I saw cassowary killed by another one in a very short bout (actually one jump was enough). Do we know how many people are getting killed in Papua due to semi-tame cassowaries? How many injured in Indonesie by juvenile birds before they end-up in local zoos, being killed for meat?
This is absolutely unacceptable what they do. Zoos don't really need to hit big headlines with titels like "cassowary kills a person in a zoo". Of course hundreds of thousands people die yearly in car crashes, killed by domestic animals aso. this however doesn't change my mind. Such activities harm serious zoos.
I agree Rhinopithecus I don't see why they would use a bird such as this to do a dumb demo. maybe if he had held a pork chop they could let a tiger take it out of his hands instead.
