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Casuarius bennetti Drwarf Cassowary Papua New Guinea by Nick Hobgood🐦

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SpeciesCasuariiformesCasuariidae
Birds

🐦Dwarf Cassowary

Casuarius bennetti Gould, 1857

Kazuar mniejszy (Casuarius bennetti) – gatunek dużego ptaka z rodziny kazuarowatych (Casuariidae). Najmniejszy z kazuarów, wysokość 80 cm (do poziomu grzbietu), kask niezbyt wysoki, spłaszczony w części przedniej i tylnej, brak fałdów skórnych.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
35 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Dwarf Cassowary

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
35 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 35 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.32 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.22 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.26 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
26 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
35 Laverage
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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 Dwarf Cassowary yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCasuariiformes
  5. ›familyCasuariidae
  6. ›genusCasuarius
  7. ›speciesCasuarius bennetti
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderCasuariiformes
  3. familyCasuariidae
  4. genusCasuarius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderPalaeognathae
  11. orderCasuariiformes
  12. familyCasuariidae
  13. genusCasuarius
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casuari de Bennett (ca), kasuár malý (cs), Dværgkasuar (da), Bennettkasuar (de), Casuarius bennetti (es), pikkukasuaari (fi) … and 22 more languages
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