"Every so often a nature show tries to bill the cassowary as ‘the most dangerous bird in the world’, and even though this is technically true, it's a little disingenuous. Northern Queensland makes a lot of competing demands on your fear."
What scares me more is the 'attractions' where you are separated from the 🐊 by glass. What if they have the secret power to shatter it and are just waiting for the right time!
I still remember the brainstem-level reaction I had when a giant water monitor lizard slapped across the path in front of me in Lumpini Park in Bangkok years ago. Call it "terror" if you want, but I like to think of it as "honoring the ancestors who survived long enough to be ancestors."
You put the murder bird in your shop so when all the 500,000 other murder creatures just outside the doors in Australia come for you they'll start fighting while you make your escape.
this is definitely an art creation by a wildlife woodcarver, possibly the bloke in the bg, but I'm astonished that he made it life sized AND got it to stand up
Cassowary is real and known to locals. I've had emus in my yard in outer suburban Perth before our boundary fence was installed. It's not really that strange, stuff like this happens all the time.
You're right, and the guy's business IS in Julatten. I contend that the bird posture is off (they're usually horizontal unless they're squaring for a fight) and the plumage looks like fursuit material, but it's also in an area with known cassowary intrusions. RATITE TRUTHER TIME
flashing back to that viral video of the white woman cluelessly laughing at the “bird” that walked up to her unafraid on the beach and she’s like haha aw wow look
I’m not gonna say Oz has got everything figured out, but that’s the correct inseam for men’s shorts. You do have a responsibility to keep your plums secured, however.
Fk no… in australia we have 10 or more of the most dangerous snakes, lethal spiders, scary Tassie devils, sharks, octopuses that kill, jellyfish that kill and I seldom worry about any of them but a cassowary can gut you with a kick and they get pissed off easily.
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He has since graduated to cutoffs.
You put the murder bird in your shop so when all the 500,000 other murder creatures just outside the doors in Australia come for you they'll start fighting while you make your escape.
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I’d rather fight a kangaroo
(a typo almost had me posting GOALAS, which is the Australian form of goals).
Or maybe you would, because the odds of being dead that close to a cassowary are pretty high
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But they do have cassowaries, which are more worrisome than mere worries.
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https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/worlds-most-dangerous-bird-walks-into-australian-mans-workshop-no-harm-to-anyone-4513883.html
This, eating democracy dogs, and obliterating Yemen?
Or do yall just have like,
These are my formal 5” inseam shorts
These are my work 4” inseam shorts
These are my “going out” shorts with a 3” inseam
IS.
Skeeting while driving is a bad idea kids, you might post a type-o and then realize it HOURS later
Yes it's a big cute bird. But it's a big cute *Australian* bird.
So it's a murder-bird.
They are terrifying.
He's dealt with this before.
But honestly that's an improvement over work life in the US.
And the cassowary I knew was raised in captivity & familiar with people, not some rando murder-dino wandering out of the bush.