a couple of years ago at Amboseli game park in southern Kenya a Japanese businessman, on tour with his wife and collegues, walked down an embankment just of the veranda bar of the main house...he wanted to pose next to a hippo that was feeding at the edge of a stream. in front of his fellow travelers the hippo stuck out its head and bit him in half.
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similarly, an ostrich, far from being the cutesy, dorky creature portrayed by disney, is an agressive bird and is able to kick a hole in a human torso or sever a head with its rear claw with one swift swipe of the foot.
do't f*%k with mother nature.
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as for my avatar - it's an emu - isn't it just the cutest thing?
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