I could strip the flesh from a cow in 30 seconds too just give me some 30% peroxide and some sulfuric acid. Piranhas are not special
> tries to one up piranhas
> uses piranha solution
curious
screaming and crying and throwing up because I just wanted to be a hater and I can’t even do that right
ALT
Okay this is extremely funny
also piranhas don’t do that, the reason we think they do is because US president Theodore Roosevelt visited the South America in 1913 and his hosts planned an event to impress him. So they collected an abnormally large number of piranhas from different areas and trapped them in a netted off section of the Amazon river and then
starvedthe fish for like a week. THEN they threw in a whole cow, which the over-crowded and starving fish desperately devoured.
He wrote a memoir including this story, and it was published and popular, and that is why everyone knows the “piranhas will strip a cow to the bones” factoid, which was such a manipulated situation as to basically be a lie
under normal circumstances, it is actually safe to go swimming with piranhas, they don’t typically bite or attack mammals unless under acute stress, and their diets consist largely of fruit, plants, seeds, already dead things, and other fish.
ALT