On my 7th birthday, I was living in a tribe in the jungle. That was the day that a friend of mine brought a baby cassowary over to my house to play. I got to pet it, it felt more furry that feathery. We would go out to the jungle to find bugs for it to eat. After feeding it, it would follow us everywhere. We ran around the helicopter pad and it would chase us and play. It came back many times after that.
Cassowaries eat fruit and bugs. They live in Papua New Guinea and Australia. They can grow to be almost 6 feet tall. This one was being hand fed by the tribal people so that they could shoot it with a bow and arrow and eat it one day.
They are an endangered species.
This cassowary was safe to play with because it was hand fed and young. If they are older they can be dangerous. There used to be one that would live near a trail we went down often.
In World War 2, the American and Australian troops that were stationed here in PNG were warned to stay away from them.
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