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Cassowary Temporal range: 5–0 MaEarly Pliocene – Recent | |
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Southern cassowary | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Casuariiformes |
Family: | Casuariidae Kaup, 1847[1] |
Genus: | Casuarius Brisson, 1760 |
Type species | |
Struthio casuarius Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species | |
Casuarius casuarius Southern cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus Northern cassowary Casuarius bennetti Dwarf cassowary †Casuarius lydekkeri Pygmy cassowary | |
Synonyms | |
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Cassowaries (/ˈkæsəwɛəri/), genus Casuarius, are ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) that are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), East Nusa Tenggara, the Maluku Islands, and northeastern Australia.[3]
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There are three extant species. Please insert the original stronghold 2 deluxe cd/dvd.. The most common of these, the southern cassowary, is the third-tallest and second-heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.
Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food, including shoots and grass seeds, in addition to fungi, invertebrates, and small vertebrates. Cassowaries are very wary of humans, but if provoked they are capable of inflicting serious injuries, occasionally fatal, to dogs and people. It is often called 'the world's most dangerous bird'.[4]
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Taxonomy, systematics, and evolution[edit]
The genusCasuarius was erected by the French scientist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in his Ornithologie published in 1760.[5] The type species is the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius).[6] The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus had introduced the genus Casuarius in the sixth edition of his Systema Naturae published in 1748,[7] but Linnaeus dropped the genus in the important tenth edition of 1758 and put the southern cassowary together with the common ostrich and the greater rhea in the genus Struthio.[8][9] As the publication date of Linnaeus's sixth edition was before the 1758 starting point of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Brisson, and not Linnaeus, is considered as the authority for the genus.[10]
Cassowaries (from the Malay name kasuārī)[11] are part of the ratite group, which also includes the emu, rheas, ostriches, and kiwi, as well as the extinct moas and elephant birds. Three extant species are recognised, and one extinct:
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Casuarius casuarius | Southern cassowary or double-wattled cassowary | southern New Guinea, northeastern Australia, and the Aru Islands, mainly in lowlands [3] | |
Casuarius bennetti | Dwarf cassowary or Bennett's cassowary | New Guinea, New Britain, and Yapen, mainly in highlands [3] | |
Casuarius unappendiculatus | Northern cassowary or single-wattled cassowary | Northern and western New Guinea, and Yapen, mainly in lowlands [3][12] | |
(Extinct)† | Casuarius lydekkeri | Pygmy cassowary or small cassowary | Pleistocene fossils of New South Wales [13] and Papua New Guinea.[14] |
Most authorities consider the taxonomic classification above to be monotypic, however, several subspecies of each have been described,[15] and some of them have even been suggested as separate species, e.g., C. (b) papuanus.[12] The taxonomic name C. (b) papuanus also may be in need of revision to Casuarius (bennetti) westermanni.[16] Validation of these subspecies has proven difficult due to individual variations, age-related variations, the scarcity of specimens, the stability of specimens (the bright skin of the head and neck—the basis of describing several subspecies—fades in specimens), and the practice of trading live cassowaries for thousands of years, some of which are likely to have escaped or deliberately introduced to regions away from their origin.[12]
Illustration of the skull
The evolutionary history of cassowaries, as of all ratites, is not well known. A fossil species was reported from Australia, but for reasons of biogeography this assignment is not certain and it might belong to the prehistoric Emuarius, which were cassowary-like primitive emus.
Description[edit]
Typically, all cassowaries are shy birds that are found in the deep forest. They are adept at disappearing long before a human knows they were there. The southern cassowary of the far north Queenslandrain forests is not well studied, and the northern and dwarf cassowaries even less so.
Females are larger and more brightly coloured than the males. Adult southern cassowaries are 1.5 to 1.8 m (5–6 ft) tall, although some females may reach 2 m (6.6 ft),[17] and weigh 58.5 kg (130 lb).[12]
All cassowaries have feathers that consist of a shaft and loose barbules. They do not have retrices (tail feathers) or a preen gland. Cassowaries have small wings with 5–6 large remeges. These are reduced to stiff, keratinous quills, resembling porcupine quills, with no barbs.[12] A claw exists on each second digit of the feet.[18] The furcula and coracoid are degenerate, and their palatal bones and sphenoid bones touch each other.[19] These, along with their wedge-shaped body, are thought to be adaptations to ward off vines, thorns, and saw-edged leaves, allowing them to run quickly through the rainforest.[20]
Cassowaries use their feet as weapons
Cassowaries have three-toed feet with sharp claws. The second toe, the inner one in the medial position, sports a dagger-like claw that may be 125 mm (5 in) long.[21] This claw is particularly fearsome since cassowaries sometimes kick humans and animals with their enormously powerful legs. Cassowaries can run at up to 50 km/h (30 mph) through the dense forest and can jump up to 1.5 m (5 ft). They are good swimmers, crossing wide rivers and swimming in the sea.[18]
Close-up of the head of a southern cassowary
All three species have a keratinous skin-covered casque on their heads that grows with age. The casque's shape and size, up to 18 cm (7 in), is species-dependent. Casuarius casuarius has the largest and Casuarius bennetti the smallest (tricorn shape), with Casuarius unappendiculatus having variations in between. Contrary to earlier findings,[22] the hollow inside of the casque is spanned with fine fibres that are believed to have an acoustic function.[23] Several functions for the casque have been proposed. One is that they are a secondary sexual characteristic. Other suggested functions include being used to batter through underbrush, as a weapon in dominance disputes, or for pushing aside leaf litter during foraging. The latter three are disputed by biologist Andrew Mack, whose personal observation suggests that the casque amplifies deep sounds.[24]
Earlier research indicates the birds lower their heads when running 'full tilt through the vegetation, brushing saplings aside and occasionally careening into small trees. The casque would help protect the skull from such collisions'. Cassowaries eat fallen fruit and consequently spend much time under trees where seeds the size of golfballs or larger fall from heights of up to 30 m (100 ft); the wedge-shaped casque may protect the head by deflecting falling fruit.[citation needed]
It also has been speculated that the casques play a role in either sound reception or acoustic communication. This is related to a discovery that at least the dwarf cassowary and southern cassowary produce very-low frequency sounds, which may aid in communication in dense rainforest.[24] The 'boom' vocalisation that cassowaries produce is the lowest-frequency bird call known and is at the lower limit of human hearing.[25] A cooling function for the very similar casques of guineafowl has been proposed.
The average lifespan of wild cassowaries is believed to be about 40 to 50 years.[26]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Cassowaries are native to the humid rainforests of New Guinea and nearby smaller islands, and to northeastern Australia.[3] They will, however, venture out into palm scrub, grassland, savanna, and swamp forest.[19] It is unclear whether some island populations are natural or the result of human trade in young birds.
Behaviour and ecology[edit]
Cassowaries are solitary birds except during courtship, egg-laying, and sometimes around ample food supplies.[19] The male cassowary defends a territory of about 7 km2 (1,700 acres) for himself and his mate. Female cassowary have larger territories, overlapping those of several males.[26] While females move among satellite territories of different males, they appear to remain within the same territories for most of their lives, mating with the same, or closely related, males over the course of their life spans.
Courtship and pair bonding rituals begin with the vibratory sounds broadcast by females. Males approach and run with necks parallel to the ground while making dramatic movements of the head, which accentuate the frontal neck region. The female approaches drumming slowly. The male will crouch upon the ground and the female will either step on the male's back for a moment before crouching beside him in preparation for copulation, or she may attack. This is often the case with the females pursuing the males in ritualistic chasing behaviours that generally terminate in water. The male cassowary dives into water and submerges himself up to his upper neck and head. The female pursues him into the water where he eventually drives her to the shallows where she crouches making ritualistic motions of her head. The two may remain in copulation for extended periods of time. In some cases another male may approach and run off the first male. He will climb onto her to copulate as well.
Males are far more tolerant of one another than females, which do not tolerate the presence of other females.[citation needed]
Reproduction[edit]
Southern cassowary
The cassowary breeding season starts in May to June. Females lay three to eight large, bright green or pale green-blue eggs in each clutch into a heap of leaf litter prepared by the male.[19] The eggs measure about 9 by 14 cm (3.5 by 5.5 in) – only ostrich and emu eggs are larger.
The male incubates those eggs for 50–52 days, removing or adding litter to regulate the temperature, then protects the chicks, who stay in the nest for about nine months. He defends them fiercely against all potential predators, including humans. The young males later go off to find a territory of their own.[19][26]
The female does not care for the eggs or the chicks, but rather moves on within her territory to lay eggs in the nests of several other males.
Young cassowaries are brown and have buffy stripes. They are often kept as pets in native villages [in New Guinea], where they are permitted to roam like barnyard fowl. Often they are kept until they become nearly grown and someone gets hurt. Mature cassowaries are placed beside native houses in cribs hardly larger than the birds themselves. Garbage and other vegetable food is fed to them, and they live for years in such enclosures; in some areas their plumage is still as valuable as shell money . Caged birds are regularly bereft of their fresh plumes.[20]
Diet[edit]
Cassowaries are predominantly frugivorous, but omnivorous opportunistically when small prey is available. Besides fruits, their diet includes flowers, fungi, snails, insects, frogs, birds, fish, rats, mice, and carrion. Fruit from at least 26 plant families has been documented in the diet of cassowaries. Fruits from the laurel, podocarp, palm, wild grape, nightshade, and myrtle families are important items in the diet.[19] The cassowary plum takes its name from the bird.
Where trees are dropping fruit, cassowaries will come in and feed, with each bird defending a tree from others for a few days. They move on when the fruit is depleted. Fruit, even items as large as bananas and apples, is swallowed whole.
Cassowaries are a keystone species of rain forests because they eat fallen fruit whole and distribute seeds across the jungle floor via excrement.[19]
As for eating the cassowary, it is supposed to be quite tough. Australian administrative officers stationed in New Guinea were advised that it 'should be cooked with a stone in the pot: when the stone is ready to eat so is the Cassowary'.[27]
Role in seed dispersal and germination[edit]
Cassowaries feed on the fruit of several hundred rainforest species and usually pass viable seeds in large, dense scats. They are known to disperse seeds over distances greater than a kilometre, and thus play an important role in the ecosystem. Germination rates for seeds of the rare Australian rainforest tree Ryparosa were found to be much higher after passing through a cassowary's gut (92% versus 4%).[28]
Status and conservation[edit]
A road sign in Cairns, Queensland, Australia
The southern cassowary is endangered in Queensland. Kofron and Chapman (2006) assessed the decline of this species. They found that, of the former cassowary habitat, only 20–25% remains. They stated that habitat loss and fragmentation is the primary cause of decline.[29] They then studied 140 cases of cassowary mortality and found that motor vehicle strikes accounted for 55% of the deaths, and dog attacks produced another 18%. Remaining causes of death included hunting (5 cases), entanglement in wire (1 case), the removal of cassowaries that attacked humans (4 cases), and natural causes (18 cases), including tuberculosis (4 cases). The cause for 14 cases were indicated as, for unknown reasons.[29]
Hand feeding of cassowaries poses a significant threat to their survival because it lures them into suburban areas. There, the birds are more susceptible to encounters with vehicles and dogs.[30] Contact with humans encourages cassowaries to take food from picnic tables. Feral pigs also are a significant threat to their survival. They destroy nests and eggs of cassowaries, but their worst effect is as competitors for food, which may be catastrophic for the cassowaries during lean times.
In February 2011 Cyclone Yasi destroyed a large area of cassowary habitat, endangering 200 of the birds – approximately 10% of the total Australian population.[31]
In captivity[edit]
The cassowary has solitary habits and breeds less frequently in zoos than other ratites such as ostrich and emu. Unlike other ratites, it lives exclusively in tropical rainforest, and it is important to recreate this habitat carefully. Unlike the emu, which will live with other sympatric species, such as kangaroos, in 'mixed Australian fauna' displays, the cassowary does not cohabit well among its own kind. Individual specimens must even be kept in separate enclosures, due to their solitary and aggressive nature. Territoriality is one of their most important characteristics.
The double-wattled cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is the most popular species in captivity and it is fairly common in European and American zoos, where it is known for its unmistakable appearance. As of 2019 only Weltvogelpark Walsrode in Germany has all three species of cassowary in its collection: single-wattled cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus) and Bennett's cassowary (Casuarius bennetti), both of which are endemic to the tropical rainforest of New Guinea, and the dwarf cassowary, the smallest species. If subspecies are recognised, Weltvogelpark Walsrode has Casuarius bennettii westermanni and Casuarius unappendiculatus rufotinctus.
Relationship with humans[edit]
Cassowary held as pet during the Siboga Expedition on Indonesia and New Guinea, 1899–1900
Some New Guinea Highlands societies capture cassowary chicks and raise them as semi-tame poultry, for use in ceremonial gift exchanges and as food.[32] They are the only indigenous Australasian animal known to have been partly domesticated by people prior to European arrival.[33]
Attacks[edit]
Cassowaries have a reputation for being dangerous to people and domestic animals. During World War II American and Australian troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clear of them. In his 1958 book, Living Birds of the World, ornithologist Ernest Thomas Gilliard wrote:
The inner or second of the three toes is fitted with a long, straight, murderous nail which can sever an arm or eviscerate an abdomen with ease. There are many records of natives being killed by this bird.[34]
This assessment of the danger posed by cassowaries has been repeated in print by authors including Gregory S. Paul (1988)[35] and Jared Diamond (1997).[36] A 2003 historical study of 221 cassowary attacks showed that 150 had been against humans: 75% of these had been from cassowaries that had been fed by people, 71% of the time the bird had chased or charged the victim, 15% of the time they kicked. Of the attacks, 73% involved the birds expecting or snatching food, 5% involved defending their natural food sources, 15% involved defending themselves from attack, and 7% involved defending their chicks or eggs. Only one human death was reported among those 150 attacks.[37]
The first documented human death caused by a cassowary was on April 6, 1926. In Australia, 16-year-old Phillip McClean and his brother, age 13, came across a cassowary on their property and decided to try to kill it by striking it with clubs. The bird kicked the younger boy, who fell and ran away as his older brother struck the bird. The older McClean then tripped and fell to the ground. While he was on the ground, the cassowary kicked him in the neck, opening a 1.25 cm (0.5 in) wound that may have severed his jugular vein. The boy died of his injuries shortly thereafter.[38]
Cassowary strikes to the abdomen are among the rarest of all, but there is one case of a dog that was kicked in the belly in 1995. The blow left no puncture, but there was severe bruising. The dog later died from an apparent intestinal rupture.[38]
Another human death due to a cassowary was recorded in Florida on April 12, 2019. The bird's owner, 75-year-old Marvin Hajos, who had raised the animal, was apparently clawed to death after he fell to the ground.[4][39][40][41][42]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Melville, R. V.; Smith, J. D. D., eds. (1987). Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology. ICZN. p. 17.
- ^'Part 7- Vertebrates'. Collection of group names. 2007. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
- ^ abcdeClements, J. (2007)
- ^ abMosbergen, Dominique (April 14, 2019). ''World's Most Dangerous Bird' Kills 75-Year-Old Owner In Florida'. HuffPost. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
- ^Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Volume 1. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 46, Vol. 5: p. 10, Plate 1 fig 2.
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Uncited text[edit]
- Rothschild, Walter (1899) A Monograph of the genus Casuarius. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol15 pt5, December 1900.
External links[edit]
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- ARKive – images and movies of the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
- C4 – Cassowary Conservation based in Mission Beach
- Cassowary videos, photos and sounds on the Internet Bird Collection
- Ernest Ingersoll (1920). 'Cassowary' . Encyclopedia Americana.
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