It is called “helmeted” because it has a green-brown helmet on its head that allows it to rush through nature at full speed, without hurting itself by bumping into branches. It can also jump in the air, up to 2 meters high.
When he is afraid, he leaps on his adversary like a ram, generally mortally wounding him, because he has, at the end of his enormous paws, tapered claws like daggers of more than 12 centimeters! In principle, it does not attack humans, but it has already happened.
We recently discovered, it’s incredible, that the hunter-gatherers of New Guinea raised them 18,000 years ago! I don’t know how they managed to poke eggs but…
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