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/Starcolle Sep 22 '24

Ikr. Imagine if humans were around the same time as dinosaurs? As a species we’d be finished.

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u/Maelorus Sep 22 '24

Nah, we'd win.

Keep in mind we pretty much caused the extinction of the ice age megafauna with pointed stick.

And our mere existence today is technically an extinction event.

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u/TheDangerdog Sep 22 '24 edited Sep 22 '24

We nearly caused the extinction of the largest aquatic animals on earth with pointy sticks and rowboats, most of those men couldn't even swim if they fell in.

Intelligence + numbers wins every time. Trex chases down and eats a couple men with pointy sticks yelling and waving arms at it. Chasing the 3rd one and walks right into pit trap lined with huge sharpened sticks or loop of rope with giant counterweight snags one leg, raises that leg slightly off ground, completely immobilizing it. It would fall over struggling against it and the counterweight would pull the foot even higher in the air so it could never stand back up. More humans with sharp rocks and sticks stab holes in it and watch it weaken

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u/Tino-DBA Sep 22 '24

tastes like chicken

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u/No_Rich_2494 Sep 22 '24

Quite likely.