English Name: Pirhana
Scientific Name: Pygocentrus Nattereri or Serrasalmus Nattereri
Spanish Name: Piraña
Size: Average 6-8 inches in length, and adult piranhas can reach the 13 centimeters long.
Life span: The life span of the piranhas is about 10 years.
Matting: Piranhas dont really have a matting pattern but they mate about 10 times a month.
Eggs: Eggs are layed in the bottom of the water aomg plants to be safe. Piranha eggs would hatch after 2-3 days.
Habitat: Piranhas live mainly in the fresh water of South America: the Amazon's Basin, the Paraguay-Parana Basin, the Northeast of the Brazilian coastal reivers, and in the Essequibo Basin. They live in a fairly soft acidic water with a temperature of 71-81 degree Fahrenheit.
Diet: Native fish, human flesh, jaguars, large cattle, anything thats bloody.
Predators: Humans, caimans, catfish, herons, and ants.
Adaptations:
-It needs its sharp teeth to tear food apart. It only eats meat, so without it's sharp teeth, it would not survive.
-Its rough skin makes it difficult for other animal's teeth to penetrate the piranhas body.
-They have also adapted by getting usedto the warm water.
Interesting Facts:
-Scientists believe that the ferocity of a pirhana is exaggerated.
-The most dangerous pirhana may reach 2 ft in length!!!!
-The biggest piranhas can measure about 30 centimeters (about the size of a ruler)!
-The jaws are so strong and teeth so sharp that they can chop out a piece of flesh as neatly as a razor.
- Sometimes pirhanas hunt in schools, sometimes of several hundred!!
-Piranhas would have never been famous if it wasn't former president P. Theodore Roosevelt and his book Through the Brazilian Wilderness.
- The color of the Piranha is shimery gold and olive green with re under-belly.
-The Red-Bellied
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