Witness how dangerous and aggressive a cassowary can be, and also the importance to protect these animals
A demonstration of how dangerous a cassowary can be.
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Now, what we do also let tourists know is this safety when it comes to these animals. You really have to protect cassowaries. We are smack bang in the middle of cassowary country, guys. And if we don't do anything to protect these animals, within a couple of years-- I'm not talking 50, 100 years. I'm talking the next 20 years. There could be zero cassowaries left out in the wild, guys.
And that's a really unfortunate thing for these birds and a really unfortunate thing for Australian wildlife. So I want to reiterate just how dangerous these birds can be, guys. That middle toe is a dagger.
And they can be very aggressive if they want to be.
There you go. You can imagine that guy there, he can kick around three times harder than a heavyweight boxer. So if that call gets anywhere near your vital organs where we're all soft and vulnerable, that guy there can do a lot of damage very, very quickly.
And that's a really unfortunate thing for these birds and a really unfortunate thing for Australian wildlife. So I want to reiterate just how dangerous these birds can be, guys. That middle toe is a dagger.
And they can be very aggressive if they want to be.
There you go. You can imagine that guy there, he can kick around three times harder than a heavyweight boxer. So if that call gets anywhere near your vital organs where we're all soft and vulnerable, that guy there can do a lot of damage very, very quickly.