Piranhas

Piranhas — page 1 — LIVING WILD Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Mary Herrmann Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Alamy AF archive blickwinkel Larry Larsen Prisma Bildagentur AG Jeff Cardwell Dreamstime Dean Bertoncelj Mikhail Blajenov Bonita Cheshier Andreas Gradin Christopher Howey King Ho Yim Lightpoet Alexander Mironov Liubomir Turcanu Jiri Vaclavek William L Fink University of Michigan Getty Images Tony Allen Oxford Scientiﬁc Chris Catton Oxford Scientiﬁc John Newcomb Mark Randall Sun Sentinel MCT Joel Sartore Mark Smith Paul Zahl National Geographic GM Corp iStockphoto ricardoazoury tunart Shutterstock Andreas Gradin guentermanaus Janne Hämäläinen lightpoet schankz Yellowj Wikipedia Diego Rodriguez Torox YouTube 74ﬂateric Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gish Melissa Piranhas by Melissa Gish p cm Living wild Includes bibliographical references and index Summary A look at piranhas including their habitats physical characteristics such as their ﬂesh-ripping teeth behaviors relationships with humans and feared status in the world today ISBN 978-1-60818-168-1 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-130-6 eBook 1 Piranhas Juvenile literature I Title QL638 C5G57 2012 597 48 dc23 2011035763 First Edition 987654321 CREATIVE EDUCATION 2 LIVING WILD

Piranhas — page 2 — PIRANHAS Melissa Gish PIRANHAS 3

Piranhas — page 3 — LIVING WILD 4 In Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta only scattered pools of water remain in the once-ﬂooded forest The ﬁve-month drought

Piranhas — page 4 — 5 PIRANHAS has trapped four red-bellied piranhas in a shrinking pool

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