CHILD WARNING [Child Warning] Boy eaten by Piranhas

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Basically, most of the victims are drowned by the piranhas and eaten at the same time; which is why the victims sometimes technically died from drowning. And I’d be willing to bet that most victims are in countries where their public record barely exists, so that’s why you rarely hear about it. But as I showed, there’s some cases that have solid news sources behind them. And there’s some more that I didn’t source.

If this stuff is interesting you can give that show I mentioned a watch, the host is a marine biologist/angler and there’s actually a lot of freshwater fish that can kill people. Hell, he even has cases of some giant catfish species (paraiba, goonch, wells) who have killed or bitten people.

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The areas most piranha attacks happen in are extremely third world, so you don’t really hear about it. But most the time you hear about piranhas killing people through the locals in those areas.

I remember this guy, Jeremy Wade from ‘river monsters’ interviewed a lot of locals in piranha infested areas and almost everyone had at least a story about piranha attacks. In one episode he interviewed a family who lost a child to piranhas. They left him/her unsupervised on their porch overlooking the water, and the kid fell in. Once they got the kid back he/she was already ripped to shreds.

There’s occasionally an article that makes the news like this one on ‘Newsweek’,

“Piranhas rarely attack humans but the attacks can be fatal if they happen. In January 2015, a six-year-old girl, Adrila Muniz, was found dead in Brazil at the Maicuru River near Monte Alegre town after she was feasted on by a large group of piranhas, the BBC reported.”

Or these reports that made their way to ‘Nypost’

“On Jan. 2, a 22-year-old man temporarily went missing during a family outing near the Paraguay River, south of the capital Asuncion, at Itá Enramada, as piranhas attacked him and carried him underwater. His family contacted the police and he was found less than an hour later with severe bite marks from the ferocious fish.”

“In a separate instance, a 49-year-old man was killed in the Paraguay River, in the town of Puerto Rosario, after he went swimming and drowned as a result of a piranha attack. He had bite wounds on his face, according to a report.”

That article is titled “Piranha attacks in Paraguay leave 4 dead, more than 20 injured this year”

It has a perfect explanation as to why they attack as well:

“Piranhas are an omnivorous fish species that do not usually aggress humans, unless in times of drought or when they are characteristically aggressive during their breeding season, from October to March. This aggressive behavior, normally in male piranhas, however, does not usually result in a fatal attack, according to the report.”

So yeah, attacks happen a lot more than you’d think. They just wouldn’t ever eat anyone unless they’re starving, breeding, or surviving a drought.