10 CRAZY Cassowary Facts You Didn’t Know
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2022
- Cassowaries have a reputation for being the most dangerous bird on earth, and while this might be true, there is much more to these murder chickens then many people realise, so in this video we go through ten of the craziest cassowary facts you don’t know!
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I can't believe you were confident enough to turn your back on him haha. Great work mate!!
I certainly kept my eye on her, and had a keeper just outside the enclosure, but this girl was great to work with!
It was "her", Hope the female.
@@twoflyinghats very much a “her”!
Incredibly unwise to turn your back on em.
@@WickedWildlife she's a pretty girl
#11: Cassowaries have blue skin under their feathers, too :D It is not just limited to the head and neck area.
very interesting thank you. looks like their eggs are a funky colour too.
They are! You can imagine how well they’d blend in on the forest floor
Great video! I never knew how important these birds are to the rainforest ecosystems they call home;
having about 100 plants rely solely on them for seed dispersion is insane!
They are also one of the many animals that make me wonder what it must have been like millions of years ago!
A mysterious and ancient looking creature for sure.
Your right, it’s almost scary how dependant the ecology has become on a single species!
Cassowaries are such fascinating birds, certainly one of the most unique animals on the planet and one of my favorite ratites. I learned a lot about them from this video, as usual you know so much about your subjects and I’m never surprised to learn a ton of new things from you. Great work Nick!
- Harrison and Evan
Thanks guys! Sorry I hadn’t gotten back sooner I’d just seen this comment!
Hope all’s well on your side of the world
Things are going well! Cheers man!
I love learning everything about animals
Hi Nick they are unique and beautiful birds. I was fortunate enough to see a father & he’s half grown chick while fishing in the Daintree in 2018. We stayed quiet & he stayed calm was an amazing experience. Cheers mate
I’d love to see them in the wild, apparently I just missed seeing on in Kuranda but never lucky enough to see one myself
@@WickedWildlife we actually saw another one walking along the main road running the Daintree area. Everyone stopped & we watched her just walk for maybe 150 meters. Got very lucky, that happened in 2016 I love the cape area. Hopefully you’ll see one next time your up there cheers Nick
@@ianparkinson7039 we certainly plan on heading back, due to timing issues we only got to film about half the videos we prepared for so lots more to head up there for
Great video! Learned a ton about the birds I didn't even know existed
Great to hear! Glad you enjoyed the video mate!
Binge watching this channel today 😵💫
Learning so much🙏
Welcome to the channel and thanks for watching!
Great video, Nick - thanks for sharing! They’re such amazing birds. Absolutely love them! 😊
What’s not to love, they are amazing! And thanks for watching 😊
Australian Critters are all, individual amazing and we love them all 🦎🦙🐍🐺❤️🐔🦔🪶🐢🐘
Love your work Nick, thank you for your videos and priceless info and advocacy for our wildlife.
Thank you for watching!
Another fantastic educational video! Perfect balance of interesting and surprising facts PLUS important facts such as the preservation status and the things that impact on that.. and what we can and should be doing to help preserve our amazing natural ecosystems. 💚👍
Thanks mate!
Saw you at the Swan Hill Carnival, awesome videos! Keep up the great work!
Great overview. I've never heard anyone address many of the items you covered. Hope Austrailia can figure out how to preserve them, and help educate the public on how to behave around them. We have similar issues all across the states with many of our spieces as well.
Thanks mate! Yeah all around the world there’s similar stories
Good for you, that is true of the whole world! Best wishes to you from me in Australia.
The Cassowary - the Emu special forces :D
Such cool birds. They’ve certainly copped a bad wrap. Thanks for another informative video :-) .
Another great video, I didn't know most of those facts. I had heard there was a tree entirely dependent on the Cassowary but had no idea there were 100 plants solely dependent on them, that's incredible! Did you know that Casuarina's are named after Cassowary's because the drooping foliage resembles the drooping feathers of the Cassowary? This is something I like to share with people on my bushwalks and it's extra interesting because Casuarinas and Allocasuarinas don't even grow near the Cassowary's home range :). Thanks for the video, loved it :)
Thank you for the comprehensive description of this beautiful bird.
Good one Nick. Very informative. I knew a couple of things about them. But a lot, I didn't know 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks mate! Some of the facts are more common knowledge, so I try and fill it out with a few lesser known specific details
@@WickedWildlife You did a great job 👍🏻👍🏻
Fascinating video, really enjoyed that. Thanks,
Great upload and info. Thanks.
Hell of a turkey, indeed. Having had one really shitheaded tom turkey, sounds good to me.
Havnt had the pleasure of keeping turkeys, but we had peacocks that drove us mad 😂
@@WickedWildlife Have you ever kept bush turkeys i know you have megapods like Asia would love to hear more about them
Most of that I’ve never heard before! Wow! Aren’t they stunning! 🤩
Well done brother very informative!
Thanks for the valuable informations.
Bizarre! Thank you for the video.
I did not know there were 2 other types I only know about the one on Australia
New Guinae even has all three species up there!
@@WickedWildlife wow I hope they down disappear ad that go to all types of animals even ones I have a fear of like spiders as Mother Nature needs them all to stay balanced
@@ac9356 so very true, everything has a role, just often we haven’t figured it out
@@WickedWildlife eni animals r more important the us humans if we all disappeared Ad the animals didn’t the planet b fine ad thriving but if all animals disappeared Ad we stayed the planet will die
@@ac9356 while in some ways I agree, unfortunately humans have caused so much damage now, that if we disappeared over bight a lot of extinctions would continue thanks to invasive species and things
While humans have caused untold damage to the natural world we are also the only species on earth that can decide we need to save another species and that’s special, we just need more people to do it
Great video. Amazing creatures!
Very good video!! From Kentucky 💜
I know very little about them, certainly none of these things, however I was lucky enough to see two together(and only now I realise they must’ve been father and offspring) in the Daintree in early 2016 just off the side of the road. I certainly had no idea how few of them there are! Amazing creatures!
I've been told that the cast on there head is used as a aircon to cool them during the hot summer days. I can't remember why that is. I was told this at the Cassowary talk at Oakvale wildlife park in NSW
It’s certainly another theory, but as of yet no ones proved any one use for them
Nick is telling us all about the Cassowary and all she wanted to do was "nom nom nom" that bucket of fruit :)
The lady loves her grapes!
The fruit doesn't look good
Awesome fantastic info
SAVE THOSE CASSOWARY's. They have so much to contend with in order to survive. This video was very informative. They also must stop ruining that rainforest, it's unnatural that those people in charge are doing that without thinking about the animals that live in that forest. The animals come FIRST.
1: The cassowary is 500m away and approaching rapidly. You should run
I thought that the thing on there head may help with making the low rumbling sound
It doesn’t appear to help make the noise, but may help other cassowaries hear it from a distance
@@WickedWildlife could do that I wonder if we will ever find the true answer to it. Do the really run straight through thick bushes Ad that
Bob Irwin will love this video
I’d love for him to see it!
And not only Bob but thr other Irwins
More humans are at fault for killing wildlife than any Cassowary or vice versa. Humans are the biggest serial killers when it comes to wildlife. Cassowary took out 2, that's all. That one kid Phillip was at fault for chasing the Cassowary, what did he expect the bird to do ? That kid was at fault for intanganizing.
Interesting, thank you
I’ve seen only one of these birds in the wild and it was whilst doing jungle training with the army at Tully, sort of between Townsville and Cairns. It ran across a dirt road whilst we were patrolling along it.
I do have a bit of an apocryphal story of one of the blokes in our platoon being chased by one of them through the scrub. As the story goes, he ran from the poor bird waving and firing his rifle behind him whilst screaming hysterically. It was only blanks though so no harm done to the poor critter.
"Don't feed wildlife "
*Proceeds to feed it grapes*
You understand this is a captive animal that still needs to get its food from somewhere right? 😂
Wow, I never knew we had a cassowary in Australia (outside zoos) lol
We certainly do! They actually walk through the town of Kuranda from time to time!
The helmet on the head of a cassowary probably has the same function as the helmet on a guinea fowl's head.
Thank you for these wholesome facts, I didn’t realise there were only two documented human fatalities to the cassowary
Make that three.
Can we get a 10 CRAZY Casserole Facts video?
According to indepth models of tyrannosaurus musculature, it could have walked by bobbing its head just like the cassowarry
Interesting what fruits the cassowaries are they are very important for the rainforest ecosystem in Australia
omg shes so gentle
cassowaries are so dope i luv cassowaries so much 🙏
She is a cute little thing though. Seems quite docile actually!!
I heard Cassowaries have claw-like spines on their wings. What are those used for?
But can it defeat the Canadian goose?
Can you do a video on the flying foxes of Australia?
Hello Down Under. Hope all is going good for you there. Scary Bird.
Beautiful cassowary 🦘🐅🇬🇸the for runner of Australia’s mythical bunyip which ranged all over Australia & was 16 feet in size the last recorded at fiery creek victoria in 1840 Melbourne museum the fiery creek bunyip🦋🐲🐉🦜🐅👹🦘🇬🇸
Which cassowary is the biggest?
1. "Don't feed cassowaries"
2. Spends the whole video feeding a cassowary
1 don’t feed wild cassowaries
2 don’t let animals in captivity starve to death 🤷🏽♂️😊
I would love to hear about Emus and the extinct Dwarf emu of Australia that could have been different species
7:24 Two cassowaries one cup
I consider myself very fortunate to have seen 20 or more of these beautiful creatures working in banana plantations near cairns
Surprised there's so few of them here, I've seen them many times I assumed they had a big population
In captivity how common is it for Cassowaries to be calm like that?
I’ve worked with a few and it seems to be abit of potluck
Some where plain aggressive, others nervous and some reasonably calm, that being said I was told by her keepers sudden noises still set her off abit
@@WickedWildlife Thanks for the info.
The casque is a temperature regulator.
Do they have wings?
ahaahhahhah 1 hell of a turkey, I missed that 1st time round>
I hope UA-cam are paying you cos I had to watch 2 ads before your video began
We do make a few bucks from UA-cam, but this video will need to be up for 10 years to cover the costs of the trip to Townsville 😂
I think the usage of casque might be because to help them through the rainforest
Murder chicken 😹😹😹 love it
For his next trick, he'll go swimming with a stingray whilst explaining how misunderstood the poor chaps are.
I must admit, I wasn't expecting Florida Man to make an appearance 🤦🏻♀️
His everywhere!
Rather take my chances with a cassowary than a Port Moresby Rascol any day of the week.
அடப்பாவி அதுகிட்ட மிதிவாங்கி சாகாதே.... அது cassowary உலகின் பாயகரமான பறவைகளில் ஒன்று.. வெளாசிராப்டர் டைனோசர் வகைகையை சார்ந்தது என்று சொல்கிறார்கள்...
யாரு பெத்த புள்ளையோ தெரியலையே.... கடவுள் தான் இவன காப்பாத்தனும்...🙏🥵
Cassowarys are all serious practitioners of Shinto. Hence, the little hats.
Love that bird
She’s impressive!
So what if it wants to kill me? It's beautiful and has feathers, so I must pet it!
(of course, I also want to survive, so I won't pet it after all)
Hope is a very relaxed cassowary and still wasn’t gonna try patting her 😂
years ago I told was living w a guy on his hobby farm & expressed my desire to raise a few laying hens. He said "Sure, no problem, I'll bring you a few birds to start with and see how you get along."
He came home a few days later with 3 full grown Emu's in a horse trailer. Emu's avg height is 5'6" which is the same height as me but we never saw eye to eye in any other respect. You can sense how limited the intelligence of their eyeball sized brain really is when you look into their brain size eye. All they Kno is instinct of survival. Eat, drink, poop and breed. and attack anything that might prevent them from doing just that.
People like you are necessary. People who respect nature and do not demonize it, despite the danger it may represent.
do the natives on paupa new guinea eat them?
imagine if they were predators?
Had Hitchcock known abovt this he probably wovld have made his after school bird movie based on it instead of those Alcatraz seagulls
Spielberg basically did it, they called it Jurassic park 😝😂
But I would have loved to see hundreds of cassowaries perched on the telephone wires Hitchcock style
@@WickedWildlifeThat would end up looking like the About The Birds Pixar cartoon short. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know better & risk of consequences, but sympathize with the compassion & realize difficulty to prevent urge for supplementing wildlife nutrition especially when habitat & resources affected, pressured, encroached upon, ...😞
it is said that an Emu has a brain the size of it's eyeball. Is this true of the cassowary as well? is that a contributing factor in their tendency to attack the hand that feeds them?
The Only Animal I have ever been TERIFIED by in OZ !!!
What about those neck flaps ?
Ridiculous that they are called the deadliest bird but have only killed 2 people. Dangerous yes, deadly? Not so much! Like he said, don’t feed them and don’t try to pet them or play with them and keep your dogs on a leash.
I thought Cassowary's are related to Velocile Raptors. I'm dumb.
If male cassowaries take care of the young, doesn’t dad rule the roost?
7 Iron golf club 😁👍
You had me @ poo eating Cassie's
Waste not, want not 🤷🏽♂️😂
5:34 *Jordan Peterson has entered the chat*
Is that tropo?
This ones name is Hope
@@WickedWildlife awesome man cheers. They are such impressive animals hey.
@@macca89doz they certainly are
Unfortunately the one I worked with up there passed away a few years ago
You're way more likely to be killed by your own dog than this bird.
Why cassowaries have those wattles on throat Nick i know they have a dangerous kick
And they have a wattle that makes them look a bit like an American wild turkey. (Oh my entire god Floridaman.)
Edit: I am way too old to do a PhD but but my best guess for the cool hat is thermoregulation if anyone who DOES want to do a PhD wants to pull that thread.
Dude anyone ever tell you that you look like Rob Schnieder?
Never heard that one 😂
I’ve heard I sound like Jim Jeffries 🤷🏽♂️😂
cast is a wood splitter, Just got my PhD wink wink
*Casque…. Old timer 😝😂
hahahaahah I was too lazy to look it up @@WickedWildlife
not humanised FFS, Habituated.
Your right! But the point was hardly important enough for another trip to Townsville to fix my misuse of a single word
Hopefully your still able to understand my point 😊
Did you dress in blue to make it think you're one of their own?
nevermind, you're always dressed in blue.
Deadbeat mother 😂😂😂😂
You said feeding them leads to over socialized aggression towards humans yet started the video feeding one…