When I was working in a remote area on a mining project a road kill roo had mostly dried out and someone stood it up and put a smoke in its mouth. The project engineer told all of us that this was grossly unacceptable and not to be repeated! Next day the roo had a hard hat , sunglasses, a reflective vest and work gloves on and holding a men at work sign! No comment from management!
The cassowary and emu encounters wouldn't have happened if idiots didn't persist in feeding the bloody things. Good to see the people tried to avoid the birds stealing their food. They're wild animals and should be naturally wary of human contact and try to avoid us. They should not be happy to join our picnics expecting to get food. The same problem occurs with very large monitor lizards and dingoes in some parts. It's not safe for humans, and it's not safe for the animals, especially when they get refused food and get vicious about it and attack a human, then have to be killed to avoid it happening again. Feeding wildlife is a stupid, dangerous, and very harmful thing to do, and it's almost always tourists that do it.
unfortunately they DO get accustomed to having people nearby, and will get curious to some extent.Its not always because people feed them, quite often it can be just that they get used to people being in their vicinity. Some birds can be naturally curious when they smell or see food. Emus and cassowaries are big and formidable birds, and have been known to "stand their ground", so it wouldnt be that unusual for them to take advantage of non-threatening looking people and grab anything they think they can eat. Even indigenous Australians before colonisation would have encountered them around where they eat. But yes, some people do like to feed wild animals.
@stephenwhitton9681 agreed, but it's a bit of a two way street, a catch 22 situation. they are big birds and curious, and sometimes it can start because people have food, and if they are hungry enough and food is scarce where they are (all birds are scavengers at times), they will try and grab our food (i have seen samll birds swoop down from above and swipe food from plates), and we are taught that we need to be careful around them, because they have sharp beaks, and talons, and quite often if we are confronted by them we throw food to get them away from us so that we can flee, thus encouraging the birds to try the same thing on the next group of people they encounter. But yes, there are times when people just feed them.
@@namewithheldbygoogleforsec673 Seagulls are a bloody menace. Always trying to steal peoples potato chips at the beach. I was sitting outside at a cafe in my home town once and working on my laptop for a job application, one just swooped down and grabbed the cookie I got with my coffee off the saucer in mid-dive. Scared the hell out of me. We had a good laugh about it though.
@@TheSuperappelflap it's the toenails that do the real damage. They can kill a person by kicking out with the sharp centre toenail. The one confirmed kill I know of wasn't even in Australia. It was an American keeping one in his house as a pet. They are used to wandering over big area foraging for food.
The Cassowary here is at a beach in north Queensland. After a devastating cyclone the Cassowaries food source was demolished. People in this area fed them to keep them alive. Although their normal food sources have returned they still travel along this beach almost daily.
Aussie pubs are different to the American taverns and bars. A friend is the landlady of a small metropolitan pub here in Adelaide that is 170 years old, (The pub, not my friend). It is kids and dogs friendly, not to mention the occasional cockatoo. Beer, wine and spirits are served, as well as lunch and dinner meals. Even the Prime Minister of Australia recently dropped in for a beer. Without a press contingent. Australia is that kind of place, wouldn't live anywhere else.
Not sure the have Eastern Grey kangaroos in Western Australia? That pub was the wildlower tavern in John Forrest National park in the hill just east of Perth! Since demolished greedy developers. So my guess is it's probably a Euro (western wallaroo)
No worries man. I was back in WA in Jan and took my wife there to see the roos as it used to be my local pub. But in the 3 years since I've been out of WA they bulldozed it. It's a shame as they pub had character and it gave tourist a chance to interact with wildlife that otherwise they may only see in zoos or as road kill!@@Aaron_Hanson
@@steventhomas1633 fkn greedy developers 🤬 Why do they persist on destroying the character and charm of the country’s history? Replacing the historical buildings with shiny new shit that has no personality and the lifespan expectancy of 1/5th of the buildings they’re replacing? Makes me sad & pissed off. I’m seeing this at a lesser rate than others in my city of Ballarat. Why can’t we spend a fraction of the money to rehabilitate the old than it takes to replace them? Makes very little sense if any at all. Cheers Cob 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
That Cassowary must've been use to people... Gotta remember they are in tiny part of FNQ (which is pretty massive admittedly), so most of us will never see a wild one. But those girls handled it like pro's, stayed calm, didnt give the bird cause to be alarmed, and she was spot on about restricting the food... though the bird was pretty wily...
Yeah, that cassowary lives on that beach and is very used to people. There are signs everywhere how to act when it comes by and everyone respects it. The signs also says that it will raid the picnic tables. We usually take visitors there because it is an easy way for them to experience these beautiful birds.
@IWrocker, many years ago, when i was a young teen, my Aunt took a friend, my friend's mother, my mother and I to Warrnambool Victoria for a holiday staying in a caravan park. While there we went to Tower Hill (an inactive volcano) for a picnic lunch. There were wooden tables and benches to sit and eat. We placed our sandwichs and drinks in the middle of the table and started eating. While we were eating about a dozen or so Emus sauntered up to our table and surrounded us. My friends Mum was sitting next to me. She had a sandwich in her hand, cut diagonally from corner to corner, and one of the Emus snatched it from her hand (much like the cassowary in the video) and swallowed it. We put all remaining foor back in the basket and ran back to my aunts car (a Holden Kingswood de-commissioned police car) as fast as we could. Those Emus chased after us. When we were in the car, the emus surrounded the car, pecking/knocking on the windows with their beaks. My aunt inched the car forward til the emus standing in front moved away, then she floored the accelerator and drove away, and those Emus ran after us. My aunt accelerated and sped off, dust from the gravel drive visible through the back window. It was hilarious!!! A little side note. Went to Melbourne Zoo as a child with my class for a school excursion, and a Cassowary poked me in the face with it's beak. I guess it thought I was playing the staring game, which i wasnt, it was in the middle of the enclosure and it ran across to me and BONK!!!! it got me in the tender spot between the upper lip and the nose. 🤣😂
True event 1989. During basic training to become a soldier in the Australian army, in late winter. We we're marching the platoon to the gym. Out of nowhere comes an Emu. The young male bird headed straight at one of the recruits, a lad with snow white hair. The bird knocked him over and tried to mate with him. He got up off the ground while we distracted the bird. It ran off in typical Emu fashion. Zig zagging everywhere. The whole platoon cracked up instructors included.
We had one called "Bob" which Aussie soldiers know the meaning of. We used to hand feed him and he would walk along the line for the mess and try and take peoples kfs sets! He had a thing for "shiny" objects and when we would take a smoke break away from our weapons, he would wander up and start eating any loose drill rounds (empty cartridges painted silver used to practice loading magazines, stoppage drills etc). This was a.common L&D report (Loss and Damage) to the stores!
Isnt there a law against riding on the road when there is a cycle path? Id call the cops, if only for their own safety. And also because theyre in the bloody road.
Going by the animals found here, Australia was The Land That Time Forgot (1974 movie based on American author Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1918 novel of the same name) before the Poms invaded it! I have lived here for all my 54 years and I am still in awe of some of our wildlife...
Port Wakefield in South Australia is home to seagulls/silver gulls that will literally mug you for food (hot chips etc) if you walk out from a shop with it lol
there is one area in sydney, one of the islands i think that they have actually made off limits to anyone because the seagulls became so violent in stealing food.
In South Australia and lots of other places in Australia too - Manly Beach in Sydney for instance. Not quite the same as being dive-bombed by magpie, but you can still feel like you're being monstered ie pestered!
The bar hopping Kangaroo, did not appreciate the company inside that day, so he popped outside to have his beer at a garden table with his friend Eric the Emu! 😁👍
Omg that kid with the mullet lost his egg and bacon sandwich to the Emu. Admittedly the bird conducted a great assault on the sandwich, but I would have been pissed lol.
I.W. all of Oz appreciates you saying 'eem you", not "ee- moo" Also I love the map of the US with the remark about drunkenness. Ironically, the straightest line in the part of the country was the Mason Dixon Line which was drawn by two Englishmen who were notoriously fond of a drink.
Yep I've experienced at least 2 times a roo wondering into an outback pub, it's usually because it's trusting the bar personal to feed it or give it water ( rarely aggressive)
Here in Lisbon and also in Porto we have seagulls. Here we say: seagulls on land, a sign of a storm at sea. When it happens, don't even think about walking around with food in your hand. They really attack
What an amazing creature the cassowary is, and how wonderful to see it free in the wild and where it should be! 🇦🇺😍 As long as you are aware of their potential, and respect every interaction you have with them, you’re safe, just don’t be stupid, simple!
@@grantodaniel7053 I was referring to the discomfort of a mango seed passing through a digestive tract and out of one's anus. I did not specify that in my previous message. Izzat clear now?
I was in Sydney (out west) and while waiting for the "walk" sign at the crossing , saw what I thought was a man dragging a small fluffy dog. When he crossed I realised that he was walking his ferret. Never seen anything like that before or since .
@@infin8eeearlier, l just drove out the paddock to get my bottle fed lamb in for the night ...called, she came running and jumped up onto my lap for the drive back! Just another day in Straya...
@@infin8ee Back in the 80's we were driving towards Sydney on Canterbury road and a ferret ran out onto the road, I pulled of my flanno and told my mate to pull over and i chased the bloody thing and caught it, I put it in the glovebox and took it home. My mate made a really cool enclosure for it full of neat , joined PVC pipe pieces . He had it for years before it died... Cool pet...
Yep. They are cunning little buggas. Whip your food right out of your hand when it's almost in your mouth. Also seen one take off with my friends steak in the beer garden.
I've also seen that video before. You're right, those guys on the bikes were off duty cops out for a ride. And yes, the clown in the car caught a small list of charges for his efforts.
There is a small zoo near where I live in Australia, the best past of visiting is laughing at tourist screaming when the emus grab food out of their hands. So funny
lucky it wasn't the seagullsy, they are demons in that area. love what they have done to central station since i left but i do miss the hungry jacks inside were i would get dinner before the train to the blue mountains for my commute home.
If you come to visit Australia don’t just stay in the major cities. There is so much to see and do all through this beautiful country. Yes some of the ‘residents’ (our wildlife) can be a bit scary but mostly they are more afraid of you. Just keep a respectful distance and you should be fine. If you want to get up close to our wildlife go to one of our many great zoos.
First the emu headbutts mullet boy, then he steals his breaky!😂😅 "Flow and grace"? Two words that are probably the last two that I'd use to describe a couple of us Aussie's arguing!😂
At the zoo when 9 years old was at Cassowary habitat never having seen one before. Out of nowhere a Cassowary raced over to where I was standing behind a fence that would've been chest high on an adult. It seemed to leap and push forward and it's hard head got me on my forehead and it kept coming for me to peck me, it was terrifying. Their feet are nasty too, those people obviously don't realise how aggressive they are.
First clip is Etty Bay. That bird is dubbed Cassie the cassowary.( Unique I know) We used to live on the road leading to this beach about a ten minute walk to the beach. Anyway years ago a cyclone called yasi went through a town called innisfail. The town is interesting as it has some parallel to America somehow. These birds were located 15 mins from town in a little beach called Etty Bay. During the cyclone everything these birds lived on was crushed by the cyclone. There habitat was destroyed. So while it was cut off the few of us got privilege to feed these birds. They became desensitized from our contact and would sleep at our homes, mate, and eat. That bird was 25 years old when we were there. Your looking at a thirty year old
My daughter and I had a very similar experience with an emu. We were at this sanctuary and sat down to eat lunch and the emu head reaches in from behind us for our sandwich. My daughter screamed and ran away, she was probably 10 at the time. I quickly grabbed our food and moved to somewhere safer, lol
The idea is don't feed it, it goes away. I wouldn't sit with that raptor, I mean cassowary stalking around. I'm ok with the emu, a good natured, mullet rocking kid. ☮️
In the UK many years ago I had a similar experience with a peacock trying to steal my lunch. I had just opened up my coolbox/eski/chillybin, and after piling the food back in the box only fir the bird to get on the table, I used the lid as a gentle persuader to shoo it away.
Wait.. the kid at 3:53 his mullet didn't protect him? as a kid we drove down very steep hills on bicycles we put together outselves and relied on our mullets to protect us from any collision related injuries.
Sorry, but had to laugh at your reaction, I emigrated here in late teens and have come into contact with 80% of the weird animals most people think about when arriving here. We’ve eaten lunch seating on top of a park picnic table with our feet on the seats, in a regular favourite spot in New South Wales while travelling north to QLD with my wife and then two young children, because we had about 6 x 1.5M lg Goannas wandering around our feet under the table just the ones on the road and hanging from the tree in the picnic area. Our kids were instructed never to feed them for obvious reasons, but really loved the experience. Just like all the wild life that you come up against in this country, if you respect what they can do to YOU and act accordingly you will have great interaction during your life. NSW in Oz
I drove up from Melbourne to Forster, NSW in 1979 for the A-Class catamaran Australian championships and pulled in to the Great Lakes Sailing Club, just south of Forster. I rushed into the gents and did my business. I had a strange feeling that something was watching me, but couldn't see anything when I looked around. When I'd finished and started towards the doorway, I noticed a 1.5M long goanna on the top of the wall just above the exit door. It was one of those cinder block loos with a gap between the top of the wall and the roof. In Melbourne we might see a possum on top of the wall. A goanna that size was a bit of a shock. It just kept watching me with its beady eyes as I summoned up the courage to walk underneath it to get out.
Brother you need to get your rear end down under and do a meet up at some of the pubs in the capital cities. That cassowary has enough strength in its leg to delete a grown human easily. Turned out those cyclists were off duty cops. And he was charged. Dude talking about the squiggly lines doesn't realize the NSW/Victoria border is a bloody river too and a small portion of NSW/QLD
It may be better at places such as mission beach where these birds often roam around, to have the lunch tables inside a fenced enclosure with a pool entry type gate on them with a pull up, kid-safe handle.
I an Emu steal an apple from my hand when I was 4 or 5. I don't recall it, but it really scared me and amused the crap out of my family because apparently I cried my heart out and I'm the youngest in my family. It was pure comedy for the rest of my family. 🤣
The footage of the cassowary looks very much like the one that is commonly seen at a beautiful beach in Far North Queensland (judging by the background. It has been habituated by tourists and locals and will try to steal the milk out of your tea.
Yes, it did look like Etty Bay. I hate that tourists feeding the cassowary have turned him into a nuisance. I've had to hide behind the car from him. He gets nasty if you haven't got any food.
Walking along a foreshore with my mum & aunt, we watched as a pelican reached its head between 2 women & steal half a chicken. I tried really hard not to laugh but did not succeed. The family found the humour in it & one of the family went back across the road to the chicken place (chicken treat) to get another.
20+ years ago I was enjoying a nice lunch at the local pub on my break at work. While waiting for my steak sandwich I put $10 in the poker machines. Enjoying the wonderful air-conditioning. Suddenly a lady almost knocked my off my chair. Then a guy did the same thing. WTF was going on around here. I turned around and noticed the recently packed gaming lounge was now empty except for myself, and a 6 foot long goanna who had managed to just walk his ass in off the street like he owned the joint. I considered running like everyone else. But just then hit the jackpot so I wasn't going anywhere. Me and the goanna were here to stay.
Hey cobber! There are heat wave warnings, bush fires, floods and Storm warnings down here. I Must Be Christmas. Great work have a great Xmas and have a fucking good year. Cheers🎉😂😂😂😂❤❤
That cassowary is at Etty Bay in north Queensland. The cassowaries there became habituated to people after Cyclone Larry in 2006 stripped the rainforest bare in that area. Rangers brought fruit for the birds for nearly a year and the birds started to become used to people. Its illegal to feed them now and tourists really should try harder to not let the birds get their food.
I'm convinced these sheilas have no idea about Cassowaries and the size of the claw they have. I live in Queensland - but I live in the highest, coldest bit because I don't want to share space with dinosaurs. I've had encounters with emus in the bush but they are goofy af and if they charge you just punch them in the face. Works for sharks, crocs, drop bears and clowns speaking ^%$#^. Glad you find us amusing 😁
There is a very specific and important way to handle a goose, they are incredibly strong and with one flap of their wings can break your arm. Not ever seen one get walked, that's super weird.
Pulled in to the Roadhouse at Marla South Aus 159 km to Northern Territory border and there’s a goose keeping all the flying birds away and patrolling the caravan park area
A narrow road in Australia mean cyclists must stay in single file but I've seen them side by side escorted by police and not obeying the law and they were school children says a lot about the modern world
This is Etty Bay in Far Nth Queensland. Beautiful part of the world. This Cassowary and his family visit the beach goers on a regularly basis. Usually they walk up the beach and don't bother anyone we are encouraged not to feed them. They can be dangerous usually mating season and when they have chicks
When I was working in a remote area on a mining project a road kill roo had mostly dried out and someone stood it up and put a smoke in its mouth. The project engineer told all of us that this was grossly unacceptable and not to be repeated! Next day the roo had a hard hat
, sunglasses, a reflective vest and work gloves on and holding a men at work sign! No comment from management!
😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO now that's Aussie.
😂😂😂 that's the most Australian thing I've heard since I lived in The Territory
Has to be in WA?
😂😂😂 too funny but would have stunk to high heaven putting that on it 🤮
"Birds used to be dinosaurs."
Cassowaries: "What do you mean, used to be?"
The cassowary and emu encounters wouldn't have happened if idiots didn't persist in feeding the bloody things. Good to see the people tried to avoid the birds stealing their food. They're wild animals and should be naturally wary of human contact and try to avoid us. They should not be happy to join our picnics expecting to get food. The same problem occurs with very large monitor lizards and dingoes in some parts. It's not safe for humans, and it's not safe for the animals, especially when they get refused food and get vicious about it and attack a human, then have to be killed to avoid it happening again. Feeding wildlife is a stupid, dangerous, and very harmful thing to do, and it's almost always tourists that do it.
unfortunately they DO get accustomed to having people nearby, and will get curious to some extent.Its not always because people feed them, quite often it can be just that they get used to people being in their vicinity. Some birds can be naturally curious when they smell or see food. Emus and cassowaries are big and formidable birds, and have been known to "stand their ground", so it wouldnt be that unusual for them to take advantage of non-threatening looking people and grab anything they think they can eat. Even indigenous Australians before colonisation would have encountered them around where they eat. But yes, some people do like to feed wild animals.
@stephenwhitton9681 agreed, but it's a bit of a two way street, a catch 22 situation. they are big birds and curious, and sometimes it can start because people have food, and if they are hungry enough and food is scarce where they are (all birds are scavengers at times), they will try and grab our food (i have seen samll birds swoop down from above and swipe food from plates), and we are taught that we need to be careful around them, because they have sharp beaks, and talons, and quite often if we are confronted by them we throw food to get them away from us so that we can flee, thus encouraging the birds to try the same thing on the next group of people they encounter. But yes, there are times when people just feed them.
@@namewithheldbygoogleforsec673 Seagulls are a bloody menace. Always trying to steal peoples potato chips at the beach. I was sitting outside at a cafe in my home town once and working on my laptop for a job application, one just swooped down and grabbed the cookie I got with my coffee off the saucer in mid-dive. Scared the hell out of me. We had a good laugh about it though.
Wake up to yourself you woke dickhead.
I've had black swans and emus stealing food from us but there's no way I'd want a cassowary near me.
Those beaks look awful sharp to me, whats their bite strength? Id imagine they can do serious damage.
@@TheSuperappelflap it's the toenails that do the real damage. They can kill a person by kicking out with the sharp centre toenail. The one confirmed kill I know of wasn't even in Australia. It was an American keeping one in his house as a pet. They are used to wandering over big area foraging for food.
The Cassowary here is at a beach in north Queensland. After a devastating cyclone the Cassowaries food source was demolished. People in this area fed them to keep them alive. Although their normal food sources have returned they still travel along this beach almost daily.
US - Bar hopping, Australia - Pub crawl.
australian bar hopping: 13:07
Thank you so much for being the only American I've seen pronounce the word EMU correctly
I noticed that 🇦🇺🇺🇸⚡
I’m pretty impressed by how calm the adults and kids were in dealing with the cassowary. You don’t want to provoke a hungry cassowary.
Aussie pubs are different to the American taverns and bars. A friend is the landlady of a small metropolitan pub here in Adelaide that is 170 years old, (The pub, not my friend). It is kids and dogs friendly, not to mention the occasional cockatoo. Beer, wine and spirits are served, as well as lunch and dinner meals. Even the Prime Minister of Australia recently dropped in for a beer. Without a press contingent. Australia is that kind of place, wouldn't live anywhere else.
That’s actually really cool 🎉
Really cool, but I don’t like kid friendly pubs.
Just saying 😎
The Cranker?
@@boganshazz821 the wheaty would be my guess but they don’t do meals.
@RealHooksy I thought wheatsheaf but I dont think it's as old as the Crown
Smiths chips on a sandwich, now THAT is true blue Australian snack food right there.
Salt and vinegar sandwiches and Doritos on buns.
@@jessicamann2401 Salt and vinegar are the only chips strong enough to get through the taste of the butter and the fresh yeasty bread flavour.
@@epimetheaus1214 yes indeed
Bbq chips crushed up good with plenty of butter on white bread.
Yummmmmy.
Smiths chicken goes hard as well 🤙🇭🇲
The guy won a fight against a croc, with several upper cuts and the croc hasn't been able to show his face to his peers again from embarrassment. Lmao
Croc, last seen going into retirement‼
The Roo in the pub was a young male Eastern Grey…
Whilst he was not exactly a joey, he still has a good size to grow yet.
Not sure the have Eastern Grey kangaroos in Western Australia? That pub was the wildlower tavern in John Forrest National park in the hill just east of Perth! Since demolished greedy developers. So my guess is it's probably a Euro (western wallaroo)
@@steventhomas1633 you have made a very good point sir 😂
I wasn’t aware of the pub’s location.
I stand corrected 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
No worries man. I was back in WA in Jan and took my wife there to see the roos as it used to be my local pub. But in the 3 years since I've been out of WA they bulldozed it. It's a shame as they pub had character and it gave tourist a chance to interact with wildlife that otherwise they may only see in zoos or as road kill!@@Aaron_Hanson
@@steventhomas1633 fkn greedy developers 🤬 Why do they persist on destroying the character and charm of the country’s history?
Replacing the historical buildings with shiny new shit that has no personality and the lifespan expectancy of 1/5th of the buildings they’re replacing?
Makes me sad & pissed off.
I’m seeing this at a lesser rate than others in my city of Ballarat. Why can’t we spend a fraction of the money to rehabilitate the old than it takes to replace them?
Makes very little sense if any at all.
Cheers Cob 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺
Starting out with a giant murder turkey? We’re in for a treat
That Cassowary must've been use to people... Gotta remember they are in tiny part of FNQ (which is pretty massive admittedly), so most of us will never see a wild one. But those girls handled it like pro's, stayed calm, didnt give the bird cause to be alarmed, and she was spot on about restricting the food... though the bird was pretty wily...
Yeah, that cassowary lives on that beach and is very used to people. There are signs everywhere how to act when it comes by and everyone respects it. The signs also says that it will raid the picnic tables. We usually take visitors there because it is an easy way for them to experience these beautiful birds.
12:15 the guy picked the goose a garlic weed flower' they love it!
@IWrocker, many years ago, when i was a young teen, my Aunt took a friend, my friend's mother, my mother and I to Warrnambool Victoria for a holiday staying in a caravan park. While there we went to Tower Hill (an inactive volcano) for a picnic lunch. There were wooden tables and benches to sit and eat. We placed our sandwichs and drinks in the middle of the table and started eating. While we were eating about a dozen or so Emus sauntered up to our table and surrounded us.
My friends Mum was sitting next to me. She had a sandwich in her hand, cut diagonally from corner to corner, and one of the Emus snatched it from her hand (much like the cassowary in the video) and swallowed it. We put all remaining foor back in the basket and ran back to my aunts car (a Holden Kingswood de-commissioned police car) as fast as we could. Those Emus chased after us. When we were in the car, the emus surrounded the car, pecking/knocking on the windows with their beaks. My aunt inched the car forward til the emus standing in front moved away, then she floored the accelerator and drove away, and those Emus ran after us. My aunt accelerated and sped off, dust from the gravel drive visible through the back window. It was hilarious!!!
A little side note. Went to Melbourne Zoo as a child with my class for a school excursion, and a Cassowary poked me in the face with it's beak. I guess it thought I was playing the staring game, which i wasnt, it was in the middle of the enclosure and it ran across to me and BONK!!!! it got me in the tender spot between the upper lip and the nose.
🤣😂
True event 1989. During basic training to become a soldier in the Australian army, in late winter. We we're marching the platoon to the gym. Out of nowhere comes an Emu. The young male bird headed straight at one of the recruits, a lad with snow white hair.
The bird knocked him over and tried to mate with him. He got up off the ground while we distracted the bird. It ran off in typical Emu fashion. Zig zagging everywhere. The whole platoon cracked up instructors included.
We had one called "Bob" which Aussie soldiers know the meaning of. We used to hand feed him and he would walk along the line for the mess and try and take peoples kfs sets! He had a thing for "shiny" objects and when we would take a smoke break away from our weapons, he would wander up and start eating any loose drill rounds (empty cartridges painted silver used to practice loading magazines, stoppage drills etc). This was a.common L&D report (Loss and Damage) to the stores!
i was there
club med kapooka
@@cjryan88 Did it in winter..The freezing cold dam crossing was not mentioned in the tour brochure.
Bar hopping in Oz is called a ....... pub crawl. 😊😊
Road toads are the worst! Our council spent millions $ building them a cycle path & they still ride on the road 😡
Isnt there a law against riding on the road when there is a cycle path? Id call the cops, if only for their own safety. And also because theyre in the bloody road.
Yeah that was a roo in the pub not a wallaby, just not fully grown.
Yeah, that's what I thought. It's a one or two yr old Kangaroo, not a wallaby it's too big to be a wallaby.
We walked our duck....she always came on day trips and holidays with us.❤
Now you know why its the BEST place in the world to live.
Going by the animals found here, Australia was The Land That Time Forgot (1974 movie based on American author Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1918 novel of the same name) before the Poms invaded it! I have lived here for all my 54 years and I am still in awe of some of our wildlife...
6:18, What that car driver didn’t know about those cyclists is that they were both ACT Police officers and he DID get a talking to.
When a bike path is provided you are required to use it. They should know better but their egos wouldn't let it go.
Scumbag police thinking they should be treated better than everyone else
Port Wakefield in South Australia is home to seagulls/silver gulls that will literally mug you for food (hot chips etc) if you walk out from a shop with it lol
there is one area in sydney, one of the islands i think that they have actually made off limits to anyone because the seagulls became so violent in stealing food.
Victor Harbor too...and there are signs everywhere Not to feed them.....but dipshits still do 😖
In South Australia and lots of other places in Australia too - Manly Beach in Sydney for instance. Not quite the same as being dive-bombed by magpie, but you can still feel like you're being monstered ie pestered!
The bar hopping Kangaroo, did not appreciate the company inside that day, so he popped outside to have his beer at a garden table with his friend Eric the Emu! 😁👍
Waal the wombat was in getting a round!
@@infin8ee Yes! 😄
@@infin8ee And they even met Dirk the Dingo!
0:22 That's dangerous. Like bears they see humans as a food source. They can also split you open like an apple with one kick.
Yes, please don't feed the wildlife! 🤨
Haha Cassowaries don't eat humans you gronk 😂
First off mate no they most definitely do not and secondly the only bear that actually sees humans as a food source is the polar bear.
@@saltedpork476 'Food source' meaning camping food, picnicking food, food on the table and in your Esky.
Bar hopping in Australia is called a Pub Crawl
Geese know not to mess with aussies, they know their place on the food chain !
Omg that kid with the mullet lost his egg and bacon sandwich to the Emu. Admittedly the bird conducted a great assault on the sandwich, but I would have been pissed lol.
I.W. all of Oz appreciates you saying 'eem you", not "ee- moo"
Also I love the map of the US with the remark about drunkenness. Ironically, the straightest line in the part of the country was the Mason Dixon Line which was drawn by two Englishmen who were notoriously fond of a drink.
Yep I've experienced at least 2 times a roo wondering into an outback pub, it's usually because it's trusting the bar personal to feed it or give it water ( rarely aggressive)
Here in Lisbon and also in Porto we have seagulls. Here we say: seagulls on land, a sign of a storm at sea. When it happens, don't even think about walking around with food in your hand. They really attack
A mate once picked up a Casawary chick in that moment we learnt Harry was faster than Bolt and part monkey !
What an amazing creature the cassowary is, and how wonderful to see it free in the wild and where it should be! 🇦🇺😍 As long as you are aware of their potential, and respect every interaction you have with them, you’re safe, just don’t be stupid, simple!
The cassowary is so bad ass that it will eat a whole mango and the stone will pass through them intact
What did the donkey do to make him bad?
WTF?
@@lesflynn4455Find "ass" in a dictionary.
@@grantodaniel7053 I was referring to the discomfort of a mango seed passing through a digestive tract and out of one's anus. I did not specify that in my previous message. Izzat clear now?
I can safely say that I’ve never seen anyone walking a goose either. It’s about as common in Australia as it is in the U.S.!!!
I was in Sydney (out west) and while waiting for the "walk" sign at the crossing , saw what I thought was a man dragging a small fluffy dog. When he crossed I realised that he was walking his ferret. Never seen anything like that before or since .
@@infin8ee lol now thats funny!!
@@infin8eeearlier, l just drove out the paddock to get my bottle fed lamb in for the night ...called, she came running and jumped up onto my lap for the drive back! Just another day in Straya...
@@infin8ee Back in the 80's we were driving towards Sydney on Canterbury road and a ferret ran out onto the road, I pulled of my flanno and told my mate to pull over and i chased the bloody thing and caught it, I put it in the glovebox and took it home. My mate made a really cool enclosure for it full of neat , joined PVC pipe pieces . He had it for years before it died... Cool pet...
@@MickH60 I've been told they make good pets but I'll stick to my working dogs!
I’ve had a kookaburra steal my lunch at a cafe. Flew down and grabbed it just as I was about to put it in my mouth.
I think I’ve been to the same place, it was/is a known spot
Yep. They are cunning little buggas. Whip your food right out of your hand when it's almost in your mouth. Also seen one take off with my friends steak in the beer garden.
Had a similar experience at a picnic ground in the Royal National Park, near Sydney
The talons on a cassowary can disembowel a human!
Those two men riding their bikes on the road were actually off-duty cops.👮♂️
IIRC old mate copped charges for driving on the bike path.
I've also seen that video before. You're right, those guys on the bikes were off duty cops out for a ride. And yes, the clown in the car caught a small list of charges for his efforts.
@@lesflynn4455 But was he wrong?
Seems about right. No consideration for anyone else thinking their badge makes them better than everyone else
It's after the chip sanga 🤣😂
Ian, I think the best part of this video is your reaction. Your amusement is infectious and gets me laughing too😂
There is a small zoo near where I live in Australia, the best past of visiting is laughing at tourist screaming when the emus grab food out of their hands. So funny
Happened to me in Sydney - Central station outdoor cafe, the cockatoo snatched the fish from my hand and another one snatched my chips 🥰
lucky it wasn't the seagullsy, they are demons in that area. love what they have done to central station since i left but i do miss the hungry jacks inside were i would get dinner before the train to the blue mountains for my commute home.
Geese make really good watchdogs 😁😁😁
The bike paths have less potholes 😊
If you come to visit Australia don’t just stay in the major cities. There is so much to see and do all through this beautiful country. Yes some of the ‘residents’ (our wildlife) can be a bit scary but mostly they are more afraid of you. Just keep a respectful distance and you should be fine. If you want to get up close to our wildlife go to one of our many great zoos.
Yeah. If you see a brownish snake with a small head, don't try to pick it up for a selfie.
@@roadie3124 Unless you’re supervised on a zoo meet and greet, don’t go picking up any of our wildlife for a selfie.
First the emu headbutts mullet boy, then he steals his breaky!😂😅
"Flow and grace"? Two words that are probably the last two that I'd use to describe a couple of us Aussie's arguing!😂
It’s grey so I would say it’s a young kangaroo, an Eastern Grey.
Ian, did you hear about the sinkhole that opened up under a soccer field?
The WALABY was going outback to the BEER GARDEN for a SMOKE BREAK 😂🤣😂🤣
The most dangerous bird in Australia is the kookaburra if you have just had a shag and are relaxing afterwards 😱
This is our Public Displays of Affection 😂😂
At the zoo when 9 years old was at Cassowary habitat never having seen one before. Out of nowhere a Cassowary raced over to where I was standing behind a fence that would've been chest high on an adult. It seemed to leap and push forward and it's hard head got me on my forehead and it kept coming for me to peck me, it was terrifying. Their feet are nasty too, those people obviously don't realise how aggressive they are.
The image at 6:02 is so familiar. I'm pretty sure that is Swamp Road, with Saddleback Mountain in the background (near Dunmore).
The seagulls at Seaworld are a nightmare. They take food outa your hand. The Ibis at Dreamworld are the same
I heard that someone has come up with a recipe for bin chickens. Doesn't appeal to me, somehow.
First clip is Etty Bay. That bird is dubbed Cassie the cassowary.( Unique I know) We used to live on the road leading to this beach about a ten minute walk to the beach.
Anyway years ago a cyclone called yasi went through a town called innisfail. The town is interesting as it has some parallel to America somehow. These birds were located 15 mins from town in a little beach called Etty Bay. During the cyclone everything these birds lived on was crushed by the cyclone. There habitat was destroyed. So while it was cut off the few of us got privilege to feed these birds. They became desensitized from our contact and would sleep at our homes, mate, and eat. That bird was 25 years old when we were there. Your looking at a thirty year old
My daughter and I had a very similar experience with an emu. We were at this sanctuary and sat down to eat lunch and the emu head reaches in from behind us for our sandwich. My daughter screamed and ran away, she was probably 10 at the time. I quickly grabbed our food and moved to somewhere safer, lol
That would have been a bucks group at the pub
The idea is don't feed it, it goes away. I wouldn't sit with that raptor, I mean cassowary stalking around. I'm ok with the emu, a good natured, mullet rocking kid. ☮️
Thats why the Emu's won the Emu war, Big arse birds thst take no sh!t.
In the UK many years ago I had a similar experience with a peacock trying to steal my lunch. I had just opened up my coolbox/eski/chillybin, and after piling the food back in the box only fir the bird to get on the table, I used the lid as a gentle persuader to shoo it away.
Wait.. the kid at 3:53 his mullet didn't protect him? as a kid we drove down very steep hills on bicycles we put together outselves and relied on our mullets to protect us from any collision related injuries.
Sorry, but had to laugh at your reaction, I emigrated here in late teens and have come into contact with 80% of the weird animals most people think about when arriving here. We’ve eaten lunch seating on top of a park picnic table with our feet on the seats, in a regular favourite spot in New South Wales while travelling north to QLD with my wife and then two young children, because we had about 6 x 1.5M lg Goannas wandering around our feet under the table just the ones on the road and hanging from the tree in the picnic area. Our kids were instructed never to feed them for obvious reasons, but really loved the experience. Just like all the wild life that you come up against in this country, if you respect what they can do to YOU and act accordingly you will have great interaction during your life. NSW in Oz
I drove up from Melbourne to Forster, NSW in 1979 for the A-Class catamaran Australian championships and pulled in to the Great Lakes Sailing Club, just south of Forster. I rushed into the gents and did my business. I had a strange feeling that something was watching me, but couldn't see anything when I looked around. When I'd finished and started towards the doorway, I noticed a 1.5M long goanna on the top of the wall just above the exit door. It was one of those cinder block loos with a gap between the top of the wall and the roof. In Melbourne we might see a possum on top of the wall. A goanna that size was a bit of a shock. It just kept watching me with its beady eyes as I summoned up the courage to walk underneath it to get out.
Do these two know how dangerous this bird can be?😳
You can have a goose as a pet. Farmers used them as guard animals in the past. Theyre loud, quite territorial and aggressive towards strangers.
can't beat the good ol chip sanga, with the emu the kids even got the mullet going, lost the bacon and egg roll.
Brother you need to get your rear end down under and do a meet up at some of the pubs in the capital cities.
That cassowary has enough strength in its leg to delete a grown human easily.
Turned out those cyclists were off duty cops. And he was charged.
Dude talking about the squiggly lines doesn't realize the NSW/Victoria border is a bloody river too and a small portion of NSW/QLD
Can confirm when I tell someone "I just wanna have a chat" im swinging at him 😂
Its true, taking the piss is high art in Australia.😂❤❤❤
It may be better at places such as mission beach where these birds often roam around, to have the lunch tables inside a fenced enclosure with a pool entry type gate on them with a pull up, kid-safe handle.
Great video mate 🎉🎉🎉
In Western Australia we don't have cassowaries, but we do have emus and ibis that will steal food.
The people with the hospital gowns and wings would be raising money for the RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service . Doctors with Wings !! 😊
Love the new setup in the man cave Ian looking good 😁
4:34 well done! First American to pronounce "emu" right!
I could just imagine, Ian, Danielle and the kids coming out and seeing an emu do that to one of them
Good one! Love from Brisbane.
I an Emu steal an apple from my hand when I was 4 or 5. I don't recall it, but it really scared me and amused the crap out of my family because apparently I cried my heart out and I'm the youngest in my family. It was pure comedy for the rest of my family. 🤣
In the 2nd video it looks like the trees are giant emu legs
The footage of the cassowary looks very much like the one that is commonly seen at a beautiful beach in Far North Queensland (judging by the background. It has been habituated by tourists and locals and will try to steal the milk out of your tea.
Yes, it did look like Etty Bay. I hate that tourists feeding the cassowary have turned him into a nuisance. I've had to hide behind the car from him. He gets nasty if you haven't got any food.
Unfortunately, our Aussie pubs are being cancelled and destroyed by the politically correct and woke movement . Very sad
Bollocks.
Walking along a foreshore with my mum & aunt, we watched as a pelican reached its head between 2 women & steal half a chicken. I tried really hard not to laugh but did not succeed. The family found the humour in it & one of the family went back across the road to the chicken place (chicken treat) to get another.
Cassowaries are generally ok as long as they don't have chicks. Just don't act aggressive or startle them. It's not like they're bears or anything.
The classic vegemite and BBQ chip sambo. I still occasionally have them to this day.
@@jessbellis9510sambo? You must be from victoristan
most attacks have been because of food...
that rider sounded like an off duty cop
100%🇦🇺🇺🇸⚡
20+ years ago I was enjoying a nice lunch at the local pub on my break at work. While waiting for my steak sandwich I put $10 in the poker machines. Enjoying the wonderful air-conditioning. Suddenly a lady almost knocked my off my chair. Then a guy did the same thing. WTF was going on around here. I turned around and noticed the recently packed gaming lounge was now empty except for myself, and a 6 foot long goanna who had managed to just walk his ass in off the street like he owned the joint. I considered running like everyone else. But just then hit the jackpot so I wasn't going anywhere. Me and the goanna were here to stay.
Hey cobber! There are heat wave warnings, bush fires, floods and Storm warnings down here. I Must Be Christmas. Great work have a great Xmas and have a fucking good year. Cheers🎉😂😂😂😂❤❤
The goose is walking the man!
That cassowary is at Etty Bay in north Queensland. The cassowaries there became habituated to people after Cyclone Larry in 2006 stripped the rainforest bare in that area. Rangers brought fruit for the birds for nearly a year and the birds started to become used to people. Its illegal to feed them now and tourists really should try harder to not let the birds get their food.
I'm convinced these sheilas have no idea about Cassowaries and the size of the claw they have. I live in Queensland - but I live in the highest, coldest bit because I don't want to share space with dinosaurs. I've had encounters with emus in the bush but they are goofy af and if they charge you just punch them in the face. Works for sharks, crocs, drop bears and clowns speaking ^%$#^. Glad you find us amusing 😁
You just cracked me up with the “these sheilas” bit! Haven’t heard anyone refer to women like that for years!
There is a very specific and important way to handle a goose, they are incredibly strong and with one flap of their wings can break your arm. Not ever seen one get walked, that's super weird.
Good to see you back been awhile mate
If there was any any Australian creature that I was most scared of, it would be the cassowaries they are savage and aggressive !!
Pulled in to the Roadhouse at Marla South Aus 159 km to Northern Territory border and there’s a goose keeping all the flying birds away and patrolling the caravan park area
A narrow road in Australia mean cyclists must stay in single file but I've seen them side by side escorted by police and not obeying the law and they were school children says a lot about the modern world
Yeah mate, we are all heathens over here, & proud of it. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
Oi, oi, oi 👍
the one with the cyclists was a bit of a viral one locally a few years ago. that stretch of road is actually only 11 minutes from my house LOL
This is Etty Bay in Far Nth Queensland. Beautiful part of the world. This Cassowary and his family visit the beach goers on a regularly basis. Usually they walk up the beach and don't bother anyone we are encouraged not to feed them. They can be dangerous usually mating season and when they have chicks
Yep we say it like its
0:20 this is lunch in Australia. - I'm sure she didn't like being referred to as a cassowary's lunch :)
Those cassowaries will mess you up. They have no joke