Amazon Flesh Eaters is the sixth episode of the first season of River Monsters.
Episode Description[]
A man swallowed whole by a catfish, a body eaten alive from within, another penetrated in a most unnatural fashion yet more with multiple stab wounds. Jeremy Wade is in pursuit of some of the Amazon's most notorious flesh eater catfishes.
Episode Summary[]
Following a report of a fisherman swallowed whole, Jeremy travels to South America in search of the Amazon's largest catfish, the piraíba. Arriving there, Wade not only tries to catch this monster, but discovers that it belongs to a whole family of Amazonian killers. He catches as many catfish species as he can to prove that these whiskered predators really are the ultimate monsters of this place. His mission is to try and catch the three largest catfishes until he encounters with the smallest ones. He finds the candiru, a tiny blood-sucking catfish that has entered a man's body in the most horrifying of places, and the candiru-acú, a catfish that swarms around and drills holes in dead or dying animals, including humans, eating them from the inside out and leaving only the skin and bones. Discovering the horrifying deeds of these fish only pushes him even further, until he faces off with the giant head of the murderous catfish family, 'the mother of all catfishes', the piraíba.
Animals Featured[]
Trivia[]
- The first episode to feature a parasite. This would only happen again in the special episode, Invisible Killers.