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A single piranha can not eat something the size of a human. It would take concidering the type and size quite many. the smallest pirahnas wich are the silver red bellied piranhas in a group of 500 could devoure something that size in aproximately ten minutes.
In Piranha attack, they take bites each from different parts one after the other until they are full or the prey it totally devoured. Only bones are left in most cases.
Piranha attacks are more frequent on humans now a day since in south America, a lot of dams have been built. the flooding gives them larger areas for nesting and that is the reason why. They are now bigger in numbers.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoPiranha attack in huge packs usually.
It only takes minutes for them to strip most beasts to the bone!
An adult cow would take a school around twelve hours to completely strip..On Animal Planet, a test was done to check the speed of stripping an animal carcasse..It took a school nearly an hour to strip a thirty pound capybara..A cow weighing seven hundred pounds would take very much longer, even if the school was huge.
AnswerAccording to the Wikipedia article on "piranha", it depends precisely on just how many piranha are available to attack. In a spectacular demonstration of entertaining local Brazilian fishermen, wanting to impress the visiting Pres T Roosevelt, they tossed a half-cow into the river among countless starving piranha and the dead beast was devoured in virtually no time.
Obviously, this was set up.
Nevertheless, it demonstrates the capability, given sufficient numbers and a starvation factor.
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∙ 12y agoNormally piranhas dont go after humans. However, you could lose a hand or toe if you go into piranha infested waters but only in South America as far as i know. Most of the things people see on TV about piranhas besides Nat'l Geographic and Animal Planet, its pretty much fiction. Piranhas got their name from Teddy Roosevelt, locals dumped starving piranhas in the Amazon Tributary when he visited and fed them chopped cow meat, which made them go into a feeding frenzy.
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∙ 13y agoOne or two not that many because they eat really fast super fast!
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∙ 12y agoIn a SECOND!
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How many piranhas does it take to kill one man?
one
Will piranhas attack if disturbed by humans?
Piranhas are timid fish and only really attack when feel threatened and incredibly hungry. They are also very small so it would really take many piranhas to eat a human. Piranhas have a single row of very sharp teeth and have a voracious appetite for meat. the types of piranhas are Red-bellied piranha, Black piranha, White piranha, Gold piranha, and Wimple piranha. What about baby piranhas? Baby piranhas hatch from microscopic eggs and will feast on tiny fish,plants,seeds,etc. When the baby piranha reach about 1.5 inches they will start feeding on fins and flesh of fish and will start hunting in groups. Here's a fact of piranhas, there are some states where piranhas are illegal and some states where they are legal.
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