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Cassowary and Volunteer from the Audience.

This guest unknowingly held out a grape as a cassowary ran up behind him and picked it out of his hand. November 2008.

Cassowary and Volunteer from the Audience.
okapikpr, 24 Apr 2009
    • okapikpr
      This guest unknowingly held out a grape as a cassowary ran up behind him and picked it out of his hand. November 2008.
    • mstickmanp
      The LA Zoo does something similar, except they use an Abyssinian Hornbill.
    • Ituri
      I would rather it be a hornbill...cassowaries scare me.
    • PAT
      WTF is that golden thing on the right of the photo. It looks like the face was carved with a shovel. LOL
    • James27
      Whoa that's a bit dangerous!
    • okapikpr
      Except that a Hornbill wouldnt necessariliy have the means to kill someone right on the stage.
    • Zebraduiker
      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.
    • DavidBrown
      "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!

      Not.
    • IanRRobinson
      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.

      from Kofron, Christopher P. (2003) "Case histories of attacks by the southern cassowary in Queensland" Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49(1) 335-338
    • dean
      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:confused:

      More people are killed each week by dog bites i will bet than unprovoked wild animals.
      Dean
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