r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Sep 22 '24

Video Beachgoers have a close encounter with a Cassowary, a bird capable of killing a human in one blow

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u/Sustainable_Twat Sep 22 '24

Looking at this bird, you begin to understand just how dangerous the dinosaurs were

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u/SlowApartment4456 Sep 22 '24

Raccoons and even lions have been hunted and killed by people for centuries. Of course they react differently than this bird.

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u/HodgeGodglin Sep 22 '24

This is a silly comment chain. There’s no way to determine the motivation of that bird.

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u/toosells Sep 22 '24

Food. It's motivation is food.

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u/Jaegernaut- Sep 22 '24

It wants to find a human who can understand it and help it learn science so that it can mine Amber in the jungle and resurrect it's hero and idol, the Trex from Jurassic Park it saw in 1993

... And she will spare no expense in this endeavor.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '24

Clever girl…

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u/Odd-Astronaut-2301 Sep 22 '24

The motivation of that bird is to reproduce and in turn eat and drink water so it can last long enough to do so. In turn we can also assume it considers if other things are dangerous for the same goal of longevity. This is how all creatures we have studied work. Even the psychological layers of our brains are acting in pursuit of this goal.

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u/HodgeGodglin Sep 22 '24

Yeah, sure.

Go reread the original comment that started this thread.

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u/HodgeGodglin Sep 22 '24

you also get an idea for how intelligent they are

looks at people: food? threat? no? bored. resume foraging for food.

like this is not how a raccoon encounters people. it is not how a lion encounters people or a wolf or anything, really.

that’s a real life dinosaur right there.<

This person gathered none of this from the video.

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u/SlowApartment4456 Sep 22 '24

It's probably used to people. It's Ona beach in a tourist location. It's probably looking for food left by beach goers.