Piranha-Proof Fish Gives Inspiration for Body Armor
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 24 October 2019
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| 0:00.0 | This is scientific American's 60 second science. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Christopher Intagiato. |
| 0:07.0 | Deep in the Amazon lives one of the world's largest freshwater fish, |
| 0:11.0 | the legendary are a pima. |
| 0:12.0 | It tips the scales Ara Pima. |
| 0:12.8 | It tips the scales at hundreds of pounds, |
| 0:15.0 | making it a coveted catch for extreme anglers, |
| 0:17.7 | like Jeremy Wade from the show River Monsters. |
| 0:20.4 | That's a fish, that's a good fish. After a dramatically scored struggle, he catches one, |
| 0:25.0 | and it takes two guys to hold it up. |
| 0:27.0 | There it is. |
| 0:28.0 | Look at that for a fish. |
| 0:30.0 | Look at that. |
| 0:32.0 | Massive female aeroplymah, about 150 pounds. |
| 0:36.2 | Speaking of scales, this giant fish has another superlative quality. |
| 0:40.0 | It has these very impressive |
| 0:42.8 | scales on its body, which prevent penetration by |
| 0:47.5 | predators teeth, yet it still makes the fish quite flexible |
| 0:51.5 | and nimble in the waters. |
| 0:53.0 | Robert Ritchie, a material scientist at UC Berkeley. |
| 0:56.2 | The predators he's talking about are piranhas, |
| 0:58.6 | but the mighty Arapima has them beat with its scales, |
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