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ITT: fun facts about this little fish, the Candiru
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The candirú is feared for it's ability to enter the urethra and attach there using sharp spines. A little known fact is that it can only enter a human urethra while it is expanded during urination, so anyone that does not urinate in the Amazon is perfectly safe from this parasite.
>> Anonymous
Because of spines protruding from the fish, it is almost impossible to remove it from the penis except through surgery.[
>> Anonymous
>>288572
Not perfectly safe. There are plenty of other orfices it can still enter. A bloodsucking fish stuck in your ass is not something to joke about. Well okay, it is, but you'd hardly appreciate the humor if you had one in your anus.
>> Anonymous
Those are bigger than I thought a candiru would be. Surely you'd feel that thing swimming up your urethra long before it put out its spines.
>> Anonymous
Amerifag in Brazil. My Brazilian girlfriend told me about this evil monster and I thought she was kidding until I looked it up. Fuck that, I would never swim where these guys live.
>> R.D. !!qFhBIHR1ap8
>>288575

Well, it does not just swim into the urethra because it CAN-
it actually swims there, because of the CO2 excreted during urination.
They mistake it for CO2 which comes from a fishs' branchiae. Normally they enter there, scrap until the blood comes out, suck the blood and escape.

So you don't have to be scared that they might enter your anus ;)
>> Anonymous
I had read somewhere that urine with a very high citric acid content was capable of either killing them or dissolving their spines. Can anyone confirm/refute this?
>> Anonymous
>>288709
but my farts contain CO2.
>> Anonymous
>>288762
wtf are you eating? my farts contain methane.
>> Anonymous
CO2? Make sure you forget how to breathe underwater then.
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THE CANDIRU