You can never believe that the frightened Amazon piranha has a natural enemy, and it is the Amazon pufferfish.
However, it is strange that as the presence of the Amazon River food chain, the Amazon pufferfish has a lofty position among the local tribes.
When it comes to Amazon piranhas, I believe everyone has heard of them, and in the film industry, "piranhas" are well-known "net red" animals. Moreover, it is said that in order to explore how fierce the piranha is, someone also found a cow to do an experiment and put it in the water full of piranhas.
As a result, only 1 hour later, the cow was only left with a white bone, and the combat effectiveness of the piranha was evident, and its prestige was greatly shocked from then on.
But many people are curious, since piranhas are so powerful, and their reproductive ability is relatively strong, why is there no unified Amazon River?
It turned out that it was not that the piranhas did not want to unify the Amazon, but because there were more "terrifying" guys in this water, treating them as delicacies. When the piranha saw them, they could only "clip their tails" and immediately fled.
And this creature that makes piranhas unable to do anything is the Amazon pufferfish.
Hearing the word "pufferfish", I believe that many friends will immediately think of the chubby guy. However, the "pufferfish" mentioned here is not the other "pufferfish". They are two completely unrelated species, so don't assume that they look alike.
However, if you have to use any animal to match the puffer fish, it must be the porpoise and the dolphin. All three of them belong to the suborder Cetacean, but they have different names due to the different regions in which they live.
However, it is not known whether it is because of the "tube fullness" of piranhas, this Amazon puffer fish tends to grow relatively strong, so that they have become the largest existence among dolphins. The body length of the Amazon pufferfish is often above 2 meters 3, and the weight can reach about 160 to 300.
In addition, as scientists have found that this Amazon pufferfish will appear several skin tones, such as dark brown, gray, blue and white, and even if you are lucky, you can see the presence of rare pink pufferfish.
So, then again, how exactly do amazonian pufferfish deal with the terrifying piranhas?
It turned out that after people's detailed understanding, it was found that piranhas are not as fierce as we usually think, but somewhat "shy and shy". When encountering living creatures, they do not actually attack directly, but will escape.
Only when fed to dead animals did they dare to go up and nibble on them. Of course, because of their large number, they can quickly eat those foods.
From this point of view, piranhas do not dare to take the initiative to attack after encountering the living creature of the Amazon pufferfish. On the contrary, in the recipes of the Amazon puffer fish, there are various fish, shrimp, crabs, turtles and other animals.
In fact, this is also a reasonable thing, after all, the size of the Amazon pufferfish is placed there, have you ever seen a shark kill a blue whale?
Therefore, piranhas naturally cannot beat the Amazon pufferfish, and after encountering, they can only be reduced to their delicacies. Of course, it is precisely because the adult Amazon pufferfish is so large that no animal in the Amazon River dares to attack it.
Only sometimes, some juvenile Amazon pufferfish are harmed by electric eels and caimans.
Of course, as we all know, there are still some ancient tribes in the Amazon. Usually, tribal people are more savage, and they hunt local animals for food.
However, what is surprising is that the Amazon pufferfish have a lofty status in the eyes of local tribes.
It turns out that among the local tribes, there have been many legends about the Amazon pufferfish. In these legends, the Amazon pufferfish possess mana, and they can also transform into human form, quietly seduce humans, contact them, and take them to the mysterious underwater world.
Therefore, in the eyes of the locals, the Amazon pufferfish is already a "god"-like existence, so it is not afraid to harm them.
Of course, because local tribes can fish, Amazon puffer fish often fall into the net by mistake. But when people find out, they don't hurt them, but immediately untie the fishing nets for them and let them return to nature.
However, although the locals have never hunted them, due to the development of local mining and agriculture, there is a lot of mercury and pesticide pollution in the waters. These harmful substances pose a great threat to the survival of the Amazon pufferfish.
Today, although the Amazon pufferfish are listed as endangered and protected animals, their current situation is still very bad. Hopefully, it won't be long before people can focus on their conservation efforts to prevent the extinction of this lovely species.