An auction sale house in Florida is reportedly fulfilling the terminal wishes of an exotic animal collector by selling off his menagerie of about 100 brute , including the one with tongue - corresponding talon that take his sprightliness .
On April 12 , Florida resident Marvin Hajos fell between two pens containing cassowary bird . Flightless creatures that can stand up to six and a half metrical foot tall , cassowary have warm leg and three - towed feet , each with a claw that can get up to five inches .
That claw is likely what Hajo ’s cassowary used to down him . “ It may be they view him flow and had an opportunity and decide to attack , ” Taylor , deputy chief of Alachua County Fire Rescue , told theNew York Times .
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saving respondents come at Hajo ’s dimension and find him fatally injured between the two cages . The cassowary was still rilled up . “ The bird was apparently agitated and was trying to come at them through the fencing , ” Taylor told the Times . “ A couple of masses from our crew had to dodge the bird themselves . ”
Death research worker Bill Grotjahn prove the incident and set Hajos died from bird - inflicted hurt . “ I ’ve been doing this for 18 years and I ’ve never had a thing like this , ” he evidence the Times . “ I ’ve had them kill by alligators and snakes but never by a shuttle like that . ”
But the rarity of cassowary - caused deaths in the U.S. is probable due to their scarcity here — the bird is indigenous to Southeast Asia and Australia — not because they ’re not a threat to man . “Cassowaries are an exceedingly , super dangerous bird , ” Grotjahn secern the Times . “ You do n’t want to fool around with them . They have no gumption of humor . ”
Screenshot: Gulf Coast Livestock Auction (Facebook)
According to theSan Diego Zoo , the “ cassowary is rightfully turn over the most dangerous bird in the world . ”
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Grotjahn also severalize the Times he believes Hajos may have been trying to check on the cassowary egg at the time of his expiry , triggering the female to lash out and protect its clutch pedal .
Now anyone who wants to risk their living to crop their own emerald green cassowary ballock will have a prospect to bribe the very bird that killed Hajos .
On April 27 , Gulf Coast Livestock Auction is selling off the collector ’s entire inventory , including two cassowaries , 26 marmosets , five lemurs , and 19 macaws . The auction group ’s Facebook pageprovides a lean of all animalsthat will be sold .
The society is billing the consequence as the “ out-and-out vendue and complete dispersal of the fauna estate of Marvin Hajos . ”
A instance of the auction bridge grouping told the Times that Hajos desired all his brute to be sell upon his death .
[ New York Times ]
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