چگونه «candiru» را در انگلیسی تلفظ کنیم

Spoken Video Transcripts & Contextual Quotes (5 Verified Clips)

• 🇺🇸 USSciShow

  Clip #1 · @1:36

  “Also, if a candiru did somehow enter a human urethra, it would quickly suffocate—so it wouldn’t be chilling up there drinking blood. But the biggest problem with this whole story is that the candiru isn’t attracted to human urine. Scientists used to think these parasites sought out the nitrogen-containing wastes—basically, pee—that fish excrete from their gills.”

• 🇺🇸 US

  Clip #2 · @30:30

  “We, you know, back flips into the river. We've been swimming in the river how many times with the piranha and the stingray and the candiru and the caiman and the anacondas, with the piranha and the stingray”

• 🇺🇸 USSciShow

  Clip #3 · @0:28

  “As far as scholars can tell, the tales began in the early 1800s. European explorers and naturalists trekking through the Amazon basin heard about the candiru from indigenous communities. As they explained in their reports, they were told the parasitic fish is attracted to human urine, so you should never pee in the Amazon river.”

• 🇺🇸 US

  Clip #4 · @3:36

  “that have razor, long steak knife-sized defense systems. Then you have of course the jaguars, the harpy eagles, the piranha, the candiru fish that can swim up a penis, lodge themselves inside. the harpy eagles, the piranha,”

• 🇺🇸 USSciShow

  Clip #5 · @1:02

  “And all of that makes for a great monster myth—but it doesn’t jive with science. The candiru of legend is most likely the South American catfish Vandellia cirrhosa. It’s a parasitic catfish that inserts its head into the gills of larger fish to drink their blood, so it might not be that far out to think it could insert itself into people, too.”