{"id":26911,"date":"2024-09-28T03:02:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26911"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:10:44","slug":"cassowary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cassowary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassowary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Cassowary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a large, <strong>flightless bird<\/strong> most closely related to the emu. It is considered the most dangerous bird in the world.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>strong swimmers<\/strong> and can move quickly on both land and water.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has been stated that cassowaries are shy and they are usually hard to spot, at least in their natural rain forest habitats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> It is native to <strong>New Guinea and found in Australian<\/strong> rainforests.<\/li>\n<li>There are three species of cassowary.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>southern, or double-wattled cassowary<\/strong> (Casuarius casuarius) is the largest of the three. It inhabits lowland rainforest and is also found in eucalyptus forests or forested swamps.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>northern or single-wattled cassowary<\/strong> (Casuarius unappendiculatus) inhabits the coastal swamps and lowland rainforests of <strong>northern New Guinea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>dwarf cassowary<\/strong> is smaller than the other two species of cassowary, usually weighing around 50 pounds. Their habitat is at a <strong>higher altitude,<\/strong> and they are generally found in more steep mountainous terrain,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecological Significance:<\/strong> They remain a significant <strong>dispersal of seeds<\/strong> from native plants between rainforest patches and remain essential in maintaining native plant diversity.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultural Significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are culturally <strong>important for some Aboriginal groups<\/strong>, and they sometimes feature in traditional ceremonies, dances and Dreamtime narratives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Several of these indigenous groups are now involved in cassowary conservation, using traditional ecological knowledge along with modern science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Emu?<\/h3>\n<p>It belongs to a group of flightless running birds known as ratites, the most primitive of the modern bird families. It is the second-largest living bird in the world (the ostrich is the largest). Distribution: The Emu is found only in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/explainers\/2024\/Sep\/26\/september-26-a-day-dedicated-to-cassowary-the-most-dangerous-bird-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 26: A day dedicated to Cassowary, the &#8216;most dangerous bird&#8217; in the world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassowary is a large, flightless bird most closely related to the emu. It is considered the most dangerous bird in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}