While birds, the surviving dinosaurs, don’t have the fearsome reputation of the predatory dinosaurs that went extinct some 65M years ago, there is one bird that you should treat with utmost respect: the cassowary. Three species exist, the largest being the Southern Cassowary of NE Australia, Papua/New Guinea, and Indonesia. Its populations are declining throughout most of its range, and it is classified as endangered in Australia. Though wild birds avoid humans, they are sometimes fed by people or shot at by hunters, and that’s when they become dangerous. The inner claw of its three-toed feet is daggerlike, a potentially lethal weapon. But the cassowary is far more likely to be killed by humans than the other way around; attacks can usually be tied to human behavior toward the birds. This is a physically, visually, and behaviorally unique dinosaur (that is, bird) and deserves our protection.