A legend tells that Piranha's gather in groups and can strip humans to the bone alive! But piranha's are not aggressive man-eaters. They don't just hunt down prey, they defend themselves against predators. So if a piranha attacks you....it's obviously scared and is protecting itself from being harmed. If piranha's have eaten any humans, it would be a carcass that has drowned in a river. This myth of aggressive piranha's might be when "President Roosevelt visited Brazil in 1914 and saw a group of piranha's strip meat from a dead cow." But that has been set up to entertain tourists; the piranha's had been hungry for days and then went into a feeding frenzy.
I find this really interesting because i've always thought that piranha's were deadly man-eating savages! But, this website helped clear the air and I wont be that terrified of swimming in my lake.....
