Caption:
“Hold up, Niles. It says here, ‘These little fish have been known to skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.’… Now there’s a vivid thought!”
Alt text:
CAUTION PIRANHA
Some background on this comic:
Transcript (comic draft):
“Look at that… Man, in our day, Bernie, we could skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.”
Transcript (commentary):
Just about every time I’ve heard or read anything about piranhas (as you might imagine, I’m drawn to the subject), it’s always mentioned how quickly a school of them can skeletonize a cow. I’m not sure why a cow is always the standard unit of measurement for this sort of thing, but pondering it eventually led to this cartoon.
Isn’t this practically a myth? Like it took starving conditions, and the water to dry up so much an entire rivers worth of fish are in a tiny pond.
