River MonstersRiver Monsters Season 1x05 "Amazon Assassins"

[João Branquinho]

 

File Name: River Monsters Season 1x05 "Amazon Assassins"

File Submitter: João Branquinho

File Submitted: 28 Jun 2015

File Category: River Monsters

 

 

The Amazon has a huge amount of river monsters. Anacondas, caimans, piranhas and jaguars all call this place home. Years ago, Jeremy Wade travelled here looking for the arapaima, a 10-foot long fish that has been known to ram predators with the force of a car crash. The trip resulted in Jeremy feeling the full force of one of these blows as one arapaima's tail hit his chest. Now Jeremy has returned to Brazil to once again face off against this fish and determine if the arapaima deserves to be on the Amazon's already large list of monsters. Journeying to the few spots where fishing for these fish is allowed, he encounters an arapaima farm where the fish do something surprising. Jeremy then hears stories of the Amazon's other killers, the caiman. He searches for these, as well as a mysterious legend with its roots buried deep in folklore. Then, after finding the perfect spot, he finally comes face to face with the legendary giant, whose body could become a living missile.

Featured animals

• Arapaima (Arapaima gigas)
• Tiger sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum)
• Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger)
• Black pacu (Colossoma macropomum)
• Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
• Yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis)
• Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus)
• Additional creature: the cobra grande

 

3 May 2009

 

 

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