Photo of the Day
a female cassowary in Australia
Cassowary, Australia
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A cassowary peers through foliage in northeast Queensland, Australia. Females like this one can weigh 160 pounds. No one knows what the casque on her head is for, but it could be a sexual ornament.
See more pictures from the September 2013 feature story “Big Bird.”
