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Cassowaries are known to be dangerous which they live up to but only if attacked. Cassowaries are not out to harm people they just defend themselves. 

National cassowary day is September 24

Southern Cassowary is the most popular cassowary it lives in Australia's tropical Queensland rainforest. Southern Cassowary however is not the only species of cassowary two others exist they are the Northern Cassowary and  Dwarf Cassowary. A fourth species has died out called the Pygmy Cassowary

Cassowarry weighs over 100 pounds

Cassowarries have a five inch long claw they are nicknamed the murderbird and are one of the few bird species to have killed at least one human.

Cassowaries on the attack charge and jump kick in the air. These are not small jumps they jump five feet off the ground. They also have a great running speed 30 miles per hour.

Cassowaries have casque on the headnobody really knows why some assume it is for protection, or it helps them make calls, shows who is in charge, or maybe age.

Cassowaries are very shy and harmless if left alone the last Cassowary attack in  Australia was in 1926 a casswary killed a teenage boy who tried to kill it with a golf club. Another death from a cassowary was in 2019 a old Florida man was killed by his pet cassowary.

Cassowaries are endangered but  Australia is trying to help them. While few deaths have happened lots of injuries have happened because humans mix themselves up in cassowary habits this lead to cassowaries getting too close with people who feed them which leads into attacks. Dogs also kill cassowaries and cassowaries kill dogs. a dog was gutted by an cassowary in 1995 .

Casswary don't really care about humans they just want to live in peace.

Cassowaries play a large role in the ecosystem " Cassowaries feed on the fruit of several hundred rainforest species and usually pass viable seeds in large, dense scats. They are known to disperse seeds over distances greater than a kilometre"

 The Komodo dragon is the largest lizard living on Earth today, growing up to 10 feet long and weighing 150 pounds or more. 

Komodos also have a good number of traits including venomous fangs, fast speed, and armored skin. 

While they are known for being from the Indonesian island of Komodo and surrounding islands, the Komodo dragon was first spotted in Australia. According to fossil records, Komodo dragons moved from their native island to Indonesia around 900,000 years ago, when they came to the island of Flores.

 researchers noted in a 2009 study, Komodo dragons might  have disappeared from Australia around 50,000 years ago, due to humans showing up and killing them off.

A big debate about komod was rather they contain venom or if their mouths are so toxic from bacteria which they get from eating dead things.

The debate finally ended in 2009 by Bryan Fry, a venom researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia, who found the Komodo dragon to be one of the few venomous lizards on the planet. Unlike snakes which injects venom into a victim through their  sharp fangs, a Komodo dragon's venom seeps into large wounds it makes on its prey.

Komodos catch prey by blending in with their homeland they are ambush predators. Once they  see prey they move in for the kill.

 The Komodo dragon's exterior is made  of thousands of tiny bones under the skin. These bone deposits are called osteoderms, and they are not born with them. instead the deposits appear over a Komodo dragon's lifetime like the rings of a tree. 

Komodos have mitochondria in their system this helps them with their  metabolism,  and agile, also speed komdos can run 13 mph in one sprint. Mitochondria also  helps with endurance.

These lizards can eati as much as 80% of their own body weight at once.  Big meals and slow digestion prompt Komodo dragons to rest in the sun after eating. The heat helps keep their digestion process working. After they digest, they will throwup what is called  a gastric pellet. like owl pellets, a gastric pellet contains horns, hair, teeth, and other bits of prey that can't be digested.

Because their metabolism is very  slow and they can pound down so much in a single sitting, Komodo dragons can survive on one meal a month.

Komodo dragon are like vultures they love eatting the dead their  noses can detect a carcass as far as six miles away. 

Female Komodo dragons can reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis. When no males are present, females can still lay a viable clutch of eggs.

 Young Kimodo dragons also often roll in fecal matter they do this so adult komodo dragons won't eat them.

 Komodo dragons have 60 teeth, the highest number a reptile can have. The teeth are similar to those of a shark.

Komodo dragons almost in a dog like way they play with shoes and shovels even frisbrees.

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Since being discovered in Australia four million years ago, wild Komodo dragons have disappeared from all but a few isolated islands: Komodo, Rinca, Gili Montang, Gili Dasami, and Flores. The animal—said to be the closest living relative to dinosaurs—is now classed as endangered by the IUCN. There are believed to be fewer than 1,400 mature individuals living in the wild today.

The Flores population is declining mostly due to habitat loss and "loss of natural prey to human hunters," the IUCN says. "The major drivers of habitat loss and fragmentation in this area are subsistence farming and altered fire regimes, and there may also be human-animal conflict over livestock to the north central Flores subpopulation."

The good news is that Komodo dragons living outside of Flores, within Komodo National Park, are protected and not facing any severe threats at this time.1"