid them far away, otherwise it will cause great harm to humans, so some people say that falling into the Amazon River to live for no more than a minute, in the face of such a terrible Amazon River, we had better be prepared for adequate protection when we go.
In recent years, as the Amazon rainforest has been continuously overdeveloped, the Amazon River has also been greatly affected, and the flora and fauna here are also suffering from great threats.