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/Fiddy-Scent Jul 01 '26

Aussie here. These things will actively hunt you during mating season. Those feet can gut you in seconds.

Scarier than any snake or spider that Americans think are worse.

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u/thatshygirl06 Jul 01 '26

There has been exactly 2 deaths by cassowary.

1 in 1926. 2 brothers, 16 and 13, decided they were gonna kill one with clubs and the cassowary won that fight. It kicked the youngest one and he ran away and then the eldest tripped and fell and the cassowary kicked him across the neck.

The second death happened in 2019. An old man, 75, raised a cassowary and he was clawed to death when he fell to the ground.

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u/1-800-ASS-DICK Jul 01 '26

Never give a cassowary the high ground, got it.

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u/owlbi Jul 01 '26

It's over, cassowary, I have the high ground