Talk:Cassowary

message: 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)
thread_title: problem with descriptions: species are mixed

message: I did a lot of updating on their casques using the scientific literature.  Pigkeeper 02:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Casques (Their horny heads)

message: Anyone wanna identify the Cassowary I shot at Pennant Hills Koala Park?  Shermozle
:Still alive? ;-) --Robert Merkel 23:54, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Human Women are normally more colorful than their male counterparts *ducks*
Other than humans. Dora Nichov 03:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Identification?

message: oh, what a treat, fresh feces. honestly.riana 09:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Scat picture

message: They can jump?!211.72.108.3 02:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jumping

message: 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)
replies: text: That comment is not valid. see Hybrid. - 20:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hybrid

message: 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)
replies: text: Of course they have preditors, like big snakes, alligators, packs of dogs all hunt Cassowaries. Plus Australia used to have huge preditors at one time. Like the Pronghorn of North America, it runs fast because at one time it did have to contend with (American) Cheetahs and such
63.26.83.245 (talk) 04:46, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Predators

message: "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)
thread_title: Diet

message: 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.
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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
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thread_title: Bird Weight - More Accurate Units

message: I've recently returned from a trip to Australia and took a few pictures of C. Casuarius in the Rainforest Habitat in Port Douglas. They are not great (the birds were not particularly cooperative), but may be useful. I've uploaded them to the Commons as :Image: Southern Cassowary1.JPG, :Image: Southern Cassowary2.JPG and :Image: Southern Cassowary3.JPG. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 17:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New pictures

message: 67.167.152.133 (talk) 19:41, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cassowary

message: recently updated the taxobox on this page to change the order from Struthioniformes to Casuaniformes.  I have reverted these changes for the time being.  I understand that the taxonomy of birds is a tricky subject, but it strikes me that this change is not "non-controversial" and should be discussed here first.  Please express any opinions regarding this change here.  If no objection is made, I will restore this change.  I will also include this topic in discussion at WP:WikiProject Birds. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:29, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Order

message: We were fortunate to see cassowaries in the wild, twice (March 2011, just 6 weeks after the hurricane). The first encounter resulted in dozens of images, 2 shown here in the above photos. The second encounter occured when the light was bad, plus time worked against us as the cassowary with its 2 chicks (brown and cute!) vanished into the bush. The two photos above are from the first encounter about noon in south Mission Beach: broad daylight. We parked. The beast circled our car. We had plenty of time to take photos (my son's are better with his nice 35 mm digital). To reinterate: this is just a few months after the severe damage of the 2011 hurricane (hiking paths blocked, extreme forest damage with defoliation that looked like Vermont USA in the winter, destroyed homes and businesses, abandoned structures, absolutely-ruined beaches (the hurricane leaving a wide skirt of sand between the ocean and a sharply-escarpted ocean-front of sand/rubble/trees. A mess. [Intuition: mother nature was in her own sweet time fixing this.] ). We find it remarkable that any wildlife survived the destruction. But apparently their survival abilties are well-honed. Both cassowaries we saw within 30 km of one another. the 2nd with its 2 chicks about 30km to the south, just north of Cardwell. Bill Wvbailey (talk) 00:41, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In-the-wild at Mission Beach photos 

message: I removed the sentence:
"Many internet entries about cassowaries state that they can disembowel a human or dog with one kick, with the long second toe claw cutting the gut open."
Since many "internet entries" about just about everything state almost anything.
66.108.243.166 (talk) 18:51, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many internet entries about cassowaries state that they... 

message: The lead image is a very striking and pleasing image, but is it the best for an encyclopeadia? The angle it is taken from gives no indication about the length of the neck or the shape of the body.  I found the following image in Commons and I am proposing it should replace the current lead image.
File:Casuarius casuarius -Artis Zoo, Netherlands-8a.jpg  
__DrChrissy (talk) 16:33, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better lead image 

message: Has anyone seen those Japanese priests who wear hats that look exactly like a Cassowary crest? Is this just a coincidence? When did the Japanese first encounter these birds?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.239.235 (talk) 03:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration for Japanese priest hat? 

message: The section on attacks starts with a quotation about the Cassowary's "murderous" claws, then proceeds to walk back the claims in the quotation without unequivocally contradicting it. It looks to me as if the quotation is a ridiculous exaggeration. The article should take a clearer stance on the matter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.254.202.133 (talk) 20:35, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A less equivocal stance on whether Cassowaries are dangerous? 

message: The box on the right says (and apparently cannot be edited):
Class: Reptiliae
Class: Aves
Now what is it, a two-legged croc with feathers, or a bird with the upper body of a snake? At least both lay eggs... --jayaitch (talk) 11:20, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted.  It is also interesting that the text can not be edited - I have not encountered this before. 18:17, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This article uses  which aims to remove redundancy between infoboxes by having the entries determined automatically. I do not know the details, but to the right of the "Scientific classification" heading in the infobox is a pencil icon. Clicking that leads to Template:Taxonomy/Casuarius which was created by Pvmoutside on 17 May 2016. Someone with knowledge of the system needs to sort out what is going on. Clicking "Related changes" in the tools section of the left-sidebar on the article shows some templates recently edited, but I don't see anything relevant. However, Wikid77 was working on some templates and may be able to enlighten us. Johnuniq (talk) 23:32, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be aves in my view....the project has been trying to accommodate a dinosaur (therefore a reptile) advocate (see above).....it maybe has been changed due to that.  You can change the automatic taxobox if you know where to look BTW.....Pvmoutside (talk) 00:05, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reptiliae or Aves? 

message: Why was reference to John Grant song removed? It is directly relevant to the section. Please leave an explanation if you're going to just delete relevant information.
:That's the point - it is NOT relevant, in that it does not provide information on the topic, or play any substantial role in how the topic is perceived or treated. The bar for trivia (which is what this is) is that they need to be impactful. See this section on "popular culture" items for examples and details. In a nutshell, if item X is mentioned in a song/book/cartoon/whatever, that is very rarely considered worthy of inclusion in the article on X, unless there's a lot of that and it has had an impact on public perception. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:23, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: (And as a reminder - now that your addition has been reverted, please don't just ram it in again before discussion has concluded (see WP:BRD). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:25, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

text: 'Tis well considered. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:58, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: The opening sentence is a juxtaposition of taxonomic jargon and obscure anatomical features. In Plain Speaking, this would say: “A cassowary is a very large flightless Indo-Australian bird somewhat similar to its more familiar cousins, emus and ostriches.” It’s exact geographic distribution can be elided to the appropriate text paragraph; it’s not quite accurate anyway.  The short description says, “genus of birds”; blah and bland - it tells me nothing about this bird. How about an echo of what I just wrote: “large flightless Indo-Australian birds”. Sbalfour (talk) 14:41, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lede 

message: For the most dangerous bird on Earth with an average height of six feet, the lead image fails to bring this point home to the reader. Viriditas (talk) 10:18, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No sense of scale in lead image 

message: WHAT MAKES IT DANGEROUS TO HUMANS?
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE (LIMBS, HORNS, CLAWS, COLOUR, SIZE, BODY COVERING) ?
WHETHER IT HAS BACK BONE AND SKELETON ?
HATCH FROM EGGS OR YOUNG ARE BORN ?
WHAT IS MOUTH IS LIKE ?
WHAT IT EATS ? 154.80.76.166 (talk) 17:42, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  CASSOWARY  

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