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A southern cassowary chick, one of the world's largest and deadliest birds, has been successfully hatched for the first time at a bird park in the Cotswolds.
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00:00A southern cassowary chick, one of the world's largest and deadliest birds,
00:04has been successfully hatched for the first time at a bird park in the Cotswolds.
00:09Keepers at Birdland in Borden-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, have been trying to breed the
00:14giant, flightless birds for more than 25 years. The chick is only the fourth to hatch in Europe
00:20this year and the first born in the UK since 2021. When we caught our first glimpse of the
00:27tiny chick it was a very special moment indeed, said keeper Alistair Keane.
00:32Cassowaries have a reputation as one of the world's most dangerous birds and their size,
00:37speed and power combined with their dagger-like, 10cm claws mean we have to take looking after
00:42them extremely seriously. The cassowary, which is related to the emu and native to the tropical
00:49forests of New Guinea and northern Australia, is considered so dangerous because of its powerful
00:54legs, a sharp claw and aggressive behaviour when threatened. There have been documented
00:59cases of people being killed by cassowaries, with one of the most recent in 2019 when Marvin Hajos,
01:0675, died after he was attacked by one of his pet cassowaries.