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If you watch the proposed video that demonstrates how piranhas easily deal with prey that they throw with shore, then an already established stereotype that these fish are extremely dangerous, and therefore, God forbid, get into the river where these small, but toothy monsters live.
University of Nevada biology professor Zeb Hogan explains that in fact, piranhas are not dangerous to humans. In nature, where there are many food for them, they never attack swimmers and fishermen. In south Many Americans swim and do not even notice (do not know) that in a pond piranhas are found. The professor himself has often bathed in similar bodies of water and no one has ever bitten him.
The aggressiveness of piranhas we often judge by the famous the documented recording of Theodore Roosevelt who observed in 1914, as in a small pool, these fish are literally a few seconds dealt with the cow. But in that case, the fish was driven into trap and she remained hungry. In nature, the attack of piranha on people and large animals are very rare, such cases can be counted on the fingers. And only one of them was fatal the fisherman.
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For example, in African water bodies there is much more terrible, than piranhas, ball fish. This monster has jaw pressure 80 kg / cm2, plus creepy teeth. Such a jaw easily snacking on any human bone, and a school of fish can eat that same cow in a few seconds, and grind it with bones.
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The ball can reach three meters in length, and its mouth – sixty centimeters. At the same time, it still has surprisingly strong scales that cannot be shot even with a pistol without saying already about a knife or a harpoon. Piranhas compared to the ball – harmless aquarium fish. The locals are even afraid to swim in rivers on the canoe where this monster is found, since the ball fish aggressive, strong and treacherous. Canoeing is not an obstacle for her to get to the one in this boat …
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Monster Fish
