Is this really the world’s most dangerous bird?

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...
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Mother and Child Narrowly Escape the 'World's Most Dangerous Bird.' See Footage of the 'Close Encounter'

Australian authorities urge people not to feed or interact with cassowaries, which have been known to kill humans, per the WWF Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
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Family’s ‘close encounter’ with ‘world’s most dangerous bird’ prompts warnings

A family in Australia had a “close encounter” with cassowary birds searching for food, a video shows. The incident prompted warnings. Screengrab from a video shared by the Queensland Department of the ...
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Invasion of the Cassowaries

Ripe fruit plunks to the ground and rolls to the road at my left. That instant, the cassowary bursts from a tangle of ferns outside Clump Mountain National Park near Mission Beach, Australia. The bird ...
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The most dangerous bird that looks like a dinosaur: Inside the world of the Southern cassowary

The southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is one of the most extraordinary birds in the world, and also one of the most dangerous. Native to the dense tropical rainforests of Indonesia, Papua New ...
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Mother and Child Narrowly Escape the 'World's Most Dangerous Bird.' See Footage of the 'Close Encounter'

Australian authorities urge people not to feed or interact with cassowaries, which have been known to kill humans, per the WWF A mom and her child had a close call with a dangerous bird, and their ...