After months of its animals dying off, you know what Prospect Park needs: piranhas! The park's zoo has brought in 18 red and orange bellied piranhas for their Flooded Forest exhibit because clearly they did not see the trailer for Piranha 3D!
Anyway, the Wildlife Conservation Society is already combating fears, and claims these things just have a bad rep and are actually quite docile. Sorry, WCS, not buying it. It's only a matter of time before they create some new super species with the rest of the animals over there and then you know what, we won't have a Canada geese problem anymore, we'll have some crazy winged-piranha hybrid taking down airplanes.
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