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.

6. Aepyornis: 1 n huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar Synonyms: elephant bird Type of: flightless bird , ratite , ratite bird flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds