Twenty-two percent of attacks resulted from the bird defending itself, its eggs, or its chicks, 5 percent were triggered by somebody getting too close to the cassowary’s food, and 73 percent ...

They claim that the birds need the handouts: a 15-year drought, a building boom and Cyclone Larry in 2006 wiped out many of the area's native fruit trees, which were prime cassowary food.

Open larger image A male cassowary A young male cassowary has been rehabilitated and released into Wooroonooran National Park ...

It’s better to do that and be boring than to be seen as a potential source of more food.” While a human who runs into a cassowary might feel the urge to run screaming in the opposite direction ...

They sit on and incubate eggs for about two months. Once chicks hatch, brown and fuzzy, cassowary fathers care for them for about a year, showing them around their territories and where to seek ...

Discovered wandering the edges of cane fields, the animal was tranquillised and driven some 30km away before being released.

Food sources can significantly alter animal ... This includes protecting habitats and migration corridors and educating locals on cassowary behavior. These efforts are vital, as the iconic bird ...

Hajos this month. That bird — a hulking, flightless cassowary with a daggerlike claw on each foot — will go up for auction on Saturday alongside about one hundred other exotic animals that Mr.