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• n  large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest

• The King wore a headdress of cassowary plumes fixed to tambu shells, from which dangled bits of wood and metal from a wrecked airplane.
• A tarantula is not "an insect whose bite is only cured by musick"; a cassowary is not a bird of prey; and only a jack pudding or zany would believe that pygmies are devoured by .
• No youth could call himself a man until he had defeated an enemy warrior in battle, beheaded the corpse with a cassowary-bone dagger, and displayed the head on his clan's wooden .

News & Articles

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• Conservation Failing in Battle to Save World's Most Dangerous Bird
  Veteran conservationist and cassowary expert unveils failures and lost opportunities to protect earth's third largest remaining rainforest. [PR.com]
  Feb. 21, 2014 - PR.com

Quotes

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• Andrew Bartlett in The Age
  In North Queensland there are patches where the cassowary is surviving, but because they are not connected adequately, the population in each patch is non-viable,Senator Bartlett said.