Talk About a Badass Killer Bird!

Here is the iconic Cassowary!

Freda Savahl
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The Love of Wildlife-Sharing a Post by Richard Strachan

The Cassowary — the modern-day dino-bird!

It is the most dangerous bird in the world!

It is the only bird that can kill a human with one blow!

Scientific studies reveal that cassowaries are wary of humans; however, they will inflict severe or fatal injuries if provoked.

The first recorded human death caused by a cassowary was on April 6th, 1926.

In Australia, a 16-year-old boy & his 13-year-old brother attempted to kill a cassowary bird on their property by striking it with clubs. Instead, the bird kicked the younger boy, who ran away.

The older brother struck the bird but tripped & fell to the ground, where the Cassowary kicked him in the neck, opening a half-inch wound that severed his jugular vein, causing the boy’s death.

In 1995 a cassowary kicked a dog in the belly, causing rupture of internal organs & the death of the dog from internal bleeding.

In another human death in Florida in 2019, the cassowary bird clawed his owner, a 75-year-old man, to death after falling to the ground. And yet the man raised the same bird.

So what are these killer birds?

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Freda Savahl
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Retired Nurse Practitioner WHC /Contract Provider Deployment Military Services. US Citizen. Immigrant from South Africa 1978.