I don’t want to meet anyone that can successfully carry and then throw a cassowary. I’m 192 cm, and 61 kg, and I am certain that I couldn’t manage to restrain a cassowary to carry the thing, much less throw one. The weight isn’t the difficulty factor here, it’s the damn deinonychus looking feet, and beak that I’m worried about.
Gators are easy to deal with. Get them to bite a stick, they will. Once their jaws are closed, a 7 year old child could keep their jaws closed with some difficulty. A full grown adult can easily hang on to their jaws. Then you get a buddy or two to throw the thing back in the water.
They’re fast in the water, and can do really short sprints on land. More like repeated lunges, really. On land we are much faster and have a lot more endurance. Not saying you shouldn’t be careful, but unless you’re a kid or elderly, gators aren’t really a concern.
We don’t have crocodiles in North America, outside of zoos, thankfully. Those monsters are a pain to deal with, I assume, since I have never seen a video of drunk Egyptians or drunk Australians wrangling them. I have seen drunk Floridians wrangle gators in person, so I’m certain videos exist.
I was unaware that there were cassowaries in NZ. We tried to find them in the various aviaries and zoos, to no avail, because they aren’t endemic and NZ has VERY strict rules about importation of birds.
Well, at least I know we didn’t spend all that time searching only to miss them. I was afraid I was going to find out that you live near a bunch of them somewhere on the North Island.
I’m sure you could find a Cassowary around to get some equivalent amount of chaos to a croc.
I don’t want to meet anyone that can successfully carry and then throw a cassowary. I’m 192 cm, and 61 kg, and I am certain that I couldn’t manage to restrain a cassowary to carry the thing, much less throw one. The weight isn’t the difficulty factor here, it’s the damn deinonychus looking feet, and beak that I’m worried about.
You could say the same thing about a croc too. Get an idiot drunk enough and they do even more idiotic things.
Gators are easy to deal with. Get them to bite a stick, they will. Once their jaws are closed, a 7 year old child could keep their jaws closed with some difficulty. A full grown adult can easily hang on to their jaws. Then you get a buddy or two to throw the thing back in the water.
They’re fast in the water, and can do really short sprints on land. More like repeated lunges, really. On land we are much faster and have a lot more endurance. Not saying you shouldn’t be careful, but unless you’re a kid or elderly, gators aren’t really a concern.
We don’t have crocodiles in North America, outside of zoos, thankfully. Those monsters are a pain to deal with, I assume, since I have never seen a video of drunk Egyptians or drunk Australians wrangling them. I have seen drunk Floridians wrangle gators in person, so I’m certain videos exist.
Be careful with the gators. You’ll be focused on the jaws, but the feet have claws too…
Death by alligator is quite rare, but the month before we moved to Florida one took a snorkeler just a few miles from where we were moving to…
Yeah, in the water it’s a whole different story. They can outswim Micheal Phelps, and Mark Spitz as though those two were sitting still.
It’s all about the harness…
I was unaware that there were cassowaries in NZ. We tried to find them in the various aviaries and zoos, to no avail, because they aren’t endemic and NZ has VERY strict rules about importation of birds.
There likely isn’t. I was just making a dumb joke about what a Flordia man inspired Kiwi would do.
Well, at least I know we didn’t spend all that time searching only to miss them. I was afraid I was going to find out that you live near a bunch of them somewhere on the North Island.