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

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You're peering into the Amazon River when suddenly you
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lose your footing and fall.
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Piranhas dart about in the rapidly approaching water.
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So,
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are you doomed?
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Will your fall trigger a fatal feeding frenzy?
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To forecast your fate,
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let's see what we know about these fish.
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There are more than 30 piranha species.
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All live in the fresh waters of South America and have a single row
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of sharp,
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interlocking teeth on each jaw.
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They use their teeth in a variety of ways.
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Many are omnivorous and supplement diets of things like insects,
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crustaceans,
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worms,
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and fish with fruits,
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seeds,
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and other plant matter.
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Some,
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like red -bellied piranhas,
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both hunt and scavenge,
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and others like wimple piranhas.
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have specific dietary predilections,
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almost exclusively going after other fish's scales.
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Species like red -eye piranhas are more solitary,
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while red -bellied piranhas form shoals of 10 to 100.
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Red -bellied piranhas are among the most popularly depicted
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and commonly regarded as especially aggressive.
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However, their reputation for rapacious pack hunting is misinformed.
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It's thought that the main benefit of their group living isn't cooperative
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hunting, but instead protection from predators,
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of which they have many.
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Larger,
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mature red -bellied piranhas tend to assume privileged positions at
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the shoal's center,
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where it's safest.
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And scientists have observed that red -bellied piranhas in
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smaller groups breathe faster,
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probably because they're more anxious.
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Interestingly,
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they also communicate.
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By rapidly contracting specialized muscles above their swim
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bladders, they repeatedly bark when they're facing off with one another
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or when captured.
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They make thudding noises when they're aggressively circling each other,
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fighting, or competing for food.
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And when things escalate further,
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they chase each other while snapping their jaws together.
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Researchers suspect that these sounds are just a sampling of
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their overall repertoire.
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which might also have some special uses during mating.
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But when do red -bellied piranhas get aggressive with humans?
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Well,
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when they do bite people,
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it seems to mostly happen in scenarios when they're being handled,
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when people are spilling food or cleaning their fishing catch in the water,
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or when people disturb piranhas while the fish are mating or
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guarding their eggs during the wet season.
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Starvation stress is also thought to lead red -bellied piranhas
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to increasingly bold,
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aggressive behavior.
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And this could theoretically result in feeding frenzies,
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where each fish tries to get some of whatever finds its way into the water.
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Despite this kind of behavior being extremely rare,
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rumors of it launched the piranha's international infamy,
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and this was in no small part thanks to former U .S.
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President Theodore Roosevelt.
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In 1914,
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he published a best -selling book in which he called piranhas
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the most ferocious fish in the world and wrote that the scent of blood
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could incite them to rapidly devour an entire cow or
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human alive.
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But Roosevelt's account is generally considered circumstantial
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and misleading.
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The feeding frenzy he witnessed is suspected to have been the result
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of people purposefully starving red -bellied piranhas,
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then giving them the opportunity to feed on a cow carcass,
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all to put on an exciting show.
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But where were we?
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Ah, yes,
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falling into piranha -infested waters.
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So,
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what's your fate?
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Let's assume these are red -bellied piranhas.
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This being the Amazon River,
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they should be doing all right for themselves and not starving.
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Thankfully,
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you're also not getting the water alongside a bunch of fish guts.
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And ideally,
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you're not disrupting a piranha -breeding extravaganza.
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You fall in,
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and the piranhas most likely avoid you.
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Calmly,
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softly swimming or wading to shore is generally recommended,
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because splashing is thought to attract piranhas.
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Indeed,
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they're equipped with the dentition to do damage,
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but they rarely attack humans.
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They usually have better things to eat.
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As you make your way onto dry land,
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there's no feeding frenzy where they skeletonize your body within minutes,
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and upon exiting the water,
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you're probably pleased to find no chunks of flesh missing.
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Piranhas are far from the only animals that trouble us.
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But how founded is our fear and loathing of cockroaches?
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And is trying to rid the world of mosquitoes something we should consider?
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