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	Cassowary
		Cassowaries are part of the ratite group, which also includes the emus, rheas, ostrich, moa, and kiwi.
		The Southern Cassowary is the second-largest bird in Australia and the third-largest remaining bird in the world (the ostrich and emu are larger).
		Southern Cassowaries are a threatened species because of habitat loss; estimates of their current population range from 1500 to 10,000 individuals.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Cassowary.html (380 words)

	Cassowary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cassowaries (genus Casuarius) are very large flightless birds native to the tropical forests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia.
		Cassowaries are considered to be one of the most dangerous animals to keep in zoos, based on the frequency and severity of injuries incurred by zookeepers.
		Southern and Northern Cassowaries are threatened species because of habitat loss; estimates of their current population range from 1500 to 10,000 individuals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassowary (724 words)

	Cassowary
		Cassowaries kept in zoos often have damaged casques and beaks due to the birds knocking their heads against fencing.
		It is difficult to determine the sex of cassowaries, as the plumage of males and females is similar.
		Cassowaries have been know to live up to 40 years in captivity, while there are unconfirmed reports of individuals reaching 60 in the wild.
	www.cassowaryconservation.asn.au /noframedocs/Cassowary.html (2836 words)

	WWF US: Animals of New Guinea - Cassowary
		Cassowaries are very large, flightless, ostrich-like birds that have a short bill, stout legs, and glossy, hair-like drooping plumage.
		Cassowaries, which are considered a major food source and whose feathers are sought for use in native headdress, are threatened by hunting, as well as habitat loss due to extensive logging.
		Cassowaries are solitary and sedentary (but will readily swim across creeks) and have a diet of fallen fruit, fungi and small dead animals (which the cassowary can swallow whole).
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/newguinea/spec_cassowary.cfm (460 words)

	Chakoro Nature Reserve - The Cassowary
		Cassowaries face many dangers in their natural habitat, and most chicks are lost before they become sub-adults.
		Cassowaries are very bad at crossing roads because they seem to be unable to grasp that a car off in the distance is going to be here in five seconds.
		When they are in the forest, cassowaries are furtive and very difficult to photograph, but they enjoy the sunshine too, and are often seen walking along the forest edge, ready to duck for cover if anything should surprise them.
	home.austarnet.com.au /davekimble/cassowary.htm (1329 words)

	Cassowary Husbandry
		Cassowaries, a familiar rainforest species, are widely held in captivity for educational displays as they represent both a flagship species for rainforests and the unique group of birds known as ratites.
		The wattles are absent in the Dwarf Cassowary.
		Cassowaries have been bred in enclosures as small as 200 square metres though this was divided in half to separate the pair and was additionally heavily planted (Hopton 1992).
	www.cassowary.com /workshop.html (10515 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| Animals \| Cassowary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cassowaries are large, flightless birds that can measure up to six feet in height and weigh between 100 and 150 pounds.
		Cassowaries are found in the rain forest and savanna woodland areas of New Guinea and Australia, and are the only group of large flightless birds adapted to living in the rainforest.
		Cassowaries tend to breed during the dry season, from June to October, when fruit is most plentiful.
	www.sfzoo.org /cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=22 (531 words)

	Cassowary Cape Tribulation Daintree National Park
		Cassowaries (genus Casuarius) are frugivorous; fallen fruit and fruit on low branches is the mainstay of their diet.
		Cassowaries are very capable of killing dogs by disemboweling them and have injured people, though only one death has been recorded, more on this on cassowary attacks.
		Cassowaries are crucial to the survival of the rainforest, as many of the seeds are too big to be dispersed by any other birds.
	www.rainforesthideaway.com /capetribulation/cassowary.htm (1132 words)

	Southern cassowary - Casuarius casuarius: More Information - ARKive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cassowaries are large, flightless birds that are related to emus and found only in Australia and New Guinea (2).
		Cassowaries have stout, powerful legs and long feet with 3 toes; the inner toe on each foot has a sharp claw that can reach up to 80 mm in length (4).
		Cassowaries fight by kicking out with their legs, they have a fearsome reputation but their diet is composed almost entirely of fruit.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Casuarius_casuarius/more_info.html (705 words)

	Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens: Cassowary
		Double-wattled or Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius – Australia, New Guinea, Aru Island, and Ceram; One-wattled Cassowary Casuarius uniappendiculatus - New Guinea and Yapen Island; Bennett’s or Moruk Cassowary Casuarius bennetti - New Guinea, New Britain, and Yapen Island.
		Cassowaries feed on fallen fruit, particularly the fruit of laurel trees, but will eat almost anything, including dead rats, birds, live skinks, reptiles and even fungi that they might find on the ground.
		The one-wattled cassowary (C. uniappendiculatus), native to New Guinea, is slightly bigger and stands up to six and a half feet tall and weighs 130 pounds.
	www.jaxzoo.org /animals/biofacts/Cassowary.asp (1092 words)

	Irian Jaya Cassowary Gallery
		The Cassowary is a large, flightless bird native to the Australia-New Guinea area.
		The Northern Cassowary does not have the distinctive twin red neck wattles of the Southern Cassowary.
		Cassowaries can be dangerous, even deadly, in confrontations with man. They have powerful legs and their three-toed feet are used as formidable weapons.
	www.nexusamerica.com /UserGallery/woody/cassowary.html (496 words)

	The southern cassowary: Threatened species and communities
		The southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius belongs to an ancient group of flightless birds that includes Australia's emu, Africa's ostrich and New Zealand's kiwi and now-extinct moa.
		The cassowary has draping, shiny fl plumage and a colourful naked neck and head – brilliant blue and purple with long, drooping red wattles and an amber eye – topped with a helmet-like structure known as a casque.
		While the southern cassowary Casuarius Casuarius is found in New Guinea and surrounding islands, one subspecies – Casuarius casuarius johnsonii – lives in Australia, mostly in dense, tropical rainforests that provide a supply of fruit all year round.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/threatened/publications/cassowary.html (853 words)

	Plants and Animals in the Wet Tropics - Birds - The Cassowary
		Cassowaries are Gondwanan in origin and were concentrated in the small part of the supercontinent that later broke apart and became the present areas of Northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and some of the eastern island groups of Indonesia.
		A cassowary is a solitary animal and when it is a sub-adult, it is banished from the home range of its father.
		This is because the cassowary frequently approaches cars or wanders regularly through residential suburbs where it can be attacked by dogs, especially those breeds kept for their hunting skills.
	www.wettropics.gov.au /pa/pa_casso.html (1173 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Southern cassowary, double-wattled cassowary, (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cassowaries are large, flightless birds that are closely related to emus.
		The double-wattled cassowary is native to Australia and Southern New Guinea.
		Cassowaries are solitary unless with young or paired in breeding season.
	www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3072.shtml (247 words)

	Burke's Backyard Archives 2004 - Southern Cassowary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) belongs to an ancient group of flightless birds called ratites, along with the Australian emu, African ostrich and New Zealand kiwi.
		Found in the dense, tropical rainforests of north-east Queensland, the Southern Cassowary is Australia’s heaviest flightless bird.
		The cassowary has an important role as a rainforest gardener, swallowing fruit and then excreting the seeds about a kilometre away, along with a pile of dung.
	www.burkesbackyard.com.au /2004/archives/2004/conservation_and_the_environment/southern_cassowary (568 words)

	Cassowary Facts - Southern Cassowary in the Daintree & Cape Tribulation Areas
		The reason that cassowaries evolved casques is still debated, but the protruding structures may help them poke through the dense vegetation of their rainforest habitat without hurting their heads.
		In the Daintree the estimate of 54 cassowaries is overwhelmed by 10,000 feral pigs.
		While man was responsible for the early decline of cassowary populations caused by loss of habitat from farming and development, pigs have now surpassed man as the wreckers of the fragile ecosystems of the WTWHA.
	www.dctta.asn.au /cassowary.htm (1343 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for cassowary
		cassowary CASSOWARY [cassowary], common name for a flightless, swift-running, pugnacious forest bird of Australia and the Malay Archipelago, smaller than the ostrich and emu.
		moa MOA [moa] [Maori], common name for an extinct flightless bird of New Zealand related to the kiwi, the emu, the cassowary, and the ostrich.
		The kiwi, named by the Maoris for its shrill, piping call, is most closely related to the extinct moa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=cassowary (409 words)

	Sensitive New Age Cassowary - December - Scribbly Gum - ABC Science Online
		Cassowaries exhibit an extraordinary degree of parental care, says Bentrupperbaumer, who tracked cassowaries on foot for four years in the early 1990s to research their behaviour for her PhD.
		Cassowaries eat about 150 different types of forest fruits, but one of their favourites is the massive Cassowary Plum (Cerbera floribunda).
		Where: Cassowaries once roamed from Townsville to Cape York but there are now just two small populations of southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) left in Australia: one population in the Wet Tropics (classified as Endangered) and one in Cape York, classified as Vulnerable.
	www.abc.net.au /science/scribblygum/december2004 (1833 words)

	Factsheets: Southern Cassowary
		The Southern Cassowary stands about 1.8m to the top of the head when the neck is fully raised, and weighs around 60kg - 70kg.
		Throughout their range, Southern Cassowaries live alone, and inhabit the same area all year round.
		The female Southern Cassowary selects a male to breed with and then lays a clutch of four large green eggs in a scrape in the ground lined with plant material.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/southern_cassowary.htm (596 words)

	Skyrail Rainforest Cableway Cairns - Nature Diary
		The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is a member of the Ratite family of flightless birds, which also includes the Emu, Kiwi and Ostrich.
		The Cassowary casque, a bone-like structure protruding from the top of its head, can be used to determine a cassowary’s age (the larger the casque the older the bird).
		Cassowaries will not, generally, attack without provocation, however you should not approach a Cassowary when it is nesting or with its chicks.
	www.skyrail.com.au /diary0805.html (517 words)

	Southern cassowary - Casuarius casuarius - ARKive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cassowaries are large, flightless birds that are related to emus and found only in Australia and New Guinea.
		The southern cassowary has a glossy fl plumage and a bright blue neck, with red colouring at the nape.
		Cassowaries have stout, powerful legs and long feet with 3 toes; the inner toe on each foot has a sharp claw that can reach up to 80 mm in length.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Casuarius_casuarius (215 words)

	Southern cassowary - EPA/QPWS
		Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and often excrete intact fruit seeds in large piles of dung.
		Cassowaries need large areas of rainforest to survive, and protected areas such as national parks are not enough.
		Local residents in cassowary areas are establishing nurseries of cassowary food plants so that rainforest trees can be planted to replace cleared land and corridors can be planted to join remaining patches of vegetation.
	www.epa.qld.gov.au /nature_conservation/wildlife/native_animals/living_with_wildlife/southern_cassowary (1209 words)

	Animal Planet :: Australia Zoo -- Cassowaries
		Southern cassowaries are Australia's largest birds, and the second-largest birds on the planet!
		Southern cassowaries live in the dense tropical rainforests of North Queensland.
		The southern cassowary is the only bird in the world known to have protective armor.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/crochunter/australiazoo/16cassowaries.html (484 words)

	Cassowaries in Australia - the cassowary in the rainforest of Australia
		Cassowaries are very capable of killing dogs by disemboweling them and have injured people, though only one death has been recorded, more on this on the cassowary attacks page.
		The hunters used a short pipe like a mini digeridoo and by hitting their hand on one hand of the pipe they made a sound that attracted or confused the cassowaries, the birds were also easy to find as they usually have a routine and walk the same route everyday.
		The meat of the cassowary is said to be very strong in taste and to even make some people a bit dizzy the first time they eat it.
	www.amazingaustralia.com.au /animals/cassowary.htm (1266 words)

	Cassowary Queensland 1997
		This species, the Southern Cassowary, along with the other two species of cassowary, is secure in New Guinea at present, although word is that logging concessions are presently being sold for large areas of lowland New Guinea, so this security may not last much longer.
		Finally, as if all this were not enough, feral pigs eat cassowary eggs and chicks, and many birds are killed on roads, as they cross from one patch of forest to another.
		Cassowaries have been seen here, even on the tidied up circular walk with information boards, but there were none around for me. In fact the only birds around now, at midday, were several Purple-throated Sunbirds, the old world equivalent of Hummingbirds, flitting around flowers.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Cassowary97.html (1254 words)

	7:30 Report - 13/04/1999: Cassowary added to endangered list
		While cassowaries are found in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, only North Queensland is home to the giant 1.8 metre Southern cassowary.
		ANDREW MCKENZIE: Given that in North Queensland the cassowary habitat is shared with between 300,000 and 400,000 residents and with a couple of million visitors a year, 1,500 is not a good margin for safety for the long-term viability of such a large land animal.
		We always like to, if we hear that a cassowary has been killed, the strategy is to recover the body and do a post mortem on it to see what we can find from it.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/stories/s21694.htm (877 words)

	Cassowary North Queensland Australia - Know the cassowaries
		The Cassowary is a flightless but colourful bird with dark blue and purple feathers.
		Cassowaries usually eat and berries fruits but have been known to hunt small reptiles and mammals.
		Cassowaries are easily provoked and have very powerful legs that they use to kick with.
	www.cairnsholiday.com.au /Rainforest/Cassowary.htm (406 words)

	! Southern Cassowary ! Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
		Accordingly, the Cassowary is often referred to as a ‘keystone species’ in seed dispersal.
		The Cassowary usually inhabits tropical rainforest, but also utilizes associated woodlands, mangroves, beaches and is known to steal fruit from backyards and farms.
		In fact, the cassowary is probably the single most important animal seed disperser of the local rainforest.
	rainforest-australia.com /southern_cassowary.html (1155 words)

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