Cassowary

Cassowary Physical Characteristics

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Casuariiformes

Family: Casuariidae

Genus: Casuarius

Scientific Name: Casuarius

Type: Bird

Diet: Omnivore

Size (H): 1.5m - 2m (59in - 79in)

Wingspan: 1.5m - 2m (59in - 79in)

Weight: 25kg - 58.5kg (55lbs - 129lbs)

Top Speed: 50km/h (31mph)

Lifespan: 40 - 60 years

Lifestyle: Solitary

Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Colour: Blue, Yellow, Black, Tan

Skin Type: Feathers

Habitat: Wet tropical forests

Average Clutch Size: 5

Main Prey: Insects, Grass, Fungi

Predators: Dingo, Crocodile, Humans

Distinctive Features: Sharp claws and horn-like crest

The cassowary is a huge types of flightless bird, that is locally found in the timberlands of Papua New Guinea and on it's encompassing islands. The cassowary is firmly identified with other huge flightless winged creatures including emus and ostriches and is the third tallest and second heaviest fledgling on the planet behind these two.

The cassowary possesses thick tropical backwoods on New Guinea and it's encompassing islands and parts of north-eastern Australia. There are three types of cassowary which are the Southern Cassowary or Double-wattled Cassowary, found in southern New Guinea, northeastern Australia, and the Aru Islands, the Dwarf Cassowary or Bennett's Cassowary, found in New Guinea, New Britain, and on Yapen, and the Northern Cassowary or Single-wattled Cassowary, found in northern and western New Guinea, and Yapen.

The cassowary has adjusted well to a serene life in the profundities of the woodland and thus, are once in a while observed by people who are attempting to spot them. The cassowary can't fly thus has built up the need to run staggeringly quick, as these enormous winged creatures can dash through the wilderness at velocities of more than 30mph. The cassowary likewise has enormous, sharp hooks which help the cassowary in safeguarding itself from threat.

The most particular highlights of the cassowary are it's enormous body size and brilliantly shaded quills (females are both bigger and more bright than their male partners), and the huge, springy peak that projects from the highest point of the cassowary's head, which can develop to 18 cm in stature. In spite of the fact that very little is truly thought about the reason for these peaks, it's idea that the peak of cassowary is utilized to state sexual strength, to settle debates and furthermore helps this winged creature when it is going through the thick undergrowth.

The cassowary is an omnivorous flying creature and accordingly eats a wide assortment of the two plants and creatures so as to increase every one of the supplements that it needs to endure. Cassowaries basically feed on organic products that have tumbled to the ground from the trees, alongside leaves, grasses, seeds, creepy crawlies, arachnids and different spineless creatures.

The cassowary has adjusted to an existence without the need to fly because of the way that, truly, the cassowary included no predators inside its indigenous habitat and along these lines had no compelling reason to escape. In any case, with human settles can mammalian predators including hounds, foxes and felines that principally devastate the helpless homes of the cassowary, eating their eggs.

The cassowary reproducing season is believed to be from May to June when the female cassowary lays up to 8 huge, dull eggs into a home on the ground produced using leaf litter. Be that as it may, the female cassowary at that point leaves her eggs to be brooded by the male who furiously watches his future brood against predators for as long as 50 days when the cassowary chicks incubate out of their shells.

Today, for the most part because of deforestation and along these lines natural surroundings misfortune and the acquaintance of predators with the cassowary's local islands, every one of the three cassowary species are in danger in the wild and are delegated powerless creatures.