leaving them with bloody legs and feet "It's the carnivorous piranhas that have a reputation for eating the flesh of small ...

That's over double the length of an average piranha! Diet - Whilst some piranhas do eat other animals like fish and snails, they do not choose to eat humans and prefer plants, seeds and even fruits!

Thousands of flesh-eating piranhas have infested a Brazilian river beach popular with tourists, biting at least 15 unwary swimmers. One of the bathers lost the tip of their toe during a frenzied ...