Top 10 Most Terrifying Animals in the Amazon River
Amazon River starts at Presidente Figueiredo, Pará, extending across 25° and 31°30' longitude, with a basin area of 691.5 square kilometers. The Amazon River is the longest river in South America and the world's largest in terms of basin area and flow. It is 6400 km long and finally empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The upper reaches of the Amazon River are about 2500 km long, divided into upper and lower sections. The lower reaches are as long as 1600 km. The Amazon River basin spans the equator, with perpetual high temperatures and heavy rainfall, abundant species and numerous freshwater fish, with more than 2000 species. There are also sea cows, pink river dolphins, caimans and giant aquatic snakes.
NO.10 Black caiman: A member of the crocodile family, Crocodylidae, a small to medium-sized crocodile with close affinities to short-nosed crocodiles. Despite its size, it has a bite force much smaller than true crocodile species, but it can still easily kill people!
NO.9 Vampire bats: Relatively small in size, without visible tails, and with a dark brown color. Because of physiological changes, vampire bats can no longer eat other things except blood. Vampire bats are carriers and infection sources of many human and animal diseases, such as rabies and Ebola virus. Therefore, if humans and livestock are bitten by them, the risk of infection with these diseases is still very high!
NO.8 Amazonian giant pangolin: Also known as the robust giant pangolin, with a body length of 25-30 cm, mostly red in color, small pangolins bite pain, such a large pangolin, I would be dizzy just looking at it!
NO.7 Bullet ants: Rated as one of the 'Global Top 10 most toxic animals', with a body length of about 3 cm, 5 times the size of a normal ant, one of the largest ant species in the world. Because of the pain when bitten by it, it is named 'bullet ant'. It will not kill humans, but the pain sensation will spread quickly. If you are bitten by a few bullet ants, it won't be fatal, but if you are bitten by many bullet ants, it may endanger your life.
NO.6 Water monitor: Also known as green monitor, water monitor, is the largest snake species currently alive, adult water monitors have a body length of 5-10 meters and a weight of up to 220 kg, feeding on any mammal, mainly preying on terrestrial animals, sometimes swallowing crocodiles and humans and livestock.
NO.5 Bull shark: Scientific name: White shark, relatively small in size, with a thick trunk, a diverse diet, it is the only shark living in both saltwater and freshwater environments, but it is not a true freshwater shark. Bull sharks have poor eyesight, but have a highly sensitive sense of smell, they can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 100,000 liters of water and find it within a range of 1 kilometer, they can also track prey by observing water currents and sounds, because there are no shark nets in freshwater areas, humans and livestock entering bull shark activity areas are very risky!
NO.4 Red-bellied piranhas: With a body length of up to 50 cm, the film 'Piranha 3D' made piranhas popular. Although piranhas have a bad reputation, their position in the real world is embarrassing, because in the Amazon River basin, piranhas are the 'food fish' of caimans, white storks and giant water otters, and also act as river scavengers. They will not attack large living beings automatically, and have never killed a person directly. If you are in the water and your body doesn't bleed and you don't drown, there is no problem at all!
NO.3 Poison dart frog: Also known as poison arrow frog, one of the most beautiful and toxic species in the world, small in size, with a colorful body. The poison in poison dart frogs can damage the normal activity of the human nervous system, eventually leading to the cessation of heartbeats, and now there is no effective emergency treatment, but the poison of poison dart frogs can only act on human blood, unless there is no bleeding situation in the human body, it will not be fatal.
NO.2 Electric eel: The most powerful discharge ability in freshwater fish, it is not a true eel, but closely related to the catfish species, the discharge voltage of electric eels can reach 300-800 volts, they can discharge at will and can control the discharge time and intensity, so they are known as 'high-pressure lines' in the water, if humans are within 3-6 meters of electric eels, they will be stunned and may fall into the water and drown.
NO.1 Toothpick fish: Also known as 'Brazilian vampire fish', a type of freshwater fish similar to eels and with a translucent body, almost invisible to the naked eye, the fish skin has viscous liquid and has a hook-shaped barb, generally parasitic in the gills of other fish, feeding on blood by biting, in the Amazon River, swimming in the water is very risky, because toothpick fish will quickly drill into human body parts, sucking human blood and biting human tissues, unless surgically removed, toothpick fish will not automatically come out of the human body, it is the most notorious and dreaded monster in the local area.
