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You missed out the deadly drop-bears

And the Combat-Emu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary

never heard it called a combat emu…

But also, these guys are like… A+ proof of dinosaur’s evolution into birds… you can pretty much picture Cassowaries in place of the raptors in Jurassic park…

Some extra Cassowary info.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2019...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/how-da...

"Combat Emu" is my personal contribution to the Aussie lexicon (at least as far as I'm aware). I figured it's appropriate...

luckily, the really deadly cassaworys have not yet learned to swim

And forgotten how to fly

should have thought of that :-)

annecdote: i once went for a job at edinburgh university zoology department (i would have been about 19 at the time), and was confronted with a mostly disected mess.

interviewer: what do you make of that?

me: it looks like a badly disected cassowary.

it was a cassowary (where from, who knows - they don't roam wild on arthur seat) and i didn't get the job (good).

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