On Feb 14, 5:26 pm, Duggy  wrote:   
   > On Feb 15, 5:20 am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:   
   > > Good luck.  Keep you head down.  And watch out for birds.   
   . . .   
   > > (I'm not sure if you're in the Old Testament or a Hitchcock film.)   
   >   
   > I'm didn't have time to check the link, but the headline suggests it's   
   > talking about cassowaries.   
   Yup, them's the ones.  And you're right about their habitat and food   
   supply being severely damaged and their wandering around looking for   
   something to live on, thus making them more of a risk to livestock,   
   pets, and - potentially - humans.  However TFA itself blows things   
   just a touch out-of-proportion.  The first 80 percent of the aticle   
   makes the cassowary sound like a velociraptor with feathers, fast,   
   aggressive and capable of disembowling a man (or a dog or a *horse*)   
   with one swipe of its powerful claws.  It isn't until the last two   
   paragraphs that we find out that there has been precisely one known   
   case of a man being killed by a cassowary - and that was in *1926*.   
   (The man in question and his brother were trying to beat a cassowary   
   to death and the bird defend itself - by cutting the guy's throat, not   
   disemboweling him.)   
   Stay safe,   
   Joe   
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