The Most Dangerous Birds In The World Quiz

Question: Which bird can run at nearly 50 km (30 miles) per hour and is capable of eviscerating animals (or, more rarely, humans) under the right conditions?

Answer: The emu can run at nearly 50 km (30 miles) per hour and is capable of eviscerating animals (or, more rarely, humans) under the right conditions. Reports of emu attacks resulting in a range of injuries in Australia and in wild-animal parks, emu farms, and zoos across the world are not uncommon, with more than 100 occurring in 2009 alone.

Question: Which bird dines on bone marrow from carrion, which it accesses by dropping its prey from great heights to crack open the bones?

Answer: The lammergeier dines on bone marrow from carrion, which it accesses by dropping its prey from great heights to crack open the bones. Attacks on humans are either rare or even anecdotal; however, one myth claims that the Athenian dramatist Aeschylus died at Gela when a lammergeier dropped a tortoise on his bald head after mistaking it for a stone.

Question: Which bird attacked a jogger in Salem, Oregon, in 2015, striking the scalp repeatedly before the jogger escaped?

Answer: In Salem, Oregon, in 2015, a great horned owl attacked a jogger, striking at the scalp several times before the jogger was able to escape.

Question: Which bird has been known to kill human beings with slashing blows of its feet, as the innermost of its three toes bears a long daggerlike nail?

Answer: The cassowary has been known to kill human beings with slashing blows of its feet, as the innermost of its three toes bears a long daggerlike nail. Cassowaries are curious, and they do attack from time to time, but attacks on humans are relatively rare.

Question: Which flightless bird once proved a danger to American country singer Johnny Cash?

Answer: The flightless ostrich once proved a danger to American country singer Johnny Cash, who kept an exotic animal park on his property. One aggressive ostrich slashed at Cash and struck him in the stomach; Cash claimed that if it weren’t for a strong belt buckle, the ostrich’s toe claw would have cut his abdomen open and killed him.

Question: What bird was invoked in a murder case when the defense argued that it was the bird, rather than the defendant, attacked the victim?

Answer: A barred owl was thought to have played a part in a bizarre high-profile North Carolina murder case when the defense team of a man convicted of killing his second wife in 2003 argued that, after key evidence was thrown out in 2011, the victim was killed by a barred owl rather than her husband.