What is the owner of power that drags out human's hunts, Australian monster "Hikidori"

Ultra large cyclone early this month "YasiDamaged by the habitatHikidoriThere is a danger of hitting people,QueenslandThe government calls attention to local residents.

In 2007 what kind of bird is this "hikidori" registered as Guinness Book as "the most dangerous bird in the world"?

Details are as below.Australians hit by Cyclone Yasi warned to stay away from deadly giant birds - Telegraph

The raccoon inhabiting the rainforest in northern Australia is bigger than the ostrich in the current birds, and the large one is about 1.9 m in height and weighs 63 kg. Supporting that weight, you can run at speed of 50 km / h A powerful leg power that can be driven by a leg power also has a 12 cm long claw like a sharp hard spike, knocking down on animals such as humans, dogs, horses and the internal organs It is said to be powerful enough to draw it out.


Hikuidori has ostrich andkiwiBirds who can not fly as same as birdsAncient mandibleIncluded in the same Australian inhabitantsEmuTogetherHymenopteraForm. It is said that there are extinction risks due to the reduction of tropical rainforests and the influence of imported animals, it is said that only about 1,000 wild individuals are left in Australia. Food mainly eats fruit, is cautious and cowardly personality, but when it feels dangerous it becomes aggressive and it has a rough side of temperament such as "attack if it attacks".

Parent and child of Ricardi taken at a zoo in the Netherlands. As the female fish grows eggs, it searches for the next breeding partner so it seems that both male and male take care of themselves.

ByA. J. Haverkamp

Because the cyclone destroys the habitat rainforest and the fruit serving as a food has been blown out of the trees, it is expected that the raccoons will wander to places where humans live for in search of food. To prevent access to residential areas, the government plans to supply habitats to the habitat from the sky with food supply to the hiking site, and at the northern coast of Queensland StateMission BeachWe call attention to residents in the vicinity "Do not give food to Chikudori".

Road sign of "Hikidori entrance caution".


It is estimated that it will take 18 months to recover the rainforest destroyed by the cyclone this time, and it seems that it is expected that many raccoons will starve to death during that period. However, it is said that giving food to the crowned crowd encountered by ordinary citizeners would only threaten the existence of Hikidori in the long term. There is also the danger of being attacked when approaching to give food, there is also the possibility that Hikidori who learned that "if you get close to humans you can get food" will advance to attack humans and attack.

It is an endangered species that must be protected and harms humans and domestic animalsVerminHikidori also has one aspect that it could be. However, one case that human beings were killed by Hikidori was only reported in 1926 so far. At that time a 16-year-old boy named Philip · McLean attacked his brothers to strike and kill Hikku Dolly where Hikidori rushed to the Phillip battle, thrust himself, sharply cut his neck with a sharp claw.