#cassowary

[the-vegan-muser]

I took one of my new favorite cassowary pictures yesterday

[herpsandbirds]

Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), father with chick, family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, northern QLD, Australia

Photograph by Robert Tidey

[maimonideznuts]

Good news everyone... We finally know why Cassowaries have the Casque (horn like protrusion on the head)

It fluoresces in a UV spectrum that they can see, and every Cassowary has a unique pattern like a fingerprint. Shiny dinosaurs!

Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius) - Scientific Reports

Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signali

[notes28]

Derpy bird doodles! ✨

[treshchotka]

Birds!

And badges

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[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldCassowaryDay :

Two cassowaries by Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, Japan, 1760-1849)

1: c.1820-40s, drawing from Illustrations for the Great Picture Book of Everything

2: 1849, woodblock print from V3 of Hokusai Gafu

[lurelimeart]

lil series i did this past week

[zooophagous]

I managed to collect another "holy grail" item for the personal museum. This time a blown cassowary egg. Cassowary are beautiful, colorful, bizarre birds and their bright green eggs certainly match that blueprint as well.

This egg was a nonfertile egg from an animal in a zoo. No chicks were harmed to collect it. I can't promise a zookeeper didn't get kicked at for it though.

It goes into the cabinet with the other legal eggs, of which options are limited in North America due to the protections provided by the MBTA.