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Watch in awe as piranhas feed in a frenzy

January 16, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This footage was shot in Brazil. You can see the locals throwing dirty slabs of meat in between those fragile looking boats. The result? Chaos!

With each throw the feeding piranhas get more and more violent. You can see entire fish leaving the water as they flip back and forth in a frenzy while latched on to the meat.

The dangers of piranhas are often over stated but they are dangerous. Anyone can see that getting on to these fishing boats would be a high risk gambit while the shoal was in.

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What stories have you heard about piranhas that you believe to be true?

That time the sky was full of spiders

February 12, 2013 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This happened. Not one for anyone suffering arachnophobia.

The film was taken by a 20-year-old web designer who was leaving an engagement party. Experts are not surprised it happened; this is how these spiders hunt.

Deborah Smith, an entomologist at the University of Kansas who specializes in social spiders told press;

“The spiders in the video are very large and robust,”

“It might be worth looking at Parawixia bistriata, a large, group-living orb weaver, to see if that one fits the bill.”

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Is this the stuff of nightmares or nature in full glory?

Banned Ad: Red Bull and Jesus

March 16, 2012 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This advert was intended for Brazil. You’ll probably be familiar with the art style and recognise it as an advert for Red Bull. You’d be spot on – it’s a Red Bull ad.

The video is going viral today because it has (apparently) been banned by Brazilian regulators who found it offensive. At the time of posting it has nearly as many dislikes as likes on YouTube.

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What do you make of the video? Would you ban it?

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