The amazon river is known for containing an evil collection of murderous beasts.
But there's one family of fish living here
That could write a serial killer's handbook,
Their methods are so bloodthirsty and varied.
I can see from here the way they are just
Literally drilling their way into that fish.
Members of the catfish family have reportedly swallowed people whole.
They've eaten them alive from within, and even gruesomely penetrated individuals
In the most intimate of places.
I'm jeremy wade... Fish on!
Biologist and extreme angler.
And i'm on the hunt for these killer catfish to determine if this family
Are the amazon's ultimate river monsters.
Now, imagine that in an orifice.
In the heart of the brazilian amazon, a truck makes a solemn path
Towards the local police station.
It carries a macabre load... The corpse of a man.
But the circumstances of his death were bizarre in the extreme.
Fearing accusations of murder,
The fishermen have taken the corpse to the police station
In the exact state in which they found it...
Just a pair of legs protruding from the mouth of a vast catfish.
Could this wild tale emerging from the amazon really be true?
Or is this just a made-Up fisherman's tale,
And no more real than this photo re-Creation of what it might have looked like?
I've faced many of the largest
And most feared creatures in the waterways of this world,
And i've discovered that you don't need to swim in the sea to encounter a man-Eater.
Rivers harbor just as many monsters.
Ask people what is the most feared fish in the amazon,
And they'll undoubtedly say piranha... Electric eel...
Or even stingray.
But i've come to brazil to find out if catfish are actually the worst of the lot,
A true mafia-Style family of killers at large.
And i've tracked down sil val mir, one of the witnesses to this bizarre murder,
To hear his story.
Basically, there's a little bit of a frenzy of fishing activity going on.
One of the nets got stuck on a rock,
And in that situation, the only thing you can do... If you're not gonna rip the net,
You've got to go down and get it off.
So this one fisherman dived in to free the net.
However, what happened was that he didn't come up.
The net came up... No fish in it, no fisherman.
Nothing more was seen until about four hours later,
When suddenly, this huge fish appeared on the surface, and it was thrashing around
Because the fish was actually itself in trouble, actually choking.
The fisherman was actually half inside the mouth of the fish,
Just the legs of the fisherman sticking out.
And what happened then was that the fishermen all went to try and get the fish,
To net it, and he said because it was obviously quite tired,
It was quite easy, just one net.
They got it in and clubbed it to death.
They left his body inside the fish and then went to manaus as fast as possible.
Obviously, you know, get it to the police station
To make sure that there's no suspicion
That it was a case of murder or anything like that.
The murderer was identified as a piraíba...
The largest species of catfish found here in the amazon.
So that fish could have been about 500 pounds.
I mean, we are talking some seriously, seriously big fish here.
The mouth... About 40 centimeters across.
That's a couple of foot across.
But he says it opens up more, so maybe 21/2 foot.
This was a pretty monstrous fish,
And a pretty horrific end for that particular fisherman.
He says there are people disappearing all the time,
And you never find a trace of them.
You know, you don't find the body.
You don't find bones. You don't find anything.
Even having heard this horrific story from an eyewitness,
Someone who was actually there, seeing this monstrous fish with the fisherman's feet
Just poking out of the mouth, i still find it really hard to believe
That there are fish here capable of doing that.
And what i want to do is actually see my own eyes
How big the fish are in these amazon rivers.
I think the first thing i've got to do is go back to where this story all started
And actually go myself to the scene of the crime.
Val mir talked of seeing a 500-Pound piraíba, which seems extreme,
But photos do exist of some pretty large catfish.
There are three species of giant catfish found here in the amazon... The jaú...
The red-Tailed catfish... And the piraíba.
This catch was reported to be nearly 8 foot long and some 350 pounds.
But maybe, as val mir suggests, there are even bigger monsters out there,
And if i follow his leads, perhaps i'll get to catch a man-Eater of my own.
After traveling for 12 hours, i reach my destination,
A river junction up a tributary of the amazon.
As far as i can gather, this is the scene of the crime.
And what's interesting is this is a very obvious meeting of the waters.
You can see it so clearly
Because the two rivers that meet here are different colors.
One is muddy white water. One is black water.
According to the locals, large catfish wait in ambush at river junctions like this
To predate on smaller fish traveling downriver.
Because i'm after a pretty monstrous fish, i'm using monstrous tackle.
I've got a huge forged-Steel hook on the end, attached to a length of wire,
And then i've got about 300 yards of very strong line.
Okay.
And this rod... You'd normally only see this on a boat
Out in the open ocean, the kind of thing you'd use
To catch marlin, tuna, that kind of thing.
But i'm using this stuff in freshwater.
People only think of predatory fish living in the sea,
But here i am about 1,000 miles from the ocean,
Staking out a crime scene to catch a man-Eater.
Something down there.
Just grabbed the bait... Bent the rod... And then let go.
That's a fish on. That's a fish on.
It's taking line.
Taking line, taking... Feels pretty sizable.
We'll be a little decisive and brutal now.
The fish doesn't want to know that, doesn't want to know.
Going down.
The fish is coming up in the water... Up in the water.
There it is.
It's a jaú. It's a good size.
This fish is not the piraíba i was hoping for, but the jaú is a catfish,
And some fishermen claim it can be just as dangerous as the larger piraíba.
But it's not finished.
It doesn't like the size of the boat at all.
It has a reputation for being so strong on the end of a line
That some people will tell you that it has dragged fishermen down into the depths.
This is about 80 pounds.
80, 90 pounds.
It's a good-Sized fish.
The hook hold looks good.
Might even be able to land it on land.
After 20 minutes of hard struggle, i have the better of it.
And, my goodness, feeling the strength of this thing,
I wouldn't want that 'round my ankle or... I wouldn't want to be headfirst
Down the mouth of something like that, either.
There we go.
It looks a really sinister fish, that dark black color, and it gets that from...
It gets that from living down in the lightless zone, deep in the rocky pools,
Where it just blends in with the background.
And particularly looking at it from here, just the shape of it,
You know, it's a great big mouth, large head.
Very muscular midriff, and then just tapering off
Into this very chunky, powerful propulsion unit.
Just looking at these long whiskers that they use to probe their surroundings,
It's pretty obvious where catfish get their name.
So, this is a real... You know, this is a fish
That's adapted for strong water... Very strong fish.
And if one of those was to grab you...
There's not a great deal you could do about it.
Time to release this animal.
So the scene of the crime may not have yielded the man-Eating piraíba i was after,
But this impressive jaú shows that there are some large catfish down there.
Oh, wanting to go already. Wanting to go already.
That's good.
There it goes.
Ooh.
Quite a fish.
If i can get a big catfish here at this minor river junction, then perhaps if i fish
The largest river junction in the world... The meeting of the waters near manaus...
I'll land the mother of all catfish.
I'm on a mission to hook the largest catfish in the amazon, the piraíba,
'cause i want to prove that the stories about them swallowing fishermen
Are more than just fishermen's tales.
And after catching a large jaú at a river junction,
I think i know just the place to catch a monster.
This is it. This is the meeting of the waters.
This is the black water, the rio negro, coming down here,
Mixing with the white, muddy water of the rio solimoes.
And together, they form the mighty amazon.
And this has to be probably the biggest river junction in the world,
And everybody says that the big catfish, they love river junctions,
So this place has to be a good bet for the mother of all catfish.
The point where these two rivers meet is more than a mile wide,
Over 200 feet deep in places.
And for almost another four miles, these two massive waterways refuse to merge,
Due to their different speeds, temperatures, and sediment contents.
Julio cavalcanche has caught a 211-Pound piraíba at the meeting of the waters.
But on another occasion, he nearly died here when the line wrapped around his body
And started to pull him out of the boat.
He had to cut himself free with this very knife.
Julio credits his fishing success
To a secret bait formula that he wraps around a hook, seals in a tin can,
And leaves to bake in the sun for three days.
Ooh.
Oh, dear.
Ugh.
I think most of the fish in this river are gonna know that stuff is in there.
Look here. Right.
That... Mmm.
That just looks so... Ugh.
I've never seen anything quite like that.
Right. The fish like it.
This is the guts, the by-Products, of eight chickens.
So, the entire intestines of one chicken is about that long, wound round,
And you've got eight entire intestinal tracts of chickens to make up that bait.
I think with this now, i have to be ready to go fishing.
Julio reckons that once the sun sets and night falls, the catfish come out to feed.
That's the bait on a huge hook.
Lump of lead to keep it down.
I'll feed this over the side.
I've got 30 foot of iron cable.
Feels good. The monsters could be on the move.
How's this for float fishing?
I've got a barrel on here.
I mean, this is a "jaws" moment if ever there was one.
The bait's out. The engine's cut.
It's now just a case of being quiet and just drifting down with the current.
But being out here after dark also increases the risks.
Here, you've not only got a very, very powerful fish
That might hang on the end of the line,
You've also got to keep an eye out for the weather,
And also, this is a very, very busy waterway.
There's gonna be boats, big barges, all sorts of stuff.
And they'll just run you over if you give them a chance
If you don't get out of the way.
And 30 foot below all that is my bait.
The water underneath me could be 200 feet deep.
But the piraíba, whose name means "mother of all the fishes,"
Is totally at home here.
With a lightning-Conducting rod in my hands,
I'm easily the highest point in this wide stretch of river.
So i decide to call it a day before that storm gets any closer.
Ah.
Well, nothing... Nothing came for that bait.
And, i don't know, maybe i can't blame them.
Either it's just not my night or the fact that it is so close to a big city
Means that the fish have all been fished out.
There is a huge fishing fleet operating from manaus,
And this is right on the doorstep.
Perhaps, you know, i need to go further away from civilization
If i'm to get the mother of all the catfish.
I head into the dark heart of the amazon, up a distant tributary of the main river,
To see if that tactic changes my luck.
Maybe here i'll catch my man-Eating piraíba.
Head down, head down, head down, head down, head down!
Argh!
Fish on!
Could this be the river monster i'm after?
But who'll win this battle... Me or the fish?
I asked what is the worst thing that has ever happened to me on a fishing trip.
The answer is all three.
I survived a plane crash unscathed in the amazon,
I caught malaria and nearly died in the congo,
And i was arrested and interrogated as a suspected spy on the thai/laos border.
I'm here in the amazon, investigating a family of killer catfish.
It's taking line.
It's a strong fish, this.
And i think i've hooked a piraíba...
Come 'round, gonna come 'round, gonna come 'round.
The largest catfish species found here.
This is a good-Sized fish.
I haven't seen it yet.
Look at that!
That is actually not the fish i want.
That is a huge red-Tailed catfish.
I want the white streamlined, sharklike piraíba.
But this thing, my goodness... This is a good size.
This is a very good size.
Oh!
Now that this fish is in the boat, it is pumping air, not water, over its gills,
Creating these strange sounds.
That is a big old catfish.
And it's getting me in training for the piraíba.
The only thing is, too many more experiences like this one,
And i just won't have any energy for a fish that's bigger than this.
And, i mean, this thing is just a huge head, huge, bony head,
Tapering off into this leathery body, and a great, big wide mouth there.
Without any teeth, as such, but it's got real good grasping pads.
Unlike a shark that can bite its prey in half, catfish have to swallow it whole.
So if they are overly ambitious, they will choke.
But this fish has a different problem...
Inside its mouth is a parasitic bloodsucker.
Another one here.
And that is absolutely engorged, absolutely engorged with blood,
The blood of this poor catfish.
This tiny parasite, the candiru, and this vast predator
Are both from the mafia-Like family of catfish.
This is pretty disgusting.
I don't know if i can get hold of it 'cause they're very slippery.
Need more fingernails. Okay, there we go.
So, there we go. Before and after.
This one's fed.
This one's still lean and hungry.
And as i'll find out, it's these small guys you have to watch out for,
As this parasite is one of the cruelest catfish i'll meet.
There we go.
Okay.
That was nice to catch that.
Not the fish i want, but, you know, that's a real monster in its own right.
The candiru usually targets a big fish as its host, drinking blood from its gills.
But occasionally, they make mistakes.
This has resulted in one of the most infamous legends
Ever to emerge from the amazon... A man urinating in the river
Who has a fish swim up his penis.
Yet for one gentleman, this urban myth became reality.
Luckily, he was able to make it to this surgery in manaus,
Where he was treated by dr. Anoar samad.
He'd actually had this fish inside him for four days,
And the reason there was such a delay was because he actually lived a long way
In the interior, away from the city.
He had a very, very swollen bladder.
He was bleeding, general fever, swollen testicles, generally in a very bad way.
The fish wasn't visible.
It's got these little sort of spines on the gill flaps,
So it was almost, like, working its way in like that.
It would have swum as far as the sphincter, at which point,
The fish was apparently trying to sort of gnaw its way out.
It was actually instead of just swimming up the urethra,
It was actually starting to gnaw.
So this guy, obviously, was in a lot of pain.
What was done first of all was that the endoscope
Was put in the end of his penis into the urethra.
The endoscope was equipped with a camera,
And this is the actual footage from that operation.
They were expecting to find a little fish.
What they found instead
Was something that went almost from the entrance of the urethra
All the way back to the sphincter.
They're talking about something five or six inches.
So, not exactly a little fish.
Quite a substantial animal.
Candiru locate their hosts by following the trail of dilute urea
That fish excrete from their gills.
This could explain this candiru's mistake.
I go in search of its unfortunate victim to re-Introduce him to the actual fish
That swam up his urine stream.
Having heard a horrific account of a fish entering a man's penis,
I managed not only to track down the victim, but i take him back
To the actual scene of the assault on his manhood to relive the events
That have haunted him since that day.
Okay, so, it's 11 years ago.
It's in this very spot.
Silvio and some friends were in the water down there.
And after a little period of time, silvio felt the need to urinate, as happens.
He knew the story about the candiru,
So he actually took himself partially out of the water.
While he was relieving himself, suddenly, he said, he just had a bit of a shock.
And the first thing he knew was that the fish was already, you know, inside.
Only just the end of its tail was out.
Tried to grab hold of it, but it's a very smooth fish, a bit like a bar of soap.
No good. No success pulling it out.
So basically just ran up onto the bank to try and get some help.
I decide to throw a net out to see if i can catch one of these critters.
Here we go.
This is almost exactly what silvio described.
You know, something going in one direction
And just not wanting to come into reverse at all.
Look at that.
I can actually feel its spines digging in when it does that.
It was actually walking, using its head.
Now, imagine that in an orifice.
This fish is just leaking blood.
It's not this fish's blood.
It's something it's been feeding on.
And it is just an absolute nightmare, a real sort of vampire fish, this thing.
A fish like this may have entered silvio in search of a blood meal,
But little did it know that its mistake
Would result in an unprecedented medical procedure lasting two hours.
The first thought was to... A bit like a hook that's got a barb on it.
Actually pulling it back the way it went in is not always a good idea.
He was thinking of actually sort of coming in from the side,
Coming in from the perineum
And actually trying to sort of pull the fish out headfirst,
But he thought because it had been such a long time in there, they would actually...
And also, the fish was starting to rot a bit.
Maybe try and pull it out with the endoscope.
You know, out tailfirst the way that it went in.
The tail of the fish was about here, about an inch in.
And so the head of it would have been somewhere like here.
And then what happened was that the pincers
Were gradually manipulated out of the hole here.
There we go.
Grabbed hold of the fish just in front of the tail and then, using the camera,
And then the whole apparatus just gradually, gradually, very delicately moved out.
Apparently, it was necessary to pull with a certain amount of force,
But feeling that it's not doing any damage.
And fortunately, it did come out eventually.
The fish was sent to the national institute of amazonian research
To be formally identified, thus confirming, after centuries of speculation,
That a fish has entered a human in the most intimate of places.
This is a somewhat momentous and possibly delicate occasion.
I'm bringing silvio back to meet his fish.
This one.
Silvio...
This is actually the first time since he had the surgery
That silvio has seen this fish, this very fish.
I just asked silvio if he would like to handle it,
And a very definite "no, i think once was enough."
So maybe if i leave it in my hand.
But i'm quite struck by how large it is.
Now, he's looking at it now, thinking, "i didn't realize it was that big.
I thought it was smaller."
It really does sort of beggar belief
That something of that size could burrow into you.
So, is the candiru the worst of all the fish in the amazon,
A catfish of such vile reputation that none can surpass it?
Dr. Lucia rapp, the curator of the collection here,
Wants to show me another catfish species that is potentially even more horrific
Than the bloodsucking candiru.
So what was the case that you heard about?
We had a situation here recently.
We received a visit of a doctor.
He came with some images of two corpses, two men.
He believed that they were shot
Because they have those very round holes on the body.
He started to dissect the corpse, and he saw it was not gunshots.
The corpses were hollow already inside, without any organs.
Wow. I'm just trying to imagine being a pathologist and you're brought a corpse.
There's what looks like bullet holes.
You start to dissect the body, and the body is hollow...
The organs have been removed.
And there wasn't any kind of bullet
Or something inside the corpses, just the fishes.
So he realized that the fishes got inside the bodies and eaten the organs inside.
The fish was identified as a close catfish relative of the bloodsucking candiru
Called the candiru-Açú.
Would they have been dead when the fish got in?
Well, they suspected the men might be eaten alive
Because he saw the structure of the flesh, and they were eaten from the inside.
And they probably died from that.
Not gonna be alive for very long with all that going on inside you.
Yeah, that's for sure.
If you are alive, if you feel the fish, you can just remove it.
But if you are, for example, drunk or ill or something,
You may not have enough strength to resist them.
Imagine a whole bunch of these fish attacking you at once.
Not a very pleasant thought if you're going for a little swim in the amazon.
Having heard this gruesome tale, i decide to visit the city morgue
To see if i can track down any more details.
I think it's all very well having a certain scientific curiosity
About some of these bizarre and gruesome deaths.
But actually seeing the people waiting outside here
Who have come, basically, to identify bodies,
You know, it becomes much more personal,
And i'm not, to be honest, totally prepared
For what i'm gonna sort of hear or even see in there.
A little bit sort of uneasy and uncomfortable about it.
But...
Yeah, time to go, anyway.
I've come to the manaus morgue to investigate an incident
Where a human was eaten from within by a catfish.
Dr. Elizabeth bezerra has dealt with several cases like this.
She was the first pathologist to recognize this bizarre behavior
And present it to the outside world.
Apparently, mondays are the worst days for bodies coming in in this state.
People go out, picnics, having a drink on the weekend.
They fall in the water, they disappear,
And then mondays, the bodies come to the surface.
So, i mean, it sounds like... We're not just talking about one or two animals.
The most that dr. Elizabeth has actually taken from a corpse, or found inside,
Is more than 100 of these fish.
So, these fish are sort of purpose-Built for the task, it appears.
Cylindrical body, very smooth and slimy,
And then they have this mouth that when it opens, it produces a circular bite.
These are actual photographs from the morgue
That show the gunshot-Wound-Like holes.
And in some cases, the fish still inside the human corpse.
The body is literally eaten from the inside.
Just the bones and some skin remain.
So it's really quite a horrifying thing to visualize.
Unlike the harmless catfish of the u.S., amazon catfish are proving to be
A diverse group of gruesome killers.
And having heard this grisly story, i'm strangely drawn to this macabre fish.
I'm keen to see a live one in action.
But i don't think i'll be using a human corpse as bait.
The thought of maybe more than 100 of these boring into a human body...
I mean, they really are flesh-Eating monsters.
It's not often you use a big fish to catch a small fish.
But after just two hours, it's definitely worked.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what was that?
What was that?
I don't know the scientific name for all the scavengers at this gruesome picnic.
The locals call these musun, or snakefish.
There's actually something a bit different in there.
If i can get it out.
I don't really want to shove my hand in there.
There, there, there, there. There, there, there.
Just hold him.
There we go.
So, this is the candiru-Açú.
This is the fish that bores holes in the body and then devours from the inside out.
And it was this fish that they retrieved from those corpses in the morgue.
This was a heavy fish when it went in.
Nothing left inside.
In fact, if i just rip it open a little bit... The candiru-Açú makes no distinction
Between human flesh and that of any other animal floating in the amazon.
Just like a hollow case of skin with the remnants of the bone inside.
This is almost exactly what the autopsy report was in the morgue,
Except in that case, we were talking about a human being.
This water is obviously filled with flesh-Eaters,
So i try and entice them to feed out of my hand.
I'm actually just on somebody's house here.
And i'm just dangling this fish off the side,
And these candiru are just attacking right on the surface.
And i can see from here the way they are just literally drilling their way
Into that fish.
It's like a crocodile death roll.
And no doubt the cause of the gunshot-Like entry holes in the corpses.
I might try and lift them out, actually.
Look at that.
Hey, there's one there.
Back in the water.
Apparently, these things will give you a bite just like a piranha.
Look at that. That's very, very definite cut.
And this is all the work of the candiru.
The amazon river is a scavenger's paradise.
It's like an acid bath here for corpses.
And again, it's members of the catfish family
That are one of the principal operators, cleaning up the bodies.
But as i continue my quest, i witness an astounding act of cannibalism...
Good grief!
And finally track down my river monster.
That's a piraíba! It's a piraíba!
I've seen that here in the amazon, small catfish have a frightening ability
To attack us where it hurts most, and also to dispose of our bodies.
But what about the large catfish?
I started this quest with a tale of a man-Eater.
Can they really swallow something as big as themselves?
I need to resume my hunt for the biggest catfish in the amazon, the piraíba.
But no sooner have i cast into the water
When my fishing guide, flavio, spots a truly graphic example
Of overambitious amazon predation... Oh, louco!
Something that immediately reminds me of the man half-Swallowed by a fish.
We've just seen this payara floating down the river, quite a big one... Still alive.
We thought it was dead to start with.
On investigation, it's got another one down its throat.
And flavio's just grabbing hold of the tail of it and pulling it out.
Here we go. Look at it. It's the tail of another fish.
So this fish almost choked to death on something just too big to swallow, really.
If we can get the other fish out, it might survive.
But as it is... Good grief!
Size of that.
Look at that!
Just look at that... Good grief!
Look at the size of the fish that that other fish swallowed.
So, that's the meal, the one that's looking slightly worse for wear.
And this is the greedy one that swallowed it, which might now recover.
This remarkable act of cannibalism is just as ambitious
As the catfish that tried to swallow a man.
Maybe in these murky waters, accidentally biting off more than you can chew
Is a common occurrence.
Oh, louco.
Reinvigorated by this chance encounter, i'm back on my quest in earnest.
Oh.
Just trying a different spot here.
Got a rapid at the top there, and then there's a deep hole with a clean bottom.
And this is a particular place for piraíba.
I've had a few fish recently that have taken the bait,
And i just haven't hooked up, or they've come off.
Come on!
Oh it's come off.
So i'm trying something a little bit clever... I'm putting a double-Hooked rig on
So that the idea is it doesn't have to take the entire bait.
Even if it just nips the tail of it or the body of it,
I should hook up, get a good hook hold.
Okay.
Off the front of the boat.
Something down there... Just grabbed the bait... Bent the rod... Then let go.
Ugh! That is a fish on.
I think it's coming towards me.
What i don't want is the hook to come out like...
It has been doing.
Feels strange.
There are people who hook these fish, and they're literally on for hours.
And it gets dark, and they give up and cut the line.
I've come far too far to give up, so even though my muscles are aching, i carry on.
It has a very fast sort of pulsing to it.
It's not a throb, throb, throb, throb.
This is a big fish.
I can only bully to a certain extent.
Strong, strong, strong fish. Strong fish.
After a struggle of nearly half an hour, i have the better of it.
There it is! There's the fish! There's the fish!
Piraíba... It's a piraíba!
Ah!
Here we go.
This is the one i wanted.
This is the piraíba, the real monster of the amazon.
The fish is growling at me.
Oh.
Big old mouth on there.
Heavy, heavy fish. I can hardly hold this up.
My arms are pretty shot anyway.
I can feel the fish flexing. It's about to kick.
Whoa! Oops.
And this is the one that people say,
When it gets big enough, it goes after people, as well.
Looks a bit like a shark, and it has a reputation to match.
This is a big one, but they do go bigger.
They do go bigger.
This one, i don't know, possibly about 80 pounds.
This is a man-Sized fish.
But they go bigger than man-Sized.
They go a size big enough to swallow a man.
And a streamlined fish.
Smooth skin, no scales.
But it's a very streamlined catfish.
Most catfish are pretty slobby.
They mope around on muddy bottoms.
But this is a fish of fairly fast current, and i can just feel that muscle flexing.
That's a lovely, lovely result.
And am i tired... Am i tired.
What i've got to do, though, is remember that the fish is as tired as i am.
So, although i want to admire it out of the water,
I've got to get it back and think of the... Think of the fish's recovery, as well.
Oh.
Okay.
Oh.
And he's gone.
What a river monster.
In my investigation, i've seen how, in these murky waters,
Catfish sometimes make mistakes...
I've seen how catfish make no distinction between human and other flesh...
And i've seen firsthand how in the amazon,
Fish will bite off more than they can chew.
So if you combine these findings and imagine this piraíba three times the size,
Still well within the maximum recorded weight,
Then just ask yourself, are those accounts
Of fish swallowing people just fishermen's tales?
I came here in search of a man-Eating fish.
But instead, i found a mafia-Like family of killers that are surely the amazon's
Most frightening river monsters.