Giant Cassowaries are Modern-day Dinosaurs | Seven Worlds, One Planet | BBC Earth 

You're lucky. I grew up in those rainforests and I've only seen wild cassowaries about ten times

I visited the Daintree National Park in '19 and immediately encountered a cassowary. Several times even throughout the trip. So I believed them to be fairly common. But like the idiot I was I tried to get closer to one of them (proper tourist-move) until an Ozzy warned me about them. I did read the signs, by the way. That could have been a true Darwin-moment. :D

@@LemmingGuide It's good to hear they are so common now. It means to me the population is thriving and well protected.

I want that psychedelic octopus story 🤩

@@cratecruncher6687 - didn’t you listen to the video? They are seriously endangered....

Ollie Haze right on

Hawaii

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V-raptor 22 What’s even better is when you realize that these are flightless yet aggressive birds that are threatened by pigs eating their eggs.

Lion king, lol 🤣🤣🤣

it needs a longer tail and more prominent wing claws.

Uhh, jellyfish? Sharks? Crocs? Tortoises? All of those remain unchanged for 10s of millions of years

*thousands

@@AverageAlien i dont think they were saying cassowaries are the only example dude this video is just about them so theyre appreciating them

@@AverageAlien Dinosaurs have always caught the imagination of the public… modern birds give us an idea about how dinosaurs look and act

Only way would be to open up a bacon based diner/restaurant, until their number's decrease.

Its flightless. Its obviously a dinosaur.

@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 yeah lol. Send some texans there to look for hogs to eat

@@DannyManny98it’s a bird (avian dinosaur) it’s clearly a dinosaur

Fun fact: Cassowary males rear the chicks so that's actually dad! :)

@@megapiglatin2574 :)

You can.

@@megapiglatin2574 They both do. They take turns like penguins.

@@thebabbler8867 Do you happen to know if that is species-specific? All information I can find (in the San Diego Global Library database, Nat Geo, BBC, etc.,) suggests that aside from a few specific cases, males are the primary caregivers and that females have been known to commit infanticide. However, that information appeared to be focused on the southern cassowary.

With Raptor-style kicking

METALSCAVENGER78 Yeah the skull is really similar to that of a Corythosaurus!

In the programme we find out that their feet are bigger than Velociraptor feet!

Or a dinosaur, peacock, and a turkey

I always thought it looked like an oviraptor

Thank you for sterilizing them, when people kill them instead it's really heartbreaking, it's wrong but it's also in their nature

@Where's the hen? who says it's not in *your* nature to kill cats?? I dont know nor care who you are, if you kill cats for fun so be it, it however *is* in my nature to judge you immoral and psychotic. No one can disprove it, so your argument is bullshit.

Maybe too hard with a population 24 million strong and growing? Even a mass cull would be incredibly hard, let alone a spaying campaign.

Or just shoot the damn pigs already. It’s not like they’re endangered.

@Where's the hen? average human with a complex brain vs retarded cat being retarded

People who keeps these birds says they are dangerouse?? It is not the bird in captivity that is dangerouse but the people who keep them are danger to themselves and to the birds. If it has to be kept in captivity to increase their numbers then ok but it is common sense that they cut the long needle like claws and file them regulary and this way there would be no danger would it be but then most of the people in the world are stupid so what do we expect...

More dangerous is the swooping Magpie in nesting season. The Cassowaries are actually quite timid, Magpies are incredibly defensive, so are Magpie larks and pied curlews. There are also cockatoos that destroy your house.Australia, land of savage birdies.

lol pied curlew isn't even a bird

@@squidlyminimalisim I had to check my Bird book. We call them pied curlews around here, but they are actually Magpie larks, in some areas also called peewits. They are savage little buggers .

@@squidlyminimalisim And I forgot about spur winged plovers that nest in the grass and attack if you get too near. They quite often live on naturestrips and roundabouts in busy urban areas.

@@elowishusmirkatroid4898 I’ve never been swooped by those I’ve only been swooped by a butcherbird and a magpie

*YEP*

I love the smell of fried bacon in the morning.

Aight! iniate....Pigs seasons!!

@@frankhumbug The taste of wild hog is very polarizing. It has a gamey taste that farm raised pigs don't have, also allot less fat. Some love it and some hate it. Much like any wild game it all depends on who is cooking it.

@@dirtybaystrangler, these hogs are like free range. I bet they taste yummy.

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Oh boo hoo 😂 Good riddance

They’re not “like” dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs

Birds are dinosaurs. They're a group of theropods called Aves

Not only that; most bird traits we think of including feathers, hollow bones, 3 toed feet, "wishbone",S-shaped necks are Therapods Dinosaur traits inherited by birds.

Were you at the Cape Trib Beach parking lot? There is a big male who hangs around there and isn't afraid of humans.

@@douglasnakamura6753 he said daintree rainforest parkinglot

@@xavi4330 The Cape Trib parking lot is in the Daintree

How long did the relationship last?

So how were your chicks?

In the Americas as well.

Thanks Mr Wizard

@@scotty6124 “Americas”

early settlers didnt let them go for free they didnt have time to waste hunting pigs they need them caged up , the Indians didnt like them wild .

Yeah.... it's called stupidity

good to know I'm not the only one

My money is on the boar, When pigs go feral everything about them changes -- even their name.

I think the narrator was implying that the boars don't try with the adults and are opportunistic and go for the eggs and young.

Well, it would have to get close enough wouldn’t it?

tbh the pig would probably do some serious damage even if the cassowary won. pigs are tough

I agree we've already lost the Thylacine we don't need another amazing animal going extinct especially since cassowaries are the closest living relative to a dinosaur

There is no lord.. if we want to protect species it is on us to do it!!!

Just kill the damn pigs! They are not contributing to anything and destroying everything!

*please australia

@@scottweinkauff2971 you are delusional.. no there isn’t. Also •you’re

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Its a dinosaur. Not a bird.

Aborigines: Am I a joke to you?!

@@romella_karmey 'aborigines' are offensive, call them aboriginals or indigenous people

@@kerwinma5607 ....Why is that offensive?

@Dehydrated Water (the more you know)

@Dehydrated Water aboriginal by definition means not originally from... which is completely false since they were the first to live in Australia lol... indigenous people don't prefer that term or aborigines.. call em First Nations or indigenous

@@wafflesaurus_supreme Very true. Wild meat needs to be overlooked by people trained to handle it before consumption. Though I have to say my comment was mostly meant as a joke. :)

@@Gildorify Wouldn't just cooking it kill anything nasty. These animals probably eat better than farm raised animals.

I hate fussy eaters. Drama queens over the littlest things. By all accounts wild boars have some seriously tasty pate and chops. SIGN ME UP!

@@generationfallout5189 not with the worm's egg. They can survive the heat and hatch in human body unlike the cow's worm

Damn our species is devolving

Humans invaded 40, 000 years ago.

@@gregwarner3753 can't count as invasion if there was nobody there

@@salomoz.tungga1479 you are wrong. It does not matter if similar species are already there a new species moving in is considered an invasive species. Humans arrived in Australia about 40, 000 years ago. Well before the Europeans.

@@salomoz.tungga1479 and invade, they did (rip giant wombas)

@@salomoz.tungga1479 Since they arrived tens of thousands of years ago humans wiped out 95% of all Australian species over 45kg. 95%.. gone - extinct..

I already slaughtered 24 of them with a Musket Gun

There has actually already been the great pig war, 1859

Angry Birds, real life!

@christopher snedeker we were bad but now we're good!

...u lost the emu war, are u sure about the pigs?

Yapp, the birds had been eaten by pigs, no more left :/

@RelaXation5 🤣🤣🤣

Pay attention: Stop, WATCH & LISTEN. Then you’d understand how it’s about cassowaries, covered in context with the damage done by feral invasive hogs / pigs in the wild ... and why they’re endangered.

Angry Birds: Origins

@@smallstudiodesign Who are you to tell people what to do.

It's not a backwards knee at all, it's their ankle joint just like in a dog's or a cat's leg. Their knees are way up on their legs and hidden in the feathers and fat most of the time. They have rather short femurs and while we humans walk on our whole foot like bears for example, birds basically walk on the tip of their feet with their knees tightly bent against their bodies. So what you think is their knee is in fact their ankle.

Bacon is what fuels my will to live

@@nutsandbolts1264 LMAO, chop it up and start a BBQ FUCKASSS

Vegan is life✌

@@anewlife5846 perhaps for some but not for all. Moderation and sustainability are the key factors to keep in mind with regards to anything humans consume. The earth is alive and we are all a part of a global ecosystem. Capitalism and commercial agricultural and farming are killing us all.

@@kbee That's true which is why I, my grand uncle and 2 of my aunts have chosen to stay single for life and we are minimalist as well as childfree too. We are also encouraging others and thankfully more and more youngsters are joining this mission to reduce human population drastically. It is an enormous peregrination from over 8 billion to decrease it to around 10 million worldwide - from carbon footprint to fingerprint.✌

@Aspiring Marauder Well, we got to have some way to power all these electric cars...

stephane coffin there is not rainforest logging happening in Australia, that’s an issue in Asia...

@@lvsoad22 South America too I believe

Probably doesn't make a difference, honestly. In Texas, USA, there are huge numbers of feral hogs. Everyone has a gun (or three), and there's absolutely no restriction on killing them, yet they remain an enormous problem. They're very smart, adaptable, and reproduce extremely quickly. A formidable enemy to be sure.

@Erebus Even Bob Carr sold NSW out. As the old joke goes, ALP stands for the 'Alternative Liberal Party'.

If he's as good at hunting pigs as he is at hunting wabbits, that won't help.

Fudd only has a double barrel. How long with a double barrel,to cap 24 million pigs?

4G12 humans damage much much more than pigs live and let live

There is no enough Australians to eat 24m pigs

wild pig fat r more delicious than pigs grown from farms..gosh im hungry

@@andrzejmroz7153 you can always start a wild pig business and export them

@@survivor648 Tell that to the cassowaries the pigs are destroying you dumb suburbanite broad.

Its a dinosaur. Not a bird.

@@DannyManny98 birds are dinosaurs lmao

@@jrgamer1243 to*

It's Australia. Good luck getting a permit for a gun or to hunt.

Zoes Dada How about you think before you talk? If the government really is concerned, it can easily issue temporary licenses, valid until the problem is under control. And this is probably what will happen...

Barbecues every day 🥓🥩🍞😋

Oy no

There are heaps in Papua New Guinea. But it would be a shame if they disappear from Australia. The government barely allow you to legally own a gun, let alone hunt freely for feral animals in state forest. Can't even get a permit

True. I would not want just want them to end up like moas. They are enormous and majestic.

Corythoraptor - if you see prehistoric planet you’ll see

*Lose,* ....it's actually good that they're loose.

Towards the top of queensland there's a bunch

@@gamersden30: Thanks!

@Edward Gross: Thanks for further info!

@Nature Lover: Thanks! A large number of Japanese including myself think of kangaroos, koalas, Ayers Rock, desert... when it comes to Australia.

朝倉雄介 Most of Australia is desert, but the coastal and southern areas are temperate and the north has a very old tropical rainforest.

Its called evolution

All birds are dinosaurs.

And always found in pairs, so if you attack one, other will attack you.

Sounds like your opportunity to get some payback in RL. ;-)

@@huzaifaansari8688 For real, I was trying to take over a outpost in a sneaky way, while in cassowarie territory, and a freaking cassowarie made me blew my cover.

I was looking for this comment. I only know of them from Far Cry

They have a large single claw for killing on each foot which they can use like a dagger I wouldn't pet one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A-7BwBBtzUI.html

Its a dinosaur. Not a bird.

@@DannyManny98 ; It is both, birds are called avian dinosaurs and are the survivors of the dinosaur lineage.

@@FirstDagger True

Fantastic story haaahaha! The poor fella in it kinda got beat up but he gained a great story to tell. With all of the vicious, murderous, and criminally insane species living in Australia why wouldn't there also be a living vine that's nature's razorwire? 😄

@@GTLees there’s another one (a sort of shrub) covered in what are basically venomous nanotubes that are insanely painful. For months. The park rangers spray them with hi-viz paint if they’re near a bush-walking track. Then there’s various poisonous jellyfish, giant crocodiles, tiger sharks etc…. But I also got to swim all by myself with a humpback whale and her calf one day when I was on Fitzroy island. So I regard it as a fair trade-off….

we ae not invasive species. We were created to have dominion over all creatures. We are superior animals. .but you can't handle the truth

@@eaglewings1983 Lmao no, humans are not "special" they're animals just like the others. And yes, humans *are* invasive. The entire world is dying. Because of us. But you can't accept the truth. You believe you're some sorta of special thing. Well you're not.

@@eaglewings1983 animals are the reason we can survive, therefore we are not dominant just part of a ecosystem.

thankfully far north queensland wasn't affected as badly as other areas

European settlers don't leave that part out...

@@CashRules660 The Maori wiped out several native species when they colonized New Zealand don't be such a racist twat

White people

@@CarloBarlongo Actually as far as colonization goes latino people have probably done more than Whites personally I dont have a problem with it if your strong enough to do it fucking do it.

@@shadowbanned5164 aren't Spanish people white?

Hey if they are around long enough and survive maybe they will slowly evolve to eat pigs you never know

@Моби Дик now that is an idea though it does lead to other problems the start is the Komodo dragon although it does prey on pigs they will stop preying on other animals

Unfortunately here in Australia, the rise of veganism and animal cruelty is impacting this issue

@@tikiiz except that it's not. That's your stupid assumption that you made by connecting two seemingly related topics without actually addressing the real problem. Stop living in a victim fantasy.

@@tikiiz Are you saying that veganism is at fault because someone else infested the forest with pigs and vegans don't want to eat them?

Most places that have a problem with invasive species have no season or limit on what you can kill. They just want them gone.

I think they said 24 million. That's a lot of hunting.

@@EdDueim Might need to cull as well as sport hunt!

@@ginevragali2981 you're damn right

@@ginevragali2981 "cough" Emu War. Or maybe, and I'm just exploring here, maybe the problem is that the wild pigs don't have a natural predator. Maybe introduce one. Or maybe genetcally modify cassowaries until they big enough to predate on pigs. I don't see how that could go wrong.

or better yet Build a new island, then follow summarily

@@Leviathis_Krade why do you want to build a new island, plant tree, fruit, vege, insects / wait 40y to create a natural place without knowing if it will works ... when you have thousands islands around Australia ready to go???

@@BorisKOUKA b/c then you dont have to worry about dealing with the BS of politics and just build an island with the help of trusted scientists and dilligent engineers, plus its a lot safer than dealing with whatever nightmare fuel is already inhabiting the known islands; You wouldn't need to wait 40 years either, we have this thing called transplanting which you touched on but assumed you know it will fail if duplicated, which is a danger way to think.

@@Leviathis_Krade sounds not to bad. But well streward island is a great example to save local species. I never heard about ppl who get enough money to create fake island for indengered species

Stewart Island is an Island. Australia is big like Europe. You cannot apply the same solution

Australia has lost the Emu war, they're scared history will repeat itself :D

Using my country's history as an example; if Australia really wanted to end the feral pig problem it could...period: when Europeans came to "America" they got busy exterminating the Carolina Piegon, the American Bison, the Gray Wolf, and the Grizzly Bear, for just a few examples...with modern weapons, and some bounty $, feral pigs could soon be gone...what's tha matter mate...can't set "your' " beers down long enough to take care of this problem? Mankind is great, GREAT!, at extincting species, so what's the problem here?

@@jamesreynolds5045 well if that's the case the i suggest your government to act quickly to eliminate those invaders. Coz according to the study of BBC there are about 24,000,000 of them and still multiplying. That's the problem mate, if you're claiming that if you're government wanted to do so, then it could be done before we even realizing it, then you better do it now before it's too late.

Gonna suck for the pigs too, they shouldn’t be there which means they’re gonna have to be culled or something. That’s a lot of death

Giants yes, gentle no. They're like Cohen the barbarians dog - friendly with each other, rabid death to everyone else..

Gentle giants isnt a term I'd like to describe a cassowary

@@matthiasmax2849 It would be however 100 years ago civilians had free access to semi automatic and fully automatic firearms and used them to render species extinct, hence why said firearms are banned for hunting in much of europe.

@@TheAlexagius Neither provides any great advantage for hunting, particularly in the case of a fully automatic since you can only accurately aim the first shot, and at 100 meters any additional rounds fired off are wasted as even a few mm in barrel drift due to the recoil means complete misses on an animal, after the first shot an animal typically runs anyway(and yes, even the ones that get shot). Rarely someone with a semi-automatic rifle can line up a second shot if an animal is running in the open, so it has a modest use case, but fully auto is pointless for hunting and wasteful.

@Teenymouse 99 But they are *going* extinct

Still is

@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 They won't.

No we don't. They kill people.

What a brave comment.

@Rustydingomingo So are they

Animals,,, kill or be killed. Humans,,, a bit above that .