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A Giant Bird Killed Its Owner. Now It Could Be Yours.

JacksinPA

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A Giant Bird Killed Its Owner. Now It Could Be Yours. - The New York Times

Cassowaries are a flightless type of bird indigenous to Australia and Southeast Asia. They are huge, emu-like birds with claws and have a violent reputation

There will be colorful macaws, lithe lemurs and cackling Kookaburras for sale at an event billed by organizers as “the dispersal of the animal estate of Marvin Hajos.” But the animal that is likely to get the most attention is the giant bird that killed Mr. Hajos this month.

That bird — a hulking, flightless cassowary with a daggerlike claw on each foot — will go up for auction on Saturday alongside about one hundred other exotic animals that Mr. Hajos, 75, kept on his property near Gainesville, Fla. (Several other cassowaries are also slated to go on the auction block.)
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For the collector of the odd-and dangerous-animals. This bird could kill you.
 
JacksinPA said:
A Giant Bird Killed Its Owner. Now It Could Be Yours. - The New York Times

Cassowaries are a flightless type of bird indigenous to Australia and Southeast Asia. They are huge, emu-like birds with claws and have a violent reputation

There will be colorful macaws, lithe lemurs and cackling Kookaburras for sale at an event billed by organizers as “the dispersal of the animal estate of Marvin Hajos.” But the animal that is likely to get the most attention is the giant bird that killed Mr. Hajos this month.

That bird — a hulking, flightless cassowary with a daggerlike claw on each foot — will go up for auction on Saturday alongside about one hundred other exotic animals that Mr. Hajos, 75, kept on his property near Gainesville, Fla. (Several other cassowaries are also slated to go on the auction block.)
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For the collector of the odd-and dangerous-animals. This bird could kill you.
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That presume he's not being collected for eating. Those are pretty good sized drumsticks on that bird.
 
PirateMk1 said:
That presume he's not being collected for eating. Those are pretty good sized drumsticks on that bird.
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I suspect it might be illegal to eat it?

Or...something?
 
PirateMk1 said:
That presume he's not being collected for eating. Those are pretty good sized drumsticks on that bird.
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That's where the dodo birds went: into sailors' stomachs.
 
More on this story (#1), plus additional interest (#2):




 
The Mark said:
So basically it kept instincts from its dinosaur ancestors?
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Basic instincts - self-preservation in particular - are probably deeply rooted in the brains of all animals. The birds go back to early dinosaurs.
 
JacksinPA said:
Basic instincts - self-preservation in particular - are probably deeply rooted in the brains of all animals. The birds go back to early dinosaurs.
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Yep, even our dogs have some of that left somewhere.
 
Reminds me of an episode of The Future is Wild. In a post-human world, birds like these would hunt down tiny hominids that lived in a marshland.
 
Chomsky said:
No idea. But it's an aggressive wild animal, that is a relic related to dinosaurs.
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I was actually thinking of the relatively recent findings that some (many?) dinosaurs were feathered, and that birds are largely (entirely?) descended from dinosaurs.
 
Cassowaries are velociraptors. That's not really even an exaggeration.
 
Why would anyone keep one of those birds? Don't they belong in the wild, or at least in a zoo? People like this guy are a menace to themselves, the animal, and society. Does anyone remember that dope who let all his wild cats go? Was up north somewhere, not sure what state. I remember Jack Hanna almost in tears when they had to dispatch those beautiful beasts.
 
The Mark said:
I was actually thinking of the relatively recent findings that some (many?) dinosaurs were feathered, and that birds are largely (entirely?) descended from dinosaurs.
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Some reptiles thought, "hey, remember those scales we had in the water a billion years ago? Maybe we could use something like that up here." And then they started flying.
 
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