| Title | Red-bellied piranha |
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General statement Entity classification |
The red-bellied piranha is a type of fish that lives in the Amazon River. |
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Description Features |
It has an orange belly, grey back, and very sharp teeth set in strong jaws. It grows up to 33 centimetres in length. |
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Diet Behaviour |
The red-bellied piranha hunts in shoals of 20-30 fish. They feed on a diet of fish, insects, snails, plants, and river animals. They hide in vegetation in order to ambush prey, and they also chase prey and scavenge for food. The younger, smaller fish hunt by day, and the older, bigger fish hunt at dawn and dusk. |
| Reproduction | The female lays a clutch of up to 1 000 eggs. |
| Life expectancy | Piranhas can live for about 100 years. |
Teaching Language in Context, Beverly Derewianka and Pauline Jones, Oxford, 2013
