| Large flightless birds, emus are native to Australia and are next only to the cassowary and the ostrich in size. |
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| The cassowary evolved amid the Wet Tropics, thriving on figs, quandongs, and other distinctive fruits. |
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| The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess. |
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| The cassowary pecks the ground, gobbling fat worms with quick chops of its beak. |
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| For example, the cassowary feeds on bright blue and red fruit. |
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| Giant crowned pigeons, small wallaby kangaroos, cassowary birds, tree kangaroos, and wild boars are abundant within an hour's walk of the village. |
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| See bright butterflies, musky-rat kangaroos and the shy, endangered cassowary, with its blue neck and regal head dress. |
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| The hundreds of bird species include two large flightless birds, the emu of open country and the cassowary of the northern rainforests. |
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| The carving itself is then decorated with feathers, bright inedible fruits, leaves, fibres, bark headdresses and cassowary bone daggers. |
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| The emu is a flightless bird which is part of the ratite family along with the ostrich, rhea, cassowary and kiwi. |
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| The cassowary is a bird you don't want to mess with. |
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| As if that isn't enough, the cassowary sports a wicked daggerlike claw that can grow up to 4 inches long on the middle toe of each foot —and they've been known to kill humans. |
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| The cassowary has been known to kill human beings with slashing blows of its feet, as the innermost of its three toes bears a long daggerlike nail. |
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| Absent in ostrich, emu, cassowary, bustard, frogmouth, and a few other birds, the oil gland is best-developed in aquatic species, notably petrels and pelicans, and in the osprey and oilbird. |
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| These include the southern cassowary, northern quoll, spotted-tailed quoll, red goshawk, Semon's leaf-nosed bat, ghost bat, spectacled flying-fox, greater large-eared horseshoe bat, Cooktown orchid and brown antelope orchid. |
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| The 21-acre aviary is home to more than 3,000 birds representing 200 species, some of which, like the snappy cassowary and loquacious, rainbow-colored lory, you're allowed to hand feed. |
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| The mysterious island of Papua is home to one of the largest and most dangerous birds on the planet, the Southern cassowary. |
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| The kiwi is more closely related to Australia's cassowary and emu. |
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| The cassowary is the third largest flightless bird in the ratite family. |
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| Looking over the balcony at Cassowary Lodge, Atwood watched rare red-necked crakes scratching about in the bushes. |
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