On Feb 14, 5:26 pm, Duggy  wrote:
> On Feb 15, 5:20 am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> > Good luck.  Keep you head down.  And watch out for birds.
. . .
> > (I'm not sure if you're in the Old Testament or a Hitchcock film.)
>
> I'm didn't have time to check the link, but the headline suggests it's
> talking about cassowaries.
Yup, them's the ones.  And you're right about their habitat and food
supply being severely damaged and their wandering around looking for
something to live on, thus making them more of a risk to livestock,
pets, and - potentially - humans.  However TFA itself blows things
just a touch out-of-proportion.  The first 80 percent of the aticle
makes the cassowary sound like a velociraptor with feathers, fast,
aggressive and capable of disembowling a man (or a dog or a *horse*)
with one swipe of its powerful claws.  It isn't until the last two
paragraphs that we find out that there has been precisely one known
case of a man being killed by a cassowary - and that was in *1926*.
(The man in question and his brother were trying to beat a cassowary
to death and the bird defend itself - by cutting the guy's throat, not
disemboweling him.)
Stay safe,
Joe
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