cassowary in English

noun
1
a very large flightless bird related to the emu, with a bare head and neck, a tall horny crest, and one or two colored wattles. It is native mainly to the forests of New Guinea.
Ostriches, emus, cassowaries , rheas, kiwis, moas and elephant birds really are more closely related to each other than they are to any other birds.

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1. The cassowary is one of approximately 60 living species of flightless birds.

2. El Arish is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia

3. The birds flee to safety all but the cassowary, who can’t clear the ground on her puny wings.

4. The study suggested that the cassowary's unique gloss-producing mechanism would have evolved gradually over time, with an ancestral bird losing its Barbules and the cassowary developing a thicker

5. 27 With cyclones of ever increasing severity and the pressure from human population threatening the bird, the Southern Cassowary is in dire straits at the moment.