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25 Oct 05:35am

Filed under: Bird, Cassowary, Conservation, Cyclone Yasi, Rainforest, Wildlife

Life was not meant to be easy for cassowaries.

I am writing this as I enjoy an escape at my in-laws hideaway retreat in the middle of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. It’s raining.

Heavy tropical rain is best experienced in a dense rainforest setting. It is a unique form of entertainment for a city slicker - especially when many of the other trappings of modern city life are non-existent. There is no mobile phone coverage, no town water - just a bore - a sub-soil waste management distribution system and very poor and infrequent radio reception even with an aerial. My link to the outside world is a satellite broadband set-up for internet - no television.

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Kika says:

01:49pm | 25/10/11

Cassowaries eat their own poo.. A lot of the rainforest up north is germinated only by the fruit getting eaten by the birds, which they then poo around the place. Then they eat undigested fruit from their poo and the cycle continues. Amazing. But gross./ Read more »
Kika says:

01:34pm | 25/10/11

Hahah I am from Brisbane too and I agree with Fairsfair… Very rarely we get anything like a monsoonal shower. Yeah we get storms, but not like a monsoon. Read more »

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