Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Toad Tuesday

Cassowary

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cassowary
Temporal range: 5–0 Ma
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Early Pliocene – Recent
Jurong Southern Cassowary.jpg
Southern cassowary

The cassowaries (/ˈkæsəwɛərr/) are ratites(flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) in the genus Casuarius and are native to thetropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), nearby islands, and northeastern Australia.
There are three extant species. The most common of these, the southern cassowary, is the third tallest and second heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.
Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food, including shoots and grass seeds, in addition to fungiinvertebrates, and small vertebrates. Cassowaries are very shy, but when provoked they are capable of inflicting injuries, occasionally fatal, to dogs and people.



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