Cassowary

It flaps its wings and looks around, before plucking a berry and eating it.

Cassowaries are birds that live in tropical rainforests, north of Australia and in New Guinea.

Cassowaries are very territorial and dangerous animals, with a helmet-like cap, a large crest and a heavy, strong beak, they have black legs and large deadly claws. They are very territorial and when they see something very close, they don't think twice and attack it with fury.

They are solitary flightless and very aggressive birds that live in the tropical rainforest, where they feed on fallen fruits, some mushrooms and small animals. Its black plumage is made up of rough quills, some of them ending in hair-like filaments. The neck is blue and red (caruncle) and they have a large bony protuberance on the head, called a helmet, which can provide protection to the bird when the animal moves through the dense vegetation of its habitat. It can also be used. as a defense at any time when you feel threatened.

The female can mate with several males, building a clutch with each of them. They lay their eggs in a bed of leaves on the forest floor. The chicks are cared for by the parents for nine months. The male takes charge of incubation for about fifty-two days, but both parents take care of the young.

About 90% of the Cassowary's diet consists of fruit, although all species are opportunistic omnivores, taking a range of other plant foods, including grass shoots and seeds, as well as fungi, invertebrates, eggs, carrion, fish and small vertebrates such as rodents, small birds, frogs, lizards and snakes

Although all ratites can eat meat, cassowaries, by definition, are the most omnivorous and therefore the largest omnivorous bird in which meat still forms a tiny part of their diet. In fact, although they are not hypercarnivorous predators like birds of prey, cassowaries, including juveniles.