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Difference between Cassowary and Emu

Cassowary vs. Emu

Cassowaries (muruk, kasuari, Biak: man suar, Papuan: kasu weri) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird.

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Bird of prey

Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).

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Casuariiformes

The Casuariiformes is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu.

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Common ostrich

The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Egg incubation

Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.

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Elephant bird

Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Flightless bird

Flightless birds have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Kiwi (bird)

Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes.

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Moa

Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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Ostrich

Ostriches are large flightless birds.

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Ratite

A ratite is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae.

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Rhea (bird)

Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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