"New Guineans even regularly capture chicks of wild cassowaries (an ostrich-like large, flightless bird) and raise them to eat as a delicacy--even though captive adult cassowaries are extremely dangerous and now and then disembowel village people."(Jared Diamond- during his discussion of humanity's domestication of animals in his new book "Guns, Germs, and Steel", p. 165)
Let that be a lesson to you. Cassowaries are undomesticatable and enjoy human bowels.
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Remember the Cassowaries we saw at the wildlife park? Those were freaking scary. They've got a couple at Paris Zoo, too.
Weren't they the endangered birds in the Daintree? ...maybe they are just smarter than us and hide to make us think their numbers are low!
Ugly suckers, though.
they are the same ones :) They are native to northern australia and new guinea.
I wonder if they like the bowels warm, so you would still be alive while they are eating you!? Like the theory in Jurassic Park. hmmmm.
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