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(#7) You'll Be Devoured in a Frenzy
Piranhas don't travel alone - they go in packs. When they attack their prey, they all attack at once, creating a sort of frenzy for food. Scientists say this is especially true when the fish experience food deprivation, either from natural or human causes. If trapped in a small space, the fish respond in a frenzied attack that cause a great deal of harm for anyone in their way.
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(#11) They Aren't Scared by Human Activity
Do you think you're safe just because you're swimming in the Amazon with 70 other people? There's no such thing as safety in numbers when avoiding a piranha attack. These fish are not deterred by human activity.
In 2013, while thousands of people were cooling off from 100-degree temperatures in the Parana River in Argentina, piranhas attacked at least 70 people, leaving bite marks on their hands and feet. Director of lifeguards Federico Cornier blamed the bites on palometas, "a type of piranha, big, voracious and with sharp teeth that can really bite."
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(#3) Piranhas Prefer to Attack Face First
Piranhas instinctively grab their prey by the face, which is truly frightening. Some of the piranhas favorite targets are sickly, old animals - specifically cows - that stop to drink in rivers. When a cow lowers its head, they'll clamp onto its face. If the cow is too weak to fight back, the piranhas will drag it into the water and eat it. It's something straight out of a nightmare.
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(#2) You Can Bleed to Death
If you're being attacked en masse by a swarm of piranha, it's safe to say you're not actually going to die from being eaten alive - you'll die from bleeding out.
Piranhas are too small to eat an entire human, and even in a swarm it would take a while before they chomped you to bits. But if you're being sliced by hundreds of little fish teeth, you're going to bleed like you've fallen into a bath tub of razor wire. When an unidentified 18-year-old man drunkenly jumped out of a canoe in Rosario del Yata, Bolivia, he was set upon by piranha. After he was removed from the water he almost immediately bled to death.
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(#8) They Take Small Bites
Piranhas aren't the largest of fish - they come in anywhere from 8 to 15 inches long - and their mouth can only handle so much. Which is why it's unsurprising they take small, yet deep bites when eating their meals. Of the 20 species of piranha in the Amazon, 12 survive entirely on taking small bites out of the fins and scales of other fish as they pass. It's rare for piranhas to attack humans when unprovoked, but when they do, they take small bites. Humans either pass out from the pain, or bleed to death from multiple lacerations.
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(#10) They Latch on Tight
If you suddenly find yourself besieged by piranha while swimming, expect them to latch on hard. While a man in China was washing his dog in the Liujiang River, he was attacked by piranhas. It wasn't a pretty ending. The fish latched onto his hand, causing deep lacerations. He eventually was able to pry it off, and even kept it as a pet, according to news reports.
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In the Amazon River in South America, there are a variety of dangerous animals, such as piranha, crocodile, green anaconda, parasitic catfish, electric eel, etc. Among them, the piranha is known for its ferocity, and groups of piranha can eat animals who strayed into the water in a short time and even kill people quickly. Piranhas are very sensitive to the smell of blood that will provoke a violent attack by large groups of piranhas.
Groups of piranhas are indeed aggressive, but a single piranha is timid. Can you imagine what would happen if you were attacked by a group of piranha? The random tool describes what would like to be eaten by piranhas.
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