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You missed out the deadly drop-bears

• llamaLord 4y ago
  And the Combat-Emu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary
  • techdragon 4y ago
    never heard it called a combat emu… But also, these guys are like… A+ proof of dinosaur’s evolution into birds… you can pretty much picture Cassowaries in place of the raptors in Jurassic park… Some extra Cassowary info. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2019/10/jungle-royalty-the-enigmatic-cassowary/ https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2019... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-dangerous-are-cassowaries-really/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-da...
    • llamaLord 4y ago
      "Combat Emu" is my personal contribution to the Aussie lexicon (at least as far as I'm aware). I figured it's appropriate...
• zabzonk 4y ago
  luckily, the really deadly cassaworys have not yet learned to swim
  • mojo74 4y ago
    And forgotten how to fly
    • zabzonk 4y ago
      should have thought of that :-) annecdote: i once went for a job at edinburgh university zoology department (i would have been about 19 at the time), and was confronted with a mostly disected mess. interviewer: what do you make of that? me: it looks like a badly disected cassowary. it was a cassowary (where from, who knows - they don't roam wild on arthur seat) and i didn't get the job (good).