While the footage provides a visceral look at specialized scavenging, it prioritizes sensationalist horror over a nuanced understanding of the Amazon's complex ecosystem. Jeremy Wade masterfully exploits our primal fear of being consumed from within to turn niche biology into high-stakes entertainment.
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Oh. Oh. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What was that?
What was that?
>> I don't know the scientific name for all the scavengers at this gruesome picnic.
The locals call these musum or snake fish.
Ah.
And that is just disgusting. That is horrible. Whatever it is, I hate Oh, is the one of the grossest sensations I think I've ever had.
I quite like fish, but I don't like this one.
>> There's little sort of lighter bits of material in there. And I think what's actually happening, you know, the the shock of these things being pulled out, they're actually regurgitating bits of flesh into the water.
Uh, if I can get it out. I don't really want to shove my hand in there. There, there, there, there, there, there, there there, there, there. Just hold him.
There we go. So, this is the kandiru assu. This is the fish that bores holes in the body and then devours from the inside out. And it was this fish that they retrieved from those corpses in the morg.
This this was a heavy fish when it went in. Look at the state of that. It is just, you know, it's just it's just been hollowed out. And there's a hole here.
And that is, you know, you know, it is it is just like a bullet hole except nothing would have shot this fish. I mean, it is just a perfect round perforation in the skin.
Nothing left inside. In fact, if I I'll just rip it open a little bit. The kanderoo makes no distinction between human flesh and that of any other animal floating in the Amazon. Just like a hollow case of skin with the remnants of the bone inside.
This is almost exactly, you know, what the autopsy report was in the morg, except, you know, in in that case we were talking about a human
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