This is a cassowary:

A northern cassowary. Image: Rhett A. Butler

What do you know about these large birds? It’s quiz time!

Cassowary quiz!

Meet the southern cassowary:

There are three species of cassowary:

The three species of cassowary: southern cassowary (left), northern cassowary (middle) and dwarf cassowary. PaleoNeolitic (montage creator)BS Thurner HofKora27Martin Sordilla, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Learn more about cassowaries:

Mongabay: northern cassowary profile

San Diego Zoo: cassowary profile

Australian Museum: southern cassowary profile

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