The great American llama (and ostrich and emu) collapse

Re:The great American llama (and ostrich and emu) collapse by PaulHoule on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @12:55PM (#39681834)

Sometimes I think the easiest path to Jurassic Park would be to try to breed really big ostriches. On the other hand it might be a better project to try to get sign language gorillas to teach other gorillas how to use sign language.

Circa 2000 my wife and I were planning to get into farming and would up visiting quite a few Llama and Alpaca farms that were frequently run by very rich retirees from corporate America. We wound up keeping horses which are a much better business because people really do want to ride horses.

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Re:The great American llama (and ostrich and emu) collapse by TylerE on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @04:52PM (#39684800)

I think there is a strong argument to made that cassowarys are true living dinosaurs. They're really something else. The only bird to have be reliably and repeatedly recorded as killing adult humans, including an incident in Florida in 2019 where a hand-raised one killed it's owner.

Up to 150lbs of muscle, claw, and beak, and they can stand over 6ft tall.

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