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Turtley awesome dude...

Waw...

The Amazon is nothing more than the product of Tim Burtons and HP Lovecrafts imaginations having sex and producing offspring

@cgoodness: There is an element of nightmare fuel evolving in that forest I will admit. And it doesn't end with the animals,an extinct culture called the Moche lived their, they actually had a god of Decapitation which shows you how brutal they were.

@cpt_nice: waw? Also nice to hear from you again ☺

Awesome

Yea Candiru- Nope

@laflux: A nope indeed

@galactic_1000:Thanks, glad you approve :-)

Yeah, I can tell you I have no plans to ever, ever go to South America.

@risingbean: Shame, I've been to Chile it's a beautiful country

Shovel-headed turtles, ugly-ass dolphins, ogrefish and cannibals - the green inferno has it all.

@black_wreath: Yep Green Hell is pretty inclusive when it comes to harbouring monstrosities

Interesting creatures, but would I ever approach one in real life?

@juiceboks: As I suspected

I think the pokemon card is very appropriate hehe

Wonder if Mata mata will be in Sun and Moon.

~MiB

@MadeinBangladesh: Hmm what in the Green Hell you mean...

@luna_joestar:Maybe, I'd wager there may possibly be a tortoise or turtle Pokemon somewhere in Gen 7 since we've had one in four of the six previous generations: Squirtle Line (RBY), Torkoal (RSE), Turtwig Line (DPL), Carracosta Line (BW) ect.

It appears the Candiru has no attraction to urine, it hunts visually. It rarely, but occasionally, enters human orifices... probably less often than many insects. It can be up to 16 inches long. Hard to fit in many orifices.

"In 1836 Eduard Poeppig documented a statement by a local physician in Pará, known only as Dr. Lacerda, who offered an eyewitness account of a case where a candiru had entered a human orifice. However, it was lodged in a native woman's vagina, rather than a male urethra. He relates that the fish was extracted after external and internal application of the juice from a Xagua plant (believed to be a name for Genipa americana)"

"In 1891, naturalist Paul Le Cointe provides a rare first-hand account of a candiru entering a human body, and like Lacerda's account, it involved the fish being lodged in the vaginal canal, not the urethra. Le Cointe actually removed the fish himself, by pushing it forward to disengage the spines, turning it around and removing it head-first.[12]"

And, last but not least, the only male account of a supposed case:

"According to Samad, the patient claimed "the fish had darted out of the water, up the urine stream, and into his urethra." While this is the most popularly known legendary trait of the candiru, according to Spotte it has been known conclusively to be a myth for more than a century, as it is impossible because of simple fluid physics.[18]

The documentation and specimen provided indicate a fish that was 133.5 mm in length and had a head with a diameter of 11.5 mm. This would have required significant force to pry the urethra open to this extent. The candiru has no appendages or other apparatus that would have been necessary to accomplish this, and if it were leaping out of the water as the patient claimed, it would not have had sufficient leverage to force its way inside.[19]

Samad's paper claims the fish must have been attracted by the urine.[14] This belief about the fish has been held for centuries, but was discredited in 2001.[8] While this was merely speculation on Samad's part based on the prevailing scientific knowledge at the time, it somewhat erodes the patient's story by eliminating the motivation for the fish to have attacked him in the first place.

Samad claimed the fish had "chewed" its way through the ventral wall of the urethra into the patient's scrotum. Spotte notes that the candiru does not possess the right teeth or strong enough dentition to have been capable of this.[20]

Samad claimed he had to snip the candiru's grasping spikes off in order to extract it, yet the specimen provided had all its spikes intact.[19]

The cystoscopy video depicts traveling into a tubular space (presumed to be the patient's urethra) containing the fish's carcass and then pulling it out backwards through the urethral opening,[17] something that would have been almost impossible with the fish's spikes intact.[21]

When subsequently interviewed, Spotte stated that even if a person were to urinate while "submerged in a stream where candiru live", the odds of that person being attacked by candiru are "(a)bout the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark." [22]"

Creepy and weird.

@avatar_of_green: There are multiple Candiru species, and as y correctly pointed most are not parasites but active predators of smaller fish and invertebrates. It is mostly chemical cues that guide them (like most catfish) to a natural host (i.e. other fish). I deliberately kept away from any major remarks about acidental parasitisum because it's still so conveluted over what actually happens

@wildvine: Thanks it is indeed

Awesome, yet scary

@impurestcheese: Cool thanks for the comment, the Amazin sure does produce some monsters

@impurestcheese: Mata-mata looks like it has a club for a head.

@ficopedia: See I always thought it looked like a spade. Guess it's whatever 'suites' your way of looking at things

@impurestcheese: I could see how you'd get "spade." I see "club," because it appears to have spikes on its chin and the sides of its head. That reminds me of a fantasy character's wooden club with spikes on the end. Sort of like this guy:

@ficopedia: Ah it's the phalanges, got it

I don't want to be in the same river as any of these things.

@jamiewolfe7: Yeah, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are also stingrays, caimain, crocodiles, piranah, electric eels, numerous venemous snakes, green anaconda, venemous catfish and bull sharks in those waters as well.

???

@4donkeyjohnson: Why the confusion?

@deactivated-57af58bda2d61: Well you predicted that we would have a pokemon based on the Mata-Mata

Looks like you were right

There's a lot to unpack here. First, that turtle made me think of Godzilla, don't really know why but might have to do with its horrific throat ballooning. Then there is that lovely grouping of animals in the Amazon. While piranha is nightmarish and that catfish one stuff of hellish contemplation, it's the dolphin that's probably going to keep me up tonight. I don't like dolphins, not at all, but one that can turn its neck to actually look at me?

omg