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The Amazon River, the world's largest flow, the most extensive basin area of the river, in the entire Amazon River Basin, biomass and biological species are quite rich, there are also many ferocious creatures, today to take you to understand the South American Amazon River in several water overlords.
Arapaima
Also known as the elephant fish, up to 6 meters long, is one of the world's largest freshwater fish, but also a modern living fossil, mainly feeding on fish, occasionally preying on snakes, frogs, it can become a hegemon of the Amazon River, not because of sharp teeth, but its strong tail, with a huge body and a strong tail, can pose a threat to many humans and giant creatures. In addition, in order to survive, in addition to the hard skin, the respiratory system of the elephant fish has evolved a function similar to that of the lungs, which can directly breathe air, so even in extremely oxygen-starved waters, it can survive for a long time and has a strong vitality.
Giant Otter
The South American otter is the largest species of otter. You may be confused, how docile and cute otters survive in this group of monsters in the Amazon Basin? But in fact, they not only live well, but also rogues in the eyes of other creatures, and even crocodiles are not their opponents. It turns out that this giant otter can be up to two meters long and weigh up to 30 kg, with its excellent swimming ability and hunting skills, it has become the hegemon of the Amazon River, plus they are social creatures, so even ferocious crocodiles, it is difficult to resist the siege of a group of otters, larger crocodiles are lucky when less arms, broken tails, smaller crocodiles, usually the whole is eaten, and it is precisely because of otters that there are many bald-tailed crocodiles in the Amazon, so in the Amazon, No one dared to underestimate this group of water hooligans.
Parasitic catfish
Parasitic catfish may be the smallest vertebrate in the world, adult parasitic catfish are generally 1 cm, translucent in color without scales, slender in body size, so it is difficult to find in water. The reason why this fish is terrible is not its sharp teeth and aggression, but their special parasitic way, they will use the spines on the gills to hook other large fish, and burrow into the gills of the big fish, sucking the blood of the fish until the big fish dies. In addition, they will also be attracted by the smell of urine, follow the urine into the genitals, and parasitize for a long time, nibbling on human tissue, parasitic males, can only be surgically removed from the fish body, so this fish in the eyes of the locals, even more notorious than piranhas.
Paku piranha
The piranha's close relatives, larger than piranhas, differ from piranhas in that they have a mouth of human-like teeth. This piranha is omnivorous and eats other fish in addition to some fruit insects. This fish is also very aggressive to humans and will specifically attack the sexual organs of men, so it is also called "egg cutter fish". After scientists have studied, the reason why this fish attack the sexual organs is because they mainly rely on the sense of smell to hunt, piranha food is generally corrosive meat, and the male sexual organs just have a similar odor emitted, so in the water, the piranha will attack the sexual organ first, followed by other parts. There are many cases of fishermen who died of excessive blood loss after being bitten off their genitals by this fish while fishing, which is definitely a man's nightmare.
Giant water wolf tooth fish
Piranha may be the most famous ferocious fish in the Amazon River, but the giant water wolf tooth fish is a fish known for hunting piranhas, which shows their ferocity, the giant water wolf tooth fish can reach 1.2 meters in length, can swallow half of its fish, mainly feeding on piranhas, the two dagger-shaped teeth on the upper and lower jaws, can be 15 cm long, can easily pierce the piranha's body, fierce, breeding this fish, most of them dare not mix this fish with other fish, because most of them will be eaten by it. The giant water wolf tooth fish also has an unshakable position in the water of the Amazon River with its sharp giant teeth and strong aggression.
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