The Cassowary: The Last Surviving Dinosaur | 4K Wildlife Documentary | Real Wild 

Agreed. I came to watch animals be animals, not some Hollywood monster.

I felt so bad for Buster! Honestly, my stupid human mind anthropomorphized him to be really upset. 😢😭😢😭😢😭

@@KayKay114 lmao you sound like a child 😂

​@@Kyharralol who hurt you?!

@@JK-kf1fn well anthropomorphizing animals is stupid and childish

.. and disgustingly scary too. Constrictor snakes are for nightmares. When even a puma has trouble freeing itself from their coiled grip, a human would have none.

@@ericastier1646 maybe if you carry a diamond knife and you got the power to cut through it

@@raven3946 diamond or any kind of blade would work, even a swiss pocket knife. The problem is the snake will limit your movements very quickly and you may not have the possibility to reach your pocket in time and open the blade.

He just shimmying on up

@@raven3946no less disgusting than humans

I was thinking how incredible to live in such a place. What a wonderful world we live in. I have seen animals today I have never heard of in my life. Truly wonderful. You are very lucky.

So good to hear !!! God bless such people!

As an Aussie in the south I'm very pleased to hear that. Respect 👍

If the birds are endangered, I hope the Australian govt intervenes and help incubate the eggs, hatch the chicks and care for them to adulthood.

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@@sharkflip bad idea, that’s intervention against nature. If nature decides a species needs to go extinct, it will.

@@sharkflip That sounds good but the problem is you end up with adult birds that don't know how to survive on their own. A refuge would probably be a better idea where they could live in a semi-wild environment but with fewer natural enemies. Once they were adults they could be released into the wild.

They're endangered and they're in decline and they don't take well to captivity and rarely breed in it

funny, it made me hungry for an omelet.

@@bobs5596 LOL nooooo

Ya both awesome and heartbreaking moments

Not going to lie. 😢

Mind blowing!

Fathers the hard working without playing in emotions and being manipulative. They just do their best silently with no seek for attention and drama.

Respect for the female players, can’t hate the players, it’s the game

Yea the moms living her best life

@@BigGlockGucci simpin

when I was growing up, I just lived each week to watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. I'm addicted to nature documentaries because of that.

@@jillibeens57 Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler were always welcome in our house too

If you get a chance, check out a 'terror bird' documentary. The animations aren't as pretty as this doc. but it's still one of the better ancient animal documentaries I've watched on RU-vid. I love learning about animals alive and extinct.

It’s really great. I’m sick w the flu and this is calming and entertaining.

Yes. Absolutely top notch narrator. A real pleasure.

Do not protect them, it’s nature who decides who lives and dies.

They are protected here in Australia

When you write “no matter the cost”, what do you mean, exactly?

Dinosaur not bird geez people!!!!

@@1mol831 humans are also part of the nature and if we decide that they live and they live that would be great. what's you point again?

attack shields too

not to mention so hard to find too! with all the bush and folliage

The males are in breeding season expecially .

Kasuari can run as fast as human adult. That's why they are scary

@@fredrikmudas yeah but mainly because they can disembowel you with one kick of there huge ass claws ..and the axe that's On there head they run straight at you head down they can f you up in many ways ...an how you spelt it what's up there dude

Amazing!!! I can share your story. I encountered a cassowary whilst on the greyhound bus from cairns to airlee beach. It was just chilling on the side of the road. Beautiful creature. This was in 2016

Ur name is Deborah how old r u

thats cool. cassowary is one of indonesia national birds. we have it on our passport as reminding even 😀

I saw one on the side of the range road about 10km down the hill form Kuranda last week :) It's always a treat to see them, and it makes me glad to see how traffic slows every time, even stopping with hazards on to let them cross the road. I love that most of the people who live around here understand how special a place it is and treat it with the respect it deserves.

By God. Once answered my exam questions based on what I watched here

@@frankbed6904 The channel is my favourite.

@@frankbed6904 That's awesome! 😁

@@DavidGomez-po9nb watching these animals you get the feeling that we humans are aliens who invaded and colonised these other species.

@@frankbed6904 lol to be honest their lives might be better than ours. The only thing we have is security. They don't pay taxes or lose their homes to closures 😂😂

Fifth

@8:24 Dang, she leaves the father starving while she goes out f*cking again... no wonder dinosaurs went extinct.

@@johnvillanueva1980 well he should provide his own food.

It might be predictable, but introduced predators and loss of habitat are realities faced by endangered birds and animals. Ad nauseam is the predictable nature that us humans continue to invade and destroy for $$$.

Have to agree - wish they had named those creatures in the film. My main whinge was the title - watched the whole thing in the hope of an explanation that never came (beyond mentioning three toes - which other bird species share). Lovely photography though eh.

the documentary was filmed in the Daintree rainforest, which is a world heritage listed national park. There's a limit on how many vehicles can travel across the Daintree river, there's strict rules to protect the entire ecosystem, not just the bigger and more famous animals that live in it, including limiting the number of tourists allowed in, the activities permitted and the kinds of development which are allowed. Their sanctuary is the rainforest the live in. And that rainforest is just one of five types of distinct forest habitats that exist within the wet tropics world heritage area, not including the marine habitat adjacent, which is also protected. I know this because I am fortunate enough to live on 25 acres of rainforest and sclerophyll forest just outside the word heritage area in the northern part of the Kuranda state forest. This is my backyard, I live in a open air museum exhibit, one of the last true paradises on earth. There's plants in my backyard you can find in the USA ... but only as 120 million year old fossils.

Descendant, not ancestor

@@Postinaway semantics but sure, gold sticker, we get it

We got the know it all in the comments 🤡

This seems to be more of a convergent evolution. The head crests or even a casque is also part of ceratosaurs and dilophosaurus which are different dinosaurs. Hornbills have a casque/crest also.

Proof, or it didn't happen.

it depends on if the python a lefty or not

Imagine how scary it would be if you climbed a tree and watched a python do that below you 🤣

Holy shit thats terrifying

Smiled at your comment. When you look at the magazines in a shop stand you can see what interests most women. For the men it's mostly cars, computers and women on the top shelf.

@@straighttalking2090 birds are dinosaurs

It is. it's all world heritage listed, protected and strictly regulated to minimize and where possible reverse human impact. While the Daintree is the focus of tourism, it's actually the area south of Atherton, west of Innisfail and north west of Tully that is the most bio-diverse rainforest region in the wet tropics area. Not even the locals go in there much, which is actually a really clever management strategy. There's trees in there that exist as 180 million year old fossils in other parts of the world. In my own back yard we have a cycad species that's 120 million years old.

@@dawggonevidz9140 Name a living tree 180 myo, or a cycad 120myo.

Our pleasure!

@@RealWild But they're not really dinosaurs are they.

@@straighttalking2090 - of course they are. Birds are living dinosaurs. Some wear their ancestry more obviously than others!

@@straighttalking2090 lol

Getting kicked in the Gut by those powerful legs and evil claw. Would be a nasty way to go. A zoo keeper was killed by one a few years ago . But your right. Unless trapped you’d never see one in the jungle. . Also the other birds are generally omnivores and will eat a bit of anything. . EMU. I can never take seriously since a child hood show in UK about a ridiculous puppet emu that the puppeteer used to attack people. Sort of funny when your 12. Rod hull the puppeteer fell off his roof. Messing with his. TV Ariel. So there is justice. 😇

Yeah, but we need jobs, so the rainforest has to go. Can't stop until it's all concrete, then we can turn around and start planting trees. Anything for jobs!

@@trybunt Oh dear... Sarcasm is one thing but we are such a stupid, selfish species that you may well be right, mate!

Technically, all birds are dinosaurs. As for humans becoming aware and ceasing to cut down rainforesr, well, good luck with that.

true, though the bigger crime was the introduction of pigs that escaped and turned feral overbreeding and trashing the rainforest .

Fok humans

@The Snow Nigro most species of mammals have their own way of communicating, we humans just can’t understand it. So explain why animals such as dogs and elephants can’t understand human languages?

@The Snow Nigro good point, I think you win this one! Maybe we aren’t as boring as I thought after all.

You can try to imagine if you were a foreign visitor to earth. If you ask me, humans would be by far the most interesting animals to encounter on this planet. We may be the only animals in the universe who have evolved to be intelligent, and the fact that we have managed to reach this point at all is extraordinary. Its easy to forget how special we really are.

@@jinglemyberries866 The fact that complex language is our species' special adaptation makes us think we're a lot smarter than we actually are. I see a lot of humans whose behaviour isn't much more thoughtful than that of cassowaries, or feral pigs for that matter.

I think the thing on their heads could be sold for some $$. Removal of said part of their body might be fatal.

Humans destroy nature 😢

Two years of pandemic really haven't made the sentence "well, you can explain it with as many facts as you like, but ..." any better.

But Bertha has survived , thrived and produced a lot of healthy chicks . Survival of the fittest worked in her case.

This one's a bit closer than the common chiecken.

@@garymartin9777 All modern birds are equally related to non-avian dinosaurs.

I only came to reaffirm my issues with the same statement. Thought i might learn something new but pretty sure the fact remains.

@@garymartin9777 All birds are dinosaurs, I don't know how much closer you can get than all of them being a dinosaur. The way you phrased that is like saying x mammal is more mammal than x mammal.

@@paulo157758 I guess maybe the bird species that date back the furthest might be considered "closer" to the other non-avian dinosaurs? But I agree all modern birds are dinosaurs.

thats 5'11 . 5.9 foot is different than five foot 9 inches....

12 inches in a foot, btw. That’s why 5.9’ = 5’11”.

@@NeostormXLMAX MY BAD.. You're right

Yanks..

@@SpadeRZA Don’t forget Myanmar and Liberia.

you do know that me too is about SA and not being serial cheated on right? 😂🤣

What is ANYONE talking about in here bruh?

They are protected.

@@raclark2730 not enough, they are still selling off land where they exist, luckily there are conservation groups that are funded by people buying it back for conservation or those areas would be developed.

@@australianbiotopes4563 Protected from wholesale clearing at least. and most forested properties are restricted use anyway. I was under the impression that you cannot just roll in the bulldozers even if you own it.

@@raclark2730 maybe not the average person, but I bet if the developers line the governments pockets it could happen eventually, at least if conservation groups get a hold of it there is less chance of that happening though, there are a lot of other places it has happened though.

@@australianbiotopes4563 Haha yeah that's probably it, rules for thee and not for me. It's good to hear the locals are keeping an eye on things.

Absolutely! It might be a good idea to introduce them to other rain forest patches maybe fenced wide areas of hundreds of hectares where they might be safe and can keep on breeding.

Yes, shame to waste those eggs.

Hard to say how or if human intervention would benefit their survival...but so far, humans have either directly or indirectly been responsible for numerous extinctions of various species...

Bullshit. They need to be left alone.

Need intervention to survive,,,No. have you ever traveled to this part of the world? Most of it’s natural habitat is in national parks already. It’s a area where most of the natural areas the bird likes on private property are also in areas that are not worth developing due to the very high rainfall and flash flooding risks. I’ve been travelling to part of the world the last 30 years as a local having spent most of my life living in tropical Qld, very little development in this area compared to other areas in Nth Qld.

Until they rip your guts out. These animals are dangerous.

These birds are magnificent but extremely dangerous. You would not want to come across one

Caring towards their offspring. They have zero reason to be kind to humans.

lets not forget about crocs, snakes, monitor lizards... not exactly gentle animals. Animals are just animals, they are both gentle and verrucous.

Crocodilians are not dinos.

But they don't 😢

Sad bird prisoners 😢

I saw it first in Zoobooks magazine back in 1992 or 1993. If you want to see lots of stuff about animals, it is great. Written for children, but adults can enjoy it too.

J.P with you there..

me too!😯

Far cry 3 introduced me to this bird.

@@perkeleejonne9702 they keep a shield in front of them when they go in their area to keep them from being disemboweled

Shoebill storks are really cool too

@@mariahgrimes207 I agree, i have seen some of their pictures but never really seen much footage of them. I will be seeing it someday. Their face also share some ancient look.

its not the last surviving dinosaur. All birds are non-avian dinosaurs. do some research

@ 13:25 and13: 48 Her name changed to "Berther" from Bertha.

No more unique than an Ostrich, or anyother ratite.

Thus the fate of the Daintree Rainforest was sealed at 05/17/22.

@@javabytes3204 why?

@@skwisgaarskwigelf8074 Because areas which become popular locations for tourism often change in a negative way. But I'm actually not too serious. Tourism could be done in a careful way. And considering what I see in this video and read from you I would indeed love to see this place one day. My country lost nearly all its ancients woodlands.

At last, a comment of positivity! Good on you 👌🏾 how wonderful to be able to live in such paradise!! 😀🌿🦖

@@alliholmes7802 I have no idea who you are or what you mean 👀

@@DH-en5tx 😂😂😂😂

We've got 25 acres on the back of the Lamb Range. truly a paradise. tread softly.

@@dawggonevidz9140 Kuranda?

US lifestyle projected on animals.😂😂😂

Bad odds there. China isn't into it.

@@algini12 China can get fucked.

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis Absolutely. But it's the rest of the world that gets fucked because they won't do anything on climate change. But you gotta give it to China on their issue. How do you provide electricity for 1.4 billion people without coal?🤔

@@algini12 Your right about the Chinese but we aren't that far behind them, most people will have pity for non-human species but not enough to make them ditch their SUVs, fly around the place in planes or even recycle their rubbish properly. Our population continues to grow and the economy comes before the planet.

@@straighttalking2090 Not far behind? India is in 2nd place. I've seen photos that came from space that showed India as a smog cloud in the shape of the country. I've also seen graphs where China has more emissions than the rest of the industrialized world combined. I dunno. Many would say it's people that come before the planet not just a broad word such as the economy, versus losing jobs that create emissions that put food on the table. Climate change targets like in Glasgow or the Paris accords are just a pipe dream. The political will isn't there in governments such as the U.S. where it's own congress won't pass anything that hurts jobs that have emissions, and the President is helpless against them. Climate change is clearly inevitable anyway, and anything else tried in the face of 7 billion people is tilting at windmills.

technically it is, birds are classified as a type of dinosaur

where did you see ?

Birds are dinosaurs

brah yes we know that idiot but cassowary is the absolute spit off them no other bird comes close to Dino then cassowary got it

I thought that, but unfortunately her script wasn't so good.

Yep. Also the eagles lol

@@juliusfucik4011 From Farcry 4....😀