Tho I must admit that I would never get that close to the surface with my bare hands while doing this.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    I can’t tell from the video if the water is just muddy or if it’s actually, y’know, gross. Is it safe to eat the fish from that river?

    Also, I’d always heard they didn’t do that unless they were starving. Which makes me think not much is surviving in that water, making me think it might not be safe to eat the fish :/

    Though, I imagine if you’re desperate for protein, such things are secondary concerns at best

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      Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).

      Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil

      There’s great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images “meeting of the waters Manaus”:

      confluence between the Black river of black water and the Solimões river of muddy water, where the waters of the two rivers run side by side without mixing