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

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  • Опубликовано: 13 сен 2023
  • Dig into the truth about piranhas and their feeding frenzies, and find out what would likely happen if you fell into their waters.
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    You’re peering into the Amazon River when, suddenly, you lose your footing and fall. Piranhas dart about in the rapidly approaching water. So, are you doomed? Will your fall trigger a feeding frenzy that will skeletonize your body within minutes? Antonio Machado-Allison shares what we know about these purportedly ferocious fish.
    Lesson by Antonio Machado-Allison, directed by Anton Bogaty.
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Комментарии • 771

  • @sushilchandaragi
    @sushilchandaragi 8 месяцев назад +2275

    As a piranha I can say that we don't attack humans unless we are disturbed.

    • @happyfamily7375
      @happyfamily7375 8 месяцев назад +72

      Wait what oh now i know what happend to my water proof phone that fell in the ocean a piranha took it to use it fore him self

    • @pitipiti_
      @pitipiti_ 8 месяцев назад +33

      I feel like only Brazilians will fully understand this LOL

    • @august6281
      @august6281 8 месяцев назад +6

      so, human's splash from falling to the water is the only trigger?
      Goodluck to us not disturbing you

    • @samuraiboi2735
      @samuraiboi2735 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@pitipiti_tbh im lucky god never made me a brazilian if not i probably wont enjoy swimming

    • @obvv7714
      @obvv7714 8 месяцев назад

      As a piranha I can say this other piranha commenter is lying so more humans go in the water for us to eat.

  • @arya9220
    @arya9220 8 месяцев назад +600

    I don't think i would be able to swim to the shore "calmly" if i fell from a cliff...

    • @3takoyakis
      @3takoyakis 8 месяцев назад +44

      The splash from falling itself already attracted piranhas. Not to count if you are already blooded from the fall

    • @HarendraKumar-my4le
      @HarendraKumar-my4le 8 месяцев назад +4

      Being bio student, I would easily do so...!😅

    • @sammyf0x
      @sammyf0x 8 месяцев назад +7

      your comment just explains 'Dumbledore CALMLY said' things

  • @theWalserHimself
    @theWalserHimself 8 месяцев назад +435

    There's a big difference, between falling into a river full with Piranhas and in a swimmingpool belonging to a James Bond villain.

    • @3takoyakis
      @3takoyakis 8 месяцев назад +11

      Tbh if not for the super dramatic film and books
      Piranha is nothing but regular fishes

    • @user-th9yi1en9r
      @user-th9yi1en9r Месяц назад +1

      True. Experts said piranhas, like other predators, will not automatically attack unless they are provoked. The best thing to do is remain calm. You can easily get out of trouble if you take the time to calm your fears.

    • @tobe1207
      @tobe1207 Месяц назад +2

      What if he was starving those ones? Then it's instant feeding frenzy

    • @Mr2dmonkey
      @Mr2dmonkey Месяц назад +1

      You should test your statement,and see if it holds up.🥹

    • @andrewface2355
      @andrewface2355 28 дней назад

      Jeremy Wade already tested this one. He filled a pool with piranhas that haven't eaten in days and went inside the pool. The piranhas ignored him.

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko 8 месяцев назад +742

    It's always a special treat to see a video done by one of my favorite TED-Ed animators. Their art style is instantly recognizable, yet always fresh, and the narration -- as always -- top-notch. The more I see, the more I want to turn more viewers onto this channel, and onto TED in general.

    • @dominics4100
      @dominics4100 8 месяцев назад +6

      Anton Bogaty is a fav!!!

    • @baoquyennguyen8543
      @baoquyennguyen8543 8 месяцев назад +2

      Omg❤

    • @RichardMiller-tq6ut
      @RichardMiller-tq6ut 8 месяцев назад

      So they tell us piranhas won't turn you into a skeleton unless they notice you while insinuating they won't... how is that at all helpful?

    • @jonashassel5404
      @jonashassel5404 8 месяцев назад

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    • @myriamickx7969
      @myriamickx7969 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@RichardMiller-tq6ut
      It means don’t panick, splash around and scream, calmly wade or swim to shore. How complicated is that?

  • @juliogaiger5221
    @juliogaiger5221 8 месяцев назад +654

    I can testify for this. I’ve been to the Amazon and swam in piranha infested waters. They really don’t bother you.
    How do I know there where actually piranhas in the water? If you try to fish in the same spot, with a little bit of beef, you feel the line tugging in less then 5 seconds an within a minute you have a piranha attached to your hook.
    Pretty fun experience

    • @ar4imond
      @ar4imond 8 месяцев назад +49

      Then where is your leg?

    • @juliogaiger5221
      @juliogaiger5221 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@ar4imond ?

    • @PaulJohn01
      @PaulJohn01 8 месяцев назад +28

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    • @Rice_enjoyer999
      @Rice_enjoyer999 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@juliogaiger5221 they were making a joke

    • @circuloviciosamente
      @circuloviciosamente 8 месяцев назад +46

      I was there also. I kayaked on a swamp full of piranhas. The only advice I received was: keep your feet out of the water but not for the piranhas but for the crocodiles.

  • @randomthings587
    @randomthings587 8 месяцев назад +319

    Explaining a childhood fear:

    • @L17_8
      @L17_8 8 месяцев назад +2

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    • @lilyandryankoolkid1994
      @lilyandryankoolkid1994 8 месяцев назад +13

      @@L17_8 YES WE KNOW! STOP SPAMMING

    • @rose-a-bleu4281
      @rose-a-bleu4281 8 месяцев назад

      @@L17_8y’all have been saying the end times are happening for years now😭 give it a break

    • @nicklindberg90
      @nicklindberg90 8 месяцев назад +3

      Next up: quicksand

    • @blyat5352
      @blyat5352 8 месяцев назад

      Cringe

  • @Filipe_Veras
    @Filipe_Veras 8 месяцев назад +799

    As a Brazilian, the lore says that piranhas only attack if you are wounded or on the flooding season, most probably, both.
    About Roosevelt story, what he witnessed was a practice called “the piranha bull”, and this was legit! During the late 19th century until 1970’s the most widespread economic activity in the deep Brazil was cattle raising. The roads were nonexistent and the cattle was drived Texan Style through the wilderness, usually until the nearest fluvial harbor. Those small harbors usually could only operate during the wet season, just when the piranhas are more aggressive. And there was a lot of shallow lakes and rivers to pass by, specially in the great wetlands. Ticks were widespread, generating small wounds that could maybe trigger a piranha attack. If this happened to a large number of cows, of course none would die immediately, but could make a cattle stampede and the cowboys would need to gather them again, certainly with significant losses and a big delay. The piranhas bites would also attract even more flies, that could infest those wounds with maggots with also significant economic loss and delay, since the sick cattle would be much slower.
    The solution: when crossing a known piranha insfested water, the cowboys would choose the most old/sick bull or cow, open shallow cuts on its hide and “park” it in the middle of the water to be crossed, only then the main heard would safely cross.
    When possible, the piranha’s bull would be retrieved and killed on the other side of the river, where the cowboys would certainly camp for the night and feast on the sacrificed bull.
    Fun fact: in those “cattle areas” of Brazil the expression “piranha’s bull” is used with a very similar meaning of the expression “scape goat”.

    • @joaocalife9996
      @joaocalife9996 8 месяцев назад +42

      I'm brazilian and didn't know that. Mad interesting. Thanks.

    • @sixteenstringjack
      @sixteenstringjack 8 месяцев назад +27

      Wow. That’s super interesting

    • @Ivan-vt9qs
      @Ivan-vt9qs 8 месяцев назад +12

      Thank you for sharing this!

    • @natheriver8910
      @natheriver8910 8 месяцев назад +11

      Obrigado pela informação amigo.

    • @kisoridevidhamala6190
      @kisoridevidhamala6190 8 месяцев назад +16

      Bro can write

  • @luistan5013
    @luistan5013 8 месяцев назад +85

    I swam in the amazon and let me tell you. The thought of piranhas is very hard to shake off

  • @Sunflowersarepretty
    @Sunflowersarepretty 8 месяцев назад +239

    Again just like with sharks this fear of being attacked by pirhanas is not entirely based on reality they would only attack when provoked or during mating seasons. Still I would avoid their territory because they look scary to me.

    • @franciscol3510
      @franciscol3510 8 месяцев назад

      Colonizers getting into places they shouldn't be, doing things they shouldn't do, and beign horrified when the things they disturbed try to take back their space from them... a tale as old as colonialism

    • @Neloish
      @Neloish 8 месяцев назад +3

      But sharks really do eat people.

    • @Sunflowersarepretty
      @Sunflowersarepretty 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@Neloish when they are provoked.

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Sunflowersareprettythey also don't eat you if you are far away from them on land

    • @abigailthebagel224
      @abigailthebagel224 8 месяцев назад +8

      @@Neloish Extremely rarely. You have greater chance of being killed by a coconut, a toaster, or an elephant than by a shark. They're also essential for the ecosystem, and without them, we get a rise in things like certain jellyfish which can actually be very dangerous (I had a sting when I was growing up, thankfully it was super mild).

  • @victor9
    @victor9 8 месяцев назад +38

    It's one of those: "as a kid I thought this will be a major obstacle in my life" like falling in quick sand or melting in acid rain 😅😅😅.

  • @markmunroe-hz8rf
    @markmunroe-hz8rf 8 месяцев назад +546

    As a piranha I am glad a human has helped cast of such stereotypes of my species.
    Thanks 👍

    • @SirsasthNigam.
      @SirsasthNigam. 8 месяцев назад +5

      and is your name Mark Munroe?

    • @markmunroe-hz8rf
      @markmunroe-hz8rf 8 месяцев назад +22

      @@SirsasthNigam. No, Chomps Munroe, thank you😁

    • @samuraiboi2735
      @samuraiboi2735 8 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@markmunroe-hz8rfyour such a chomper

    • @annabellethedoll3764
      @annabellethedoll3764 8 месяцев назад +1

      As a ragdoll, I wonder how can you use a smart phone under the water?

    • @daizdamien1409
      @daizdamien1409 8 месяцев назад

      why do you think human flesh is not better than that of fish

  • @KTChamberlain
    @KTChamberlain 8 месяцев назад +121

    In Roosevelt's defense, while his account was circumstantial and misinformed, it did get people to try and leave piranhas alone or at the very least, not to underestimate them. Still, it's always good to learn fact from fiction, especially when the fiction has some truth tangled in like Christmas tree lights.

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam 8 месяцев назад +5

      Are you just saying christmas lights get tangled, or is there some half truths to do with christmas lights out there?

    • @KTChamberlain
      @KTChamberlain 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@himanbam Tangled.

    • @lup1up
      @lup1up 7 месяцев назад +4

      ​@himanbam had the same question lol. Was ready to get my Christmas light world rocked hah

  • @the_luggage
    @the_luggage 8 месяцев назад +219

    I once ethically fished for piranhas in the middle of the Amazon. It was totally different to most types of fishing, you had to use your bait to mimic a dying fish by splashing it about in a certain way.

    • @its_dey_mate
      @its_dey_mate 8 месяцев назад +28

      Dude, the top comment rn is a bot that stole yours, I saw it and needed to see the real person, gosh it's so shameless and youtube is doing jack sh*t to fix it

    • @user-lz6wk8fb8s
      @user-lz6wk8fb8s 8 месяцев назад +1

      Who cares@@its_dey_mate

    • @Bob-dx6sb
      @Bob-dx6sb 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@its_dey_matecope

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam 8 месяцев назад +2

      What is ethical fishing?

    • @Bob-dx6sb
      @Bob-dx6sb 8 месяцев назад

      @@himanbam quiet, naive

  • @Macieks300
    @Macieks300 8 месяцев назад +57

    The animation in this video was so great. I love how literally it was depicting everything that was being said.

    • @ayourboy7855
      @ayourboy7855 8 месяцев назад +2

      am i the only one who saw haisenberg at 1:36 ?

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie Месяц назад +8

    "As you make your way onto dry land, the crocodile who's been watching your whole sorry escapade will promptly eat you."

  • @carlosusnay2216
    @carlosusnay2216 8 месяцев назад +85

    If you’re in the water, I’d be more concerned about leeches, pink dolphin pods, and bacteria than the piranha.

    • @vivida7160
      @vivida7160 8 месяцев назад +21

      Or just drowning.

    • @MaryDunford
      @MaryDunford 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@vivida7160😅👍

    • @NZ_BraveHeart_0120
      @NZ_BraveHeart_0120 8 месяцев назад +9

      What about the candiru fish?
      The fish that does this: 👇
      🍆⬅️🐟 ➕ 🩸🥤

    • @celestine5340
      @celestine5340 8 месяцев назад +2

      electric eels seem to be quite a danger in those areas where piranha's live.

    • @haparcheledupwar
      @haparcheledupwar 8 месяцев назад

      Or CNN misleading stories 😂😂

  • @paramesravichandran1360
    @paramesravichandran1360 8 месяцев назад +23

    "They usually have better things to eat."
    You got me there!😂 Great video TED! The visuals never failed to impress the audience. I am interested in the topics on Piranhas from the day I got to know about them. And this video resolved one question that has been lingering in my mind for so long.🐟

  • @rollintweeds234
    @rollintweeds234 8 месяцев назад +21

    Thank you, TED-Ed, for so convincingly and creatively demolishing the libels attending these fish. Love the writing, particularly the suspenseful framing device and Teddy-as-Bully-Inflamer slant. Wondering how to tell when it's mating season, though, just in case.

  • @chribu_
    @chribu_ 8 месяцев назад +36

    I did a voluntary year in Peru and on weekends we often went to a nearby lake for swimming that also had piranhas living in it. Over the course of a year we had it like two to three times that one of the fish would try snacking on someones toe. That would then cause a small wound but by all means wasn‘t enough to bite the toe off or anything. And it surely wasn‘t enough to keep us from swimming there.

    • @glennwatson3313
      @glennwatson3313 8 месяцев назад +13

      I Think a bite from a piranha would be enough to keep me out of the water, unless I was on fire.

    • @MaiTai16
      @MaiTai16 8 месяцев назад +5

      Reminds me of growing up in Maryland and being told not to put our feet in the lakes out an abundance of caution of snapping turtles, which I was told *will* take a toe.

    • @glennwatson3313
      @glennwatson3313 8 месяцев назад +14

      @@MaiTai16 Note to self: No swimming in the Amazon or Maryland.

  • @flameofhades8553
    @flameofhades8553 8 месяцев назад +7

    Stereotypes can be destructive especially when there is a lack of knowledge. Thanks for this information, TED

  • @MyUniqueVibe
    @MyUniqueVibe 8 месяцев назад +29

    So you’re telling me Piranha 3D wasn’t an accurate depiction of piranha behaviour! 😮 who woulda thunked it.

    • @alexandradelliou
      @alexandradelliou 8 месяцев назад +1

      That beginning scene literally gave me nightmares as a kid...

    • @jd-zr3vk
      @jd-zr3vk 8 месяцев назад

      Those were prehistoric piranha. They behave more aggressively.

    • @stansman5461
      @stansman5461 8 месяцев назад

      Well, atleast Meg is based on science and fact.

    • @Me4-gc8qs
      @Me4-gc8qs 26 дней назад

      Was that the one when the one were in the swimming pool then released in the river? chlorinated pool water would have killed them all. Stopped watching the movie after that scene.

  • @brunokopte1347
    @brunokopte1347 8 месяцев назад +54

    South Brazilian here. You'll see local kids playing on the "piranha-infested waters". They swim better than you, can quickly figure out if there's something actually dangerous in the water (giant otter families scare off jaguars that can break open turtle shells), eat piranhas from time to time (part of local catch that people don't buy from fishers). We had a hanging mask made out of wood, seeds, fish scales and piranha mandibles.
    PS: you'll regret not tasting the local fruits. Raw, ice-creams, juices, whatever. Just try them.

    • @myaccount4699
      @myaccount4699 8 месяцев назад +3

      Didn’t know there is piranhas in the South Region of Brazil.

    • @brunokopte1347
      @brunokopte1347 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@myaccount4699 Yes and no.
      I was talking about the northern regions. Didn't realize how ambiguous I worded my first comment. I'm sorry for this.
      However, there are piranhas in the South Region, as they have spread through Brazilian rivers and became an invasive species in biomes around here. This is somewhat recent, during the last couple years.

    • @hammerfall6666
      @hammerfall6666 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@brunokopte1347does piranhas taste good?

    • @jin_cotl
      @jin_cotl 3 месяца назад

      @@hammerfall6666depends how good you are at cooking, the better you are the tastier

  • @abarzilai0334
    @abarzilai0334 8 месяцев назад +5

    They taste great in a nice tomato broth, I ate one in Brazil and even went fishing for them at a resort.

  • @thebelissima64
    @thebelissima64 8 месяцев назад +6

    Back in 2015 a six year old girl died in Brazil, having only the flesh from her legs devoured by piranhas. She was in a boat with her grandmother and four other children when the vessel capsized in a storm. It is believed she drowned before the attack.😢

  • @zenebean
    @zenebean 8 месяцев назад +5

    Appreciate the look at pirahna diversity, it's super cool to me

  • @gijbuis
    @gijbuis 8 месяцев назад +6

    The story is that in Birmingham UK they built a big aquarium in a below ground pit in the middle of a traffic circle. They filled the aquarium with a variety of tropical fish, including so-called vegetarian Pirhanhas. Within two weeks only the 'vegetarian' Piranhas remained....

  • @jordanpurks8900
    @jordanpurks8900 8 месяцев назад +2

    The speaker is the best speaker you guys have. Love his voice

  • @AMPlajfljlbalnb
    @AMPlajfljlbalnb 8 месяцев назад +1

    Somehow I really like the voice in these movies, it's clear and calming

  • @briantaylor9285
    @briantaylor9285 8 месяцев назад +4

    Piranha: "Er, you should probably worry more about THIS fish," 🤨👉
    Candiru: 😁

  • @josiahb.1598
    @josiahb.1598 7 месяцев назад

    It's my first time to watch a TED-Ed animation like this and I really like it!!

  • @MikaelaKMajorHistory
    @MikaelaKMajorHistory 8 месяцев назад +1

    This animation style gives the piranhas so much personality

  • @harrymills2770
    @harrymills2770 14 дней назад

    I knew a kid in college who had a piranha. They're unbelievably strong fish. Built like a rock.

  • @RidireOiche
    @RidireOiche 8 месяцев назад +3

    You're basically saying that my go-to emergency plan to eat the piranhas first is a worse idea than everyone thought.

  • @adriand2895
    @adriand2895 8 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing animation which makes the video more watchable. Reminds me of childhood cartoons😀

  • @The_Badseed
    @The_Badseed 7 месяцев назад

    So much for all those good movies I've seen

  • @theharshtruth8563
    @theharshtruth8563 3 месяца назад +1

    As a person who doesn't live near piranhas, i see this as an absolute win.

  • @respectableaf9061
    @respectableaf9061 8 месяцев назад +5

    Piranha's are the Chihuahuas of water, bark worse than their bite.

    • @Wintercrow1
      @Wintercrow1 Месяц назад +2

      Perhaps perhaps... But have you ever seen someone swarmed by 200 Chihuahua!!! It's a death sentence! A death sentence!

    • @respectableaf9061
      @respectableaf9061 Месяц назад +1

      @@Wintercrow1 That is true though

  • @christopheredale
    @christopheredale 8 месяцев назад +5

    I speak for us all.. Please never change narrators ‼️

  • @plat6164
    @plat6164 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for erasing my fears

  • @astick5249
    @astick5249 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love the look of disappointment on the piranha when the worm retraced itself underground

  • @maitrimishra784
    @maitrimishra784 8 месяцев назад +1

    very nice animation, i laughed so hard when the fish tried to eat some other fish scales 😆😆😆

  • @redfoxnutella3926
    @redfoxnutella3926 8 месяцев назад +1

    This was really knowledgeable

  • @liaquatali1219
    @liaquatali1219 8 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing animation

  • @macmedia1000
    @macmedia1000 8 месяцев назад +7

    Please make more History vs videos Ted, your amazing

    • @Tuturial464
      @Tuturial464 8 месяцев назад +1

      History vs the atomic bomb

    • @Bob-dx6sb
      @Bob-dx6sb 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@Tuturial464History vs what I did to your mother last night

  • @daringbeast
    @daringbeast 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks ted ed for stone paper piranha video 😃

  • @Rob_Dekker
    @Rob_Dekker 15 дней назад

    Weren’t there attacks in Argentina some years ago in the Paraná river. I read at least 15 people were injured during that attack. It was also rare for the piranhas to be there. Usually the water is not their temperature so they stay higher up the river.

  • @jaythor70
    @jaythor70 7 месяцев назад +1

    The story I had read years ago was that when the area around the waters flood, the fish go with it. When the waters recede, the fish are stuck, and don't have access to food, and will aggressively attack what appears to be edible and enters that water.

  • @MrsJudithWright
    @MrsJudithWright 8 месяцев назад +3

    As always great topic, fun animation, narration great, but don't forget the script - someone, or a team, wrote those words and it's tight, interesting and fun.

  • @juanrangel6880
    @juanrangel6880 2 месяца назад

    2:24. Lolol. Reminds me of the Tom and Jerry yell!!😂😂😂

  • @plat6164
    @plat6164 8 месяцев назад

    I like this art style

  • @murphyjoel8839
    @murphyjoel8839 8 месяцев назад

    Amazing video

  • @youtubeusername1489
    @youtubeusername1489 8 месяцев назад +9

    "probably pleased to find no chunk of flesh missing'
    That one guy who wanted to lose his chunk of flesh: "aw man'

  • @ddsmitty1
    @ddsmitty1 13 дней назад +1

    The fish leave you alone, but now you’re covered with leaches.

  • @rozitasulaiman2923
    @rozitasulaiman2923 8 месяцев назад +1

    I've never been this early for a TED-Ed video.

  • @HarendraKumar-my4le
    @HarendraKumar-my4le 8 месяцев назад

    Well understood!

  • @richardgomes3228
    @richardgomes3228 Месяц назад +1

    Couldn't turn this video off quick enough!

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 7 месяцев назад +1

    nice video

  • @richie4735
    @richie4735 22 дня назад +1

    Had my prom at an aquarium one year. My buddy threw a chicken tender in the piranha tank but they wanted nothing to do with it

  • @_official_royalty9646
    @_official_royalty9646 8 месяцев назад +3

    We all bite when mating is disturbed 😂

  • @MollanPollzan
    @MollanPollzan 3 месяца назад +1

    I used to work in a pet store many years ago. They had piranhas in a really cold fishtank. I stuck my hand in there to clean the glass from the inside with a scraper. They never touched me. They went to the other side of the tank and just looked at me.

  • @ahmadburhanhabibi
    @ahmadburhanhabibi 8 месяцев назад +3

    Piranha used to terrorize me as a kid

  • @Ilhan111
    @Ilhan111 8 месяцев назад +47

    Fun fact: There has never been an official recorded death due to piranha attack.

    • @sbtig9637
      @sbtig9637 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, Captain obvious

    • @agateslate7939
      @agateslate7939 8 месяцев назад +1

      Damn
      To me those holliwood movies the only premier source what i know bout piranha

    • @hilariousname6826
      @hilariousname6826 8 месяцев назад

      How is that remotely "obvious"?@@sbtig9637

    • @ijustwannabeadrummer
      @ijustwannabeadrummer 2 дня назад +1

      I’m gonna call bs on that “ fun fact”

    • @Ilhan111
      @Ilhan111 2 дня назад

      @@ijustwannabeadrummer alas, you thought i'd give a f?

  • @giuliamaffia1556
    @giuliamaffia1556 8 месяцев назад

    I love the animation

  • @caesarsalad77
    @caesarsalad77 8 месяцев назад +1

    Now watch out for that quicksand!

  • @rmdhndwi
    @rmdhndwi 8 месяцев назад +1

    I remember when i was a boy, early 2000's, when internet isn't as strict as it is now
    I once stumble a video, an excavator accidently plummeted into amazon river, with the operator in it
    Once they salvage the wreck not long after, the operator clothing was intact, but his body was no more than bones, still attach with some muscle
    It still leaves a mark in my brain 😅

  • @jamesbevan9939
    @jamesbevan9939 8 месяцев назад +1

    I remember when Penn & Teller disproved this myth about a decade ago - when Teller jumped into a tank filled with piranhas.

  • @DeepakSinghTanwar123
    @DeepakSinghTanwar123 8 месяцев назад

    "They usually have better things to eat", i'm hurt! 😭👍

  • @Rick_King
    @Rick_King 7 месяцев назад +3

    Come on, I've seen The Addams Family. Watch Morticia toss a piece of meat into the piranha tank, and pull out some bones a few seconds later!

  • @yvonnefobbs6232
    @yvonnefobbs6232 8 месяцев назад

    All I can think of while looking at this is Wednesday! I was in Aww when she released the piranha on the swim team!!

  • @tiffanyshanley1419
    @tiffanyshanley1419 3 месяца назад

    Whenever I think of piranhas I think of the movie Piranha (the original not the terrible remake) of that creepy noise/bark heard when the piranhas were attacking 😳 Thanks for dredging up childhood nightmares lol

  • @chumbogish
    @chumbogish 8 месяцев назад

    that's terrifying

  • @CHKurono
    @CHKurono 8 месяцев назад +1

    This video's literally...
    Amazon Explorer: *Falls to a Piranha river*
    Also Amazon Explorer: *Anime flashbacks and reciting of the character's backstory*

  • @merucrypoison296
    @merucrypoison296 3 месяца назад

    Gooned to the art style

  • @user-jy2xk5ih5f
    @user-jy2xk5ih5f 8 месяцев назад

    "but where were we ah yes" got me killing 😂

    • @the-petri-dish-emoji
      @the-petri-dish-emoji 8 месяцев назад +2

      I know what you meant but I cannot un-picture you going on a murderous rampage because of that line

  • @LYVwithLYN
    @LYVwithLYN 5 месяцев назад

    Obviously I awoke immediately and got some ice cream, comforting myself from that narrow escape 😂

  • @user-jz1hr6mu7c
    @user-jz1hr6mu7c 3 месяца назад

    When I was working at the pet store we used to feed the piranhas by hand as long as you have no cuts they softly eat and know not to actually bite you it's pretty cool

  • @mirrorblue100
    @mirrorblue100 8 месяцев назад

    Whew - that was close. Now safely back on dry land your only worry is the Mapinguari.

  • @lebasilica9624
    @lebasilica9624 6 месяцев назад

    Always refreshing to find stereotypes quashed by careful studies without a loaded objective. Thank you TED-Ed

  • @user-bp4nv3qp4d
    @user-bp4nv3qp4d 8 месяцев назад

    Very beautiful 💖

  • @smokejaguar67
    @smokejaguar67 Месяц назад

    I lived in Guyana many years ago and my amerinidan guide while traveling down the Esquibo river in a motor launch, told me that piranhas sometimes kill people, and at certain times of the year it is dangerous to go swimming - he would know!

  • @m.scottreeder
    @m.scottreeder 17 дней назад

    The main actor of the early 1960s TV western, “Rawhide”, was Eric Fleming. His death in the mid ‘60s occurred in South America, where he was involved in a film in production.
    Conflicting accounts of how he was killed range from a tragic drowning, to being eaten by piranhas. I’m not sure.

  • @martinkalmus3761
    @martinkalmus3761 8 месяцев назад

    Still not going to swim there,but thanks for video xD

  • @Hanibaltherogue
    @Hanibaltherogue 2 месяца назад +3

    Only if they are 3D 😂

  • @WilAdams
    @WilAdams 20 дней назад

    Having read Teddy's book, a friend and I went to the Amazon, where we explored the river. We did two things that we thought of as 'scary' when we got there: A) swimming with Piranha, and B) wresting an Anaconda--something we had seen Marlin Perkins do on an episode of Wild Kingdom. When the boat captain pointed over the side at a school of red bellied Piranha. Scott (my friend) and I dove into the water--right into the center of the school. Neither of us had any doubt that these fish would not eat us, and we were correct. Later we saw a coiled up anaconda on the bank, but that is a different..

  • @FedJimSmith
    @FedJimSmith 4 месяца назад

    this is a info animated video about Piranhas, some myth busting mixed... nicely done as always !!
    does this mean it's safe and ok to bathe in Amazon waters?

  • @marhec69
    @marhec69 8 месяцев назад

    Interesting!

  • @icemike1
    @icemike1 8 месяцев назад

    Yes

  • @higanbana2620
    @higanbana2620 4 месяца назад

    Whatever you do or wherever you are, It's fear and panic that kills you most of the time, other times is because of lack of knowledge

  • @joaquinm9148
    @joaquinm9148 5 месяцев назад

    The thumbnail looks like a Kick Buttowski episode and I love it

  • @Venombomb3
    @Venombomb3 8 месяцев назад +12

    Wonderful video, very informative! Quick question: what about leeches? The media and Entertainment industry portrays explorers wading through neck-deep jungle water, only for them to rip off their shirt and find a torso covered in leeches. Are leeches present in piranha territory?

    • @Filipe_Veras
      @Filipe_Veras 8 месяцев назад +4

      Hello there. Short answer: yes.
      Long answer: leeches exists all over the world (they are very old animals and had time to disperse). There are over 500 species, most of them in fresh water, but there are species that live in the mud and even salt water species.
      Swim away…

  • @user-ug2hk3go6i
    @user-ug2hk3go6i 3 месяца назад +1

    Best just to stay at home and indoors.

  • @ScreaminMime
    @ScreaminMime 8 месяцев назад +1

    I used to have a tank [125 gallon] of 6. Once they got hand size nothing else I put in there would survive for long; Oscars, Jack Demspies, cat fish even crawfish. You could hear them hit the lid every now and then and they would rise to the surface whenever I opened it to put in the free Fish of the Month I'd pcik up when getting the gold fish/bay mice/whatver I decided to feed them that week.

  • @brucegay9569
    @brucegay9569 3 месяца назад +1

    If I fell in i'd probably be more concerned about the possible caimans or anacondas in the water than piranhas.

  • @marisirosaurus8987
    @marisirosaurus8987 8 месяцев назад +1

    If I fell into the Amazon river, I would just consider myself dead

  • @panicfarm9874
    @panicfarm9874 3 месяца назад

    Growing up I had a big fear of piranhas eating me and also falling into quick sand

  • @swartzautoman2
    @swartzautoman2 5 месяцев назад

    Soooo
    Crazy fact here
    Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri has the highest concentration of piranha in the US.

  • @only257
    @only257 7 месяцев назад

    Great 😊

  • @intheshell35ify
    @intheshell35ify 4 месяца назад

    They sure aren't shy about biting you if you put your hand in their aquarium.

  • @TK-un1pu
    @TK-un1pu 17 дней назад

    I remember the horror movie named Piranha! I also remember when I tried to put my bully’s hand in the piranha tank at the aquarium.

  • @TomFooleryTheAustere
    @TomFooleryTheAustere 7 месяцев назад

    Lol, a few of the comments here talking about swimming in the Amazon, not being attacked by piranha, then afterwards, went fishing for said piranha.