Bird in Queensland’s Innisfail
had come to associate people with being fed, says environment department, and
decision to relocate it was taken ‘reluctantly’
Australian Associated Press
Monday 22 August
201603.21 BST
Wildlife officers
have relocated a young cassowary, known by locals as Ruthie, after it
threatened an elderly man and tried to enter his Innisfail home.
It is the second time this month
a cassowary has been relocated in north Queensland due
to aggressive behaviour.
The Department of Environment and
Heritage Protection said it was first alerted to potential problems with the
bird in early August.
Rangers were called to the
Coquette Point home last week after reports the bird was behaving aggressively
and trying to break into an elderly man’s home.
“The decision was reluctantly taken to
relocate the bird after it was clear it had become accustomed to associate
people with being fed,” according to the department.
The cassowary was tranquilised
and relocated to a remote area of rainforest, away from human interaction.
EHP has again urged people not to
feed or interact with the endangered species.
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