Piranhas are known for their ferocity, commonly known as the "wolf tribe in the water", and its fierce appearance makes people shudder. Eat small fish and shrimp when you are happy, and attack humans when you are unhappy.
Movies about piranhas are basically horror films, which is enough to prove its ferocity and make people jealous. Its vitality is also very tenacious, and it is on a par with the small strong who cannot die.
But such a ferocious fish, in the Amazon river can only become a delicacy in its fish mouth.
The Amazon river in South America is 6,440 km long and is the second longest river in the world. At the same time, it is also the world's largest flow of rivers, about seven times the flow of the Yangtze River, biomass and biological variety, can be completely a biosphere of its own, in which there are some fierce animal rulers in this area of water, even piranhas such a fierce and tenacious fish, can only become the food in their mouths. They are the most terrifying creatures in the Amazon.
Five of the most terrifying creatures of the Amazon River
Paku piranha
Paku piranhas are close relatives of piranhas, larger than piranhas, with human-like teeth in their mouths, and their food is mainly fruit insects and other fish, which is terrifying that they are extremely easy to attack humans, especially causing great harm to men. It specializes in attacking male organs, so it is also called egg-cutting fish. Studies have shown that paku piranhas mainly rely on their sense of smell to prey on meats that are very fond of corrosion, while male organs emit a similar odor. Attracted to them to attack this part first, there are many cases of fishermen in the local area who have been bitten off by this fish and bleed to death, so many men are terrified.
Giant water wolf tooth fish
Piranhas are perhaps the most famous ferocious fish in the Amazon rivers, while the giant wolf's toothfish is famous for hunting piranhas. Giant water wolf tooth fish is huge, up to 1.2 meters long, the largest can swallow half of its own size of the fish, especially like to prey on piranhas, they have two dagger-like teeth on the top and bottom of the crocodile, extremely sharp up to 15 cm, can easily pierce the body of the piranha, the giant water wolf tooth fish is fierce, with sharp teeth and strong aggression in the Amazon River has an unshakable position.
Parasitic catfish
It is a parasitic fish that grows in the Amazon Basin. Their bodies are translucent, have no scales, and are slender. Adult lengths are less than 10 mm. They are difficult to spot in the water.
Probably the smallest vertebrate in the world, parasitic catfish have no sharp teeth and are fiercely aggressive, and the terrible thing is in their special parasitic way, they will firmly hook other fish with spikes on the gills and burrow into their gills, sucking fish blood for a living until the host dies. Humans will also be attacked by them, they will be attracted by the smell of urine, along the urethra into the human body, devouring human tissue, the parasitic people can only be removed by surgery, so this fish is more feared by the locals, even more than the infamous piranha.
Arapaima
Also known as the elephant fish, the Arapaima is a modern living fossil with a body length of 6 meters and is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. It mainly feeds on fish, snakes and frogs. Even piranhas, small crocodiles are difficult to escape their mouths, they do not have sharp teeth, but the outer skin is very hard, can become the overlord of the Amazon River, relying on its huge body and strong tail, powerful tail to attack other creatures, very easy to cause prey fractures and internal bleeding, in addition to survival, elephant fish also evolved similar to lung function organs, can breathe air directly, even if they live in extremely hypoxic waters, they can also reproduce.
South American otter
The South American otter is the largest species of otter, and you may be confused about how docile and cute animals like otters can survive in the dangerous Amazon river. However, they not only survived well, but also became the hegemons of one side. Even crocodiles are not its opponents, this giant otter can be up to two meters long, weighs up to thirty kilograms, has a very high destructive ability, with excellent swimming talent and hunting skills, coupled with their social life characteristics, even fierce crocodiles, it is difficult to resist the attack of a group of otters, large crocodiles lose arms or tails, small crocodiles will be eaten directly, and the phenomenon of crocodile bald tails is also derived.
As the saying goes, one thing loses one thing. The infamous piranha became the dish of other fish in the mysterious Amazon river.