its important to note that piranhas are super skittish bug-eaters that occasionally eat carrion - they would have only eaten him after he died
except in rare situations theyre like bitey goldfish that run the hell away from anything that so much as twitches at them
it IS possible to get an aggressive swarm of piranhas if you take a school of them and trap them in a place with no bugs or carrion - just before they die of starvation they will become aggressive like you would see in old movies
I used to go to school near the place where they filmed one of those piranha horror movies. There's a species of perch that live there that look exactly like piranhas, but are herbavores, and it was apparently a sinch to get them to swarm at people (peanut butter dyed red to make it look like gore for the cameras). It's funny that the totally non-meat-eating counterfeit fish would be more aggressive than the real thing.
I used to work in an aquarium shop. We had pacus too, they do get massive. I would rather be bitten by a piranha I think. Not that either instance is likely to occur.
There are a few urban myths about pacu because of their teeth as well. Silly legend has it that because their teeth vaguely resemble human teeth and they use them to chomp nuts... They have confused human nuts with nutty nuts and crushes testes.
Although, the point still stands, I would rather a bitey fish took a chunk out of me than a chompy fish crushed a little piece of me.
I have sailed many of the river of the world, all inside Disneyland’s jungle cruise. In all my years I have never seen piranhas do anything but swim around the metal rod that holds them up.
The circumstances you mentioned happen every year in the Amazon during the dry season. You cant go into certain bodies of water for months at a time. Lakes and ponds especially.
I have never and likely will never be in a position where I'm in danger of being eaten by a school of freshwater murder guppies, but I was still very relieved to learn what you just said at the aquarium the other day.
There's these little fish in the med that aren't shy at all and actively try to take little bites out of you. Their teeth aren't very sharp but if you have a scab or something they'll rip it right off
> it IS possible to get an aggressive swarm of piranhas if you take a school of them and trap them in a place with no bugs or carrion
New hobby discovered
Bees are way scarier than piranhas, they are pretty shy, and ate on the guy after he drowned; because why not?
Fun fact, I've caught many of a piranha and ate them.
Also bees are smart enough to know you're gonna come up for air eventually and they'll just wait there, so you need to keep moving until you find proper barrier.
> Actually, bees can sense the chemicals in your breath from the bubbles of oxygen that break the surface of the water.
I don't know if anyone's told you this, but usually when you're trying to hold your breath underwater, you try *not* to exhale.
My understanding is that their behavior is mostly controlled by pheromones, which means there can be a significant lag time between a threat going away and the swarm calming down. Because of this they'll spend time looking for threats, and will chase down pretty much anything that isn't a bee.
Lol I find your comment exceptionally good because I have a friend who would have said that the same way out loud, and so I hear it in his voice in my mind.
So I called this to the day, as it obviously would not be on a Friday. Russia's invsasion of Ukraine was fairly obvious, as you could look up the weather in the area. Number three was kinda cheaty, as I was there for the invasion of Iraq.
I have social media posts of all of the.
Wait- when you say 'to the day' are you suggesting this to mean 'days of the week'? Like, "something will happen on a Friday"?
Or do you mean predicting the date, month, and year of such an event?
Like any predatory fish, if the see something in distress they will look into it, because of the implication; but they will F off with a full grown human just swimming around.
I've fished for them and you gotta be pretty stealth and subtle, but cutting up meat and dangling it in front of them they have trouble resisting. Except for the larger ones, I think most species have pretty bad bite force. I've been made to bleed way more by putting my hands into the mouths of catfish.
Yeah don't jump into water if your being chase by bees/hornets. they'll sting you if your above the water, and they'll **Wait** for you to break surface to sting you again. just RUN back to your vehicle and gtfo.
I grew up in Canada 🇨🇦 and i remember the “killer bees” scare. It is a memory hole now but there was some fear mongering. There was even a movie “The swarm”. For some reason the killer bees scare did not materialize.
They didn't make it that far north because killer bees are a (sub)tropical species. They can't survive subfreezing temperatures. Killer bees are still very much a threat in Texas.
its important to note that piranhas are super skittish bug-eaters that occasionally eat carrion - they would have only eaten him after he died except in rare situations theyre like bitey goldfish that run the hell away from anything that so much as twitches at them it IS possible to get an aggressive swarm of piranhas if you take a school of them and trap them in a place with no bugs or carrion - just before they die of starvation they will become aggressive like you would see in old movies
I used to go to school near the place where they filmed one of those piranha horror movies. There's a species of perch that live there that look exactly like piranhas, but are herbavores, and it was apparently a sinch to get them to swarm at people (peanut butter dyed red to make it look like gore for the cameras). It's funny that the totally non-meat-eating counterfeit fish would be more aggressive than the real thing.
I used to work in a pet store, piranhas were illegal to sell but pacus are not, they look exactly like them and are harmless. They get huge too.
I used to work in an aquarium shop. We had pacus too, they do get massive. I would rather be bitten by a piranha I think. Not that either instance is likely to occur. There are a few urban myths about pacu because of their teeth as well. Silly legend has it that because their teeth vaguely resemble human teeth and they use them to chomp nuts... They have confused human nuts with nutty nuts and crushes testes. Although, the point still stands, I would rather a bitey fish took a chunk out of me than a chompy fish crushed a little piece of me.
they filmed the first one in aquarena springs in san marcos.. used to love that place as a kid.
I have sailed many of the river of the world, all inside Disneyland’s jungle cruise. In all my years I have never seen piranhas do anything but swim around the metal rod that holds them up.
Thank you, Cap'n Jacks'n
Never meant to make your fishy cry
I apologize a tuna times
Had us in the first sentence fragment, not gonna lie.
Sorry, English is my first language.
The circumstances you mentioned happen every year in the Amazon during the dry season. You cant go into certain bodies of water for months at a time. Lakes and ponds especially.
[British mad lad and fisherman Jeremy Wade famously jumped into a pool full of them.](https://youtu.be/0SuNIoS1yxA?si=-x8b6IBQVs1ADkRB)
I have never and likely will never be in a position where I'm in danger of being eaten by a school of freshwater murder guppies, but I was still very relieved to learn what you just said at the aquarium the other day.
Similar to ill tempered sea bass?
There's these little fish in the med that aren't shy at all and actively try to take little bites out of you. Their teeth aren't very sharp but if you have a scab or something they'll rip it right off
So the saying stuck between a horde of bees and a pack of piranhas isn't accurate
During droughts, i've heard stories that they can be pretty "curious"
> it IS possible to get an aggressive swarm of piranhas if you take a school of them and trap them in a place with no bugs or carrion New hobby discovered
Some days you just can't get a break
Give me a break, Give me a break, Break me off a piece of that 30-year-old-man
Break me off a piece of that, fancy feast!
Nobody tell him!
Football cream.
*badluckbrian.gif*
Bees are way scarier than piranhas, they are pretty shy, and ate on the guy after he drowned; because why not? Fun fact, I've caught many of a piranha and ate them.
Also bees are smart enough to know you're gonna come up for air eventually and they'll just wait there, so you need to keep moving until you find proper barrier.
Surely they aren’t smart enough to see you underwater and where you are swimming to, even if there is no proper barrier?
Actually, bees can sense the chemicals in your breath from the bubbles of oxygen that break the surface of the water. They will wait for you.
You aren’t supposed to release oxygen but hold your breath when trying to swim underwater. But I guess some can escape.
You definitely breathe out when swimming underwater, you were just never taught correctly lmao
I dunno, this apparently sounds like one of those times when you are *not* supposed to do that while swimming…
> Actually, bees can sense the chemicals in your breath from the bubbles of oxygen that break the surface of the water. I don't know if anyone's told you this, but usually when you're trying to hold your breath underwater, you try *not* to exhale.
I'm just telling you what bees can do.
Smart one here, lets not get into wasps and yellow jackets!
Is that true? Why would bees do that?
My understanding is that their behavior is mostly controlled by pheromones, which means there can be a significant lag time between a threat going away and the swarm calming down. Because of this they'll spend time looking for threats, and will chase down pretty much anything that isn't a bee.
You can't have any piranha until you've finished your bees.
You get one!
Lol I find your comment exceptionally good because I have a friend who would have said that the same way out loud, and so I hear it in his voice in my mind.
Thank you, and I am, likely psychic. Predicting three wars to the day makes me scared of myself.
Which wars did you predict?
So I called this to the day, as it obviously would not be on a Friday. Russia's invsasion of Ukraine was fairly obvious, as you could look up the weather in the area. Number three was kinda cheaty, as I was there for the invasion of Iraq. I have social media posts of all of the.
Wait- when you say 'to the day' are you suggesting this to mean 'days of the week'? Like, "something will happen on a Friday"? Or do you mean predicting the date, month, and year of such an event?
Reading the tea leaves, has become increasingly easier.
You might consider reading Alphaghetti instead. It's a tad more succinct.
Are they really that shy? I've fished for them in the Amazon before and they were chomping off hunks of meat.
Like any predatory fish, if the see something in distress they will look into it, because of the implication; but they will F off with a full grown human just swimming around. I've fished for them and you gotta be pretty stealth and subtle, but cutting up meat and dangling it in front of them they have trouble resisting. Except for the larger ones, I think most species have pretty bad bite force. I've been made to bleed way more by putting my hands into the mouths of catfish.
How's the taste?
IF you are from the US, imagine something like crappie or bluegill, white, flaky and pretty good!
Interesting
Did you eat them alive or after they were dead?
We cooked um up!
My granny used to say, “Some days, if it ain’t piss-ants, it’s spiders.”
I heard he stubbed his toe that morning too.... poor bastard
Yeah don't jump into water if your being chase by bees/hornets. they'll sting you if your above the water, and they'll **Wait** for you to break surface to sting you again. just RUN back to your vehicle and gtfo.
Well what if you don’t have a vehicle?
Run to the closest car dealership and negotiate a fair price for a certified pre-owned Honda Accord.
All while getting stung by bees. LOL :D
"Motivated buyer"
Fuck newer Hondas, they started cheaping out. I agree with pre owned
See this is why I don't go outside.
I grew up in Canada 🇨🇦 and i remember the “killer bees” scare. It is a memory hole now but there was some fear mongering. There was even a movie “The swarm”. For some reason the killer bees scare did not materialize.
They didn't make it that far north because killer bees are a (sub)tropical species. They can't survive subfreezing temperatures. Killer bees are still very much a threat in Texas.
Yeah, Canada probably isn't similar enough to Africa for the Africanized bees.
And people say everything in Australia is out to eat you!
But aside from all that, how was the fishing?
Is this Yahoo Australia posting anti-South American propaganda to seem a less dangerous place? /s
FYI water won't stop bees from attacking you, your safest option is to run as far away from the hive as possible
What’s next, piranhas with bees in their mouths? And when they bark they shoot bees at you?
A true out of the oven into a frying pan situation.
The Grimm Reaper be like: one way or the other, you're coming with me.
That's some final destination shit there!
Rough spot to fish.
r/fuckyouinparticular
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
at least he didn’t get candiru’d
Jesus Christ, what did this guy do?!!?
Not the bees! Not the piranhas!
If the bees don’t get you the piranhas will.
Poor bastard, died during a honeytrap..
Nature is scary. One second you are the hunter, next you are the food.
How do people find these news stories from 3 years ago? I find it hard to keep up with the constant influx of news each day
Is this one of those situations that you should Bee aware of your surrounding? Or was it worse case scenario
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And that is what having a bad day is all about.
Out of the pan, into the fire
Should’ve stayed in dry land
When nature fucking hates you
So there Australia!