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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    You know you are a real ratite geek when you start learning the sub-species SE
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    'They generally avoid people - but no where near as willingly as people avoid them.' Hey, Finchbreeder! My knowledge of cassowaries is next to nil -- mostly from reading here on BYC. What you are saying makes sense. There's the fact that any critter on a pasture (or in a resource-rich spot in...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Finally, the power of the ratite legs. As I am Wild Emu Guy, I rarely get to handle emus -- they're wild; I can't catch them. But a couple of times I've had to nurse injured half-grown chicks. The 'drumstick' muscle of the upper leg is astonishingly powerful. It's like spring steel. And a...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Ah! Here we go! Here be your eviscerating talon!!
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Yes -- but note the annoyance I expressed above about ninnies posting blah blah blah. So, okay. Let's treat the subject seriously: forward articulation: the legs of the ratites articulate forwards -- the opposite of humans. Please take a moment over this. This allows an emu to sorta 'shoot'...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    What fun! A cassowary chick practising slash-kicks. They are a very interesting species!!!
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    So: it seems odd; but we rather often discourage folks from buying emus: it's a big big project. It's not cheap. They may live for twenty years or more. But cassowaries? Times 5 difficulty and expense
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    The second aspect is the legendary orneriness of the cassowaries. It annoys me no end that ninnies post on the Net about 'dangerous' emus, how 'an emu attacked me.' Now, ostriches are mean and big; but cassowaries are legendarily aggressive. I was sitting in the garden at dawn, feeding sultanas...
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    Cassowaries as ornamental birds

    Sorry for the late reply. So, somewhere in the archives you should find 'Acqua eyes'? I'm not sure of the name, but years ago there was a member here who had captive cassowaries. But I can take a wild swing at this one. In one respect, their care is the same as for, say, an emu: secure...
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