We were incredibly lucky today in our visit to the Daintree, in that we had a chance to see a wild cassowary. The one in this photo walked right by the passenger door of our coach, so I got a pretty good look at it.
There are not many left in the wild; estimates range from 800 to 2500. There are cassowaries in captivity, but the attempts to breed them have thus far been unsuccessful. So, it is entirely possible that the cassowaries of Queensland will go extinct in our lifetime.
--charlie
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