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A cassowary recently killed a man, apparently for the first time since 1926:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/04/14/florida-ca...

This article from 2008 is also interesting:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/invasion-of-th...


In the WaPo article:

"In 2012, an Australian tourist named Dennis Ward was kicked off a cliff into a body of water by a cassowary when he and his family were visiting Babinda Boulders in Queensland. 'It just came straight up to me, decided to pick on me for some reason, I don’t know what for,' Ward told the Cairns Post."

I shouldn't be laughing but that is an outrageous story.


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