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cassowaryLarge flightless bird, genus Casuarius, of the family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, found in New Guinea and northern Australia, usually in forests. Related to the emu, the cassowary has a bare head with a horny casque, or helmet, on top, and brightly-coloured skin on the neck. Its loose plumage is black and its wings tiny, but it can run and leap well and defends itself by kicking. Cassowaries stand up to 1.5 m/5 ft tall. They live in pairs and the male usually incubates the eggs, about six in number, which the female lays in a nest of leaves and grass. The cassowary was put on the Australian endangered species list in 1999. It was then estimated that only 1,100 to 1,500 birds survived in north Queensland rainforests. The cassowary is also found in New Guinea. |
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``You only get in with a cassowary once,'' said keeper Robin Parker, using a rope-and-pulley system to serve Slim's meal. report that the large, flightless cassowary emits borderline-infrasonic calls as low as 23 Hz. Unable to support his family on the trickle of customers who visit his farm, Calvin Cassowary accepts the offer of Gallinipper Foods to equip him with high-tech equipment in exchange for buying his eggs. |
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