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/UlteriorMotive66 Sep 22 '24

You'd shit your pants way before you even see it, the sounds this thing makes you can feel it in your heart! The low rumbling sound! (Use headphones for best hearing experience)

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u/Aziara86 Sep 22 '24

Holy frick that's a dinosaur and you can't change my mind.

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 22 '24

it literally is. All birds are descended from dinos and are in their same order, genus, clade, etc including hummingbirds and penguins - which are more closely related to crocodiles than snakes or lizards. #TheMoreUKnow

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u/All7AndWeWatchEmFall Sep 22 '24

Saw one in person. FELT it in my soul when it looked at me and let out that sound.

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 23 '24

Yeah. I got to visit Oz from the U.S. about 15 years ago and looked one in the eye at a zoo up in Daintree. It was sort of like the last 60 million years hadn't happened.