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> When it comes to birds that might slice your abdomen open, it's in a class of its own. Right. I don't think the intent here is "look how deadly Australia is!
by nkozyra 8y ago
> When it comes to birds that might slice your abdomen open, it's in a class of its own.
Right. I don't think the intent here is "look how deadly Australia is!" as much as "here's a crazy animal rarely talked about that recently was in the news."
As an American, I think the assumption is that, say, the outback is a sparsely populated area with some dangerous wildlife like swaths of Africa and South America.
When I think of Australia my head goes to the coasts.
- crispinb 8y ago> When I think of Australia my head goes to the coasts Right. That's where we (nearly) all live. As it happens, cassowaries are also coastal creatures, but exclusively tropical. The tropics have been sparsely populated, though North Queensland has been 'growing' fast, so unfortunately the cassowary's days are numbered.