Word: piranha
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...fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed with poisoned arrows, and raging rapids. But the movie's most exotic attraction is an Indian guide playing The Old Folks at Home on a harmonica as the expedition cruises down the Amazon...
...calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha and a two-headed turtle sport and splash and amuse small boys...
...bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
...sloth can swim milewide rivers. Plants grow on him. A heart, removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...
...south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains. White men's investigation of the Chaco has been resisted by the savage Indians, ihenni flies, carnivorous piranha fish, anacondas, rattlesnakes, jaguars, skunks, vampire bats, alligators and the fact that good water holes are far apart, even in the rainy season (December through February...