View Cassowary Bird Pictures. The cassowaries are ratites, very large flightless birds, in the genus casuarius native to the tropical forests of new guinea, nearby islands. Today, it's time to revisit the tet zoo archives, and post this (now very old) section of text on cassowaries.

Southern Cassowary A Giant Rare Bird Of The Ancient Daintree Rainforest
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The exotic birds in question weren't parrots or canaries, however… along with animals such as so what exactly is a cassowary? The cassowaries are ratites, very large flightless birds, in the genus casuarius native to the tropical forests of new guinea, nearby islands. Like their cousins the emus, these large, flightless birds with bristly.

There are currently three species of cassowary and the bird is related to the emu and the ostrich.

There are three extant species recognized today. There are three extant species recognized today. Cassowaries are large, flightless birds related to emus and (more distantly) to ostriches, rheas, and in australia the bird is listed as endangered; There are currently three species of cassowary and the bird is related to the emu and the ostrich.