What happens when you fall into piranha-infested waters?

What happens when you fall into piranha-infested waters? - Antonio Machado-Allison

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8 ай бұрын

Dig into the truth about piranhas and their feeding frenzies, and find out what would likely happen if you fell into their waters.
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You’re peering into the Amazon River when, suddenly, you lose your footing and fall. Piranhas dart about in the rapidly approaching water. So, are you doomed? Will your fall trigger a feeding frenzy that will skeletonize your body within minutes? Antonio Machado-Allison shares what we know about these purportedly ferocious fish.
Lesson by Antonio Machado-Allison, directed by Anton Bogaty.
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@arya9220 8 ай бұрын

I don't think i would be able to swim to the shore "calmly" if i fell from a cliff...

@3takoyakis 8 ай бұрын

The splash from falling itself already attracted piranhas. Not to count if you are already blooded from the fall

@HarendraKumar-my4le 8 ай бұрын

Being bio student, I would easily do so...!😅

@sammyf0x 8 ай бұрын

your comment just explains 'Dumbledore CALMLY said' things

@sushilchandaragi 8 ай бұрын

As a piranha I can say that we don't attack humans unless we are disturbed.

@happyfamily7375 8 ай бұрын

Wait what oh now i know what happend to my water proof phone that fell in the ocean a piranha took it to use it fore him self

@pitipiti_ 8 ай бұрын

I feel like only Brazilians will fully understand this LOL

@august6281 8 ай бұрын

so, human's splash from falling to the water is the only trigger? Goodluck to us not disturbing you

@samuraiboi2735 8 ай бұрын

@@pitipiti_tbh im lucky god never made me a brazilian if not i probably wont enjoy swimming

@obvv7714 8 ай бұрын

As a piranha I can say this other piranha commenter is lying so more humans go in the water for us to eat.

@HayTatsuko 8 ай бұрын

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@dominics4100 8 ай бұрын

Anton Bogaty is a fav!!!

@baoquyennguyen8543 8 ай бұрын

Omg❤

@RichardMiller-tq6ut 8 ай бұрын

So they tell us piranhas won't turn you into a skeleton unless they notice you while insinuating they won't... how is that at all helpful?

@jonashassel5404 8 ай бұрын

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@myriamickx7969 8 ай бұрын

@@RichardMiller-tq6ut It means don’t panick, splash around and scream, calmly wade or swim to shore. How complicated is that?

@theWalserHimself 8 ай бұрын

There's a big difference, between falling into a river full with Piranhas and in a swimmingpool belonging to a James Bond villain.

@3takoyakis 8 ай бұрын

Tbh if not for the super dramatic film and books Piranha is nothing but regular fishes

@user-th9yi1en9r Ай бұрын

True. Experts said piranhas, like other predators, will not automatically attack unless they are provoked. The best thing to do is remain calm. You can easily get out of trouble if you take the time to calm your fears.

@tobe1207 29 күн бұрын

What if he was starving those ones? Then it's instant feeding frenzy

@Mr2dmonkey 29 күн бұрын

You should test your statement,and see if it holds up.🥹

@andrewface2355 27 күн бұрын

Jeremy Wade already tested this one. He filled a pool with piranhas that haven't eaten in days and went inside the pool. The piranhas ignored him.

@Filipe_Veras 8 ай бұрын

As a Brazilian, the lore says that piranhas only attack if you are wounded or on the flooding season, most probably, both. About Roosevelt story, what he witnessed was a practice called “the piranha bull”, and this was legit! During the late 19th century until 1970’s the most widespread economic activity in the deep Brazil was cattle raising. The roads were nonexistent and the cattle was drived Texan Style through the wilderness, usually until the nearest fluvial harbor. Those small harbors usually could only operate during the wet season, just when the piranhas are more aggressive. And there was a lot of shallow lakes and rivers to pass by, specially in the great wetlands. Ticks were widespread, generating small wounds that could maybe trigger a piranha attack. If this happened to a large number of cows, of course none would die immediately, but could make a cattle stampede and the cowboys would need to gather them again, certainly with significant losses and a big delay. The piranhas bites would also attract even more flies, that could infest those wounds with maggots with also significant economic loss and delay, since the sick cattle would be much slower. The solution: when crossing a known piranha insfested water, the cowboys would choose the most old/sick bull or cow, open shallow cuts on its hide and “park” it in the middle of the water to be crossed, only then the main heard would safely cross. When possible, the piranha’s bull would be retrieved and killed on the other side of the river, where the cowboys would certainly camp for the night and feast on the sacrificed bull. Fun fact: in those “cattle areas” of Brazil the expression “piranha’s bull” is used with a very similar meaning of the expression “scape goat”.

@joaocalife9996 8 ай бұрын

I'm brazilian and didn't know that. Mad interesting. Thanks.

@sixteenstringjack 8 ай бұрын

Wow. That’s super interesting

@Ivan-vt9qs 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this!

@natheriver8910 8 ай бұрын

Obrigado pela informação amigo.

@kisoridevidhamala6190 8 ай бұрын

Bro can write

@juliogaiger5221 8 ай бұрын

I can testify for this. I’ve been to the Amazon and swam in piranha infested waters. They really don’t bother you. How do I know there where actually piranhas in the water? If you try to fish in the same spot, with a little bit of beef, you feel the line tugging in less then 5 seconds an within a minute you have a piranha attached to your hook. Pretty fun experience

@ar4imond 8 ай бұрын

Then where is your leg?

@juliogaiger5221 8 ай бұрын

@@ar4imond ?

@PaulJohn01 8 ай бұрын

@@juliogaiger5221 Internet humour really is lost on some people 😁😁😁😁

@Rice_enjoyer999 8 ай бұрын

@@juliogaiger5221 they were making a joke

@circuloviciosamente 8 ай бұрын

I was there also. I kayaked on a swamp full of piranhas. The only advice I received was: keep your feet out of the water but not for the piranhas but for the crocodiles.

@randomthings587 8 ай бұрын

Explaining a childhood fear:

@L17_8 8 ай бұрын

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@lilyandryankoolkid1994 8 ай бұрын

@@L17_8 YES WE KNOW! STOP SPAMMING

@rose-a-bleu4281 8 ай бұрын

@@L17_8y’all have been saying the end times are happening for years now😭 give it a break

@nicklindberg90 8 ай бұрын

Next up: quicksand

@blyat5352 8 ай бұрын

Cringe

@victor9 8 ай бұрын

It's one of those: "as a kid I thought this will be a major obstacle in my life" like falling in quick sand or melting in acid rain 😅😅😅.

@Vesnicie Ай бұрын

"As you make your way onto dry land, the crocodile who's been watching your whole sorry escapade will promptly eat you."

@Sunflowersarepretty 8 ай бұрын

Again just like with sharks this fear of being attacked by pirhanas is not entirely based on reality they would only attack when provoked or during mating seasons. Still I would avoid their territory because they look scary to me.

@franciscol3510 8 ай бұрын

Colonizers getting into places they shouldn't be, doing things they shouldn't do, and beign horrified when the things they disturbed try to take back their space from them... a tale as old as colonialism

@Neloish 8 ай бұрын

But sharks really do eat people.

@Sunflowersarepretty 8 ай бұрын

@@Neloish when they are provoked.

@himanbam 8 ай бұрын

@@Sunflowersareprettythey also don't eat you if you are far away from them on land

@abigailthebagel224 8 ай бұрын

@@Neloish Extremely rarely. You have greater chance of being killed by a coconut, a toaster, or an elephant than by a shark. They're also essential for the ecosystem, and without them, we get a rise in things like certain jellyfish which can actually be very dangerous (I had a sting when I was growing up, thankfully it was super mild).

@markmunroe-hz8rf 8 ай бұрын

As a piranha I am glad a human has helped cast of such stereotypes of my species. Thanks 👍

@SirsasthNigam. 8 ай бұрын

and is your name Mark Munroe?

@markmunroe-hz8rf 8 ай бұрын

@@SirsasthNigam. No, Chomps Munroe, thank you😁

@samuraiboi2735 8 ай бұрын

@@markmunroe-hz8rfyour such a chomper

@annabellethedoll3764 8 ай бұрын

As a ragdoll, I wonder how can you use a smart phone under the water?

@daizdamien1409 8 ай бұрын

why do you think human flesh is not better than that of fish

@luistan5013 8 ай бұрын

I swam in the amazon and let me tell you. The thought of piranhas is very hard to shake off

@the_luggage 8 ай бұрын

I once ethically fished for piranhas in the middle of the Amazon. It was totally different to most types of fishing, you had to use your bait to mimic a dying fish by splashing it about in a certain way.

@its_dey_mate 8 ай бұрын

Dude, the top comment rn is a bot that stole yours, I saw it and needed to see the real person, gosh it's so shameless and youtube is doing jack sh*t to fix it

@user-lz6wk8fb8s 8 ай бұрын

Who cares@@its_dey_mate

@Bob-dx6sb 8 ай бұрын

@@its_dey_matecope

@himanbam 8 ай бұрын

What is ethical fishing?

@Bob-dx6sb 8 ай бұрын

@@himanbam quiet, naive

@KTChamberlain 8 ай бұрын

In Roosevelt's defense, while his account was circumstantial and misinformed, it did get people to try and leave piranhas alone or at the very least, not to underestimate them. Still, it's always good to learn fact from fiction, especially when the fiction has some truth tangled in like Christmas tree lights.

@himanbam 8 ай бұрын

Are you just saying christmas lights get tangled, or is there some half truths to do with christmas lights out there?

@KTChamberlain 8 ай бұрын

@@himanbam Tangled.

@lup1up 7 ай бұрын

@himanbam had the same question lol. Was ready to get my Christmas light world rocked hah

@Macieks300 8 ай бұрын

The animation in this video was so great. I love how literally it was depicting everything that was being said.

@ayourboy7855 8 ай бұрын

am i the only one who saw haisenberg at 1:36 ?

@carlosusnay2216 8 ай бұрын

If you’re in the water, I’d be more concerned about leeches, pink dolphin pods, and bacteria than the piranha.

@vivida7160 8 ай бұрын

Or just drowning.

@MaryDunford 8 ай бұрын

@@vivida7160😅👍

@NZ_BraveHeart_0120 8 ай бұрын

What about the candiru fish? The fish that does this: 👇 🍆⬅️🐟 ➕ 🩸🥤

@celestine5340 8 ай бұрын

electric eels seem to be quite a danger in those areas where piranha's live.

@haparcheledupwar 8 ай бұрын

Or CNN misleading stories 😂😂

@rollintweeds234 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, TED-Ed, for so convincingly and creatively demolishing the libels attending these fish. Love the writing, particularly the suspenseful framing device and Teddy-as-Bully-Inflamer slant. Wondering how to tell when it's mating season, though, just in case.

@paramesravichandran1360 8 ай бұрын

"They usually have better things to eat." You got me there!😂 Great video TED! The visuals never failed to impress the audience. I am interested in the topics on Piranhas from the day I got to know about them. And this video resolved one question that has been lingering in my mind for so long.🐟

@chribu_ 8 ай бұрын

I did a voluntary year in Peru and on weekends we often went to a nearby lake for swimming that also had piranhas living in it. Over the course of a year we had it like two to three times that one of the fish would try snacking on someones toe. That would then cause a small wound but by all means wasn‘t enough to bite the toe off or anything. And it surely wasn‘t enough to keep us from swimming there.

@glennwatson3313 8 ай бұрын

I Think a bite from a piranha would be enough to keep me out of the water, unless I was on fire.

@MaiTai16 8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of growing up in Maryland and being told not to put our feet in the lakes out an abundance of caution of snapping turtles, which I was told *will* take a toe.

@glennwatson3313 8 ай бұрын

@@MaiTai16 Note to self: No swimming in the Amazon or Maryland.

@brunokopte1347 8 ай бұрын

South Brazilian here. You'll see local kids playing on the "piranha-infested waters". They swim better than you, can quickly figure out if there's something actually dangerous in the water (giant otter families scare off jaguars that can break open turtle shells), eat piranhas from time to time (part of local catch that people don't buy from fishers). We had a hanging mask made out of wood, seeds, fish scales and piranha mandibles. PS: you'll regret not tasting the local fruits. Raw, ice-creams, juices, whatever. Just try them.

@myaccount4699 8 ай бұрын

Didn’t know there is piranhas in the South Region of Brazil.

@brunokopte1347 8 ай бұрын

@@myaccount4699 Yes and no. I was talking about the northern regions. Didn't realize how ambiguous I worded my first comment. I'm sorry for this. However, there are piranhas in the South Region, as they have spread through Brazilian rivers and became an invasive species in biomes around here. This is somewhat recent, during the last couple years.

@hammerfall6666 8 ай бұрын

@@brunokopte1347does piranhas taste good?

@jin_cotl 3 ай бұрын

@@hammerfall6666depends how good you are at cooking, the better you are the tastier

@flameofhades8553 8 ай бұрын

Stereotypes can be destructive especially when there is a lack of knowledge. Thanks for this information, TED

@jordanpurks8900 8 ай бұрын

The speaker is the best speaker you guys have. Love his voice

@MyUniqueVibe 8 ай бұрын

So you’re telling me Piranha 3D wasn’t an accurate depiction of piranha behaviour! 😮 who woulda thunked it.

@alexandradelliou 8 ай бұрын

That beginning scene literally gave me nightmares as a kid...

@jd-zr3vk 8 ай бұрын

Those were prehistoric piranha. They behave more aggressively.

@stansman5461 8 ай бұрын

Well, atleast Meg is based on science and fact.

@Me4-gc8qs 24 күн бұрын

Was that the one when the one were in the swimming pool then released in the river? chlorinated pool water would have killed them all. Stopped watching the movie after that scene.

@AMPlajfljlbalnb 8 ай бұрын

Somehow I really like the voice in these movies, it's clear and calming

@respectableaf9061 8 ай бұрын

Piranha's are the Chihuahuas of water, bark worse than their bite.

@Wintercrow1 Ай бұрын

Perhaps perhaps... But have you ever seen someone swarmed by 200 Chihuahua!!! It's a death sentence! A death sentence!

@respectableaf9061 29 күн бұрын

@@Wintercrow1 That is true though

@adriand2895 8 ай бұрын

Amazing animation which makes the video more watchable. Reminds me of childhood cartoons😀

@josiahb.1598 7 ай бұрын

It's my first time to watch a TED-Ed animation like this and I really like it!!

@abarzilai0334 8 ай бұрын

They taste great in a nice tomato broth, I ate one in Brazil and even went fishing for them at a resort.

@zenebean 8 ай бұрын

Appreciate the look at pirahna diversity, it's super cool to me

@maitrimishra784 8 ай бұрын

very nice animation, i laughed so hard when the fish tried to eat some other fish scales 😆😆😆

@MrsJudithWright 8 ай бұрын

As always great topic, fun animation, narration great, but don't forget the script - someone, or a team, wrote those words and it's tight, interesting and fun.

@harrymills2770 13 күн бұрын

I knew a kid in college who had a piranha. They're unbelievably strong fish. Built like a rock.

@macmedia1000 8 ай бұрын

Please make more History vs videos Ted, your amazing

@Tuturial464 8 ай бұрын

History vs the atomic bomb

@Bob-dx6sb 8 ай бұрын

@@Tuturial464History vs what I did to your mother last night

@The_Badseed 7 ай бұрын

So much for all those good movies I've seen

@redfoxnutella3926 8 ай бұрын

This was really knowledgeable

@plat6164 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for erasing my fears

@gijbuis 8 ай бұрын

The story is that in Birmingham UK they built a big aquarium in a below ground pit in the middle of a traffic circle. They filled the aquarium with a variety of tropical fish, including so-called vegetarian Pirhanhas. Within two weeks only the 'vegetarian' Piranhas remained....

@thebelissima64 8 ай бұрын

Back in 2015 a six year old girl died in Brazil, having only the flesh from her legs devoured by piranhas. She was in a boat with her grandmother and four other children when the vessel capsized in a storm. It is believed she drowned before the attack.😢

@MikaelaKMajorHistory 8 ай бұрын

This animation style gives the piranhas so much personality

@briantaylor9285 8 ай бұрын

Piranha: "Er, you should probably worry more about THIS fish," 🤨👉 Candiru: 😁

@liaquatali1219 8 ай бұрын

Amazing animation

@daringbeast 8 ай бұрын

Thanks ted ed for stone paper piranha video 😃

@murphyjoel8839 8 ай бұрын

Amazing video

@astick5249 8 ай бұрын

I love the look of disappointment on the piranha when the worm retraced itself underground

@alparslankorkmaz2964 7 ай бұрын

nice video

@jaythor70 7 ай бұрын

The story I had read years ago was that when the area around the waters flood, the fish go with it. When the waters recede, the fish are stuck, and don't have access to food, and will aggressively attack what appears to be edible and enters that water.

@Hanibaltherogue 2 ай бұрын

Only if they are 3D 😂

@juanrangel6880 2 ай бұрын

2:24. Lolol. Reminds me of the Tom and Jerry yell!!😂😂😂

@plat6164 8 ай бұрын

I like this art style

@theharshtruth8563 3 ай бұрын

As a person who doesn't live near piranhas, i see this as an absolute win.

@rozitasulaiman2923 8 ай бұрын

I've never been this early for a TED-Ed video.

@Rick_King 7 ай бұрын

Come on, I've seen The Addams Family. Watch Morticia toss a piece of meat into the piranha tank, and pull out some bones a few seconds later!

@christopheredale 8 ай бұрын

I speak for us all.. Please never change narrators ‼️

@Ilhan111 8 ай бұрын

Fun fact: There has never been an official recorded death due to piranha attack.

@sbtig9637 8 ай бұрын

Yes, Captain obvious

@agateslate7939 8 ай бұрын

Damn To me those holliwood movies the only premier source what i know bout piranha

@hilariousname6826 8 ай бұрын

How is that remotely "obvious"?@@sbtig9637

@ijustwannabeadrummer Күн бұрын

I’m gonna call bs on that “ fun fact”

@Ilhan111 Күн бұрын

@@ijustwannabeadrummer alas, you thought i'd give a f?

@HarendraKumar-my4le 8 ай бұрын

Well understood!

@giuliamaffia1556 8 ай бұрын

I love the animation

@RidireOiche 8 ай бұрын

You're basically saying that my go-to emergency plan to eat the piranhas first is a worse idea than everyone thought.

@yvonnefobbs6232 8 ай бұрын

All I can think of while looking at this is Wednesday! I was in Aww when she released the piranha on the swim team!!

@Rob_Dekker 13 күн бұрын

Weren’t there attacks in Argentina some years ago in the Paraná river. I read at least 15 people were injured during that attack. It was also rare for the piranhas to be there. Usually the water is not their temperature so they stay higher up the river.

@_official_royalty9646 8 ай бұрын

We all bite when mating is disturbed 😂

@lebasilica9624 6 ай бұрын

Always refreshing to find stereotypes quashed by careful studies without a loaded objective. Thank you TED-Ed

@mirrorblue100 8 ай бұрын

Whew - that was close. Now safely back on dry land your only worry is the Mapinguari.

@FedJimSmith 4 ай бұрын

this is a info animated video about Piranhas, some myth busting mixed... nicely done as always !! does this mean it's safe and ok to bathe in Amazon waters?

@youtubeusername1489 8 ай бұрын

"probably pleased to find no chunk of flesh missing' That one guy who wanted to lose his chunk of flesh: "aw man'

@ddsmitty1 12 күн бұрын

The fish leave you alone, but now you’re covered with leaches.

@user-jz1hr6mu7c 3 ай бұрын

When I was working at the pet store we used to feed the piranhas by hand as long as you have no cuts they softly eat and know not to actually bite you it's pretty cool

@DeepakSinghTanwar123 8 ай бұрын

"They usually have better things to eat", i'm hurt! 😭👍

@LYVwithLYN 5 ай бұрын

Obviously I awoke immediately and got some ice cream, comforting myself from that narrow escape 😂

@martinkalmus3761 7 ай бұрын

Still not going to swim there,but thanks for video xD

@user-bp4nv3qp4d 8 ай бұрын

Very beautiful 💖

@rmdhndwi 8 ай бұрын

I remember when i was a boy, early 2000's, when internet isn't as strict as it is now I once stumble a video, an excavator accidently plummeted into amazon river, with the operator in it Once they salvage the wreck not long after, the operator clothing was intact, but his body was no more than bones, still attach with some muscle It still leaves a mark in my brain 😅

@chumbogish 8 ай бұрын

that's terrifying

@marhec69 8 ай бұрын

Interesting!

@jamesbevan9939 8 ай бұрын

I remember when Penn & Teller disproved this myth about a decade ago - when Teller jumped into a tank filled with piranhas.

@ScreaminMime 8 ай бұрын

I used to have a tank [125 gallon] of 6. Once they got hand size nothing else I put in there would survive for long; Oscars, Jack Demspies, cat fish even crawfish. You could hear them hit the lid every now and then and they would rise to the surface whenever I opened it to put in the free Fish of the Month I'd pcik up when getting the gold fish/bay mice/whatver I decided to feed them that week.

@ahmadburhanhabibi 8 ай бұрын

Piranha used to terrorize me as a kid

@kyonthirtytwo2456 4 ай бұрын

Are they named after the river Parana? I heard about people loosing a nose when swimming in the river, druring a dry spell.

@tiffanyshanley1419 3 ай бұрын

Whenever I think of piranhas I think of the movie Piranha (the original not the terrible remake) of that creepy noise/bark heard when the piranhas were attacking 😳 Thanks for dredging up childhood nightmares lol

@merucrypoison296 3 ай бұрын

Gooned to the art style

@user-jy2xk5ih5f 8 ай бұрын

"but where were we ah yes" got me killing 😂

@the-petri-dish-emoji 8 ай бұрын

I know what you meant but I cannot un-picture you going on a murderous rampage because of that line

@caesarsalad77 8 ай бұрын

Now watch out for that quicksand!

@gustavedelior3683 15 күн бұрын

Saw a video where it seemed this smaller species of piranha would eat into the body while the reat eat away from around the....snack bore holes? Do all species do that or just those particular ones?

@hanoman78 8 ай бұрын

4:20 they have better things to eat? Hmmm, I'm relieved yet kinda sad🤭

@only257 7 ай бұрын

Great 😊

@CHKurono 8 ай бұрын

This video's literally... Amazon Explorer: *Falls to a Piranha river* Also Amazon Explorer: *Anime flashbacks and reciting of the character's backstory*

@Venombomb3 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful video, very informative! Quick question: what about leeches? The media and Entertainment industry portrays explorers wading through neck-deep jungle water, only for them to rip off their shirt and find a torso covered in leeches. Are leeches present in piranha territory?

@Filipe_Veras 8 ай бұрын

Hello there. Short answer: yes. Long answer: leeches exists all over the world (they are very old animals and had time to disperse). There are over 500 species, most of them in fresh water, but there are species that live in the mud and even salt water species. Swim away…

@kirbymarchbarcena 8 ай бұрын

If they do another 3D movie about us, then we'll riot - A Piranha

@marisirosaurus8987 8 ай бұрын

If I fell into the Amazon river, I would just consider myself dead

@vaticinus 5 ай бұрын

What type of software would one use to animate a video like this?

@damie9412 8 ай бұрын

Nice

@SAEshorts 8 ай бұрын

Wow, the wimple, what a gentleman! Just casually nibbling on other's scales

@RichardMiller-tq6ut 8 ай бұрын

Ahhh. So if they don't notice you they won't turn you into a skeleton. Thank you for the helpful video

@MollanPollzan 3 ай бұрын

I used to work in a pet store many years ago. They had piranhas in a really cold fishtank. I stuck my hand in there to clean the glass from the inside with a scraper. They never touched me. They went to the other side of the tank and just looked at me.

@realthursty4953 8 ай бұрын

I was bitten by a small piranha when I was reaching around in a seine full of fish (including larger piranha) that were taken on the Rio Nanay in Peru. Meanwhile, several young boys were swimming and splashing and carrying on at the opposite shore of this river full of piranha. I even identified 3 different species in this one seine haul alone.

@WilAdams 19 күн бұрын

Having read Teddy's book, a friend and I went to the Amazon, where we explored the river. We did two things that we thought of as 'scary' when we got there: A) swimming with Piranha, and B) wresting an Anaconda--something we had seen Marlin Perkins do on an episode of Wild Kingdom. When the boat captain pointed over the side at a school of red bellied Piranha. Scott (my friend) and I dove into the water--right into the center of the school. Neither of us had any doubt that these fish would not eat us, and we were correct. Later we saw a coiled up anaconda on the bank, but that is a different..

@smokejaguar67 Ай бұрын

I lived in Guyana many years ago and my amerinidan guide while traveling down the Esquibo river in a motor launch, told me that piranhas sometimes kill people, and at certain times of the year it is dangerous to go swimming - he would know!

@MelodyDobrinin 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I’ve swum in the Amazon river many times and it’s fine. Everyone does it. We also went piranha fishing on the same trip. If I was going to worry about any Brazilian wildlife, it would be their crazy parasites.

@joaquinm9148 5 ай бұрын

The thumbnail looks like a Kick Buttowski episode and I love it

@richardgomes3228 Ай бұрын

Couldn't turn this video off quick enough!

@m.scottreeder 15 күн бұрын

The main actor of the early 1960s TV western, “Rawhide”, was Eric Fleming. His death in the mid ‘60s occurred in South America, where he was involved in a film in production. Conflicting accounts of how he was killed range from a tragic drowning, to being eaten by piranhas. I’m not sure.