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How Dangerous Are Cassowaries, Really?

To: sandra henderson <>
Subject: How Dangerous Are Cassowaries, Really?
From: Nigel Sutherland <>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 07:23:29 +0000
This confirms the philosophy that we should never use the expression "Just
how stupid can anyone get" because too many people take it as a challenge.

Nigel

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 7:03 AM, sandra henderson <>
wrote:

> The Taronga Zoo attack in 1952 resulted in injuries not death - reports can
> be found in the National Library's excellent Trove service in scanned
> copies of the Sydney Morning Herald from that year. The fool had climbed an
> eight foot fence into their enclosure, while they were incubating eggs. He
> said he was looking at some smaller jungle fowl and wanted a closer look.
> (SMH, 9 Dec 1952. 'Man Critically Hurt by Big Birds at Zoo').
>
> sandra henderson, canberra
>
> On 10 June 2016 at 16:41, Susan Knowles <> wrote:
>
> > 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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