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Cassowary and Volunteer from the Audience.
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Cassowary and Volunteer from the Audience.
Old 24-04-2009
This guest unknowingly held out a grape as a cassowary ran up behind him and picked it out of his hand. November 2008.
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The LA Zoo does something similar, except they use an Abyssinian Hornbill.
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I would rather it be a hornbill...cassowaries scare me.
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WTF is that golden thing on the right of the photo. It looks like the face was carved with a shovel. LOL
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Whoa that's a bit dangerous!
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The LA Zoo does something similar, except they use an Abyssinian Hornbill.
Except that a Hornbill wouldnt necessariliy have the means to kill someone right on the stage.
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Old 15-09-2009
This is an absoultly safty risk, which would be not allowed in europe. Altough they removed the long claws of the bird, the cassowary is still able to hurt or kill a human.
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"Now I need a volunteer from the audience that has lost his or her will to live, and doesn't mind being disemboweled in public."

Me, me, me! Choose me!

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Old 21-03-2012
Whilst these are birds to be treated with respect, and I cannot believe any UK council would permit this stunt, there is evidence that cassowaries' belligerence towards humans has been exaggerated.

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Of 221 attacks studied, 150 were against humans. 75% of these were from cassowaries that had been fed by people. 71% of the time the bird chased or charged the victim. 15% of the time they kicked. Of the attacks, 73% involved the birds expecting or snatching food, 5% involved defending natural food sources, 15% involved defending themselves from attack, 7% involved defending their chicks or eggs. Of all 150 attacks there was only one human death.[22]

The one documented human death caused by a cassowary was on 6 April 1926. 16-year old Phillip McClean and his brother, aged 13, came across a cassowary on their property and decided to kill it by striking it with clubs. The bird kicked the younger boy, who fell and ran away as his older brother struck the bird. The cassowary then charged and knocked the older McClean to the ground and kicked him in the neck, opening a 1.25 cm (0.49 in) wound. The boy managed to escape, but died shortly afterwards as a result of his injuries.[21]
from Kofron, Christopher P. (2003) "Case histories of attacks by the southern cassowary in Queensland" Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49(1) 335-338
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So it attacked in defence of it's own life not quite the turn of events I was told but certainly the same story, and from that they are now called deadly

More people are killed each week by dog bites i will bet than unprovoked wild animals.
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Old 11-11-2012
I saw cassowary killed by another one in a very short bout (actually one jump was enough). Do we know how many people are getting killed in Papua due to semi-tame cassowaries? How many injured in Indonesie by juvenile birds before they end-up in local zoos, being killed for meat?
This is absolutely unacceptable what they do. Zoos don't really need to hit big headlines with titels like "cassowary kills a person in a zoo". Of course hundreds of thousands people die yearly in car crashes, killed by domestic animals aso. this however doesn't change my mind. Such activities harm serious zoos.
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Old 11-11-2012
I agree Rhinopithecus I don't see why they would use a bird such as this to do a dumb demo. maybe if he had held a pork chop they could let a tiger take it out of his hands instead.
 

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