How can one live and swim in a river full of piranha?
As a carnivorous fish,
How to Safely Cross a Piranha Infested River-YouTube
The spread of a certain kind of legend that 'piranha is a ferocious and terrible fish' spread in 1913 when American President Theodore Roosevelt visited South America.
Exploring the Amazon basin, President Roosevelt witnessed locals throwing cows as bait there after damming the river and making the piranha hungry.
President Roosevelt was terrified when he saw the cow becoming a bone in a blink of an eye, and exaggeratedly reported it in his memoir. This became the original form of today's image of piranha that permeated people through pop culture.
Contrary to the image of a 'bloodthirsty ferocious fish,' the actual piranha is a very docile fish that lives primarily on small animals and dead creatures. However, it sometimes attacks living humans.
The most dangerous of the piranhas is the Piranha Natelli, which features a red lower jaw and belly.
Each Piranha Nutery has serrated knife-like teeth, and when the jaws are closed, the teeth fit tightly together.
A piranha with sharp teeth can bite off a human finger, toe, or other protrusion.
If you're crossing a South American river where piranhas inhabit, it's ideal to choose between January and March, the wet season. Because when it rains and the river rises, the piranha's food becomes rich.
On the other hand, it should be avoided during the dry season, June to August. As the water in the river diminishes and piranha eats less, hungry piranhas are more likely to target prey than they normally would, or humans.
Also, since piranha is attracted to the smell of blood like sharks, bleeding wounds should be kept away from water as much as possible.
Piranha is basically asleep at night, so nights are better when crossing the river where Piranha is. However, you must swim slowly and quietly to avoid irritating your piranha. If you make a buzzing noise, you will think that it is a prey that suffers struggling even if it falls into the water.
After the 'time' of crossing the river, the 'place' of crossing is important. Piranha is also a dangerous point near the person who is fishing, as it reacts to dead fish and fishing baits.
In addition, the place where the river flow is calm is suitable for humans to swim, but it is also dangerous because it is also the place where piranha breeds.
Under the tree is one of the dangerous places. This is because piranhas have the habit of swimming under trees in the hope that birds and eggs will fall.
The most dangerous place is where the piranha flock is actively moving around so that the surface of the water appears to rise.
Piranha swims away as soon as it bites through the meat.
Then, the prey is attacked one after another, and the group hunting is performed very efficiently.
The situation where the piranhas are devouring so actively that the river appears to boil is called '
In reality, however, there is almost no record that a person was eaten by Piranha alive as in the movie. In the few cases reported in 2018, a drunken 18-year-old boy fell into a river and was attacked by piranha in Bolivia in 2018.
One previous study by scientists estimated that 300-500 starving piranhas had to be frenzied for five minutes before an adult human could be eaten by piranha and left with only bones. However, such a situation rarely occurs, so if you avoid the dangerous time and place mentioned above, you do not need to worry so much.
In summary, the most attracted to piranha are 'blood' and 'sound.'
Therefore, Real Life Lore concludes that it is best to rethink loud noises and frolics when entering the river with Piranha.
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