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The Southern Cassowary

  • habitat: wet tropics, rainforest, woodlands, melaleuca swamps, mangroves, beaches [sometimes grassland, savanna, and palm forest]

  • diet: fruit, inverterbraes, plants, fungi, carrion and small vertebrae

  • predators: crocodiles, pythons, quolls and dingos

  • threats: pigs [steal their food and destroy nests and eggs], dogs attacks, humans hand feeding them (they may grow dependent), habitat degradation, vehicle strikes 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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