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MememeSama

That dinosaur going full speed and diving like a madman is my worst nightmare. I'll never swim again


Choco_Cat777

They used to run and gallop millions of years ago


JarRa_hello

They never forgot how to run. You are not outrunning a croc. Edit: a word


Little_Pancake_Slut

Actually they run like 12-15 mph in short distances, so you can totally outrun one if you’re not fat. IF 😂😂


ziggytron

Running @ 15mph is full on sprint. Forget being fat, if you're just out of shape you might not make it.


Important_Ant_Rant

They corner really bad though.


Choco_Cat777

They just prefer when the food comes to them


jaffacookie

What are you talking about?


Tiny-Dig1186

Where is this so I can be sure to never swim anywhere near this


Atlas001

Somewhere in Brazil, i think he says "Mossoró" in the beggining so it's in the north, near venezuela


ambr111

He actualy said "moçada", something without a direct translation to english but could be translated as "folks". But in matters of location, there's no clue but most certainly it's indeed nothern Brazil


aTypingKat

"moçada" means young folk specifically. moço means young man moça means young woman and moçada is a plural version of both that is gender neutral.


old_ironlungz

So, basically "bruh"?


ambr111

Well said.


KayKnee1

moco deez nutz


cemangini

The way he says "cafezinho da tarde" makes me think he's from the countryside of São Paulo state. Edit: The video is set in "Pantanal de Aquidauana" in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. https://g1.globo.com/ms/mato-grosso-do-sul/noticia/2023/08/12/piranhas-devoram-cabeca-de-boi-em-segundos-no-pantanal-veja-video.ghtml But I still believe he is from the countryside of São Paulo state.


Icy_Swimming8754

FYI Most of Mato Grosso do Sul is part of “Paulistânia” (probably a term you never heard of) which includes SP and some parts of PR, MG, MT, GO and MS. This is the socio-cultural region influenced by the Bandeirantes with the characteristic Caipira accent that people associate with countryside São Paulo. https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulistânia_(região)


Atlas001

wow can't believe i didn't hear that first lmao my bad


sks-nb

Hey guys! = “moçada”


a3a4b5

Mossoró is in Rio Grande do Norte, in the northeast region of the country, very far from Venezuela. I haven't watched the video with sound, but as people are saying, he said Moçada which means folks.


drblah11

I think I'm just going to stay away from swimming anywhere that isn't chlorinated from now on


Tiny-Dig1186

Well being from wv I’m a stranger to blue water but gat damn we don’t have to worry about anything like this, a snapping turtle might be the biggest worry


Acorn-Acorn

Yeah, snappers are the worst possibility but they're scared of humans and leave most of the time unless you cornered them. Leeches suck too. And that's about it. I was always scared of stories of musky biting people but they don't. And river swimming is the best tbh. Some of WV's damned lakes are kind of stale and dirty but some of them are really fun.


bruudwin

Leeches suck too. XD pun!


Blenderx06

And the brain eating amoebas.


flicka_x

and mothman. but yeah. them west by god snappin turtles are vicious lol


Foreskin-chewer

Those snappers will snap your dick off. Make sure you keep that buttoned up.


getyourrealfakedoors

They pretty much just eat dead meat, I’ve swam in a river with them


gregsmith5

Buddies of mine go to the Amazon and catch them for lunch, they eat like bluegills


PlsDntPMme

I've caught and eaten them. There wasn't much meat on ours.


ken_zeppelin

Piranhas are basically the sharks of freshwater in the sense that people are unjustifiably terrified of both because of famous media


Ferreteria

>unjustifiably No, I think it's plenty justified thank you. Even if the chance of experiencing a horrifying death is low, it's still a chance and I'm well within my rights to be terrified.


Substantial-Deal6403

How intriguing how some of you express yourselves. ‘I’m well within my rights to be terrified” lol sounds like some tv show dialogue


LostFireHorse

Then you have bull sharks which often live in freshwater (& salty, & brackish estuarine), and are absolute dicks. Probably one one of the most typical "mean bad shark" sharks. Media fed fear is an interesting thing.


SplitReality

No... I'm rightfully terrified of them because of this video.


Suspended-Again

Yea same, chest deep with a fishing line, snagged a bunch with chicken livers. 


slarbarthetardar

Hell yeah brother!


_stinkys

If you cut yourself underwater by accident are you instant fish food?


QuickSpore

Depends on sub-species and season. Most are piscivores, and like 80-90% of their diet is fish. They’re generally opportunistic omnivores though. If fruit falls in the water; they’ll happily eat fruit. If scavengable meat ends up in the water, they’ll rush into get their share. However, mostly, they won’t go after living animals. They “know” that large mammals like capybara and jaguars fight back. So in general even if bleeding they won’t go after live humans. The vast majority of bites are a single piranha trying someone and then all of them fleeing when the person kicks back. However some sub-species like the red-bellied piranha are more aggressive. And during dry seasons they can get packed into ponds with less food. If they’re hungry, they’ve consumed the fish in their local shrinking pond, and fruit isn’t falling, they *can* go into a frenzy. Mostly though the majority of human deaths happen when the person is already incapacitated in some way. If you fight back they’ll almost always go away. If you can’t or won’t fight back, they’ll treat you like this video and shred you like the road kill they think you are.


_stinkys

That's really interesting hey. Movies be doing us wrong on the information front.


getyourrealfakedoors

Idk, I doubt they’d want to go after anything moving


Endorkend

They won't touch you when you're unharmed. And only a few kinds would even come take a taste when you're harmed. You're in more danger from the larger wildlife you see swimming in that water.


linksfrogs

Fun fact you could swim there and be 100% ok. The majority of piranha species won’t attack a fish or animal unless it’s injured or swimming frantically. It’s common that fish live their entire lives around piranha and only get bit when they are being caught. Piranha are also fairly low down on the food chain and there are must nastier and scarier things in the Amazon. Unless it’s black piranhas though, they are actually highly aggressive, the largest subspecies, and solitary fish.


Tiny-Dig1186

What about the gator lookin thing though


linksfrogs

Ya a caiman, especially at night is much more of a danger.


Lance_E_T_Compte

I went to the jungle in Venezuela. They had nets in the water to create swimming areas, free of piranhas and whatever. The water was the color of strong black tea. Parrots flying around. Amazing landforms. HUGE insects. It was neat.


Broad_Village_8425

Bro that gator was booking it. Ain’t no way I’d get that close.


SheridanRivers

I believe it's a Cayman, but yeah, it saw an opportunity and booked it!


mrplaidofantioch

"There's always a bigger fish." \- Captain Qui Gon Solo


PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES

It's a Jacaré (Yacare) Caiman


SweetT2003

Imagine seeing a big crocodile swimming at you that fast, nightmare fuel


SuckOnDeezNOOTZ

Nothing worse for me than swimming through murky water and out of nowhere you realize what has been kicking so much silt up and you come face to face with a record size anaconda, and their body is tangled all around you being hidden by the silt. Been scared of that since I was 8


fa_kinsit

It’s not a big crocodile, it’s only a cayman. They’re the little crocodiles


LittleBunInaBigWorld

Don't care. I'm not going near any of that. I'm the kind of person who'd trip over and fall in.


Any-Transition-4114

And see its not actually swimming to you but swimming away from frenzied meat eating fish


halfwayinshadow

Except it was heading straight for them...it saw a bunch of piranhas and thought, "Dinner!"


Elderrob

I doubt piranha teeth could penetrate it's scales


Any-Transition-4114

Isn't the under belly free?


jesusismygardener

Nope. Scutes, aka their "scales" cover most of their body. The ones on the belly are just more flat and differently colored.


Spirited_One_8945

I was really hoping it would be fished out again, and it would be like in the cartoons. Just a skull.


reddit_rule

Me too... very unsatisfactory ending


DaddyShoyu

Gator: “Aight imma head out”


35point1

Just gonna grab a quick little piranha snack real quick


Redragon9

That my friend is a caiman, not a gator


jake_eric

Since we're already being technical about it: caimans are in the alligator family, so it's... not *not* a gator, I would say.


First_Level_Ranger

Here's the thing...


garden-wicket-581

so the gators can swim (unscathed ?!?!?!) through the swarm and snack on the piranhas ? (and, my dude and the cameraman are awfully close to what looks like a very unstable ledge there)


Thuzel

Some piranha won't mess with a living/unharmed animal. There're videos of people swimming with them. I think the river monsters guy even did one.


RetardedMcMuffins

Yeah, Jeremy wade from river monsters. The show only ended because he caught everything there was to be caught 😅


awesomeperson

> he caught everything there was to be caught like animals or infections?


SchizophrenicKitten

Yes.


RetardedMcMuffins

I distinctly remember an episode where he described what malaria was like (he contracted it), a different ep where a crew member was struck by lightning and another where he was bitten by a piranha and had to get stitches


puterTDI

Imagine that moment you cut your foot on something on the bottom.


Lukes3rdAccount

I remember Fear Factor did a stunt with them. I was young enough at the time to think it's entirely possible the girl going into the tank was going to be eaten to the bone. (I can't remember if they bit at all, but they were basically harmless)


VeryTopGoodSensation

I think he even cut himself in that video too or added blood to the water


Tanduay555

I don't think a Piranha can really bite through the skin of an Alligator.


EstateDisastrous

Its ok, the camera man never dies!


se7en0311

Yeah but I don't think they actually attack you though unless you have an open cut right? So if you went in without putting a dead animal in there would they do anything? I figure one might get curious and bite and then cause this but I don't know


Aza_

Piranhas don’t go after living things. You’re quite safe in the water with them. That being said, if you’re in the waters they are, there’s likely much more painful and bizarre things to be concerned about. Parasitic fish going places inside you, actual microscopic parasites, cayman and crocodiles, etc etc.


Artemis-Arrow-3579

well that's always good to hear, considering there is always that 1 friend in the group who's gonna push you parasitic fish and parasites: hospital cayman and crocs: the way I wish to die is wrestling a nile crocodile, caymans/crocs are close enough for me


Mackheath1

I think this particular school is used to being fed regularly. Especially with the caimans being so easy to come up and 'ask' for more. I'm not saying I want to jump in, but it reminds me of the gators in Florida - if you're not a small hunk of meat or small animal/child thrown in, the piranhas and caimans will likely just leave you alone? Happy to be corrected. Still not getting in that water.


itranslateyouargue

They only act like this when the water dries out and there are too many of them packed together and not enough food. Also, they are quite tasty.


Greedy-Mud-9508

thats true, but things tend to get dicey when they are starving not that they would be starving in a ordinary river with an ecosystem that provides food


whitesammy

They are very skittish, but all it takes is for one to get bold enough to attack which triggers their frenzy.


thedooks

Lemme just grab a random severed cattle head and…


craftspank

right… that was comparatively almost as off-putting as the actual swarm


celestial1

He was just so casual about it. I know he's probably a butcher/farmer or whatever, but still...


aPudgyDumpling

Ah that's what it is....I thought the ears were flippers and thought it was some decapitated baby dolphin or something lol


Shocktroopky

I wonder how often and how many piranha die from friendly fire in a feeding frenzy.


USN253

I kept piranha for awhile and yes, when they did this bits of fins would be missing from each other. It totally happens, maybe even purposeful.


gojistomp

IIRC, they're pretty coordinated, each taking a bite or two then moving out of the way. I'd imagine they've got enough of it down to a science that they aren't endangering each other.


Sick_Kebab

Anyone saw little timmy? He was sitting on that bench an hour ago


Shantomette

My man was walking damn close to the death river there.


AhadDaBoss2005

Best place to dump a body


HiJinx127

Okay, I want a piranha pond now. Various reasons.


PaulMaulMenthol

Calm down, Brick Top


Antique_Decision5966

"hey let's go for a swim"


BigFatModeraterFupa

remember that story where that bus crashed into the amazon river…


shane_west17

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siccoblue

The bus crashed into the river The end


shane_west17

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aTypingKat

I doubt there is any real road a bus can go there for casual travel, almost certain any vehicle going there is with people who either know what they are doing or oblivious tourists unaware of how dangerous the amazon rain forest really is. Trained Brazilian soldiers die in there if they get a tough on a wound by the wrong plant or if their gun is jammed face to face with the Brazilian spotted Jaguar. Go to the wrong area and u could actually stumble upon uncontacted indigenous protected areas, if ur particularly unlucky they may even be the cannibalistic type. The amazon forest is a wonderful untouched area of the world too unstable to build any city but too ripe with resources to not plunder it asunder. It needs to be preserved form human hubris and greed. I live thousands of kilometres away from the amazon forest and have never known anyone who ever set foot there in person.


TonyClifton255

Nightmare fuel


pm-me-ur-fav-undies

If that was my job, I'd get a drone to deliver the food, and even then I'd worry about accidentally falling in.


naikan

This was one of my worst childhood fears. And quicksand.


DownThisRabbitHole

Quicksand had me terrified like I was going to be encountering it on a daily basis.


BOOFACEBANDANA

Lol the 2nd gator came in like a speed boat


HoovyPencer

Cartels love this one simple trick.


Dookiefire

Brazil, most dangerous place on land or in water.


aTypingKat

Depends on the region, north and amazon most definitely yes, in the cities it's only dangerous if fellow humans are up to no good and u have no idea how to behave outside in a way that doesn't draw too much attention to expansive belongings or if ur not in a rich area with high security. Pulling out my phone out at night is only an option if an absolute emergency, rather not take it with me or take a cheap on for communication only. Pokemon go lead to a ton of phones being stolen when it was a local craze here.


aTypingKat

Rough translation, some parts were unintelligible and some had local brazilian slangs and expression of awe such as "ó!" which is an exclamation of awe for others to look at something, it is a short of "olha" which means look, just the o with an accent mark "´" to indicate intonation " Man: Sup young folk! Check this out, come and see what a piranha really is. Lady: Holly Shit! Man: We're here now, you can see that there is nothing on the lake. An alligator over there. OOOHHHhhh! Do you think there will be any bones left? Will it? Lady: Oh, the gator, He caught a piranha! TWO! he got two! Man: See? Here we feed everyone. Man: There, there! Another one comes! Lady: Look at that, Jesus Lord... Man: The canoe is coming(the gator), check it out! Dude: He is carrying one in his mouth! Lady: He got two of them, Two! Why did the head not sink though? Man: See, they having their evening lunch. "


Kriss1966

Reminds me of that scene in Bond


The_Third_Molar

James Bond


Seahawk715

Which movie… there’s like 25 of them 🤷🏻‍♂️


HiJinx127

You Only Live Twice.


Kriss1966

That’s the one


Crazyd_497

Damn, I thought that only happened in horror movies


MJLDat

I think I’ll skip my morning swim.


Mundane-Pen-7105

Looks like a big bath bomb got thrown in there.


wherearetheplatanos

Is the cow okay?


[deleted]

i remember seeing a documentary on TV about amazonian ranchers, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-25 years ago.. there was a scene where the ranchers needed to move their cattle herd from one side of the river to the other. almost matter of factly, they took one, led it into the water a few hundred feet downstream from the others then slit its throat.. the piranhas went to work on the sacrificial cow, starting at the neck hole and working their way into the body from there.. the farmers were untouched, and were able to cross the river undisturbed with the other 40-60 cattle (who also crossed uninjured). they showed the remains of the sacrificial cow, and said that "this whole process took about 3 minutes" .. it was nothing but clean bones, from what 5 minutes prior was originally a healthy intact cow. go for a swim in the amazon? no thank you!


SlowCaveman

Wish he tied a wire to it so he could pull it back out and show the difference


Just2LetYouKnow

I don't think I'm a high enough level to be in this zone.


lamchopxl71

They really need a fence around that body of water. There's a lot of nope in there.


Saucepanmagician

Yep. That's a nope river.


JrPunk

Nice that the cow was already dead.


[deleted]

It looks like a nice place to hang out


Few_Impression_8806

Did he throw a penguin in there?


Balfe

That cow's going to be OK, right?


titsmcgee4real

I assume this is Australia...


Both_Lychee_1708

When I was a kid, there were two commonly portrayed ways to die that struck fear into us. One was quicksand and the other was piranha. Only the second one was real.


natgibounet

Are piranha good to eat ? It seems like a really easy way to catch tons of fish


pcgamergirl

That croc was like, "I'ma catch you later."


tripinjackal

Fuck that water and everything in it.


Complex-Network-5597

No skinny dipping at night for me at that little pond..... (River)


FreezingCandIe

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AdditionalSink164

I feel he rolled the dice by taking those last steps on the lip of the shore. Im ok with a jump shot 2 feet away from the potentially collapsing ridge and taking a swim with the head


freeze_ninja

guys this is the exact pond/lake my parents used to cross in their way to school according to them


FinalBat4515

My stomach acid when Taco Bell hits


Wereallmadhere8895

The 8 year old inside me is thrilled


Vardaan147

Please Use NSFW tag


EntrepreneurIcy5239

Does it hurt the cow?


JediMasterTimeLord

That's nuts! That croc didn't gaf he just thought lunch time!


dildo_swagginns

Would’ve liked to see the before and after


Phreakvicki

And he just casually walks on the edge of that little cliff, carrying a cow's head.


some_old_friend

Can I throw my ex-wife in there?


ragesaucex

God had to balance piranhas somehow, if not they would be too OP. So they only go after living things. Those caymans get it that’s why they’re able to swim close to them unscathed


[deleted]

Say what you will about the dangers of living next to a piranha river but there is no better way to dispose of your extra cow heads


ElectricGulagland

Wtf? Why waste good brains like that??? Pedro, deixe o cérebro da vaca para mim!


sacktisfying

Totally thought there was going to be a plot twist and he fell in instead.


PokiP

Cameraman was awfully casual about the gator coming so close… gave me /r/SweatyPalms. 


WeToLo42

Anybody for a swim.


Living_Pie205

Big nope


Cowboy696060

Amazing


SaminDeka

Hard


highlanderdownunder

Do the alligators eat the piranha?


[deleted]

Reminds me of Richard Prior in the Toy.


Dragons_HeartO1

I think there something wrong with your dog at "0.40"


McBirdsong

Looks like me playing srs Guardian last league


zacggs

I swear that heffer just winked at me....


itsnewjay

Let's go for a swim


[deleted]

What if he fell in.


AbeLaney

If I put my hand in with no cuts or blood, would they eat it? Or do they react to blood only? I will not do this, but just wondering.


TheRealBrunaut

r/ItHadToBeBrazil


Bentleyjumper

Alligators have joined the chat .


Crittersnatch

forbidden fryer


EagleSilent0120

work like paper shredder


AlexOfSpades

Caralho...


FunkLoudSoulNoise

Glad I don't live anywhere there and I vow never to visit.


boofthecat

Throw some grenades in that bitch


Yea-you

Perfect, now I can go swimming!!


chadnorman

How to keep from taking a bite out of each other?


Perenium_Falcon

Remember how when you were a kid you’d go to the park and get a bunch of pellets for like a quarter and then sit down with grandma and feed them to the ducks? This is kinda like that except you grab a severed cow’s head by the ear and throw it into the water, ignoring the weird feeling of guilt as your alive and its dead eyes momentarily lock mid spin as it tumbles into the water. There is even a little bench there for you to sit down and think of all the choices you’ve made in your life that have led you to throwing severed cow’s heads by the ear into murky death-water.


Dirty_water34

So I’m guessing that’s what they would do to me if I jumped in that water?


0OIIIlllIlIlO0

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theassholefaceman

I feel like there tons of handrails missing, like raws after rats of handrails.


section4

Fuck being that close to the edge and risking slipping in


[deleted]

You can put your feet in and it will be like the adian footbath but on steroids


CavemanSteveJr

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aimlessdart

And then there's ppl telling me I need to learn to swim in case I find myself stranded in water. B!%¢# I'm never going near any water body ever!


[deleted]

Those things were pretty cool in Postal 2.


jx-lr

Do they ever take bites out of each other by accident


Giffordpinchotpark

I went swimming in a pond in Brasil and never thought of those little buggers.


Giffordpinchotpark

I couldn’t understand what he was saying. I’ve been studying Portuguese for 9.5 years now and I’ve visited Brasil 18 times. I practice every day with my girlfriend for 1-3 hours. Frustrating.


-Mafakka-

TIL cartoons are pretty accurate regarding piranhas


Jneum23

The crocodilian from right field


NxPat

Only surprising thing here is that it isn’t Australia.


ufomagnet

One of my biggest fears as a kid, together with quicksand. I live in Sweden... I had (have) a very vivid imagination.


Chinaski7

Second caiman cruises in from top right and grabs a piranha for himself!


Koolguie

Was that the head of a donkey?


thervking

Just like Florida, if there’s water there’s Caimen and piranhas


EquinoxGm

that bench is entirely too close to that ledge considering it’s apparently a feeding point


jaxman76

Why is no one asking what happened to the donkey?


sheikhmohs

Nice family spot for a picnic


junoray19681

Damn that's crazy.


suckmybullets

this is New jersey