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Southern Cassowary № 160

Southern Cassowary

Casuarius casuarius

A dagger of a claw on each inner toe, and a boom pitched near the bottom of human hearing. Australia's one recorded death came in 1926, when two teenage brothers tried to club one.

Photo · Oscar Dove · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Phil Gregory · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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