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Piranha
10" long piranha caught in the lagoon where we had been swimming - luckily they are scavengers not predators!
Rainforest lagoon.
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This is a pacu, nor a piranha...the genuses look very similar but it's obviously a pacu due to it lack of a protruding lower jaw as well as the extensive anal fin...
Not me Pam! A few of the guys were catching them with a line at the end of the jetty. Usually I'm not a fan of dead fish, but I'd never seen a piranha before.
did you catch it? We had a piranha excursion in Cuyabeno when I was there!
Thanks Leanne!
Way cool.