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How Dangerous Are Cassowaries, Really?

To: brian fleming <>
Subject: How Dangerous Are Cassowaries, Really?
From: Susan Knowles <>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 06:41:21 +0000
I was told that a man was killed by a cassowary at Taronga in 1915?.  He 
apparently entered the enclosure to steal an egg and bled to death on the ferry 
back to the Quay.  This info came from a Taronga keeper.

Susan Knowles
> On 9 Jun 2016, at 8:07 PM, brian fleming <> wrote:
>
> Circa 1950 a report appeared in the Melbourne Argus that a man had entered 
> the Cassowary enclosure at Healesville Sanctuary to take photos. He was 
> killed.  This incident was not mentioned in a History of the Sanctuary which 
> I read a few years back. I was 9 or 10 at the time and noticed because we had 
> been to Healesville shortly before -  we had seen a notice on the gate saying 
> that the birds were nesting and therefore dangerous - do not enter! Later the 
> inquest was reported - first time I noticed the word Inquest.  ABC Schools 
> broadcasts used to include a segment from the late Crosbie Morrison, editor 
> of 'Wildlife Magazine'  who said that Cassowaries were dangerous.  His 
> magazine was a great clearing-house for wildlife information in the '40s 
> and'50s.
>
> More recently, maybe 20 years ago,  Melbourne Zoo had at least three 
> Cassowaries together in a large yard. On one visit, one bird had been 
> confined in a smaller yard because it had been in a fight that day with 
> another Cassowary.  There was a long bleeding wound on its breast or side 
> where it had been kicked.
>
> Anthea Fleming
>
>
>
> On 9/06/2016 5:15 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
>> See: 
>> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-dangerous-are-cassowaries-really/
>>
>> An interesting read ...
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