Piranha attack!
Discussion
Theres an even crueler video of a chap feeding a poor little mouse to his piranhas, whose limbs are eaten one by one. Poor feller still tries to swim up to the surface using his stumps, before being drowned then eaten (the mods removed it when it was posted)
Dont they eat worms, which is in theory less cruel?
Dont they eat worms, which is in theory less cruel?
I spent 5 days in the Ecuadorian rain forest when I was in South America. We used to go by boat with our guide and one day a dutch fella jumped in for a swim and you could see pirahnas just over the way. The guide said not to worry as the pirahnas will not come close as there were dolphins close by.
No danger of him being the next big film director then... groucho said:
I spent 5 days in the Ecuadorian rain forest when I was in South America. We used to go by boat with our guide and one day a dutch fella jumped in for a swim and you could see pirahnas just over the way. The guide said not to worry as the pirahnas will not come close as there were dolphins close by.
Actually not that many dangerous piranhas in Ecuador. Swam in loads of rivers there without any problems. However, in Brazil different kettle of ravenous fish. Water practically boiled with the blighters, if you caught one the trick was to get it into the boat before its mates devoured it. My best trick was catching a piranha and then almost catching the caiman (south american crocodile) that swallowed the piranha. Unfortunately was only using 20lb test line, and the caiman was a wee bit heavier.
roop said:
Bah, that's horible...! I hate pirahnas. They are ugly ers. After they ate that other fish, I'd tip a half litre of bleach into their tank and watch the feckers gag. After that, I'd force feed the geezer that put the other fish in there the rest of the bleach...!
You've been watching too many Tarantino films matey
wedg1e said:
Interesting that the piranha seem to be happy to share their grub. Contrast that with, say , a flock of birds over a piece of bread, one always tries to take the lot.
pirahnas share their food, if you look you can actually see that they have a queue where each one has one bite and lets the next one have a bite. the reason that you get the water foaming bit in the wild is because of this queue - one bite and then to the back of the queue and wait your turn again.
gasblaster said:
I spent 5 days in the Ecuadorian rain forest when I was in South America. We used to go by boat with our guide and one day a dutch fella jumped in for a swim and you could see pirahnas just over the way. The guide said not to worry as the pirahnas will not come close as there were dolphins close by.
Actually not that many dangerous piranhas in Ecuador. Swam in loads of rivers there without any problems. However, in Brazil different kettle of ravenous fish. Water practically boiled with the blighters, if you caught one the trick was to get it into the boat before its mates devoured it. My best trick was catching a piranha and then almost catching the caiman (south american crocodile) that swallowed the piranha. Unfortunately was only using 20lb test line, and the caiman was a wee bit heavier.
You don't need to explain to me what a caiman is, unless you think I'm lying.
I have spent time in every South American country except Guyana, Suriname and French Guinia.
groucho said:
I spent 5 days in the Ecuadorian rain forest when I was in South America. We used to go by boat with our guide and one day a dutch fella jumped in for a swim and you could see pirahnas just over the way. The guide said not to worry as the pirahnas will not come close as there were dolphins close by.
Actually not that many dangerous piranhas in Ecuador. Swam in loads of rivers there without any problems. However, in Brazil different kettle of ravenous fish. Water practically boiled with the blighters, if you caught one the trick was to get it into the boat before its mates devoured it. My best trick was catching a piranha and then almost catching the caiman (south american crocodile) that swallowed the piranha. Unfortunately was only using 20lb test line, and the caiman was a wee bit heavier.
You don't need to explain to me what a caiman is, unless you think I'm lying.
I have spent time in every South American country except Guyana, Suriname and French Guinia.
Chill mate.
You're not the only one reading this, I didn't know what a caiman is.
dieseljohn said:
I spent 5 days in the Ecuadorian rain forest when I was in South America. We used to go by boat with our guide and one day a dutch fella jumped in for a swim and you could see pirahnas just over the way. The guide said not to worry as the pirahnas will not come close as there were dolphins close by.
Actually not that many dangerous piranhas in Ecuador. Swam in loads of rivers there without any problems. However, in Brazil different kettle of ravenous fish. Water practically boiled with the blighters, if you caught one the trick was to get it into the boat before its mates devoured it. My best trick was catching a piranha and then almost catching the caiman (south american crocodile) that swallowed the piranha. Unfortunately was only using 20lb test line, and the caiman was a wee bit heavier.
You don't need to explain to me what a caiman is, unless you think I'm lying.
I have spent time in every South American country except Guyana, Suriname and French Guinia.
Chill mate.
You're not the only one reading this, I didn't know what a caiman is.
Sorry.
groucho said:
I spent 5 days in the Ecuadorian rain forest when I was in South America. We used to go by boat with our guide and one day a dutch fella jumped in for a swim and you could see pirahnas just over the way. The guide said not to worry as the pirahnas will not come close as there were dolphins close by.
Actually not that many dangerous piranhas in Ecuador. Swam in loads of rivers there without any problems. However, in Brazil different kettle of ravenous fish. Water practically boiled with the blighters, if you caught one the trick was to get it into the boat before its mates devoured it. My best trick was catching a piranha and then almost catching the caiman (south american crocodile) that swallowed the piranha. Unfortunately was only using 20lb test line, and the caiman was a wee bit heavier.
You don't need to explain to me what a caiman is, unless you think I'm lying.
I have spent time in every South American country except Guyana, Suriname and French Guinia.
Hey Groucho, don't be such a grouch. Actually in Brazil caimans are referred to as Jacares, but what's in a name? I have also spent time in every LatAm country (except the same three as you - funny how nobody bothers with those isn't it), a total of some 12 years in all, mostly in Ecuador, and it just happens that the rivers of Ecuador are my specialist subject!
Parrot of doom said:
Talking about mice and carnivores:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-44283217939
I wonder if they took it out? I would of. Couldn't see the wee blighter egt eaten after that impressive escape! There does seem to be an abnormal amount of this vs type video about. Not keen on it myself.
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