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Casuarius casuarius, aka Cassowary, is a flightless bird that lives in Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is a conspicuous creatures with a brightly colored head and distinct crest. This crest is used as a natural machete, chopping and crushing vegetation as the Cassowary makes…

The disperser

Today rainforest covers less than 1% of Australia’s landmass. Historically rainforest cover would have been greater, and over geological time periods rainforest expanded and contracted across Australia. Current rainforest cover in Australia has been influenced by human land use clearing and fragmentation caused by…