
%0 Journal Article
%A Pratt, TK 
%T Diet of the Dwarf Cassowary <I>Casuarius bennetti picticollis</I> at Wau, Papua New Guinea
%J Emu
%D 1982/10/01
%V 82
%N 5
%P 283-285
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9820283S
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU9820283S 
%X This paper describes the diet of the Dwarf Cassowary in a lower montane forest at Wau in Papua New Guinea. The forty-three droppings examined contained mostly fruit, of at least thirty-four species. Dwarf Cassowaries eat relatively large fruit, a diet more similar to flying foxes than to other birds. Droppings contained an average of 3.6 species of fruits indicating that Dwarf Cassowaries exploit a variety of food trees at any one time. 
