🐦Northern Cassowary
The northern cassowary, also known as the one-wattled cassowary, single-wattled cassowary, or golden-necked cassowary, is a large, stocky flightless bird of northern New Guinea. It is one of the three living species of cassowary, alongside the dwarf cassowary and the southern cassowary. It is a member of the superorder Palaeognathae.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- Body mass
- 46 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the Northern Cassowary
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass46 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 47 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.27 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.26 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.3 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l46 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Northern Cassowary yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCasuariiformes
- ›familyCasuariidae
- ›genusCasuarius
- ›speciesCasuarius unappendiculatus
- classBirds · Aves
- orderCasuariiformes
- familyCasuariidae
- genusCasuarius
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- superorderPalaeognathae
- orderCasuariiformes
- familyCasuariidae
- genusCasuarius
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