The drill featured Rockhampton Zoo Director Liz Bellward portraying the escaped animal in an ostrich costume. "Unfortunately, you can't buy a cassowary Halloween costume," the zoo explained in a ...

Bruce is a 3-year-old male cassowary that will be living in the Wallaroo Walkabout. He came to the Louisville Zoo from ...

Mission Beach is surrounded by World Heritage rainforest, home to many southern cassowaries, the largest bird in Australia and second in the world only to the ostrich. Cassowary sand sculpture ...

Eclipsed only by the ostrich in terms of weight, the flightless cassowary grows as tall as a human and is said to be the most similar bird to the ancient dinosaurs. Indeed, the entire make-up of ...