{"id":447785,"date":"2026-05-14T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447785\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:06:10","slug":"piranha-can-strip-a-fish-to-the-bone-in-minutes-watch-david-attenborough-narrated-footage-of-a-brutal-feeding-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447785\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPiranha can strip a fish to the bone in minutes.\u201d Watch David Attenborough-narrated footage of a brutal feeding frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fish\/piranha-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Piranhas<\/a> have the strongest bite force of any fish, with black piranhas having a force more than 30 times their body weight.<\/p>\n<p>This means they\u2019re able to easily tear flesh from their prey \u2013 which is most likely to be an injured fish, rather than anything as large as a human.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most infamous species of piranhas swims through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/pantanal-wildlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pantanal wetlands<\/a>, in Brazil: the red-bellied piranha.<\/p>\n<p>It has the strongest jaws and sharpest teeth of the piranha family, and hunts in groups that can reach more than 100.<\/p>\n<p>Piranhas generally spread out to look for prey, and when it\u2019s located, the attacking scout signals the other piranhas to join. Every fish rushes in to take a bite, then swims away to allow others to do the same, creating what looks like a \u2018feeding frenzy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/david-attenborough-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Attenborough<\/a> narrates in footage from Planet Earth, \u201cpiranha can strip a fish to the bone in minutes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Top image: a still from a video of a piranha shoal feeding on a dorado fish. Credit: BBC Natural History\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piranhas have the strongest bite force of any fish, with black piranhas having a force more than 30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-447785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}