A cassowary is a type of what?
Northern cassowary Northern cassowary The northern cassowary ("Casuarius unappendiculatus") also known as the one-wattled cassowary, single-wattled cassowary, or golden-necked cassowary, is a large, stocky flightless bird of northern New Guinea. They are members of the superorder Paleognathae. (See also dwarf cassowary and southern cassowary.) Edward Blyth first identified the northern cassowary from a specimen from an aviary located in Calcutta, India, in 1860. The genus name "Casuarius" is derived from the Malay word "kesuari" "cassowary", while the species name "unappendiculatus" refers to the species' single wattle. Officially, there are no subspecies, though some authors list several subspecies. It has hard and stiff
Cassowary but when provoked they are capable of inflicting injuries, occasionally fatal, to dogs and people. The genus "Casuarius" was erected by the French scientist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in his "Ornithologie" published in 1760. The type species is the southern cassowary ("Casuarius casuarius"). The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus had introduced the genus "Casuarius" in the 6th edition of his "Systema Naturae" published in 1748, but Linnaeus dropped the genus in the important tenth edition of 1758 and put the southern cassowary together with the common ostrich and the greater rhea in the genus "Struthio". As the publication date of Linnaeus's sixth