What is Cassowary?
{{Good}} {{Taxobox | name = Cassowary | image = Kasuaris.jpg | image_width = 220px | image_caption = [[Southern cassowary]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Struthioniformes]] | familia = [[Casuariidae]] | genus = '''''Casuarius''''' | genus_authority = [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]], 1760 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''[[Casuarius casuarius]]''<br><small>southern cassowary</small><br> ''[[Casuarius unappendiculatus]]''<br><small>northern cassowary</small><br> ''[[Casuarius bennetti]]''<br><small>dwarf cassowary</small> }} [[Image:Casuarius unappendiculatus -Northern Cassowary -oblique front.jpg|thumb|220px|right|A northern cassowary.]] [[File:Casuariuas casuarius Distribution map.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Where the southern cassowary lives]] [[File:Casuarius unappendiculatus Distribution.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Where the northern cassowary lives]] [[File:Casuarius bennetti Distribution.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Where the dwarf cassowary lives]] [[File:Cassowary feet closeup.png|thumb|220px|right|The southern cassowary has very sharp claws]] [[Image:Cassowary head frontal.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Detail of a cassowary head.]] '''Cassowaries ''' (''Casuarius'') are a kind of large bird which cannot fly. They are in a group of [[flightless birds]] called the [[ratite]]s. The [[ostrich]], [[emu]], [[moa]] (now [[extinct]]) and small [[kiwi]] are other ratites. The cassowary lives in the [[tropical]] [[rainforest]]s of [[New Guinea]] and north eastern [[Australia]]. They are shy birds living deep in the forest. They may become aggressive, and they may attack people. This makes it hard to learn about them.<ref name=wt>{{cite web |url=http://www.wettropics.gov.au/pa/pa_casso.html |title=The Cassowary |accessdate=2009-01-18 |format=html |work=Plants and animals in the wet tropics |archive-date=2008-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223072427/http://www.wettropics.gov.au/pa/pa_casso.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> A group of casso