I remember seeing this bird for the first time on an episode of 'Batman: The Animated Series'. It was fucking up Bat's until he STABBED the Cass with a poisonous hummingbird. What I'm saying is... Dark Knight Rises would've benefited from a Batman vs Cassowary fight.
i remember seeing these fucking things in far cry 3 for the first time "mmmh what kind of bird is that ? i never seen one likAAAAH ITS KILLING ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME!!!"
And one time, when I was hunting a rare Cassowary I stepped on a Leopard and it held on to my arm with its teeth whilst I was pecked to death by the Cassowary I was hunting…
I remember talking to a crocodile handler at a reptile park in Queensland. I noticed one of his hands were bandaged and I jokingly mentioned if the crocodile had taken a bite out of him. Nope he said. He was attacked by the only animal in the park that scared him. Their Cassowary stabbed him in the hand during feeding time.
I remember playing Far Cry 3 and being like "oh look at this big dumb bird for me to kill" (3 sniper headshots later) "OH JESUS GOD THEY CANT BE KILLED."
Wrong idea. Cassowary would then chase you and kill you. You should retread slowly, without turning, showing bird you mean no harm. You can thank me later, as I probably just saved your life ;)
Steve Irwin wouldn't go near one of these. If a man that wouldn't hesitate to tackle a 30-foot, territorial, overprotective crocodile mother near her nest would shake his head at this bird...you know it doesn't fuck around.
+christopher snedeker ahaha...haha... no. seriously...the "tame" ones often are the ones that the talons are cut, but make no mistake..its could still fucks you up if it wants to..
Dinosaurs evolved Into birds? Get out of here! Next you'll say they're covered in feathers Instead of scales! What's next, Velociraptors are essentially just a prehistoric turkey?
Birds did evolve from dinosaurs (and are generally accepted as living dinosaurs) but they did not evolve from pterosaurs (ie the pterodactyl in the video). Pterosaurs were a completely separate group of reptiles with no living relatives today. Birds on the other hand are considered "avian theropod dinosaurs" and are part of the same group of dinosaurs that included allosaurus, velociraptor, and Tyrannosaurus Rex (the theropods). The cassowary is an excellent example of theropod.
***** "The hoatzin was originally described by German zoologist Statius Müller in 1776. It is arguably the most enigmatic living bird in regard to its phylogenetic relationships. No satisfying evolutionary hypothesis has been proposed, and the situation has become worse with the availability of DNA sequence data.[citation needed]" - From wiki It may need a citation, but it has no mention of pterodactyls.
ExtremeThunder ™ no. The most common ancestor of all theropod dinosaurs lived in the early Triassic period, and different groups branched off at different points in time. Birds became a distinct group during the late Jurassic period. Allosaurus were a species of carnosaur, which became extinct with most other dinosaurs at the end of the Cretacous period. The group of theropods that birds belong to are the Coleisaurs, which once included species like velociraptor mongolensis and tyrannosaurs rex. They are not descendants of these species, but share a more common ancestor than with, say, Spinosaurus Aegypticus.
ExtremeThunder ™ terror birds became extinct about a million years ago, as while they had once dominated South American predator dynamics, the great American interchange brought bears, large canids, and big cats into its range, out competing them
Demi Gee I just spent the last three months examining the many pages of Deuteronomical and Levitical laws, not to mention the entire new testament, just to see if I could find any mention of the Cassowary in it. Nope. Wasn't in there. Boy am I pissed off at you. You've literally killed weeks of my free time. I've had to let girls down on dates simply because I was in search of the elusive Christian Cassowary. Not a nary wary to be found. You are despicable.
The Cassowary was not on Noahs Ark thus they were not survivors of the biblical floods. Instead,they were secretly spawned by Satan for the soul purpose of tormenting humans. Whenever a Cassowary guts a human it does not merely enjoy the pleasures of vanquishing us primitive lesser demonic beings, it also devours our souls as sustenance for its prolonged rage.
Cassowaries are not nearly so vicious as everyone likes to say. Most cassowary attacks are directed at people who were harassing the cassowary just like idiots who get out of their cars to take close up pictures of bears. The only incident I can find of a cassowary actually killing anyone is two teenagers who were trying to beat one to death with a club. Yes, if you viciously attack a large animal, it may hurt or kill you while defending itself. If you aggressively harass a large animal, it may hurt or kill you while defending itself. This is nothing but sensationalism.
Nesting season is pretty bad though they will attack if they have an egg to protect! It's good to be alert and aware of any animal that may cause harm!
I saw this after writing my comment. But I met a wild one once "I came across a male caring for its young offspring in the wild. While I had heard the horror stories, it seemed in this instance to not really care about a skinny white kid stumbling across his family in the rainforest. It was kind of peaceful, just like a giant, colourful, armed pigeon. Pecking at the ground with a singular eye fixated on me at all times. Aparrently it's the much larger females you need to worry about. I guess i was just lucky... or maybe there just wasn't enough meat on me to justify the wear on his razor sharp claws."
I went to the zoo and found a cassowary, it tried to charge me threw a fence. another Australian animal that will kill you if you look at it funny. As if this country wasn't terrifying enough.
They are creepy...there was a crow that used to follow me to grammar school and chirp as I walk he jumped near me to stay close....I would see it all the time 🤷🏽
We missed out on a world full of giant birds by maybe 10,000 years. You have the elephant birds of Madagascar, Moa of New Zealand, the so called terror birds of the Americas. Plus giant Condors and Eagles. The Cassowary is just a reminder of what a 3 metre tall predatory bird would have been like.
Big Ray Agreed. The worst was when I was hiding from a pair of tigers. I was in cover behind a bush, then out of nowhere, a cassowary tackles me and sends me sprawling in between the tigers.
Except that they will attack you in their territory on sight. There is nothing to warn you your intruding and they CHASE you when you leave their territory.
Sure he exaggerated a little, but they are still extremely aggressive and dangerous and they will often attack on sight if your in there territory. Heck, this is coming from a shark diver and these things still scare the S**t out of me.
Please note that there is only one recorded death from a Cassowary attack. And that was a small child who provoked it. They normally just try to scare you away.
***** Exactly! These birds are severely overrated, and that kid that got killed also tripped over a rock allowing the bird to hit his throat. I'm confident when I say I'm sure a grown man who is fighting for survival should win this fight with injuries to his upper body.
No I cannot do the same.I'd get ripped apart and I have no problem admitting I would have no chance against that animal (unless armed). Crocodiles and Alligators have armored scales that have been known to take even bullets. I truly feel that most humans underestimate themselves when compared to other animals. Humans tend to panic as well. I've seen grown men run away from medium sized dogs, and to be honest, a full grown man should be able to win in a fight against most dog species, but like I said, we panic and underestimate ourselves as a species, and I dislike how people overrate certain animals, especially the Pitbull.
+malikc6 i was actually following you for about 90% of what you were saying until you became dismissive of dogs, because now it's clear you're basing your assumptions on what you imagine you should be able to do rather than what you know humans can do. Recognizing that a 50-80 pound dog has significantly faster reflexes and a far stronger bite that anything that a human would be able to counter with hand to hand isn't overreacting towards the dog, it's understanding that what strengths we have and don't have. A dog can shatter the bones in your arm and move on to make mincemeat of your face faster than you can say "ow don't do that." Similarly and more relevantly the cassowary runs faster than humans can and strike faster than we can react. US soldiers in WWII were told to stay away from them as they're very territorial and powerful. While a human can keep one at bay pretty easily with a plastic rake, I wouldn't want to stare at one for a long time without the knowledge of a fence enclosure to run back to.
+Bokks87 Nah I'm not using what I'm imaging. I'm using what I know based off of real events of dogs fighting people. Most dog breeds CANNOT break a man's arm with a single bite. The only canine capable of that is the Grey Wolf which bite force is strong enough to break buffalo bones. Most dog bites damage muscle and flesh and it takes multiple bites to break bone, and that's painful and terrible, but regardless of their bite and reflexes, their only weapon is their mouth. Men have beat large dog breeds too death out of self defense. Usually by tackling the canine and choking it too death, grabbing a limb and breaking it with their weight, or blinding it by attacking the eyes. Most human beings PANIC when attacked by an animal. That's the main reason why we lose. In a fight, the person must accept he or she will get bitten, but if the person gets past the pain and keeps attacking (preferably wrestling), the person with arms, more weight, and smarter brain should win.
I really like the video, glad to see cassowaries are getting some love, but I have to point this out. In the first ten seconds of the video you have a small animation that implies that birds evolved from pterosaur-like animals, when pterosaurs weren't really even dinossaurs. They were just flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but that didn't leave any descendants.
How is being the dominant species for 170 million years being a loser? On the other hand, birds do pretty well in the mammal centered world we live in today...and sometimes get pretty big, unlike mammals during the Mesozoic that were little more than glorified opossums. ;)
I worked at an australian wildlife zoo and to clean the cage you needed two people one to rake the enclosure as quickly as possible and the other person would swat at the cassowary with a rake if it would get to close.
The question is not what Chuck Norris would do in a one on one fight. The real question is what would the bird do with Chuck Norris's love child after he is done raping it... even if its a male bird, because Chuck Norris can impregnate a male Cassowary, for HE IS Chuck Norris man of myth and legend.
Theropod dinosaurs like velociraptor evolved into birds. There are no living non-avian dinosaurs so birds came after any non-avian dinosaur like velociraptor.
This video is so frustrating to watch, its so condescending, also Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs and birds did not come form them they came from theropodic dinosaurs like velociraptor.
Let me remind the internet of two brutally effective ways to kill most animals: Armchoke or necksnap. Seriously, okay, these birds can kill you instantly, you can also kill them instantly, Unarmed. They got TWO parts of the body to fight with, you got FOUR, five if you count the head. Yes yes I know, it's not that simple at all, and no, I don't fight animals. I understand base logic though, and the difficult part would most likely be to get in a position where you can actually do this.
***** I'm not gonna fo fight a fucking cassowary, are you crazy? I just pointed out a way to instantly kill an animal with a neck, assuming it's humanly possible to break said necks. I certainly can't do it, never said I can either, just that is's within the realm of possibility. Maybe if I had spent all this internet time for training fighting then maybe.
***** I'm not suicidal dude, you'd have to be a pretty trained badass to take one of these on. Nobody respects an idiot. Besides, what do you know about if people respects me or not?
I guess it's really our species-wide sense of fair play that keeps us from armchoking all the animals. We'd have to be pretty stupid to have spent tens of thousands of years developing incredibly sophisticated methods for taking down large game if the answer all along had been to use judo on them.
Man, I love how you say it's the ultimate way to kill an animal, then immediately go into apologetics on account of it actually being the worst possible way to fight an animal.
+ginginite quite right. But so are "ginginite's" if you come face to face with one. Conservation is just leaving them alone ESPECIALLY if they lay eggs in your back yard! (It's happened) but survival is killing it before it kills you if you accidentally run into one. There are such survival allowances in the law like "Endangered Self-Defence"
under extreme pressure these birds are now very rare. Native to North Queensland Australia, they can be dangerous when protecting a nest. I saw one in the wild up in the forests north of Port Douglas.
How can I get a cassowary? I want one for Thanksgiving. I will stuff a quail into a pheasant into a chicken into a duck into a goose into a peacock into a turkey into a swan into a stork into an ostrich into a cassowary. Then I will roast the whole thing and call it cassichorkanurkockoosuckenantail.
Their cousin the emu isn't a pushover either. Same characteristics, no spear head, but faster than cassowary and even sharper claws. Just as pissed off about the whole evolution thing as well. Great guys
The Shrike. It is a bird in Africa that is a horrifying killer. It finds small animals like mice or snakes (deadly ones that normally eat birds of similar sizes) then proceeds to bash them unconscious on rocks. The Shrike then pierces its many kills on the thorns of a tree as an offering to potential mates. While the creature is alive. There can be dozens of small animals on thorns from a single Shrike, and the thing's like the size of a somewhat largish finch. Dear god, is it horrifying.
I'm from Australia. Those things don't even make Top 20 pants-wettingly terrifying killer animals. There are probably 3 different things that could kill me in my house with me right now (it would be 5 but my mum & sister went out).
actually...they're not that dangerous and attacks are relatively rare with death even rarer. it's like bears, they'll fuck your shit up if you piss em off but for the most part, no worries. also....cassowaries are bloody cheeky, i've read a few news articles about them stalking people for kilometres just for a laugh.
my dad worked in Indonesia and would see cassowarys all the time but he would stop the vehicle and wait for it to pass becuase it could destroy the vehicle
ive litterally been chased by one of these guys. i escaped when it decided it wanted to go after my friend who jumped off a cliff to save himself. scary animals
And in the distant future: "Why the Human is the Most Terrifying Animal Ever", by BugCracked
Ok booty
I remember seeing this bird for the first time on an episode of 'Batman: The Animated Series'. It was fucking up Bat's until he STABBED the Cass with a poisonous hummingbird. What I'm saying is... Dark Knight Rises would've benefited from a Batman vs Cassowary fight.
Was gonna post the same thing! BTAS was and still is the best animated show ever!
YES! I REMEMBER THAT EPISODE! it was then that I knew cassowaries are NOT to be fucked with
Omg, some real OGs here!!!
what was the name of the episode?
i remember seeing these fucking things in far cry 3 for the first time
"mmmh what kind of bird is that ? i never seen one likAAAAH ITS KILLING ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME!!!"
I think you have the greatest profile picture ever.
Same thing happened to me!
Heisen berg who me ?
And one time, when I was hunting a rare Cassowary I stepped on a Leopard and it held on to my arm with its teeth whilst I was pecked to death by the Cassowary I was hunting…
fuck bro...
Welcome to Australia
The land where everything is trying to kill you,natures last stand
Australia :,)
in Chile we have a cousin of the cassowary
Hey! Bom bom bom!!! Got any grapes!?! Bom bom bom!
@@newromanianmappernrm4420 I’ve never seen any adult snake, cassowary, emu or any other dangerous animal in the wild in Australia, and I live there
I remember talking to a crocodile handler at a reptile park in Queensland. I noticed one of his hands were bandaged and I jokingly mentioned if the crocodile had taken a bite out of him. Nope he said. He was attacked by the only animal in the park that scared him. Their Cassowary stabbed him in the hand during feeding time.
If I would have seen a drawing in a book of a cassowary I would have assumed it was an extinct ice age bird.
I remember playing Far Cry 3 and being like "oh look at this big dumb bird for me to kill" (3 sniper headshots later) "OH JESUS GOD THEY CANT BE KILLED."
Run them over with a jeep. Works everytime.
Same thing happened to me xD
***** What, are you a cassowary? And you should bring the rocket launcher, just a RPG isn't gonna do shit.
***** I'm telling you that a Rocket Propeled Grenade (RPG) won't do shit without a rocket launcher.
***** Hard to say man. Three sniper headshot and they're still standing like nothing happened.
If I saw this in real life I would run as fast as my Nikes can take me xD
Daayum Nature... YOU SCARY!
xD
neferiusnexus OMG yes man !! xD
Wrong idea. Cassowary would then chase you and kill you. You should retread slowly, without turning, showing bird you mean no harm. You can thank me later, as I probably just saved your life ;)
Maxim Gwiazda Woah, I don't think an encounter with a big Australian bird is the time to be repairing your shoes.
Run as fast as you want. They can run faster.
Who else was annoyed by the inaccurate pterodactyl turning into a bird?
Don't worry, big bird killed this guy cause ignorance
me i was angry
I'm fucking pissed!
Actually, everything about this is wrong.
I mean yeah, but it's Cracked, so the concept that Avians are actually related to the Dinosaurs at all is actually pretty impressive.
I would totally ride that into battle....if it didn't eviscerate me first.
Steve Irwin wouldn't go near one of these.
If a man that wouldn't hesitate to tackle a 30-foot, territorial, overprotective crocodile mother near her nest would shake his head at this bird...you know it doesn't fuck around.
+christopher snedeker ahaha...haha...
no. seriously...the "tame" ones often are the ones that the talons are cut, but make no mistake..its could still fucks you up if it wants to..
Says a lot if The Crocodile Hunter himself is afraid of them too! 🤣🤣🤣
In before Pteranodons were reptiles, not dinosaurs, and didn't evolve into birds
Dinosaurs evolved Into birds? Get out of here! Next you'll say they're covered in feathers Instead of scales! What's next, Velociraptors are essentially just a prehistoric turkey?
get educated bitch
Pteranodons didn't evolve into birds, correct, theropods did...
usaid alfatih dinosaurs actually covered in feathers moron.
he's a bitch
Birds did evolve from dinosaurs (and are generally accepted as living dinosaurs) but they did not evolve from pterosaurs (ie the pterodactyl in the video). Pterosaurs were a completely separate group of reptiles with no living relatives today. Birds on the other hand are considered "avian theropod dinosaurs" and are part of the same group of dinosaurs that included allosaurus, velociraptor, and Tyrannosaurus Rex (the theropods). The cassowary is an excellent example of theropod.
*****
"The hoatzin was originally described by German zoologist Statius Müller in 1776. It is arguably the most enigmatic living bird in regard to its phylogenetic relationships. No satisfying evolutionary hypothesis has been proposed, and the situation has become worse with the availability of DNA sequence data.[citation needed]"
- From wiki
It may need a citation, but it has no mention of pterodactyls.
So Allosaurus evolved into birds too I only thought Velociraptors evolved into Terror Birds
ExtremeThunder ™ no. The most common ancestor of all theropod dinosaurs lived in the early Triassic period, and different groups branched off at different points in time. Birds became a distinct group during the late Jurassic period. Allosaurus were a species of carnosaur, which became extinct with most other dinosaurs at the end of the Cretacous period. The group of theropods that birds belong to are the Coleisaurs, which once included species like velociraptor mongolensis and tyrannosaurs rex. They are not descendants of these species, but share a more common ancestor than with, say, Spinosaurus Aegypticus.
ExtremeThunder ™ terror birds became extinct about a million years ago, as while they had once dominated South American predator dynamics, the great American interchange brought bears, large canids, and big cats into its range, out competing them
James Lee Big bird
Omitted from the bible: The Cassowary helped during many crucifixions, including the one of Jesus'. Their hatred for human beings has no end.
I think that passage is still in the king james version 4.
Demi Gee I just spent the last three months examining the many pages of Deuteronomical and Levitical laws, not to mention the entire new testament, just to see if I could find any mention of the Cassowary in it. Nope. Wasn't in there. Boy am I pissed off at you. You've literally killed weeks of my free time. I've had to let girls down on dates simply because I was in search of the elusive Christian Cassowary. Not a nary wary to be found. You are despicable.
FacialHat You have to be on fire for the passage to show up, they write it in invisible ink.
The Cassowary was not on Noahs Ark thus they were not survivors of the biblical floods. Instead,they were secretly spawned by Satan for the soul purpose of tormenting humans. Whenever a Cassowary guts a human it does not merely enjoy the pleasures of vanquishing us primitive lesser demonic beings, it also devours our souls as sustenance for its prolonged rage.
Logan Snider You mean like Gingers? :O
Cassowaries are not nearly so vicious as everyone likes to say. Most cassowary attacks are directed at people who were harassing the cassowary just like idiots who get out of their cars to take close up pictures of bears. The only incident I can find of a cassowary actually killing anyone is two teenagers who were trying to beat one to death with a club.
Yes, if you viciously attack a large animal, it may hurt or kill you while defending itself. If you aggressively harass a large animal, it may hurt or kill you while defending itself. This is nothing but sensationalism.
Nesting season is pretty bad though they will attack if they have an egg to protect! It's good to be alert and aware of any animal that may cause harm!
I saw this after writing my comment. But I met a wild one once
"I came across a male caring for its young offspring in the wild. While I had heard the horror stories, it seemed in this instance to not really care about a skinny white kid stumbling across his family in the rainforest. It was kind of peaceful, just like a giant, colourful, armed pigeon. Pecking at the ground with a singular eye fixated on me at all times. Aparrently it's the much larger females you need to worry about. I guess i was just lucky... or maybe there just wasn't enough meat on me to justify the wear on his razor sharp claws."
So what you're saying is...
Don't harass a wary cassowary??
Hope this heartwarming story of animal abusers getting viciously attacked is true though.
@@MadsMilkyton Wilderness 101: NEVER get between an animal and their offspring! 🤣🤣🤣
I went to the zoo and found a cassowary, it tried to charge me threw a fence.
another Australian animal that will kill you if you look at it funny. As if this country wasn't terrifying enough.
"stupid birds"? You realize that some of the smartest animals on the planet are birds easy? Crows are scary smart
They are creepy...there was a crow that used to follow me to grammar school and chirp as I walk he jumped near me to stay close....I would see it all the time 🤷🏽
@@sosweetbaby4 Birds are more smart than fucking house pets
@@RoxyCherryRozy Yeah.
@Where's the hen? Raptors too
No humans are scary smart. The animals are doing just fine.
We missed out on a world full of giant birds by maybe 10,000 years. You have the elephant birds of Madagascar, Moa of New Zealand, the so called terror birds of the Americas. Plus giant Condors and Eagles.
The Cassowary is just a reminder of what a 3 metre tall predatory bird would have been like.
and its goddamn made sure of it too...yikes..
Yo Cassowaries in Farcry 3 are crazy
2 minutes... I need moar content!!
Anyone who's played Farcry 3 would already know how terrifying they are
Big Ray Agreed. The worst was when I was hiding from a pair of tigers. I was in cover behind a bush, then out of nowhere, a cassowary tackles me and sends me sprawling in between the tigers.
Only 8% of cassowarys attack humans
Far Cry 3 man. Those unholy things were fucking HORRIBLE!
0:33 what would you expect? its something called "FOOD CHAIN" my human friend
Cassowaries are _not_ that aggressive. They'll leave you alone if you do the same. (Just like MOST wild animals.)
Except that they will attack you in their territory on sight. There is nothing to warn you your intruding and they CHASE you when you leave their territory.
Sure he exaggerated a little, but they are still extremely aggressive and dangerous and they will often attack on sight if your in there territory. Heck, this is coming from a shark diver and these things still scare the S**t out of me.
Then clearly I have no idea what I'm talking about. ^^'
XerxesTexasToast Shit Its probably coming at you right now for no reason!
Alot of people just say things to be contrarians ..its a strange human habit reminiscent of how a Cassowary will attack someone in their 'territory'
Dinosaurs didn't "lose horribly"... Birds are one of the most succesful animal clades in existence... That's a lot better than most reptiles
I've played enough Farcry 3 to know that these things cant actually swim. Trust me, video games are never wrong.
Heard about it. Forgot what it was called. Typed in evil australian bird
Number 5 on the list of "Things that will murder you in Australia." And yet we still don't feel the need to carry guns... we're just that hard :)
Please note that there is only one recorded death from a Cassowary attack. And that was a small child who provoked it. They normally just try to scare you away.
This is so nostalgic to me because I did a project on the cassowary when I was in 5th grade and I scared the shit out of my peers.
Cody before the Showdy
For 2014 should we start using 'What's Cracked-a lackin'?
omg yes
Zing
Cassowary, the modern day raptor.
more like common day microraptor xD www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/03/Microraptor.jpg
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They've actually been nicknamed "The Australian Velociraptor".
Raptors were accurately the size of a chicken, the cassowary is more like the modern day dilophosaurus.
All birds are
cassowaries are the modern day equivalent of utahraptors
crack u doin? is SO 2013 "I'll be crack" is what all the cool kids are saying
What the crack you talkin' about, Fleming? ;)
Can we talk about how the horn on the head is used to resonate sound, and is basically hollow. And how they sound like a bagpipe farted.
wait...so they in family whit raptors?, that explains a lot.
The cassowary has only killed like 1 person in recorded history.
I just wanna be loved D:
MrCassowary I LOVE YOU! :'D
Awww :D
+Squidy And that person was apparently hunting it at the time.
yeah but how many deaths have been unreported in Papua New Guinea or Australia during the early 1800's.
How could you not choose the human for this title?
anyone else see Batman fight this bird in Almost got him
LazerDude99 that's why he's the goddamn Batman
i like how a devolved human is a hornless karkat
Isn't this the same bird that stomps poisonous snakes to death before eating them?
No, I think that's the Kardashian. Easy mistake to make.
That's the secretary bird
Nope, but it could if it wanted too.
Proof that feathered dinosaurs would still be terrifying.
Only one person has ever been killed by a Cassowary and that was because two teenagers attacked it.
***** Exactly! These birds are severely overrated, and that kid that got killed also tripped over a rock allowing the bird to hit his throat. I'm confident when I say I'm sure a grown man who is fighting for survival should win this fight with injuries to his upper body.
A tiger is too much for almost any human. Do not compare these birds to tigers because these birds would be easy prey.
No I cannot do the same.I'd get ripped apart and I have no problem admitting I would have no chance against that animal (unless armed). Crocodiles and Alligators have armored scales that have been known to take even bullets.
I truly feel that most humans underestimate themselves when compared to other animals. Humans tend to panic as well. I've seen grown men run away from medium sized dogs, and to be honest, a full grown man should be able to win in a fight against most dog species, but like I said, we panic and underestimate ourselves as a species, and I dislike how people overrate certain animals, especially the Pitbull.
+malikc6 i was actually following you for about 90% of what you were saying until you became dismissive of dogs, because now it's clear you're basing your assumptions on what you imagine you should be able to do rather than what you know humans can do.
Recognizing that a 50-80 pound dog has significantly faster reflexes and a far stronger bite that anything that a human would be able to counter with hand to hand isn't overreacting towards the dog, it's understanding that what strengths we have and don't have. A dog can shatter the bones in your arm and move on to make mincemeat of your face faster than you can say "ow don't do that."
Similarly and more relevantly the cassowary runs faster than humans can and strike faster than we can react. US soldiers in WWII were told to stay away from them as they're very territorial and powerful. While a human can keep one at bay pretty easily with a plastic rake, I wouldn't want to stare at one for a long time without the knowledge of a fence enclosure to run back to.
+Bokks87 Nah I'm not using what I'm imaging. I'm using what I know based off of real events of dogs fighting people.
Most dog breeds CANNOT break a man's arm with a single bite. The only canine capable of that is the Grey Wolf which bite force is strong enough to break buffalo bones. Most dog bites damage muscle and flesh and it takes multiple bites to break bone, and that's painful and terrible, but regardless of their bite and reflexes, their only weapon is their mouth. Men have beat large dog breeds too death out of self defense. Usually by tackling the canine and choking it too death, grabbing a limb and breaking it with their weight, or blinding it by attacking the eyes.
Most human beings PANIC when attacked by an animal. That's the main reason why we lose. In a fight, the person must accept he or she will get bitten, but if the person gets past the pain and keeps attacking (preferably wrestling), the person with arms, more weight, and smarter brain should win.
I really like the video, glad to see cassowaries are getting some love, but I have to point this out.
In the first ten seconds of the video you have a small animation that implies that birds evolved from pterosaur-like animals, when pterosaurs weren't really even dinossaurs. They were just flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but that didn't leave any descendants.
So I've seen cassowaries in the wild. They don't muder humans "on sight".
Or do they?
Just do NOT get between them and their offspring! Doing that is like sentencing yourself to death! 🤣🤣🤣
The bit on the head is actually soft.
How is being the dominant species for 170 million years being a loser? On the other hand, birds do pretty well in the mammal centered world we live in today...and sometimes get pretty big, unlike mammals during the Mesozoic that were little more than glorified opossums. ;)
They survived that goddamned asteroid 65 million years ago! If that does NOT exempt them from being called "losers", what will?! 🤣🤣🤣
I worked at an australian wildlife zoo and to clean the cage you needed two people one to rake the enclosure as quickly as possible and the other person would swat at the cassowary with a rake if it would get to close.
god damnit, that thing surprised me when i first played far cry 3...
LMAO yeah but the pouch is worth it
Didn't even touch on the fact that the cassowary's call, is like hearing the bowels of hell opening a portal to the netherworld.
I OFTEN wonder what would Chuck Norris do against this bird, one on one.
Chuck Norris is a Cassowary. lol
The question is not what Chuck Norris would do in a one on one fight. The real question is what would the bird do with Chuck Norris's love child after he is done raping it... even if its a male bird, because Chuck Norris can impregnate a male Cassowary, for HE IS Chuck Norris man of myth and legend.
These guys are literally modern day raptors, right down to the murderous toe claw
So... Where do I get one?
They also like to peck at shiny things. Like eyeballs. Which are at convenient beak height.
Omg I hated the cassowary in far cry 3. Those shits were scary!
Yeah but they are great when taking over Outposts.
first time i saw one i walked up to get a closer look. 'it's just a bird' i thought.
30 seconds later reloading game...
juggleknot Not before reloading my assault riffle at least twice yelling "Why won't you die?!"
i make a personal effort to kill them all
ranulfo ataca they aren't that hard to fight........
Might have something to do with the Cassowary’s ability to disembowel people
why'd ya make the pterosaur a bird relative everyone knows that birds evolved from raptor dinos
Same reason why Big Bird kills people.
Because it's a joke
Theropod dinosaurs like velociraptor evolved into birds. There are no living non-avian dinosaurs so birds came after any non-avian dinosaur like velociraptor.
Cody’s showdy???
This video is so frustrating to watch, its so condescending, also Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs and birds did not come form them they came from theropodic dinosaurs like velociraptor.
cassowarys are like very violent ostriches that have a blood lust for humans
Wow
such smarts
much bird
skill
Cassowary: The poor man's velociraptor.
Let me remind the internet of two brutally effective ways to kill most animals: Armchoke or necksnap. Seriously, okay, these birds can kill you instantly, you can also kill them instantly, Unarmed. They got TWO parts of the body to fight with, you got FOUR, five if you count the head.
Yes yes I know, it's not that simple at all, and no, I don't fight animals. I understand base logic though, and the difficult part would most likely be to get in a position where you can actually do this.
***** I'm not gonna fo fight a fucking cassowary, are you crazy? I just pointed out a way to instantly kill an animal with a neck, assuming it's humanly possible to break said necks. I certainly can't do it, never said I can either, just that is's within the realm of possibility.
Maybe if I had spent all this internet time for training fighting then maybe.
***** I'm not suicidal dude, you'd have to be a pretty trained badass to take one of these on. Nobody respects an idiot. Besides, what do you know about if people respects me or not?
***** Yeah overreacted a bit. But I'll let someone else take the high chance of death.
I guess it's really our species-wide sense of fair play that keeps us from armchoking all the animals. We'd have to be pretty stupid to have spent tens of thousands of years developing incredibly sophisticated methods for taking down large game if the answer all along had been to use judo on them.
Man, I love how you say it's the ultimate way to kill an animal, then immediately go into apologetics on account of it actually being the worst possible way to fight an animal.
I fought those things in Farcry 3 and they are no joke
Pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs and birds didn't evolve from pterosaurs. Learn your paleontology.
1:35 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING xDD... this is the 1st time i watch CRACKED video xD goodjob you earned my subscribe!
This is pretty ignorant. Cracked has reached a new low.
cassowary's are no match for a sturdy umbrella
Thank fuck for guns.
Yup
+Renegadebane They're an endangered species, you know.
+ginginite quite right. But so are "ginginite's" if you come face to face with one. Conservation is just leaving them alone ESPECIALLY if they lay eggs in your back yard! (It's happened) but survival is killing it before it kills you if you accidentally run into one. There are such survival allowances in the law like "Endangered Self-Defence"
if you lucky enough to snipe it dead in the 1st shot...it could jump and chase you, you know...
under extreme pressure these birds are now very rare. Native to North Queensland Australia, they can be dangerous when protecting a nest. I saw one in the wild up in the forests north of Port Douglas.
" . . . these bugs will get in our faces and tweet pictures of us to their stupid friends."
sounds like a tv show.
Giant bit of leftover dino DNA, likes fruit, hates man ... knows what happened to the dodo.
Their only weakness: Flamethrowers. Or as Willis Huntley called it, the Flammenwurfer.
How can I get a cassowary? I want one for Thanksgiving. I will stuff a quail into a pheasant into a chicken into a duck into a goose into a peacock into a turkey into a swan into a stork into an ostrich into a cassowary. Then I will roast the whole thing and call it cassichorkanurkockoosuckenantail.
They're relatively new as a species. Only been around for about 10,000 years.
That's why Ender Wiggin was made, so we can destroy the buggers
do people not realize that yes, only 1 person has died. but cassowaries WILL still attack you for no reason and they do chase cars
The cassowary is actually bigger than some dinosaurs, such as velociraptors.
Ive seen two adult and one baby cassowaries in the wild and they seemed pretty chill hahah
Cody showdy
Their cousin the emu isn't a pushover either. Same characteristics, no spear head, but faster than cassowary and even sharper claws. Just as pissed off about the whole evolution thing as well.
Great guys
Even Florida Man CANNOT just easily handle Cassowaries! 🤣🤣🤣
The Shrike. It is a bird in Africa that is a horrifying killer. It finds small animals like mice or snakes (deadly ones that normally eat birds of similar sizes) then proceeds to bash them unconscious on rocks. The Shrike then pierces its many kills on the thorns of a tree as an offering to potential mates. While the creature is alive. There can be dozens of small animals on thorns from a single Shrike, and the thing's like the size of a somewhat largish finch. Dear god, is it horrifying.
It also uses barbed wire!
Tom Hiddleston: Nobody's born evil.
Cassowary: Hold my eggs Loki.
I just came here because I was doing an art project for mixing animals together and now I’m horrified
Cassowarys are actually pretty chill tho
I'm from Australia. Those things don't even make Top 20 pants-wettingly terrifying killer animals. There are probably 3 different things that could kill me in my house with me right now (it would be 5 but my mum & sister went out).
I fed a cassowary once and it kept hitting its head in my feeding bag
and now I understand why these guys were on par with tigers and komodo dragons in farcry3
actually...they're not that dangerous and attacks are relatively rare with death even rarer. it's like bears, they'll fuck your shit up if you piss em off but for the most part, no worries. also....cassowaries are bloody cheeky, i've read a few news articles about them stalking people for kilometres just for a laugh.
And this is why I love the cassowary
his high pitched voice at the end had me weak
my dad worked in Indonesia and would see cassowarys all the time but he would stop the vehicle and wait for it to pass becuase it could destroy the vehicle
So that's where raptors went.
you dont have to run faster than the cassoraptor, only faster than the other people around you.
ive litterally been chased by one of these guys. i escaped when it decided it wanted to go after my friend who jumped off a cliff to save himself. scary animals
I've encountered a couple, they don't attack on sight. Just don't make sudden movements or provoke them
Cassowary: The ultimate introvert. 😂
It's a turkey and an ostrich, nuff said.
This kinda video i can actually learn from