Its more famous flightless cousin, the emu, is one of Australia’s national symbols ... They are also the rare animal species where males do the majority of infant care. Female cassowaries ...

Did you know that Australia once went to war with emus and lost? The Great Emu War was a real military effort to control emu populations, but these flightless birds proved to be surprisingly ...

and like all wild birds and animals, they can be unpredictable. In 2022, a man was attacked by an emu not in Australia, but in the British town of Malmesbury. After crashing their truck into the ...