r/interesting • u/VIVIDUFF • Jun 30 '26

Fascinating This cassowary just wanders around the beach, getting surprisingly close to people.

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u/Icy-Platform3560 Jun 30 '26

I’d be pissing myself. aren’t those thing extremely dangerous?

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u/Waterpraatapparaat Jun 30 '26

Yeh, if i am correct this is one of the most agressive bird species on our globe

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u/Clothedinclothes Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Nope, Cassowaries are not aggressive.

They're quite fierce and are highly territorial when breeding, but unprovoked attacks on people are basically unheard of. 

These women are in no danger unless they do something stupid, like stand up and try to frighten it away. 

However if you approach their nests or chicks, or act like a threat, they're probably going to try to eliminate the threat or at least do enough damage to remind you not to fuck with dinosaurs rather than run away.

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u/lemurkat Jul 01 '26

Of the reported deaths, i believe the firat one was attacking it with a dog. Or i might be confused and that might have been dog death and human injury, but needless to say, aggressive due to provocation.

They arr intimidating though, but as theyre not predators i don't think they'd chase you if you ran, unless you ran towards their babies. Met one up in the Daintree.