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It’s well known that cassowaries can be dangerous, and indeed together with ostriches [UPDATE: and chickens] they are the only birds known to have definitely killed humans*. On mainland Australia, the ...

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There lives in the heart of the Australian and New Guinea tropical rainforest a bird that would seem like it belonged in a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The southern cassowary, a rare and elusive rainforest bird that lives along Queensland’s northern coast, once faced extinction. Now, its numbers ...