| 单词 | piranha |
| 例句 | And in this section of the river, with the exception of the vicious saw-toothed piranhas, fish were few and far between. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He dreamed the ants crawling all over his hummingbird feeder and clogging it with their bodies were a special kind of Milagro piranha ant. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Below, the piranhas zipped about in a frenzy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Dunno. That rope’s a bit dodgy. Could snap if we pull too hard, and then we re piranha food.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “If I weren’t about to be eaten by piranhas, I would tell you that I love you.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Despite catching two big piranhas that were divvied up with the previous night’s dinner, along with two spoonfuls of wild honey and a handful of the ever-elusive Brazil nuts, the men woke up hungry. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And being a sheepman connected to the Devine Company was like trying to raise mutton in a tank full of sharks, barracudas, and piranha fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I do this as threateningly as I can, thinking of crocodiles, sharks, black piranhas for courage. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It can stand in for anything—a stuffed piranha, existentialism, the Monroe Doctrine, or buttered toast. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kitchykitchykitchykoo” John said, tapping his finger on the side of an aquarium that had two piranha flesh-eating fish in it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Not even Rondon, who was missing a little toe after a piranha bit it off. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They had been spinning themselves into a frothing, famished frenzy, like bloodthirsty piranhas, in front of our house all morning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A ravenous piranha surfaced briefly to eat several floating sequins. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Until he says, “If. I. Were. Aquaman. I. Would. Summon. The piranhas. To take you away. You could be their queen.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Malaria, starvation, Indian attacks, and vicious bites from piranhas, snakes, and insects were all part of the job. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He knew it was a risk swimming with hungry piranhas. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But one thing was certain: Even the smallest drop of blood attracted the piranhas like a nail to a magnet. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Adding to the risk was the fact that no one knew how to prevent an attack or what to do if the piranhas did strike. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The first is missing the hyphen that bolts together the pieces of the compound word that was supposed to remind readers of the problem with piranhas, man-eating. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was fed up with traveling through exotic countries selling shark-fin aphrodisiacs, ginseng to cure all ills, carved Eskimo statues, stuffed Amazonian piranhas, and chinchillas for ladies’ coats. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the experience of suddenly being thrust into a crowd of boys was like being dumped into a pool of piranhas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Or Cherrie, who had scars on his shoulder and body from a piranha attack. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “We took her and her eco-warrior boyfriend and tied them up over a piranha tank and slowly lowered them in.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Like throwing us into a pool of piranhas or ripping our fingernails out?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Of course there’s a witch, Yaga, but here she operates a restaurant with signature dishes like piranha. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z See sharks of all kinds, along with sawfish, giant rays, endangered green sea turtles, piranhas, moon jellyfish and rare golden crocodiles. Top 10 things to do in Las Vegas 2011-02-21T19:24:04Z Stuffed with sumo wrestling; trap doors; an autogiro equipped with flamethrowers and missiles; a piranha pool; and, of course, a rocket base hidden inside a volcano, “You Only Live Twice” wasn’t exactly an actor’s breakthrough. Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z When she lightens up, it is to rhyme "piranha" with "piñata" on the standout Tongue Twister and to rally her fellow female MCs to action on Put Your Game Face On. Envy: Set Yourself on Fire 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z If only the piranhas and crocodiles in the rivers past which the two pals and gauchos herded cattle could read, that would have given them the willies. Two Amigos: A Gaucho Adventure review – the sordid reality of mid-life crises happening abroad 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z The piranhas and caimans the kids encounter aren’t mindless killers but animals occupying important niches in the environment, and the true insect menace is not the spiders but the bullet ants. A Novel Set in the Amazon, Harking Back to Classic Survival Stories 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z He also politely, but firmly, put me straight on the correct pronunciation of the word “piranha”, a word that has never sounded the same to me since. Christopher Lee 1922-2015: an appreciation by Mark Kermode 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The piranhas have razor-sharp teeth and ferocious eyes, but they almost look as if they're smiling as they prepare to tear into some unsuspecting fool's flesh. 'Piranha 3D': Run, don't walk, to see this fun horror flick 2010-08-19T22:27:00Z In addition to geodes, they amassed fossils of trilobites, ferns and fishes, as well as an authentic poison blow gun from the Amazon that includes a piranha jaw to sharpen the darts. You May Be Surprised to Hear That Restoration Hardware Is Doing Great 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Among the small purple people of Eggplant Land, threats to life and limb are perpetually imminent: the pointy-toothed piranha plants with gaping jaws, the scowly-faced mushrooms with menacing fangs. At New York Musical Theater Festival, a Video Game Sendup, Gospel Music and More 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Enveloped by the forest, the explorer and his crew face snakes, piranhas, insects and that most terrifying of threats: other people, who at times bombard the strangers with arrows. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Her suckle stings, as if I’m nursing a piranha. “You sat in the splash zone”: The messy truth about breast-feeding 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The moment the piranhas that strip Helga Brandt’s flesh in five seconds. My favourite film aged 12: You Only Live Twice 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Like space piranhas, they tear into the Enterprise, forcing an evacuation. Star Trek Beyond: 13 reasons to get excited about the new trailer 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The creatures in these films are still physically similar to actual grizzlies, spiders, piranhas and sharks. Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z Following the joke, Martinez said customs officers took him into a private interrogation room where he was asked more questioned about what he intended to do with the piranhas. World-famous chef detained at LAX with 40 frozen piranhas in his bag 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Flying pink piranha birds devour walking whales in seconds, while tiny monkeys with giant fists use Grug as a punch bag. Cage channels caveman in animated film 'The Croods' 2013-02-15T19:20:02Z It's not just about the giant otters and their ancient scaly nemesis; there's all sorts of excellent stuff going on – piranhas, scarlet macaws, an ocelot caught on a camera trap, jaguar footprints in the sand. Giant Otters of the Amazon; Spiral – review 2013-02-10T08:00:06Z At home, they seek eternally youthful hands by dipping them in bowls infested with old-skin-devouring piranha, and in restaurants, they order from the starvation side of the menu. What’s so funny about lettuce? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The first scene sees a young girl and her boyfriend going for a dip before being eaten by a school of normal-sized piranhas. Aquarium curator Brian Zimmerman on Mega Piranha 2010-07-26T21:31:00Z It was the museum’s third Art & Film Gala, and Mrs. Chow, a host with Leonardo DiCaprio, was working the room like a piranha in a goldfish bowl. Eva Chow, the Culture Queen of Los Angeles 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z We paddled through flooded forests looking for anacondas and fished for piranhas along a small creek. Bears, Binoculars and Bucket-List Birds: A 15-Day Tour in Ecuador 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z At no point, for example, does Nick Carraway hurtle though a phosphorescent alien jungle, or smash up New York with his fists, or put on a bikini and get eaten by a swarm of piranhas. The Great Gatsby trailer shows Baz Luhrmann putting 3D to good use 2012-05-23T14:20:42Z And of the reporters, the director observes, “They’re angry, sullen. If they don’t get a story, they don’t get paid. They’re a pond of underfed piranhas.” Why ‘The Front Page’ is the best newspaper comedy of all time 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A “smash and grab” is a communal dining experience in the sense that a piranha feast is communal. Thanks for Not Sharing! My Fine Dining Isn’t Your Fork Orgy 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z “For many companies, it’s like being nibbled away by little piranhas rather than being eaten by a big shark,” Mr. Verver said. Itineraries: A Little Extra on the Road 2010-11-18T07:30:00Z But the oohs, ahhs and scattered laughs come from the various creatures the Croods discover along their journey, including the hungry, hot-pink piranha birds, the upside-down pear bears and the fearsome bear owls. Review: `Croods' is simple but dazzles visually 2013-03-18T23:01:09Z Speaking of fish, I loved the Bergen Aquarium, at the end of the Nordnes peninsula, with its playful sea lions, shark tunnel, sparkling Norwegian piranhas, salmon and cod, and small, jewel-like tropical beauties. Norway in the offseason: Overcast and underappreciated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But his subjects span topics ranging from plants and piranhas to buildings and Disney characters. Seattle artist Gregory Blackstock’s possibly last show on view at Greg Kucera Gallery 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z By now, it's too late to stop the piranhas from invading the water park to wreak predictable havoc, despite the heroic interventions of Maddy, Henry and even Hasselhoff. Review: Sleazy 'Piranha 3DD' is sub-par sequel 2012-06-03T01:16:04Z The movie follows a pack of piranha unleashed on spring breakers partying on an Arizona lake. 'Piranha 3D' sequel set 2010-08-23T22:16:00Z My aim was to go piranha fishing at a lodge called Anaula while getting a taste for the interior before flying back over the rain forest in a small Cessna. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z He also proves better than the Japanese at martial arts, cleverly avoiding being thrown into a pool of piranhas. Sir Sean Connery obituary 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z A mutant strain of piranha fish in Venezuela is getting bigger and heading north, leaping out of the water and chomping people. Film review: Mega Piranha 2010-07-15T22:10:00Z Why don't you just go bobbing for piranha? Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z We fished for piranhas — later eating our scrawny catch pan-fried for lunch. Leaping Caimans and Tasty Piranha in the Wild Amazon 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Fear of attack by caiman, jaguar and piranha is constant. Travel Books Take You There and Back 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead of even trying to govern, they squabble among themselves like a school of cannibalistic piranhas. Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z That set off a competitive scramble among other Mexican states, like feeding time at a piranha tank. Mexican states in hot competition over possible Tesla plant 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z I don’t know a brave man alive willing to send their mother or wife tickets to swim in a pool of piranhas. Tyler Tynes: Slow death in the desert. Inside Eagles fans' painful Super Bowl. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z "We're on an island and pieces are being chipped away by piranhas in the water," he said. More orthopedic physicians sell out to private equity firms, raising alarms about costs and quality 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Known as vegetarian piranhas, pacu can reach up to 1 meter long. A river’s pulse: Indigenous people and scientists unite to track giant dam’s environmental toll 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z She’s also dangerous to those around her: For example, she unleashes bags full of piranhas in a school swimming pool. What to watch with your kids: ‘Strange World’ and more 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Walking deliberately into an indoor pool area while carrying two bags full of piranhas, she tells a team of bullying water-polo players, “The only person who gets to torture my brother is me.” 'Mystery, mayhem and murder': 'Wednesday' trailer debuts a new Addams family 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Directed by Pierre Perifel, “The Bad Guys” centers on a band of former criminals — a wolf, a piranha, a snake, a tarantula and a shark — on a mission to improve their villainous reputations. Sorry, Nic Cage. With 'Bad Guys' and 'Sonic,' animation rules domestic box office 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Since then, the Kraken have resembled a school of piranhas when opponents get overly aggressive in the corners or at the goal crease. Kraken forward Jared McCann and other skilled NHL players should use their hands for scoring, not fighting 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z In Russia's "piranha capitalism," these billionaires have mostly sought to outcompete their rivals for government largesse. The Russian oligarchs who have profited from Putin's presidency 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z It becomes a big floaty bullfight, or — with enough players — a piranha feeding frenzy. Halo Infinite multiplayer feels like an exciting return to form 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z A black bear, a tortoise, meerkats, otters, elephants, hogs, hippos, jaguars, cassowaries, snow leopards, flamingos, piranhas, peccaries and howler monkeys. Halloween is near! Add these 14 L.A. activities to your spooky season checklist 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z While shooting one scene in South America, he was warned that a river, into which he was about to plunge for a scene, was filled with poisonous snakes and piranha. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Magnetic Star of the French New Wave, Dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z They eat algae, but if tossed a raw slab of steak, pupfish will tear off tiny pieces like piranhas. Saved by a Bucket, but Can the Owens Pupfish Survive? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The more I dwell on puzzles such as superposition, entanglement and the measurement problem, the more I identify with the piranha. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z At the buddies’ houses, only a mile apart, investigators found three young alligators, four piranhas, a rattlesnake, three desert tortoises, a scorpion, and two snapping turtles. Runaway animals are as L.A. as car chases. Here's why they make headlines 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Richards said in recent years she has received as many as 10 inquiries in a single day from “piranha” real estate agents looking to buy her house. In Miami’s gentrifying neighborhoods, Surfside condo collapse deepens fears of displacement 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years after a 92-pound piranha with a lucky teddy bear blazed to a pool record in Indianapolis, Beard attended the US Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha last week. A quarter-century after bursting onto the Olympic scene, Amanda Beard is teaching kids in Gig Harbor how to swim 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Keelan was fatally wounded just metres from his home in an attack which witnesses described as akin to a "piranha frenzy". Keelan Wilson: Four jailed for Wolverhampton teen's gang murder 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The main difference between me and piranha is that it is inside the aquarium, and I’m on the outside, looking in. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z The piranha edged the cory into a corner, opened wide and chomped down once, twice, ultimately 10 times—only for the catfish to wriggle free and drift off unfazed, if a little miffed. How these fish—'tiny tanks of the Amazon'—survive piranha attacks 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Championship boxing match, glorified sparring session, whatever that was, it resembled the afternoon feeding of the red-bellied piranhas at the Los Angeles Zoo. Column: Canelo Alvarez had a chance to elevate his ambitions, and it's gone 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z One of the modest delights of the original film was its imaginative use of hybrid animal species that never existed: bear fish; piranha birds and such. Review | Caveman comedy ‘The Croods: A New Age’ has a message for today: Can’t we all just get along? 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z To judge by popular movies, people who live in the Brazilian Amazon are at constant risk of being attacked by huge tarantulas, squeezed to death by giant anacondas and being eaten alive by voracious piranhas. Blame Poverty, Not the Poor, for COVID-19's Spread in Brazil's Amazon 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z I can take solace from the fact that my world is much bigger than the piranha’s, and that I know many things that the fish cannot. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Reforms proposed recently by Councilman David Ryu were pecked at by City Hall piranhas until they were practically useless. Column: A city councilman is charged with racketeering, and we just yawn. That's how bad things are 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z I felt like a goldfish in a sea of piranhas. Rant and Rave: Yard workers are a blessing 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A quarter-hour in which they tear you asunder like piranhas - such massive piranhas - stripping a carcass. England v New Zealand: Rugby World Cup 2019, semi-final – live! 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Specifically, a native of the Amazon region known as a pirarucu that inhabits rivers in countries such as Brazil and Peru that are infested with piranha with their razor-sharp teeth. Piranha-frustrating fish intrigues Air Force 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But it’s all too easy to imagine some enlightened, superintelligent being standing outside our world, looking at us with the same pity and smug superiority that we feel toward the piranha. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z A separate study published in August looked into how piranhas, which are omnivores, are able to regenerate rows of teeth simultaneously. Amazon fish's 'bulletproof vest' is piranha protection 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "The new teeth wear the old ones as 'hats' until they are ready to erupt. So, piranhas are never toothless even though they are constantly replacing dull teeth with brand new sharp ones." Piranha teeth stun researchers after amazing discovery 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Stories of enemies being liquidated with flamethrowers, anti-tank guns or even piranha fish may prove to be exaggerations, but he was happy to kill his brother with a nerve agent. Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea's Madrid embassy 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s located on the banks of the Gurupi River where many fish for piranhas and other fish that they later grill over wood fires. In the Amazon, indigenous debate how to save their lands 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The piranha froze for an instant, then darted this way and that, jaws snapping, as the minnows fled. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z We get a handful of these malapropisms, the most touching of which is Thor’s plaintive cry: “Two weeks into sixth grade, and I’m already a social piranha.” “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” Is at Cate Blanchett’s Command 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z "Among piranhas and pacus there's a lot of diversity in how the teeth lock together, and it seems to relate to how the teeth are being used." Piranha teeth stun researchers after amazing discovery 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z By accident some of the potatoes ended up on the display table and “people were like piranhas, they snapped them up,” Lazure said. From grocery-store delis to fancy restaurants: The humble jojo remains a Pacific Northwest staple 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z He throws out the red meat to his crowds and then pretends he doesn't like the fact that they gobbled it up like a school of red-bellied piranhas. "Send her back" is nothing new: Racism and xenophobia are Trump's only political strategy 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The piranha kept bumping, with audible thuds, into the glass walls of its prison. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Users created everything from punishing death traps to inventive levels that used goombas and piranha plants to tell a story. One of Nintendo’s top designers says he always wanted a tool like Super Mario Maker 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z They were about as hard as a shark’s tooth and as sharp as a piranha’s. Behold the marvelous, translucent teeth of the deep-sea dragonfish 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Mosquitoes carry malaria, dengue, yellow fever as well as zika, while in the rivers, caiman compete for space with piranhas. The soldiers who protect a rainforest 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A world-famous chef was stopped as he brought 40 piranhas through LAX. Essential California: Whose names belong on a secretive gang database? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Sooner or later the piranha gobbled all the hapless minnows, whereupon it returned to its listless, suspended state. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z He says customs agents pulled him into an interrogation room last week when they found the cache of frozen, vacuum-sealed piranhas. Chef stopped at Los Angeles airport with 40 frozen piranhas 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z In his luggage when he landed were 40 piranhas. A world-famous chef was stopped as he brought 40 piranhas through LAX 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z And the Daily Star leads on the curious case of piranhas in a Doncaster lake. News Daily: Madeira bus crash and death of children's TV star 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z But then we started looking at it more closely and saw the teeth, we realised it was a piranha.” 'Not what you expect in Doncaster': suspected piranhas found in lake 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Now and then, the bartender netted a few minnows from a fishbowl and dropped them into the piranha’s cubicle. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z A large school of genetically altered piranha have accidentally been released into the resort’s nearby rivers. 'Gremlins' star Dick Miller dead at 90 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “I took my book and said, ‘Look, this is what I want to do with the piranhas.’ A world-famous chef was stopped as he brought 40 piranhas through LAX 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Back in Nevada, he was schooled in the piranha bowl of Las Vegas politics. Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “It was quite a shock. We couldn’t believe that we’d found a piranha fish. It’s not the kind of thing you expect to find in Doncaster,” Holmes said. 'Not what you expect in Doncaster': suspected piranhas found in lake 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z And I remember the piranha, bumping over and over again into the walls of its world, blind to its own blindness. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z It's a logical extension of the work they do stateside as corporate piranhas. How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, carnivores such as piranha are likely to consume plastics when they eat contaminated prey. 'Sad surprise': Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But fossils of fish with missing or bitten fins suggest the fish nipped at the appendages of unwary fish while they were still alive, a practice seen in modern piranhas. With Piranha-Like Teeth, This Prehistoric Predator Never Bit Off More Than It Could Chew 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Gill Gillies, the assistant director of environment at Doncaster council, said that given the natural habitat of piranhas, it was “highly unlikely” either of the fish were alive at any time in the lake. 'Not what you expect in Doncaster': suspected piranhas found in lake 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z "This is an amazing parallel with modern piranhas, which feed predominantly not on flesh but the fins of other fishes," said Dr Bellwood. Earliest piranha-like fish found 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z They were able to use CT-scans to look at the fossilized fish and estimate characteristics such as bite force and then compare them with modern-day piranhas. Flesh-eating piranha-like fish's 150-million-year-old remains discovered in Germany 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z While it shares traits with piranhas, Piranhamesodon was neither their long-ago ancestor nor related to them at all. In toothy prequel, piranha-like fish menaced Jurassic seas 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “These small, niche brands are like a shoal of piranhas,” Pepsi’s Global Insights Director Maneesh Kaushik said at an event in France in June. Cat Fight: Cheetos Maker Pepsi Challenges Orange Snack Rival 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z “You were a piranha in a goldfish tank,” he said. Securities agent gets prison time for millions in fraud 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But according to studies, the reputation of piranhas as terrifying creatures is mostly mythical. Earliest piranha-like fish found 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Cook was amazed at how similar these fish are to modern-day piranhas, which do not eat living flesh as is commonly thought, but the fins of other fishes. Flesh-eating piranha-like fish's 150-million-year-old remains discovered in Germany 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “I felt like a person in a pool of piranhas,” she said. Nursing homes, senior centers find bullying has no age limit 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Parker Schnabel takes on heat, jaguars, venomous snakes and piranha in his quest to mine the gold-rich jungles of Guyana. Friday’s TV Picks: ‘Gold Rush’ goes to Guyana; Coltons return to ‘MacGyver’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The toothy South American fish is related to the piranha, though it mainly eats fruits and vegetables. Lakewood school club getting young women involved in science 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Especially popular were the regularly scheduled feedings of various carnivores: piranhas on Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; four-foot-long nurse sharks Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays; two-foot-long alligators on Fridays. Perspective | Tanks for the memories: Answer Man checks out the original National Aquarium 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z "This is an amazing parallel with modern piranhas, which feed predominantly not on flesh but the fins of other fishes," Cook added in the statement. Flesh-eating piranha-like fish's 150-million-year-old remains discovered in Germany 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Aside from would-be Bond assassin Helga Brandt - who ended up being fed to piranhas - Dor also played in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 thriller “Topaz,” and the U.S. crime series “Ironside” and “The FBI.” Karin Dor, would-be assassin in ‘You Only Live Twice,’ dies 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z She later joked about a journalist’s mind, ever keen for a scoop: “Hey,” she recalled thinking, “we have never had a U.S. senator eaten by piranhas.” Bonnie Angelo, political journalist who wrote about moms of U.S. presidents, dies at 93 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The US president recounted in his 1914 book Through the Brazilian Wilderness the spectacle of piranhas stripping a cow’s carcass in minutes. It’s not just the ‘sea lice’ – other flesh-eating sea creatures lurk in the deep 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z “The Americans did this! The piranhas did this. They want to finish Panama!” Manuel Noriega: feared dictator was the man who knew too much | Simon Tisdall 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Officials say piranhas are not native to Nevada, which means somebody illegally possessed and released the fish into the pond. Piranha-like fish carcass found near Nevada pond 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The trail became harder, and the men descended steep, mud-slicked gorges and crossed rock-strewn rapids, where they had to check their skin for traces of blood, which might attract piranhas. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z Full of stark images of “IRS piranhas” and police brutality, “We the People…” bitterly satirizes what the group’s mastermind, rapper and producer Q-Tip, referred to as Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric. 'This was divinely inspired': A Tribe Called Quest on the year's most surprising comeback 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z A fund-raiser was held Dec. 2, featuring Brazilian décor, Brazilian bites of food and the official reveal of the red-bellied Brazilian piranhas. Detroit aquarium adds piranhas from the Amazon River 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z But when I started to play seven-card stud poker, I found myself in a fishbowl of piranhas feeding off one another, borrowing money and stiffing debts. Cat Hulbert: How I got rich beating men at their own game - BBC News 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z A witness also says they saw a piranha swimming in the pond. Piranha-like fish carcass found near Nevada pond 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z After catching half a dozen piranhas, we glided to shore. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z Aside from the acts against diversity advocates, the flier also urges augmenting a border wall by irradiation with nuclear waste and stocking the Rio Grande with alligators and piranhas. Campus police seek those threatening diversity advocates 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z So, before the piranhas arrived from Brazil, aquarium workers did what they call tankscaping, arranging rocks, plants, a hollow log and other hiding spots for any fish that need them. Detroit aquarium adds piranhas from the Amazon River 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z “One thing about her that I’ve had to learn to live with is that she eats faster than a piranha,” Delaney tells me later. Sharon Horgan: Queen of difficult women 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z "It's like I'm in an aquarium full of sharks, but I'm also a small piranha." Among political sharks, Ukrainian pilot Savchenko to be a 'small piranha' 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Without skinning the piranhas, he laid them on the wood, grilling one side, then the other. The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z Last November, the head of the National Narcotics Agency, BNN, even outlandishly suggested that drug offenders should be placed on a prison island surrounded by crocodiles and piranhas. A year after the Bali Nine executions, Indonesia prepares firing squads again 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Boats escorting him down the river poured blood over the side to distract piranhas. Your Tuesday Briefing: Brussels, Cuba, iPhone 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The water’s fine only if the alternative is the River Trump, a bloody churn of piranhas and Palins. Rubio’s Exit and the G.O.P.’s Spoiled Buffet 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z You’re the stranger in a land of jaguars, crocodiles, snakes, piranhas, parasites and tropical diseases. This Week Surfers Will Ride a Wave in the Amazon 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “Several threatened to tie us over the river and let piranhas eat us.” The Lost City of Z 2005-09-12T04:00:00Z But in the Amazon there can be complications, especially when what you’re building is a golf course amid vipers, piranhas and torrential rains. For Golfers in the Amazon, Jungle Critters Are Par for the Course 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z “We need a piranha in there, and he’s definitely a piranha,” she said. Many 'lost' voters say they have found their candidate in Trump 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Also called payara, the Amazon Basin predators feed on other fish, especially piranhas, which they impale on their long fangs. Swimming with the World’s Biggest Fish 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z "Break him down, little by little, like a piranha. Then you drop him." Timothy Bradley follows plan and knocks out Brandon Rios 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Don’t get greedy and then by like a piranha. Timothy Bradley stops Brandon Rios in ninth round of welterweight title bout 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z “Once we got the first couple turnovers, it was like piranhas with the blood in the water,” Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said. Stafford benched after 3 INTs, Lions routed by Arizona 42-17 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z “Once we got the first couple turnovers, it was like piranhas with the blood in the water,” Arizona coach Bruce Arians said. Palmer throws 3 TDs to help Cardinals dominate Lions 42-17 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Also called payara, the Amazon Basin predators feed on other fish, especially piranhas, which they impale on their long fangs. Swimming with the World’s Biggest Fish 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z When they finally arrived, they saw some creatures like pink river dolphins, which Rob Simpson said are “really rare creatures,” in addition to eels, anacondas, piranhas and crocodiles. 2 globe-trotting college professors bring world to class 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z This is a fish bowl filled with tiny, adorable piranhas. Honda HR-V: A Bigger, If Not Entirely Better, Fit 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z By comparison, he said with a laugh, blood-thirsty piranhas “are OK” - but partially because those on the support boat poured buckets of blood into the Amazon to draw the fish away after they attacked him. Swimmer has eyes on aquatic prize: to swim around the world 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z By comparison, he said with a laugh, blood-thirsty piranhas "are OK" — but partially because those on the support boat poured buckets of blood into the Amazon to draw the fish away after they attacked him. Swimmer has eyes on the aquatic prize: to swim around the world in 450 days 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Also called payara, the Amazon Basin predators feed on other fish, especially piranhas, which they impale on their long fangs. Swimming with the World’s Biggest Fish 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z There was a plumber who needed our guidance, giant mushroom creatures that needed our besting and angry piranha plants that needed to be avoided. Happy 30th, 'Super Mario Bros.,' and thanks for the lessons big and small 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z In part because of the shortage of information, whenever a “Force Awakens” tidbit has been divulged, the reaction has been like food sprinkled over a piranha tank. Promoters of Coming ‘Star Wars’ Film Have a Delicate Dance at Comic-Con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z At one Midwest wealth-management firm, employees gathered in the office of an adviser each week to watch him feed live goldfish to his three piranhas. The Office Pet Is a Pig; No, Really 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z “They called us little piranhas because we were wild,” Hunter said. Paul Molitor’s Attention to Detail Has Lifted the Minnesota Twins 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z “The chief himself put his hat on me - his crown - and he taught me how to spit poison darts. They cooked piranha for me,” Maxwell said. ‘Booze Traveler’ host explores how world drinks 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z When lashing about, the pirarucu are often strong enough to capsize the fishermen’s small canoes, casting them into waters teeming with caimans and piranhas. Fishermen in Brazil Save a River Goliath, and Their Livelihoods 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z “You play golf with somebody, you are much less likely to see them as a piranha that is trying to devour consumers, even if that is just what they are,” said Mr. Myers. Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z A week before we meet, I email Woo to tell him I would like a piranha on my ribcage. Needles and spin: inside the world of the US’s top tattooist 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “I’m not sure if it’s a 12-gauge-wrench-tail sunny or a piranha,” Logan said. Stillwater mechanic sees a menagerie in car parts 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z In the Washington production, some of the dancers bring the local flavor of the Brazilian river — as piranhas. D.C. opera raises curtain with work inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The original list developed by the Wild and Dangerous Animal Board includes chimpanzees, crocodiles, giraffes, elephants, piranha, and several types of pythons. Board to revise list of W.Va. dangerous animals 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Supposed minnows proved to be piranhas in Brazil, unawed by their supposedly more illustrious prey. Goal! Magic mix making World Cup score-fest: how? 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Woozy from endorphins and wine, I unpeel some of the protective clingfilm to inspect my piranha later that night. Needles and spin: inside the world of the US’s top tattooist 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z But I never cleared piranha plants like that. Speedrunner Beats 'Super Mario Bros' In Less Than Five Minutes And It's Intense 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Then they gradually ascend to brighter environs: shallow tropical reefs, beach ecosystems and fresh-water habitats like the Amazon River, exhibiting piranhas and crocodiles in turbid lagoons under a canopy of plastic foliage. Sharks swim beneath the streets in Mexico City’s new aquarium On another floor, the AP reported, there were several types of jellyfish and a separate massive fish tank housing piranhas, crocodiles and tiny turtles. Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim Opens A World-Class Aquarium In Mexico City 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z There is an eclectic mix of tourist shops stocked with stuffed piranhas that sell for about $4 a pop. Shopping guide for World Cup city Manaus 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Even piranhas don’t turn their teeth on each other. Nowhere to place blame As for the play, in which the three Seahawks raced for a floating Kellen Clemens pass, Carroll said “it looked like piranhas going after the football.” Ricardo Lockette gets his moment in the sun on special teams 2013-12-30T04:10:30Z The smallest robots, each about the size and shape of a birthday cake, swarm across their field, weaving around like piranha. RoboCup showcases soccer-playing robots 2013-07-02T04:08:03Z The smallest robots, each about the size and shape of a birthday cake, swarm across their field, weaving around like piranhas. Robot football players compete in RoboCup tournament 2013-06-30T09:48:42Z He started with the piranhas, which lurk in rivers, and the pit vipers like the feared bushmaster, the Western Hemisphere’s longest venomous snake. From Jungle, Brazil Aims to Extend Its Reach 2013-05-07T00:35:22Z If only the ferocious piranha tasted a bit better. Japanese Restaurant Offers Piranha 2013-04-22T06:40:00Z But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. Amazon's Olympic athletes aim for faster, stronger, deadlier 2013-04-05T16:28:39Z It’s Identity Thief with flying piranhas, or Plains, Trains & Automobiles on foot. The Croods: A Post-Modern Stone Age Family 2013-03-22T10:50:25Z Or giant piranha plants that need to be hit three times with fireballs, rather than just once. New Super Mario Bros U – review 2012-11-30T18:09:42Z The soldiers must endure long hikes through the jungle, swim in waters infested with caiman and piranha and survive for several days without rations, hunting or foraging for their own food. From Jungle, Brazil Aims to Extend Its Reach 2013-05-07T00:35:22Z Frying the piranha is not the only way to eat it. Japanese Restaurant Offers Piranha 2013-04-22T06:40:00Z That was two of the three big fish of BBC news gathered like piranhas to feast on the sinking body of the third. Rewind TV: Newsnight; Panorama; Girls – review 2012-10-27T23:07:33Z Dropping bamboo with fishing line and some makeshift hooks into the water to catch piranha after piranha for tambaqui stew, their hideous faces begging to be thrown back in, was. Isolation is the New Luxe! Find It by Speedboat in the Amazon 2012-10-01T14:12:20Z The Crabbes took the piranha to the Staten Island Zoo, where an official confirmed its identity and reported it to state conservation authorities. City Room: Staten Island Pond Produces an Unexpected Catch 2012-09-12T23:06:12Z The Olympic competition is being held at The Serpentine, a 28-acre recreational lake populated by plenty of ducks and fish the locals jokingly refer to as "British piranhas." Rough-and-tumble open water comes to Hyde Park 2012-08-08T18:52:08Z The ominous-looking piranha is “lightly sprinkled with flour and fried,” reports Rocketnews24 — and is served whole, its mouth agape, showing off its jagged teeth. Japanese Restaurant Offers Piranha 2013-04-22T06:40:00Z One after another, the rod tip buried into the water as the king salmon attacked like piranha in the Amazon. Tony Floor's Tackle Box full of late summer salmon fishing festivities 2012-08-03T18:29:34Z Choose your metaphor -- acid bath or piranha pool. Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at Climate Studies Promoted Before Publication 2012-07-30T21:04:42Z But despite being offered morsels of pork, not a single piranha was caught. Chinese city cancels piranha hunt 2012-07-13T10:13:33Z A city in China is offering cash rewards to anybody who captures flesh-eating piranha fish from a local river, after reports that two men were bitten. China cash for piranha hunters 2012-07-12T11:33:46Z The and are also carrying reports on two men in the southern Guangxi autonomous region surviving a harrowing piranha attack. China media: Japan islands row 2012-07-09T04:13:01Z He compared the men replying to his messages to "starving piranhas, no bonjour, no pleasantries, it was direct and crude". France says farewell to the Minitel – the little box that connected a country 2012-06-28T19:52:23Z The fight likely wouldn't surprise Kentucky coach Calipari, who lovingly compares Wildcats fans to piranhas - yes, the flesh-eating fish. Cultures clash in commonwealth over UK-UofL game 2012-03-28T23:06:11Z Nobody wants to talk about piranhas or sharks!” A Conversation With Rachel Graham: Rachel Graham: The Aquatic Jane Goodall, Speaking Up for Sharks 2012-03-26T16:50:41Z Still, where else but in the Green Book would you learn that to get a license for importing piranhas you need to contact the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation? Green Book Fills In N.Y.C. Bureaucracy?s Names 2012-02-27T04:15:29Z How does the arapaima fish keep from being shredded by piranhas? Podcast: Fly-Proof Zebras, Piranha-Proof Fish, and Deep Brain Stimulation 2012-02-17T22:40:05Z Here, gangs of piranhas swarm almost anything that moves. A Piranha-Proof Fish 2012-02-10T18:55:45Z A catfish fitted with extra-protective armor covered in spines to keep hungry piranhas at bay. Cowboy Frogs and Crayola Crickets: 46 New Species Found in Suriname 2012-01-28T07:35:24Z Another said it "looked like a piranha feeding frenzy." Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping 2011-11-26T02:20:08Z They dropped a microphone into a piranha tank that, at different times, held three groups of 10 fish. Flesh-Tearing Piranhas Communicate With Sound 2011-11-01T01:15:05.207Z It was previously thought that piranhas produced a single barking call. Observatory: Hearing the Repertoire of a Very Fearsome Fish 2011-10-17T18:51:38Z To mimic an actual Amazonian chomp, they cemented a piranha tooth to a machine that delivered a bite to several arapaima scales. A Piranha-Proof Fish 2012-02-10T18:55:45Z The new reserves were mostly booked in the country's enormous Orinoco extra heavy belt, a remote region of dense forests, extraordinary plant life and rivers teeming with crocodiles and piranhas. Special report: Pension scandal shakes up Venezuelan oil giant 2011-08-17T12:13:08Z Whatever the reasons, the Sox struggle playing the piranhas or sharks or minnows, or whatever manager wants to label them. Sox 6-26 vs. Twins in last 32 meetings 2011-07-07T01:30:00Z Juan Ortega pupils are taught about ecosystems, and they said they loved living in the rainforest - playing with monkeys and fishing for piranhas. Rainforest dilemmas 2011-06-17T17:21:37Z But the researchers also recorded a drumlike sound, made when the fish fought for food, and a croak the fish’s jaws produced when it snapped at another piranha. Observatory: Hearing the Repertoire of a Very Fearsome Fish 2011-10-17T18:51:38Z But their exteriors, or the sides exposed to piranha bites, are rock hard. A Piranha-Proof Fish 2012-02-10T18:55:45Z "Our community depends on fish like the piranha both to eat and sell," he says. In the pink 2011-05-05T10:05:13Z A new finding or theory is like a lamb shank lowered into a piranha pool. Dot Earth: On Plankton, Warming and Whiplash 2011-04-26T19:04:43Z Obviously, Reinsdorf thinks the American League Central is winnable over the "piranhas," whose move outdoors didn't seem to faze them at all as they won their sixth title in nine years under manage Ron Gardenhire. Sox all in, but Twins team to beat 2011-02-12T19:27:00Z He knew that the piranhas, having tasted blood, would not willingly wander away, at least for a length of time. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z During the dry season, hundreds of piranhas cram lakes off Brazil's Araguaia River and similar waterways. A Piranha-Proof Fish 2012-02-10T18:55:45Z It is, for all intents and purposes, a giant piranha. Angler catches 'monster' fish 2010-10-20T13:13:00Z I do, even if facing Cliff Lee in the playoffs sounds as appealing as taking a bath with piranhas. Rays or Rangers? Should the Yankees Care? 2010-10-11T15:00:00Z “It’s not every printer who can get his hands on a piranha.” | Long Island: The Catch of the Day, Preserved on Paper 2010-08-28T00:02:00Z As the dead-wood scarcely stirred, or drifted only slightly, the piranhas could keep alongside, and see everything that occurred without being seen themselves. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z "It has been a media-fest fed by a public which turns, often like a shoal of piranha fish, from one personality to another." Mourners pay their tributes to Higgins 2010-08-02T18:35:00Z Another described it as like a feeding frenzy by "a school of piranhas". Highway robbery: Money grab as cash falls from US armoured car 2010-03-25T23:28:00Z Having tired of tilapia and trout, Ms. Bernstein is now introducing pacu, a thin, silvery import from South America that she called “a vegetarian piranha.” The Spotless Garden 2010-02-18T00:59:00Z Or swimming with piranhas in the Amazon by day and dining on them at night with live grubs. 2008-01-09T18:12:00Z Almost as soon as the bait sank under the water, it was seized by a piranha, which was instantly jerked out of its native element, and landed on the log. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z "But kill that piranha before you try to handle it," she advised seriously. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 There are several kinds of piranha, many of which abound in the waters of the Tapajos. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America They were no other than the piranhas or cannibal fish. The Black Phantom But his dream was never realised, for the piranhas which had tasted the blood, I suppose, came in large numbers and set upon the unfortunate hog. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians While swimming to overtake the canoe, he was attacked by a swarm of piranhas ravenous for prey, made so perhaps by the blood of the peixe-boi left along the water. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z And they lunched quite happily on piranha and pacu—which is smaller—and drank water, and for dessert had more piranha. he long afternoon wore away slowly. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Not only fish, but turtles find their way into these weirs, and sometimes electric eels—as also those dreaded fish, the piranhas. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America At this point on the Paraguay the piranha do not seem to go in regular schools, but they swarm in all the waters and attain a length of eighteen inches or over. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Later I learned that certain Indian tribes leave their dead in the river for the piranhas to strip the flesh from the bones. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians When the new tackle was tried, however, he discovered to his disappointment that the piranhas would no longer bite; not so much as a nibble could be felt at the end of the string. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z I saw man-eating piranhas with my own eyes for the first time in my life! Free from School Some members of the party were badly bitten by the piranhas. Theodore Roosevelt But the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. Through the Brazilian Wilderness About two o'clock in the afternoon we had the work finished and the carcass was thrown into the river, where it was instantly set upon by the vigilant piranhas and alligators. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians The Mundurucú set the fire freshly astir, and half a dozen piranhas were soon browned in the blaze and distributed among the party, who one and all endorsed the tapuyo, by pronouncing them a delicacy. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z However, the piranhas were quite timid and shy. Free from School The piranhas were bad here, and no one could bathe. Through the Brazilian Wilderness But the piranha is a short, deep-bodied fish, with a blunt face and a heavily undershot or projecting lower jaw which gapes widely. Through the Brazilian Wilderness In the afternoon we got an elderly toucan, a piranha, and a reasonably edible side-necked river- turtle; so we had fresh meat again. Through the Brazilian Wilderness But the tapuyo well understood the signs, and, as soon as his eye rested upon them, his perplexity disappeared; and, with an exclamation that rather betokened relief, he pronounced the simple phrase, “Only piranhas!” Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z This day we caught twenty-eight big fish, mostly piranhas, and everybody had all he could eat for dinner, and for breakfast the following morning. Through the Brazilian Wilderness FISH—For small fish like the pacu and piranha an ordinary bass hook will do. Through the Brazilian Wilderness I never witnessed an exhibition of such impotent, savage fury as was shown by the piranhas as they flapped on deck. Through the Brazilian Wilderness We bathed and swam in the river, although in it we caught piranhas. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The companions of the tapuyo were no wiser for his words, until piranhas was explained to them to mean “biting fish,” for such were the unseen enemies that assailed them. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z I happened to mention that one of our naturalists, Miller, had been bitten by a piranha, and the man-eating fish at once became the subject of conversation. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Miller had made a special study of the piranhas, which swarmed at one of the camps he and Cherrie had made in the Chaco. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Then I found that the bayou extended for a mile or two in each direction, and the two hunter-guides said they did not wish to swim across for fear of the piranhas. Through the Brazilian Wilderness When dead piranhas, and even when mortally injured piranhas, with the blood flowing, were thrown among the ravenous living, they were left unmolested. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Men not making a splashing and struggling are rarely attacked; but if one is attacked by any chance, the blood in the water maddens the piranhas, and they assail the man with frightful ferocity. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Undoubtedly the caymans were subsisting largely on these piranhas. Through the Brazilian Wilderness When a capybara was shot and sank in the water, the piranhas at once attacked it, and had eaten half the carcass ten minutes later. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Piranhas or no piranhas, we now intended to get across; and we tried to force our horses in at what seemed a likely spot. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Such accidents are rare; but they happen with sufficient frequency to justify much caution in entering water where piranhas abound. Through the Brazilian Wilderness They belonged to one of the most formidable genera of fish in the world, the piranha or cannibal fish, the fish that eats men when it can get the chance. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Farther north there are species of small piranha that go in schools. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Curiously enough, one of the Brazilian taxidermists had also just been severely bitten by a piranha. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Cherrie killed three monkeys and Lyra caught two big piranhas, so that we were again all of us well provided with dinner and breakfast. Through the Brazilian Wilderness He had lost one of his toes by the bite of a piranha. Through the Brazilian Wilderness It also swarmed with piranhas, the ravenous fish of which I have so often spoken. Through the Brazilian Wilderness |
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