On Feb 15, 11:39 am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> 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.)
A sensationalist media report?  Never.
BTW, they aren't as big as em-us and ostriches, more half their size.
When I was an assistant in experiments on sugarcane we used to visit
the area often.  Never saw a carrowary, but to get where we stayed
over night there was a road through their habitate with lots of
"cassowary crossing" signs.
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