On Feb 15, 11:39 am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:   
   > 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.)   
   A sensationalist media report?  Never.   
   BTW, they aren't as big as em-us and ostriches, more half their size.   
   When I was an assistant in experiments on sugarcane we used to visit   
   the area often.  Never saw a carrowary, but to get where we stayed   
   over night there was a road through their habitate with lots of   
   "cassowary crossing" signs.   
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