earth's grossest animals Creatures Ugly Under Water Alix Wood WINDMILL BOOKS 1 New York
What's Hiding in the Water There are some really weird creatures living under the water Some are scary some are ugly and some do the strangest things Garra rufa fish love to nibble your smelly feet The garra rufa is sometimes called the doctor fish They like to gently bite your feet looking for algae and in their search they pick off the dead or diseased skin Health spas around the world have used garra rufa fish for pedicures but they can actually spread disease unless the tank is cleaned out between patients garra rufa cleaning feet someone's
These little piranhas right don't look too scary until you take a look at their teeth Piranhas are normally about 5 5 to 10 25 inches 14 to 26 cm long They are deadly because they hunt in groups Piranhas occasionally bite and sometimes kill people swimming in rivers In the city of Palmas Brazil 190 piranha attacks were reported in the first half of 2007 When US President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Amazon in 1913 local fishermen showed him how ferocious piranhas are They blocked off part of the river and starved the piranhas for several days Then a cow was led into the water and was quickly torn apart by a school of piranhas hungry
