Talk:Cassowary
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[edit] problem with descriptions: species are mixed
The article starts talking about 3 species, then focuses on the Southern species, but it looks messy. Some comments look like generalities for all species when they probably are only about the Southern species. This should be clarified. Pigkeeper 22:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Casques (Their horny heads)
I did a lot of updating on their casques using the scientific literature. Pigkeeper 02:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Species?
This page says there are three species of Cassowary, however, the National Zoo in DC has a 'Double Waddled Cassowary' (Casuarius casuarius bicarnculatus) also from New Guinea which is not on this list, so I think there are at least four species.
- From the three-part scientific name, Casuarius casuarius bicarnculatus, we can see that they have classified it as a subspecies of the Common Cassowary, but I'll check on it when I get home to my reference books tonight, and make adjustments as appropriate. Thanks for the heads up! Tannin 04:07 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Identification?
Anyone wanna identify the Cassowary I shot at Pennant Hills Koala Park? Shermozle
- Still alive? ;-) --Robert Merkel 23:54, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Just a minute, females are more brightly colored than males??? This is the opposite of every other bird, nearly every other -creature- on earth!
- Human Women are normally more colorful than their male counterparts *ducks*
Other than humans. Dora Nichov 03:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scat picture
oh, what a treat, fresh feces. honestly.riana 09:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I think this should be deleted. Dung is dung, and we all know what it looks like.Joeylawn 01:51, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, actually, cassowary dung looks like no other bird scat that I've ever seen. I've reinstated the picture along with very relevant information about the birds' scatology--how it disperses seeds and aids in the germination of a rare australian tree. I resized the image and changed the title so as to be less offensive to the squeamish. Pigkeeper 00:46, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jumping
They can jump?!211.72.108.3 02:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hybrid
I believe the cassowary can be hybridized with its close cousin, the emu, or maybe (unlikely) with other ratites . Has this ever been done?
There from different genera, so I don't think so. Dora Nichov 03:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- That comment is not valid. see Hybrid. - 20:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Predators
As far as I know, adult cassowaries have no predators (other than humans, of course, but humans are the predators of every animal on earth), so why do they need such powerful kicks? Dora Nichov 03:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps that's why they have no predators?
Perhaps. I didn't think of it that way! Dora Nichov 10:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Diet
"They also eat fungi, snails, insects, frogs, snakes and people." Cassowari are agressive, but can we have a source for one having eaten a human please. Swales 05:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Definitely not! I've never heard of any bird eating a human, unless you count vampire finch or vultures picking dead bodies. I suppose a large eagle may be alble to snatch a tiny baby but that's about it. Ratites can kill but they don't eat. Dora Nichov 09:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bird Weight - More Accurate Units
The Cassowary's weight is given as 70 kilograms. Kilograms is a unit of mass not weight. It would be more accurate to say kilograms-force.
To quote from the Kilogram article:
"Since masses are rarely measured to an uncertainty of better than one percent, it is technically just as valid to state that a one-kilogram object on Earth has a weight of one kilogram-force as it is to state that it has a mass of one kilogram. Accordingly, it may correctly be assumed that when someone speaks or writes of a “weight” in kilograms, they are referring to the gravitational load of the kilogram and the proper “kilogram-force” is implied."
This is why if you ever visit a country that uses the SI(assuming you live in a non-SI country), you'll notice that the use of the term "kilograms-force" to refer to weight never happens. - Gleeok
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gleeok (talk • contribs) 07:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
