The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)
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The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)
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#2A cassowary recently killed a man, apparently for the first time since 1926:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/04/14/florida-ca...
This article from 2008 is also interesting:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/invasion-of-th...
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#3Never let a bird see your back.
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#4Never let a bird see your back.
Rimworld makes a lot more sense now.
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#5Maciej /@idlewords has a wonderful post about the Daintree rain forest where the cassowary makes a star appearance:
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#6Seeing a cassowary up close really feels like being able to see a dinosaur. They've got those three-toed dinosaur feet with legs as thick as yours, giant yellow saucer eyes, iridescent skin and a weird head horn. It watches back at you. You really feel like you're looking at a dinosaur. Only thing it's missing is the teeth and maybe forelimbs. Otherwise it's like 80% of a dinosaur.
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#7Maciej /@idlewords has a wonderful post about the Daintree rain forest where the cassowary makes a star appearance: https://idlewords.com/2013/02/the_daintree_rain_forest.htm
The Daintree, like most of our ecosystems, is in rapid decline: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/30/climate-...
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#8Seeing a cassowary up close really feels like being able to see a dinosaur. They've got those three-toed dinosaur feet with legs as thick as yours, giant yellow saucer eyes, iridescent skin and a weird head horn. It watches back at you. You really feel like you're looking at a dinosaur. Only thing it's missing is the teeth and maybe forelimbs. Otherwise it's like 80% of a dinosaur.
That struck me too the couple of times I've seen them in the wild. I found it evoked a certain awe to come across such a strange and magnificent creature just doing its own thing out there in the forest.
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#9Now I know why they are so badass in Far Cry 3!
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#10Ive encountered a few one in the wild back in the daintree forest and I didn't got threatened at all as they were just walking through.
When it comes to accidents, never heard about anything whereas the same can't be say about the salt water crocodile that live in the very same region
Fun fact, the female casswory is much bigger than the male and it's considered down there as the gardener of the forest because it eats all sort seeds that when poo get all the nutriment it needs to grow, pretty amazing bird.