scubawerlum I'm not Australian, but I was waiting for the inevitable. I've heard about these birds

scubawerlum mine to n I live in the USA I'm scared to death of birds

I was scared for the guy too bro. I thought he was done for for sure.

The cassowary is a behemoth of the bird world (second-heaviest, behind the ostritch). They can grow to over six and a half feet tall, weigh well over 100 pounds, and gallop around at speeds of over thirty miles per hour - an impressive feat for a creature with legs that might best be described as "death-cudgels with knives attached." The middle toe on each one features a dagger-like claw that can grow up to five-inches long.

@@greg77389 you must think dinosaurs are lizards. Birds and velociraptors are pretty closely related actually lmfao!

Just asking do you know guinness world records have named that the most dangerouse bird in the world

I'm pretty sure he knew. He was making fun of tourists who don't really know what it is.

It is a Cassowary

he was being sarcastic, Captain Obvious.

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no. read a book

he actually did the right thing. kept eye contact and backed off slowly but he should have held something out in front of him too, maybe his towel.

@@Ow33e the only thing usful to hold in front of you would be a huge fruit basket. Drop it, then go away.

Only because they could kill a person doesn't mean they would. A cow could kill a person any time they'd want to but typically they won't.

@@TheHesseJames not a bad idea but I spent like two nights watching cassowary encounters and reading about how to deal with cassowaries (don't ask me why)

This bird have letal kicks, more stronger than Boyka.

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probably it is this human fear that prompts the bird to attack suppose if YOU, the Human charges at it like a beserker, the cassowary will be very frightened. Or if you are trained at karate, just charge at it and give this bird bastard a flying roundhouse kick to its head

Not if your mind and body is trained like KRAVEN the hunter from Spiderman comics. That bastard fights with wild animals

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LOL. His composure was simply the result of his ignorance. Pretty sure that guy had never heard of cassowaries before

They aren't horrors, they're animals. Yes, they are deadly but they aren't monsters, they are simply territorial. They should be respected and given space. Humans push into the territories of other creatures and then complain when said creature reacts instinctively to what it perceives as a home invasion.

Yeaaaa, he approached the situation as Chris Pratt did on Jurassic world....

@@RomanesEuntDomus. what should he do? Run away? He definitely knows cassowaries, the very fact he never turned his back on it shows it.

@@gkravi2841 true

He was curious ... If that dude start running from it he whould be dead ..

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@@EdjeMr1975 at the very least...cut wide open

People feed them probably.

The dude is unusually chill.

Why do you work with them if you are so scarred? I know how a captive casssowary can behave, but it's only because it is "captive" and scarred. They have a very peaceful side as well. I feel sorry for you and for the animals who you take care of.

@@greg77389 greg sweetie will you go fight with a speeding train for us ? I really want to see you tackle something 😚😊😙

@@HunGerMovies don't get too bent out of shape she has a cool job 😭 poor baby. There there

@@greg77389 don't try to act like a tough guy cause you're on the internet. Nobody's impressed.

@@mjade1673 Imagine comparing a several-hundred ton train to a fucking 90 pound bird... You must be a woman because what you said was absolutely illogical.

where do your uncle get the bird

@@wanrqu5045 from child African soldiers in sierra leone

how to tf have you pet such an animal without attack?

your uncle didn't raise anything, you can't raise wild animals and their instict, you got lucky and your uncle was irresponsable, would be charged with murder

@@tomb.2224 some people do raise them to be semi-domesticated, I would just get an emu though instead of trusting a cassowary

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kaito kid Here's a better question; where's my damn cassowary pokemon at?!

I think Skarmory is based on a cassowary.

5pp.... there was about 5 people there ^^

kaito kid. 5 PP in the game, but not for this hell chicken!

Of course they' aren't cute, they are territorial wild animals that must be given space and treated with the proper respect. Still, gorgeous animal. A modern day dinosaur for sure.

They look like a Corythosaurus.

They're cute.

During 1967 near Cairns, a cassowary chased down and attacked two girls riding along a road on a motorbike. I was only 10 at the time so I don't remember the full details of the outcome but it was a front page.headline the next day. I was holidaying there for a few weeks with my parents. I myself was bitten by the savage Green Tree Ants while leaning casually against a tree and also smacked hard in the temple by a giant flying beetle, a Rhinocerois Beetle I think. Having to go to the toilet at the caravan park ablutions block at night was an actual nightmare. I had to pick my way through a carpet of giant cane toads leaping and flopping all around me. I could see them launching in my circle of torchlight and hear their weight flopping as they landed on the wet soil around me in the dark croaking their protests. I am very happy for the glorious and amazing, very necessary, rain forest to exist in the world and desperately want it to be saved and not fail under the pressure of population, climate change and commercialism...but...it is not my favourite dwelling environment. It has too many sneaky, scary and/or painful, living moving parts to it for my comfort zone.

@@chookinathunderstorm3446 you poor thing. I can relate. I've been bitten by bull ants, had a brown snake inside my vacuum cleaner and another in the cutlery drawer, been chased around the loungeroom by an angry black snake and had many standoffs with funnel web spiders in the kitchen sink. And I lived in Sydney in the 60"s & 70's.

+chazzatheninja what about the guys who make a living trapping crocodiles?

commenter78 Crocodiles are cuddly teddy bears compared to Cassowaries

+Nicol Olivia Good Answer mate. But sadly i'm terrified of them.

+Nicol Olivia Good Answer mate. But sadly i'm terrified of them.

+chazzatheninja if you run he is attacking you. those birds see you turning your back on him as getting the advantage and go for it. so no you dont run from those. he did the best he could. slowly getting distance, towards the water, not be threatening but also not be frightened. both could lead to an attack

Oh? You know something we don't? When was the last time one killed someone?

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@@PaleoEdits Was that the imprisoned one or a wild one?

@@PaleoEdits Ya, captivity doesn't count in my eyes.

@@Randoverse I think so. Regardless, it's still a powerful animal to be respected.

Well that's a fcuking stupid reason! Dumb bird!

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The towel over the shoulder was the major draw card. It's clearly thinking his new opponent got a bigger comb than him

@@cincin4515 I don't know about a comb, but maybe a pecker.

Do you even know what an executioner does? There are two general definitions: One deals with carrying out a plan or order while the other deals with the punishment of death of a condemned person. If we adapt the 2nd definition, we could say to execute someone is to put someone down or kill someone who is already destined for death or "screwed." Indeed that's the only way this bird can effectively use its weapons to kill--if its target is already wounded or on the ground. If a healthy, able-bodied man were to fight one of these things head on, the man would most likely win.

@@greg77389 go show us all your theories greg. in real time. Im waiting ⏰

greg77389 😂🤣😂🤣....

@@greg77389 It seems clear you don't know very much about these birds, lmao. I would say that executioner is the wrong word, though. More like nature's gangster thug. ^_^ Come complete with a switchblade on each foot, ready to stab and slice just because you dissed him.

Birds are in general, it's just that most birds aren't large enough or equipped to kill.

cassowarys don't injure humans they kill because cassowarys 'll humans in one headbutt or kick it claw

or claw*

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and many people survive crocodiles once bitten

Clorox Bleach, do you think cassowarys are more or less dangerous than drinking you?

She’ll invite the cassowary to play with her husband just to film it.

Except reacting in a fearful manner is the worst thing to do around such a deadly creature.

@@etinarcadiaego7424 yeah if you get scared they sense it...you gotta try to stay calm i suppose...not easy to do though

Video games =/= Real life.

greg77389 still as dangerous in real life

+Jeremy Mansbach Wrong.

greg77389 when it's in the world record for most dangerous bird.

They re dangerous in the game for a reason

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Brian Deeb You shouldn't toy with these bird's. They are quite striking, but never get close to them because they are very dangerous. They are related to the Dinosaur the Raptor, their attack method is very similar. They are very proficient at attacking repeatedly & will easily kill you. I'm surprised they are legal as pet's, how could someone in Florida have gotten one? They use that massive claw on their feet to slice away at you. Best view them from your car or house.

The guy from Florida fell and got clawed to death, what would have happened if the man in this video had tripped and fell on the beach?

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***** and allow it to isolate you from the group and push you towards the water, where it can swim faster than you can.

+Thurnis Haley Not everyone knows what they are doing

+Thurnis Haley Especially as the cassowary was exhibiting territorial behaviour toward the man. That cassowary was threatening him. :|

Thurnis Haley it'll gut him anyway

All these kids in the comments saying this guy got lucky or that the bird let him live.. bitch please. At the end of the day, these things know not to fuck with humans. There was only one of it and the guy it was stalking maintained eye contact and kept facing it so the bird never had an opportunity to strike. These things aren't the cold-blooded killing machines they used to be, they're just big birds with talons. They're nothing like the raptors which actually had arms to claw you with and a mouth like an alligator's, or a tail to whip you with.

Wow

Good job you stayed calm so the bird did

Brave or stupid? I'd have headed straight for the sea.

@@hamishcarrodus1564 they can swim

***** they can swim too.

Ratel3000 I particularly appreciate the "covering his stomach and throat" bit haha

+LivingCorpseX Yeah, faster than us. So, I think it was intentionally leading him to the ocean.

+Ratel3000 The cassowary was absolutely approaching him. With a threatening posture. Backing up while facing it was exactly the right thing to do - however, every time the cassowary backed off, he stopped. He should have *continued* to back away after the cassowary stopped approaching him. The way that the bird raised itself up and arched its head is a territorial threat display, telling the man to back away. That is a prelude to more aggressive behaviour. Coupled with the sporadic preening the cassowary engaged in, it's a sign of a tense, anxious bird who wants the human to back the fuck up and give it space. Please don't forget that posture plays a huge part in determining bird behaviours.

Fair enough. Keep in mind he shouldn't have let himself get that close to him in the first place.

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Do you not know how dangerous they are they’re not kittens

​@Invisible today he never said they were

@@moth300 Figure of speech

@@Invisibletoday still doesn't work my man.

@@moth300 you’re either trying to start an argument from nothing or playing dumb my man

A velociraptor was the size of a car. What are you talking about?

Velociraptors was indeed the size of a turkey. What you see in movies (jurassic park) those are not velociraptors, they are more like Deinonychus, but they decided to use the name "velociraptor" because it was a cooler name :)

@@robertmchapman30 nah the velociraptors in jurassic park were actually Utahraptors. Velociraptor just sounds better.

​@@robertmchapman30 Do you know how biology works? Velocitaptors were small. Don't think hollywoodian movies accurate. The T. Rex had feathers in real life, they were not lizard like in the movies.

@@victuz I couldn't care less

Yea it seems like that. So whats the best strategy with them? Standing, facing towards them and slowly going Backwards?

Stand sideways to a cassowary, never face-on to one.

He was a irritated because the stupid human was following him and the guy told him to go with the others and he wasn’t listening. The bird clearly saw him turn his back to him and so he went for it glad heartedly. The man should’ve put his WHOLE front to him… what idiots

@@georgehunter2813hahahah NO! you walk backwards slowly.

@@katelynnsoard6870 Your talking about how to withdraw in general. When within striking range the lower belly, throat, and neck must be safeguarded from a cassowary leg kick. Turning sideways to the bird reduces vulnerability immediately.

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It wasn't calm it kept stalking the guy it wanted to attack just waiting for the right moments,specially when you turn your back on one

The last recorded death from a Cassowary was 1926 and that was in self defence of itself

Clever girl

No, you're supposed to maintain eye contact because the bird knows it will get fucked up if it attacks you head on. Humans are more of a threat to them than they are to us and they know it. Even without a weapon we can still kill one with our bare hands, whereas all the bird has is its talons. You stare that thing down and let it know you aren't weak and you're not afraid to fight. Only the strong and the cunning survive in nature and animals know this better than anyone, it's in their instincts.

No it's not "luck", these birds are low threat to humans, and stating they're dinosaurs is pointless because so is every other bird species. There are plenty of videos of humans getting close to these things and no one ever got hurt or died to them. Birds are the only known surviving dinosaurs and they are no longer apex predators.

Yep. Helps to weed out those with feeble minds...

But dromeosaurids only used their sickle claw to puncture or climb trees

Pigeons are as close to dinosaurs as these are its just that they have a long sharp claw and are territorial

if cassowaries were aggresive towards humans it wouldn't be in that beach in the first place. Because we would've killed 90% of them. Thankfully for them, they are peaceful

by looking at the behavior of this particular bird- pretty sure we can conclude dromys did the same thing. if somethings not broke, dont fix it. @@AborshionMaster

Animals don't care about time, it's the threat of what it was facing that mattered. A Cassowary would only attack a human if it felt cornered or if it thought the human was weak. We're bigger and stronger than these birds and so they rely on sneaky tactics like waiting until we turn our backs before striking. Otherwise it knows it's too risky to attack and will eventually leave.

@@greg77389 I want to see you fighting with one

@@TheXtrategaxd I'd kick its ass

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I'd kill and eat that bird.

@@greg77389 stop trying to be cool

Not everybody knows what these animals are capable of doing . I would’ve thought they were big and cute like chickens but thank God I just found out that they can actually kill a human 😳yikes

The people In this comment section a crying about this video are fucking losers who should kill themselves now.

This is a dinosaur so save it by an means necessary. I don't care what needs to die for this to be saved, but save it.

Why would you want to run from it anyway? It's hardly a threat unless your back is turned.

Greg has three of these in his backyard

I don't think they approached it on purpose. It obviously came up to them out of curiosity. What are you supposed to do in that situation? They all acted carefully and tried their hardest not to make any sudden movements. The guy with the camera even told the guy next to the cassowary to regroup with everyone else that was probably behind the camera. The only reason the guy next to the cassowary hadn't already done so was probably because the cassowary was repeatedly approaching him, and was somewhat standing in between him and the others.

@@april5054 don't compare these birds to human it may appear from a han perspective to be curious but in fact it was being territorial and basically trying to get rid of anybody near it it goes up to humans and if u turn your back to it it'll attack you cuz they take that as a sign of weakness and if ur threatening same thing so best thing u can do is look at it and slowly back away or climb a tree if u can

Only 2 people ever lol and one of them tried to kill the bird

pussy.

And reacting fearfully would have caused the bird to attack. Control your emotions if you wish to survive.

No kidding. I'd probably die of shock if a cassowary got within ten feet of me.

Right but the strength the daggers are attached to too. Its wayyy more than just a knife 👍

@@mjade1673 It's like a 5 inch knife attached to Mike Tysons arm.