A fishing tall tale?
The most frightening fish may be the smallest
This is true.
This is true.
Found in the Amazon, the Candiru Asu catfish is a small catfish [the size of a large minnow] with a round mouth that DRILLS into a person, creature or fish, is a meat eater and then eats the body from the inside where only the skin and bones remain. They will bite circular "bullet" holes into a body, legs, arms, feet, whatever and will enter and begin to eat. Nice image!
The interesting and perhaps most chilling thing about the Candiru Asu catfish is that it can strike in a school of 100 and will be a horrific death for a human or fish or other creature.
The Candiru Asu is related to the Candiru catfish. The Candiru is a blood sucking parasite that can enter your body via any orifice or even swim up a man’s penis when he is urinating into a river.
Candiru catfish
Candiru Asu catfish
There is a video by Jeremy Wade of River Monsters that shows what both the above catfish can do. It is not to be viewed lightly and caution is urged.
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/river-monsters-most-dangerous/
Many believed the stories about these 2 Amazon catfish were nothing more than myth; however, most of the stories are true, as may be seen from the video.
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