Piranha
Known for their sharp teeth and voracious appetite, piranhas inhabit several major river basins in South America. Although known as a fish that will eat each piece of meat on which they come, attacks on humans are still very rare.
Piranha are acquired image of bloodthirsty beasts during the historic visit of Theodore Roosevelt to Brazil, when Roosevelt saw a group of piranhas how to pieces corpse cow in seconds. His dramatic testimony about this event feeds our imagination through the spectacles of Hollywood for years, although the ‘spectacle’ that he experienced was manipulated, thus as fishermen blocking group of piranhas and starved for several days before Roosevelt’s visit.
Piranhas are an important predator in the river, and often resort to cannibalism if there is not enough food. It is not known how many species there are piranhas, but it is estimated that this figure is between 30 and 60s.
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