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| {{Kaiju Infobox
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| |type1 =Charcoal
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| |type2 =Grass
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| |header ={{Universal}} {{Kaijup}}
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| |copyrighticon =Unknown or No Trademark.png
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| |image =Piranhadon.png
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| |caption =Piranhadon swimming
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| |name =Piranhadon
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| |species =Fish
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| |nicknames =Piranhadon Titanus
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| |height =?? (males)<br>?? (females)
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| |length =Up to {{tt|70 feet|21.336 meters}} (females)<br>{{tt|Around|Males rarely grow to be longer than 20 feet}} {{tt|20 feet|6.096 meters}} (males)
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| |weight =Around 14 tons (females)<br>Around 2 tons (males)
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| |forms =None
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| |allies =None
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| |enemies =Humans, {{tt|Small animals|Prey}}
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| |relationships =Other Piranhadons
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| |controlled =None
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| |created =Unknown
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| |portrayed ={{tt|CGI|Computer Generated Imagery}}
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| |firstappearance ={{tt|[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong (2005)]]|Extended version of the film}}
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| |latestappearance ={{tt|[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong (2005)]]|Extended version of the film}}
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| |suits =None
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| |roar =TBA
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| }}
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| '''Piranhadon''' is a fictional species of carnivorous fishes that appears in the extended version of the [[2005]] [[:Category:Films|film]], ''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''.
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| ==Ecology==
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| An enormous fish, as big (or bigger) than some whales, Piranhadon is a river-dwelling hunter that specializes in taking its prey from the riverbanks when they come down to drink. Thus, they tend to remain in the open waterways, where they have sufficient room to move and the water is clean enough to breathe. Male Piranhadon are much smaller than the females and must compete to prove their worth as mates. Young are born live in groups of around a dozen. Already five feet long at birth, a juvenile Piranhadon is already a dangerous aquatic predator, and will devour water birds, fish, amphibians, small dinosaurs, and just about anything else it can catch.
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| == History ==
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| ===''[[King Kong (2005 film)|King Kong]]''===
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| A Piranhadon swims towards one of the rafts, it attacked it and broke it, so the people from it fell in the water. The Piranhadon ate one crew member while he was trying to escape. The Piranhadon saw [[Jack Driscoll]] in the water, it swims towards him, opens its jaws as it is prepared to eat him, but then its mouth got stuck between 2 trees. Jack Driscoll got his chance to escape. The Piranhadon then ate another crew member. [[Carl Denham]] and other people on the raft grabbed their guns and started shooting in the water as they saw the Piranhadon swimming towards them. The Piranhadon flipped the second raft, and the people from it fell in the water. The crew went to the closest land they could find. A crew member was going to the land, but the Piranhadon ate him, too.
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| == Abilities ==
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| An ambush predator, Piranhadon tends to lie in wait near the river banks, using its sensitive barbels to detect the approach of potential prey, as its eyes are poor and can only see differences between light and dark. A surge of its enormous body, and it will lunge out of the water, taking its prey in its jaws, either killing it with a massive bite or dragging it down below the surface to drown. <ref>[http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationscreatures/movies/kong/piranhadon.html Piranhadon eyes are poor]</ref>
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| ==Filmography==
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| *[[King Kong (2005 film)|''King Kong'']] (2005)
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| == Trivia ==
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| *The Piranhadon was supposed to appear in King Kong as part of the swamp-crossing sequence. That scene was cut, but can be found on the extended version of the DVD. In the scene, it attacks the explorers while they try to cross the swamp on a log raft. The Piranhadon eats three members of the crew and nearly eats [[Jack Driscoll]] while [[Carl Denham]] films it.
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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