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Australia: Carpenter gets visited by most dangerous bird in the world
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Australia: Carpenter gets visited by most dangerous bird in the world

The researchers believed that the people in the region may have bred the smallest of the three species of the bird, the dwarf cassowary, which can weigh around 20 kilos

Humans from New Guinea were hatching and raising the world’s deadliest bird 18,000 years ago as pets
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Humans from New Guinea were hatching and raising the world’s deadliest bird 18,000 years ago as pets

While collecting eggs and raising hatchlings is an early step in domestication, it’s unlikely that cassowaries were ever fully bred in the manner of chickens.