Eric AlperCassowary warning sign in Far North Queensland
Simon ZerafaAbsolutely spot on. Quite quite dangerous! 😲
Joanna Holman@EricAlper it’s the excellent work of @firstdogonthemoon
bigiain@joannaholman I hope it really is, not just someone photoshopping @firstdogonthemoon 's work into a collage (or worse still, fucking AI that's stolen everything he's ever had published) @EricAlper
@bigiain @firstdogonthemoon @EricAlper It’s real
kieliscalling@EricAlper Isn't the rule: Everything in Australia wants to kill you 🤔
Level 98 🇺🇦@kieliscalling @EricAlper Nah, that's an exaggeration. Only something like 99%.
ghost ermine 🇵🇸🇹🇱🇺🇦
Brett Edmond Carlock@EricAlper This looks like a shitpost, and I adore that it is official signage out in the wild.
Dr David Mills@EricAlper that's @firstdogonthemoon I'd recognise that art anywhere.
Moz@EricAlper but baby cassowaries are often curious and generally fearless. They will come over to check you out.
Dad will follow at a safe distance, ready to intervene if he gets concerned.
Walking away from curious baby cassowaries is harder than it sounds.
Frightening them off is unwise.
You have to stand still and look boring.
JamesAshburner@EricAlper Coming face-to-face with one was a scrotum-tightening experience. I stood stock-still, and waited.
Stoneface Vimes@EricAlper First Dog on the Moon extends his repertoire.
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragonthey are feathered dinosaurs, treat them as such.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@EricAlper The things are blindingly obviously re-badged velociraptors, just look at those claws.
Face Thumb@TimWardCam @EricAlper Yep, basically toothless velociraptors, but they still have the speed, aggression and slicey bits.
@chrisp @EricAlper A bit scary when our child, at the time rather smaller than the velociraptor, met one by the side of the swimming pool. (We rather suspected the holiday cottage landlady of feeding them illegally.)
Quixoticgeek@EricAlper can has alt text please?
Oriel Jutty 
@quixoticgeek @EricAlper Photo of warning sign with cartoon art (signed FirstDogOnTheMoon) illustrating the text:
"If you want to take a photo, do not corner the cassowary.
Remember! It is a wild animal and it hates you.
Its feet are daggers and it is always angry.
It will slash at you, it will climb in your van and eat your food.
This is all true! You should be frightened of cassowaries.
Be Casso-WARY"
"If you want to take a photo, do not corner the cassowary.
Remember! It is a wild animal and it hates you.
Its feet are daggers and it is always angry.
It will slash at you, it will climb in your van and eat your food.
This is all true! You should be frightened of cassowaries.
Be Casso-WARY"
Michael J. Gratton@EricAlper everyone talks about the spiders and snakes and alligators and jellyfish and dingoes and wombats and so on, but hardly anyone talks about the Australian birds that will kill you. Unfair!
KirstyThere’s a few. Magpies, lapwings, and emus come to mind straight away.
Don't let a swan near your ice cream, either.
Jesus Margar@EricAlper I never before heard of this animal. I just googled it. I'm not sure it can be real.
Josh 
@EricAlper I’ve been meters away from lions, on foot, in the wild. Cassowaries worry me much more than that did.
yuubi@EricAlper if you want to corner the cassowary, don't plan on taking a photo. start the video running before you start cornering the cassowary. then we'll have something to laugh at.
Dave Rahardja@EricAlper When I lived in Indonesia as a kid, we learned that kasuari (native to the Papua region) were huge, mean assholes with knives on their feet. They’re damn close to living dinosaurs. Fortunately, they were quite shy, so people don’t usually run into them outside of zoos.