Passengers can fish for piranha, and take excursions into the remote Pacaya Samiria reserve, to view pink river dolphins, red howler monkeys and three-toed sloths.
Dumb Ways to Die, for example, began as an Australian public-safety campaign that sneaked dull rail-safety messages into a song about amusing ways to expire ("Eat medicine that's out of date/ Use your private parts as piranha bait").
In South America, on occasion, the piranha (Serrasalmus) voraciously attacks humans and domestic animals, and the diminutive candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa) can penetrate the urogenital openings of human bathers and cause intense pain and hemorrhaging.
In movies such as (1978), the piranha has been depicted as a ravenous indiscriminate killer.
Paraguay's rivers abound with fish, including the piranha.
The great variety of fish include the carnivorous piranha, the electric eel, and the laulao, a catfish that often attains a weight of more than 200 pounds.
A shark's tooth, although superficially like that of a piranha, appears in many respects to be a modified scale, while that of the piranha is like that of other bony fishes, consisting of dentine and enamel.
No, the garra rufa is not related to the piranha, and no, the procedure isn't recommended for those with ticklish feet.
By the time I emerged, it was a trade carried on in a piranha tank.
Federico Cornier, the Director of Lifeguards in the city, described the fish as "a type of piranha, big, voracious and with sharp teeth that can really bite".
