The male cassowary dives into water and submerges himself up to his upper neck and head. The female pursues him into the water, where he eventually drives her to the shallows, where she crouches making ritualistic motions of her head.

2022年4月9日 · Some of you might recall the Inside Nature’s Giants episode in which Graham Lauridsen, Joy Reidenberg and Mark Evans dissected a cassowary casque to reveal a messy, bloody, wiry pulp that left them somewhat confused. What they were actually looking at was the bleeding, broken mass of internal trabeculae.

WHAT’S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? The horn-like structure on a cassowary’s head is called a casque. The inside is a honeycombed spongy structure which connects to the ear canals, while the outer layer is usually light to dark brown in colour and resembles the material found on a …

Cassowaries (Casuarius) possess a cranial casque, sheathed by keratin and composed of modified cranial bones. We combine data and hypotheses on three areas of cassowary research. First, we...

One of the Cassowary’s most defining features is its casque, the helmet-like structure on its head. Duck-billed dinosaurs that roamed the earth 65 million years ago (e.g. corythosaurus and parasaurolophus) had similar ‘wedged’ heads. Each casque is unique often showing signs of permanent damage from accidents and injuries.

The La Trobe University researchers have published new evidence in Scientific Reports on the southern cassowary and its distinctive helmet – known as a casque. Danielle Eastick, from La Trobe’s Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution and her team have shown the cranial structure acts like a radiator or “thermal window” to help ...

That strange knob on top of a cassowary’s head is called a casque (Kaa-sk), or helmet. The hard outside of the casque is made of keratin, like your fingernails. Inside, there is a spongy material. No one knows for certain why these birds have a casque, but there are guesses!

Unlike emus, however, each cassowary has a large growth on its heads known as a casque. Scientists have been trying to identify the function of the casque for centuries, and thanks to 20 cassowaries in human care, they may finally have their answer.

The Cassowary's large size, its large greyish helmet (casque) and the red wattle hanging from the neck, make it easy to identify. The feathers of the body are black and hair-like. The bare skin of the head and fore-neck is blue, while the rear of the neck is red.

2014年11月30日 · We combine data and hypotheses on three areas of cassowary research. First, we present novel observations on casque anatomy. The bony core is fragile, incorporating a mass of trabeculae anteriorly and an empty space posteriorly. Secondly, we use these observations to evaluate hypotheses of casque function.