Cassowary, gassowary, or assowary; run for your life
I think they've only ever killed three people inr ecorded history but i love them for their memetic megabird murder reputation.
3 people that were found, anyway. You go missing in Cassowary country and no one is coming after you.
Only the Free Emu States of the north protect us from annhilation.
I like big birds. Female emus/rheas/ostriches can be like affectionate cats. If that ostrich steps on my foot she'll break every bone but all she wants is scratches. I'd never interact with a cassowary the same way I can with any of them. Wouldn't get in an enclosure with one, wouldn't try to scratch its weird turkey-ass neck, if I saw one in the wild I'd treat it like a bear/moose and nope out of the entire area.
Very disappointing Baby Got Back parody. No rhymes, totally off rhythm. Still kinda freaky tho. 3/10
People are very quick to forget that birds are dinosaurs
"Don't corner the cassowary"
Everything's a corner to a cassowary...
I think fear of cassowaries is unjustified. Their sort of tropical coloration and dinosaur like casque make them seem more menacing than they really are. The only confirmed human fatalities are from a guy in Florida who was keeping one in a pen, and two Australians who tried to beat one to death with sticks. In both cases, the cassowary felt cornered and chose fight over flight.
Overall the cassowary probably is less dangerous than other fauna about the same size like eurasian boar, though I can't prove it. It's just territorial and defensive of its eggs like many other bird species, just because it's equipped to kill doesn't mean it's violent.
I learned a healthy fear of cassowaries from that one pseudo-open world GBA Sims game that had literal nuclear fuel rods as high-price vendor trash
If the dagger footed dinosaur hates and wants to kill us all why the fuck is it wandering in an area with a park bench
Because they don't want to kill you, at worst they're indifferent and realistically mostly mildly curious.
Parks are public spaces.
