P is for Piranha
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They may not be big but these fish are super scary!
Piranhas are a shimmery gold and green colour with a red underbelly, and travel in groups called shoals.
Although they mostly eat insects fish and seeds, their teeth are sharp enough to bite through steel and in a shoal can strip a carcass in minutes – even one as big as a horse.
Wild Challenge? What other fish eat meat?
