The images of Bertha and her struggle to protect the next generation are astonishing. Naturally ferocious and enchanting. Thanks for sharing this story!
Aren't they just!. There were a few species of dinosaur that used a crest on their heads to produce a bellowing sound. The most well known of them is the Parasaurolophus. I find this totally fascinating that evolution has kept this feature in this way. These beautiful flightless birds really do look prehistoric, like they wouldn't look at all out of place roaming among dinosaurs. Just goes to show there is so much more to birds than just being able to fly. The cassowary makes up for not being able to fly in so many other ways. Birtha's determination to survive and procreate against the odds is just amazing, nature is so wonderful. It's such a shame mankind has become so detached from nature and the natural world that exists all around us :(
@@michaelcalland801 "Bertha ? The males do all the work protecting the nest & raising the chicks .. Bertha just lays her eggs & sleeps around" She belongs to the streets. :,D And she also occasionally destroys the eggs of other Berthas.
@@MegaLivingItNo such thing as a nice zoo - it’s the habitat you have to preserve, if the habitat is not destroyed then the animals know how to look after themselves.
Never thought I’d stop to watch this video, but sure glad I did! Never too late to learn about a new natural wonder. I’m at the age where even re-learning is fun. Thank you
I was once walking through a wooded area in north east Australia by myself. I was walking towards a beach and the sea. My companions were behind me somewhere, so I turned to look for them. It was then I saw it. In the trees about 10 metres away. It was big. It is the closest I'll ever get to encountering a therapod dinosaur. The hairs on my neck stood on end. I'll never forget it.
Lucky YOU. At least you got to see a real live one. Not many people can say they saw a real Cassowary. Australia is the only place to see one. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I would go to Australia just to behold the magnificence of a Cassowary. 😍😍😍😍
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But the Casso's have big eyes. Maybe it is wrong to depict dinosaurs with small eyes. Once dead, the eyes are gone quickly (mostly water) so their thick skin covers them. Eyes can not be found in fossils. So maybe the ancient dinosaurs had big eyes? And eye lashes (12:59).
I saw a cassowary at the zoo and the big bird reminded of dinosaurs. The bird was huge and looked grumpy. I hope this species never go extinct like the moas, wish moas are still around.
Just like an Emu . The male sits on the large green eggs for 60 days . He sits there for the entirety without food or water . Whilst she has done her part .
I'm Native and appreciate all animals, I'm truly fond of cassowaries. As much as I'm fond of them, they scare the crap outta me! Lol! Great documentary, wado, which is how we Cherokees say thank you.
Only the female can lay eggs. She MUST keep on breeding to insure the survival of this species. The father raises them, but it's the mother that wears herself out laying eggs. They might need human intervention to insure the survival of this species cause there are too many predators in the forests to deal with. 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😢😢😢
Excellent doco, thank you so much, you just don't know how complex the animal kingdom is and how species are threatened by man and feral animals, so sad.
I came face to face with one in North Australia! and i froze!! I was doing a rope walk which was one of a backpackers activities! warning was dont stray to the other side of the rope. It was about a 1 hour walk. I already seen one before when travelling on a coach a few days before this encounter. it was a mother crossing the highway with her chick according the bus driver. Back to my encounter. as i was walking i glimpsed the creature in the distance, stood still for what felt like an eternity, 10 mins possibly. when i seen it walking away from me ( it was about 3 metres away) i took a photo and continued my walk!! relieved!! this was in 1992.
Well, if the croc is foolish enough to mess with them he will be missing and eye or both. These birds are smart so the croc does not have to worry about a permanent injury.
The Cassowary is a modern-day dinosaur, and there is no argument anyone can make to unconvince me. I don't think Jurassic Park got anything correct with regard to actual science. The only item that holds a kernel of truth is that "life finds a way."
Depending on how they're raised they can be pretty cool. Although Kevin the Rhea constantly attacking Ben on Urban Rescue Ranch is hilarious. Mainly because he's big but not big & he's the only Rhea there that does it. But chickens on the other hand. While some can be very very sweet are still terrifying. I watched the secret life of chickens once while sick at 3am. I learned just how truly vicious they can be. Seeing that one hen grab the mouse & take off running so the others immediately chasing her couldn't get it. Then I saw her scarf it down whole. I've been low key terrified of chickens ever since. I still kind of want backyard chickens though. If I had a back yard.
You gotta experience a bossy rooster, it'll peck your shin to get you to throw feed. Try shake it off, challenge accepted - bird fight! - lot of Sunday roasts started with a difference of opinion.
I have a 15 lb pet rooster; I realize they can be dangerous as well if not properly trained, I can't imagine how much dangerous he could be 10 times his size with an axe on his head.
They are called "wattles" they have a duel function. 1.They are used for display in courtship 2. They assist with cooling the blood in the hot tropical summers
@PawesomeCatVideo aha! I've always wondered. Thank you. Goats sometimes have them too, don't know if they're the same. They just look vulnerable to damage dangling around there and kinda gross.
Only 1% of birds practice sole parent nurture, and Australia has two of 'em that I know of: Cassowary, and Emu. Better not be something in the Aussie air.
Bertha and Crinklecut. Where are their friends, Barbie and Ken? How does our hostess know that Crinklecut IS the father of her developing eggs? But poor old Buster.
38:17 that is ridiculous. Why would the camera crew even allow these domestic dogs free access to the cassowary habitat and record it??? The dogs killed two of the cassowary chicks. They know the owners, why arent they being prosecuted?
It is complicated and to be honest I am not sure what EXACTLY happened here. These dogs are PRESUMABLY trained to target only Feral pigs. Feral pigs are a major threat to the ecosystem. You have to have a special licence to operate feral pig culling operations. It could be that the chicks were killed by accident, eg (trampling) or they took fright, became lost and perished. The documentary maker is being disingenuous here
they are biggest ones alive now there was one during the pleistocene era that lived in South America I don't remember the name but it was like 10 or 15 ft tall
I think a better title for the video would be, The Killer Cassowaries of Terra: The World’s (what the heck, throw in an apostrophe, why not) most Dangerous bird on Earth to walk the Planet anywhere on Gaia.
Cardinal bird dads feed the young. The female just hatches them and tends to them in the nest then the male takes over. Cardinal males will adopt orphaned birds of other species.
✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨ Mother Universe Thank You for sending Bertha family to Australian Zoo. Needless to mention they deserve a very safe place to live in forever en ever. Thank You!!!!!🐦 ✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨
Rather click-baity... A bit odd for a channel with the word "predator" in its name to feature a vegetarian (mostly fruit-eating) bird that mostly stays away from humans and only attacks (with potentially deadly force - given its size) in self-defense...
@santyclause8034 Fair enough. But it's still odd for a "peak predator" YT channel to cover them in a video. I'm pretty sure the number of recorded human fatalities caused by cassowaries is a LOT lower than those caused by, say, hippos - who are at least as territorial and aggressive both in and out of water. But no one would think of a hippo as a "predator".
yeah imagine if you make a hybrid clone of cassowary and monitor lizard = corythosaurus how about emu and sailfin lizard = spinosaurus! terror bird and tokei lizard = tyrannasaurus
They look like the dinosaurs with the horn on there head I think rhinos look like a modern version of tricerotops and crocodiles are dinosaurs they were around in dinosaur times 🇬🇧🇬🇧
The images of Bertha and her struggle to protect the next generation are astonishing. Naturally ferocious and enchanting. Thanks for sharing this story!
Humans need to help the Berthas (so beautiful )to survive even if it means living in a nice zoo.
Bertha ? The males do all the work protecting the nest & raising the chicks ..
Bertha just lays her eggs & sleeps around
Aren't they just!. There were a few species of dinosaur that used a crest on their heads to produce a bellowing sound. The most well known of them is the Parasaurolophus. I find this totally fascinating that evolution has kept this feature in this way. These beautiful flightless birds really do look prehistoric, like they wouldn't look at all out of place roaming among dinosaurs.
Just goes to show there is so much more to birds than just being able to fly. The cassowary makes up for not being able to fly in so many other ways.
Birtha's determination to survive and procreate against the odds is just amazing, nature is so wonderful. It's such a shame mankind has become so detached from nature and the natural world that exists all around us :(
@@michaelcalland801 "Bertha ? The males do all the work protecting the nest & raising the chicks ..
Bertha just lays her eggs & sleeps around"
She belongs to the streets. :,D
And she also occasionally destroys the eggs of other Berthas.
@@MegaLivingItNo such thing as a nice zoo - it’s the habitat you have to preserve, if the habitat is not destroyed then the animals know how to look after themselves.
Never thought I’d stop to watch this video, but sure glad I did! Never too late to learn about a new natural wonder. I’m at the age where even re-learning is fun. Thank you
I was once walking through a wooded area in north east Australia by myself. I was walking towards a beach and the sea. My companions were behind me somewhere, so I turned to look for them. It was then I saw it. In the trees about 10 metres away. It was big. It is the closest I'll ever get to encountering a therapod dinosaur. The hairs on my neck stood on end. I'll never forget it.
Lucky YOU. At least you got to see a real live one. Not many people can say they saw a real Cassowary. Australia is the only place to see one. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I would go to Australia just to behold the magnificence of a Cassowary. 😍😍😍😍
Magnificent documentary!
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@ydoicare2000
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So stoked i was able to see one in the wild (from a safe distance) a few years ago. Amazing
Crinklecut and Bertha’s unstable relationship is so relatable 😂
😂
Well done documentary! Was educational and enlightening!
Cassowaries the most dangerous bird to walk the planet?
They've obviously not met my ex-wife.
Aires too.
Fabulous videography and a story as Great as the creature it was about! Thanks for enlightening everyone who watches it!
Amazing documentary. Bertha is a true legend. I'm so glad i watched to learn about this species of birds.
Up close you can truly see their ancestry, quite spectacular and unnerving at the same time, a true dinosaur...
But the Casso's have big eyes. Maybe it is wrong to depict dinosaurs with small eyes.
Once dead, the eyes are gone quickly (mostly water) so their thick skin covers them. Eyes can not be found in fossils. So maybe the ancient dinosaurs had big eyes? And eye lashes (12:59).
VERY well done documentary. Really enjoyed watching/listening to it!!!
What a beautiful story about life and survival efforts.
I saw a cassowary at the zoo and the big bird reminded of dinosaurs. The bird was huge and looked grumpy. I hope this species never go extinct like the moas, wish moas are still around.
An absolutely stupendous work of photography. Thank you!,,
Amazing. And thanks to the dedicated team for going to all the trouble to produce this video.
A 6 foot tall Dino Bird. Must be a sight to behold.
they are really beautiful
Flawless documentary
Great camera work
"while Bertha has been off chasing younger MEN....."🤣
what an amazing story thank you so much for educating us
Thank you 😊
Just like an Emu . The male sits on the large green eggs for 60 days . He sits there for the entirety without food or water . Whilst she has done her part .
I'm Native and appreciate all animals, I'm truly fond of cassowaries.
As much as I'm fond of them, they scare the crap outta me! Lol!
Great documentary, wado, which is how we Cherokees say thank you.
Big Bertha>Amazon queen of her cassowarie family. Very educational. They are magnificent dinasaur birds!
That father should get bird support from her and how much they are like humans just dumping off their off spring and finding a new mate
They are many loyal & sincere animals even though they are still “ animals” , hope some humans feel ashamed about themselves
Crinklecut: his is how modern women wants men to be. Let their husband take care of the baby's and go out to mate with other males.
Only the female can lay eggs. She MUST keep on breeding to insure the survival of this species. The father raises them, but it's the mother that wears herself out laying eggs. They might need human intervention to insure the survival of this species cause there are too many predators in the forests to deal with. 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😢😢😢
Excellent doco, thank you so much, you just don't know how complex the animal kingdom is and how species are threatened by man and feral animals, so sad.
Many thanks to the brave photographer. If any bird is a dinosaur it is this one!
I came face to face with one in North Australia! and i froze!!
I was doing a rope walk which was one of a backpackers activities! warning was dont stray to the other side of the rope. It was about a 1 hour walk. I already seen one before when travelling on a coach a few days before this encounter. it was a mother crossing the highway with her chick according the bus driver. Back to my encounter. as i was walking i glimpsed the creature in the distance, stood still for what felt like an eternity, 10 mins possibly. when i seen it walking away from me ( it was about 3 metres away) i took a photo and continued my walk!! relieved!!
this was in 1992.
So the world's most dangerous bird is still just a bird to a crocodile
Well, if the croc is foolish enough to mess with them he will be missing and eye or both. These birds are smart so the croc does not have to worry about a permanent injury.
“Winnah winnah chicken dinnah” says the salty 🐊
I would like to see this giant bird closely 😮❤
The narrator make this video interesting and entertaining.
I have heard. But thank you so much for reminding me about thiis magnificent Bird.
Thank you for the video!
It would be wonderful to see people re-expand the rainforest there!
So cool..talk about photography.
“Crinkle Cut?” 😂
Look at the top edge of his casque
Yup Southern cassowary or also known as double-wattled cassowary i wouldnt want to face one thats pissed off
All the dinosaurs didn't disappear. Some evolved into birds.
These things make our Emus look scrawny. They are a pretty solid unit.
And some just stayed crocodiles 😊
@@greercarroll7967 Crocodiles actually predate dinosaurs.
The wings are vestigial so what you said is backwards logic.
All birds are the descendent's of dinosaurs, ALL BIRDS, even chickens or especially chickens depending how you look at it
The Cassowary is a modern-day dinosaur, and there is no argument anyone can make to unconvince me.
I don't think Jurassic Park got anything correct with regard to actual science. The only item that holds a kernel of truth is that "life finds a way."
@2:56--
'In the world of DIONNE, THIS FEMALE RULES!!❤️'
I expect one to show up in the Florida Everglades any day.
Anyone Know who this Narrator is or whom(s) wrote the scrip? Any directory is helpful! Such a gem.
Script
Of course it would live in Australia..
And now I know what dinosaurs sounded like.....WOW!
Apex Predators!!! Now this is what I'm talking about; cassowaries ❤❤❤ Go Bertha!
What a generous h03😂, hey watch the kids, I need to repopulate the forest
Great video.
Giant birds scare me more than bears or big cats 😂
Depending on how they're raised they can be pretty cool.
Although Kevin the Rhea constantly attacking Ben on Urban Rescue Ranch is hilarious. Mainly because he's big but not big & he's the only Rhea there that does it.
But chickens on the other hand. While some can be very very sweet are still terrifying. I watched the secret life of chickens once while sick at 3am.
I learned just how truly vicious they can be. Seeing that one hen grab the mouse & take off running so the others immediately chasing her couldn't get it.
Then I saw her scarf it down whole.
I've been low key terrified of chickens ever since.
I still kind of want backyard chickens though. If I had a back yard.
Me too I think I'm addicted to ostrich jerky..
You gotta experience a bossy rooster, it'll peck your shin to get you to throw feed. Try shake it off, challenge accepted - bird fight! - lot of Sunday roasts started with a difference of opinion.
I have a 15 lb pet rooster; I realize they can be dangerous as well if not properly trained, I can't imagine how much dangerous he could be 10 times his size with an axe on his head.
Wow...I never seen nor hears of this bird.
Great photography.
What are the dongly things on their necks for? Does anyone know?
They are called "wattles"
they have a duel function.
1.They are used for display in courtship
2. They assist with cooling the blood in the hot tropical summers
@PawesomeCatVideo aha! I've always wondered. Thank you. Goats sometimes have them too, don't know if they're the same.
They just look vulnerable to damage dangling around there and kinda gross.
Happy New Year to you all from beautiful Far North Queensland!
Humans introduce destructive animals and practices...THE REAL THREAT😮
Only 1% of birds practice sole parent nurture, and Australia has two of 'em that I know of: Cassowary, and Emu. Better not be something in the Aussie air.
Not sole parent nurture, but male only.
Nah mate the New Zealand Moa was way more impressive
My apologies, thought you were talking about US congress/senate members, by saying Dinosaurs 🦖
I see this creatures by this year... This was majestic
Buster, busting a move on Bertha.
Good on ya, Crinkle Cut old boy and Long Live queen Bertha and their progeny.
Bertha when she see her second baby daddy “MUSTEEEEEEEEERRRR”
Perhaps: The most dangerous bird walking the planet *_today_* 🙄
I saw a woodpecker with a hammer last Sunday
Bertha and Crinklecut. Where are their friends, Barbie and Ken? How does our hostess know that Crinklecut IS the father of her developing eggs? But poor old Buster.
He better ask for a d,n,a, test quick!
Bertha is a cougar 😂
When did that documentary came out
They're all dinosaurs.
Wondering how this footage is possible
38:17 that is ridiculous. Why would the camera crew even allow these domestic dogs free access to the cassowary habitat and record it??? The dogs killed two of the cassowary chicks.
They know the owners, why arent they being prosecuted?
www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/farms-fishing-forestry/agriculture/animal/health/welfare/codes/feral-livestock#:~:text=Hunters%20must%20become%20familiar%20with,and%20bring%20down%20feral%20pigs
www.daf.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/61771/IPA-Wild-Dog-Fact-Sheet-Dogs-Wildlife.pdf
It is complicated and to be honest I am not sure what EXACTLY happened here.
These dogs are PRESUMABLY trained to target only Feral pigs.
Feral pigs are a major threat to the ecosystem.
You have to have a special licence to operate feral pig culling operations.
It could be that the chicks were killed by accident, eg (trampling) or they took fright, became lost and perished.
The documentary maker is being disingenuous here
This is is a bit too constructed, a beautiful documentary destroyed by a totally fairytale construction of a lie
well done!
Birds ARE dinosaurs
This is how i'm afraid of chickens.
So cool
Bertha is magnificent!
Crinkle-cut is that you? How did you learn to type comments on RUclips?
@@Daniel_Capital 😆
😂😂😂😂
Danger Chicken.
My daugter tells me that chickens are dinosaurs. I tremble in fear every time I hear Foghorn Leghorn.
they are biggest ones alive now there was one during the pleistocene era that lived in South America I don't remember the name but it was like 10 or 15 ft tall
Imagine if Kristen Wig’s character in “Wonder Woman 1984” had wished to become a cassowary
The boastfulness of human insecurities does not make for great documentaries.
It all depends on how you define a dinosaur. Who's entitled to do that? Nobody.
Everything that walks on the earth are endanger...
Potatoes will never not be awesome. Thank Yall for caring to document, and show us THIS part of Earth 🙏🚂🎼🌹🎵🎶⚕️~C< 3)>>-Z->}
Bertha is the equivalent of the human stud, hump and go, don’t care about the offspring left behind, on to the next.
I think a better title for the video would be,
The Killer Cassowaries of Terra: The World’s (what the heck, throw in an apostrophe, why not) most Dangerous bird on Earth to walk the Planet anywhere on Gaia.
My theory is if it looks like a dinosaur, most likely it's not friendly.
Good lord, Bertha is almost 5’ 11” tall!
Man that would be scary to run into her in a bad mood.
Cardinal bird dads feed the young. The female just hatches them and tends to them in the nest then the male takes over. Cardinal males will adopt orphaned birds of other species.
I dub thee ~ "Death Turkey".
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Mother Universe Thank You for sending Bertha family to Australian Zoo. Needless
to mention they deserve a very safe place
to live in forever en ever. Thank You!!!!!🐦
✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨💖✨🙏✨
Rather click-baity...
A bit odd for a channel with the word "predator" in its name to feature a vegetarian (mostly fruit-eating) bird that mostly stays away from humans and only attacks (with potentially deadly force - given its size) in self-defense...
They are territorial, not just self-defence proponents they can attack humans for poking around and getting in their face.
@santyclause8034 Fair enough. But it's still odd for a "peak predator" YT channel to cover them in a video.
I'm pretty sure the number of recorded human fatalities caused by cassowaries is a LOT lower than those caused by, say, hippos - who are at least as territorial and aggressive both in and out of water. But no one would think of a hippo as a "predator".
yeah imagine if you make a hybrid clone of cassowary and monitor lizard = corythosaurus how about emu and sailfin lizard = spinosaurus! terror bird and tokei lizard = tyrannasaurus
Why would those dogs be allowed to hunt in protected forest???
You don't want to see that egg later on a bad day
I used to fish up a spot that a few hung around ❤they can be scary 😂but I just kept my distance 😎
IRON FOOTED SCRUBFELL whatever its called while racking through the leaves with its legs BROS HEAD is stationary AF almost Robotic like wow!
Beautiful documentary. Thank you. PS. Where are the Dropbears?
Casserole wary
They look like the dinosaurs with the horn on there head I think rhinos look like a modern version of tricerotops and crocodiles are dinosaurs they were around in dinosaur times 🇬🇧🇬🇧
So dinos became birds but this bird decides to lose its wings and become a dino? Lol hahaha
Evolution at its finest!
...snakes haven`t got ears!!!...🤣🤣🤣
They serve no purpose
But they look cool 😆