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John Tan In Queensland, Australia

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She cocks her head, flutters her eyelashes and struts towards me.
But at 1.5m tall, with the girth of two humans, her terrifying dagger claws remind me of her reputation as "the world's most dangerous bird". I step back slowly and scramble up my treehouse.
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