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types. Some are even vegetarian! The most ferocious is the meat-eating red-bellied piranha, which weighs up to 3.5 kilograms,
     measures up to 33 centimetres, and has the strongest jaws.
    •  Piranhas’ teeth are razor sharp, and to keep them that way the teeth are replaced throughout the fishes’ lives.
    •  Red-bellied piranhas prey on fish, worms and other small animals.
    •  Usually, they leave large animals alone, though they sometimes bite, and can be very dangerous if they’ve become trapped in a pool left by
     flooding.
    •  The terrifying reputation of piranha fish is partly due to US President Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote a book about his travels, in which he described
     piranhas as ‘the embodiment of evil ferocity’ and claimed they would eat cattle alive if they stepped into the water. They aren’t quite as bad as that, though they are
     responsible for taking the odd chunk out of people, and a few missing fingers and toes.
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Y ou find a stick about twice the length of your arm and a vine with long, sharp thorns. Carefully, you break off some of
    the thorns and tie them to the stick, using the vine as string. You now have a spear with several sharp tips.
    You lie on the bank, peering into the slow-moving, murky water with the spear in your hand, ready to strike. You make out a dark shape and stab down with your spear –
    you’ve caught a fish! It’s not very big, but it’s a good start. You make a fire cook the fish and eat it. It’s delicious. Should you stay and catch more fish, or move
    on?

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Fishing in the Amazon
    •  Kneel or sit down to fish, to hide yourself from the fish, making sure not to let your shadow fall on the surface of the water.
    •  If you’re experienced at fishing with a hook and line you should try it (make hooks from thorns and use liana for your line).
    •  If you’ve not tried angling before weight one end of a length of liana and tie the other end firmly to the bank. Bait thorns with worms and attach
     them to the liana at intervals. Drop the weighted end into the water and leave it for a while – maybe overnight – before bringing in the line, hopefully with fish attached.
    •  Make a trap that fish can swim into but can’t easily get out of. For example, use a plastic bottle with the top section cut off, turned around and
     placed back inside the bottle so that the bottle top is facing inwards into the bottom of the bottle.
    •  ‘Tickling’ fish takes a lot of practice: put your hand into the water under the bank and wait. When you feel a fish, gently move your fingers
     along its belly, then grab it and pull it out quickly.
    •  Spear a fish using a stick with sharp thorns attached.
    •  Never eat dead fish you find floating on the surface of the water as they could be diseased or rotten.
    •  Remember that there are dangers lurking in the waters of the Amazon: electric eels can electrocute you, piranha can give you a nasty bite, and a big caiman
     could eat you!
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Y ou take a step towards the hive and straight away, several bees land on you and sting. You swat at them. Within seconds,
    you’re surrounded by a cloud of stinging insects. You run away, but there are bees already on you and hundreds more in hot pursuit. So many bees have stung you that, even though
    you’re not allergic to bee stings, you have a heart attack and die.
    The end.

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Africanised Honey Bees
    •  Believe it or not, Africanised honey bees are more feared by people in the Amazon than anacondas, jaguars, snakes and spiders!
    •  The bees were introduced by accident in the 1950s by scientists who had crossed