Juv calling the usual contact call, also drinking and preening

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The juvenile got separated from the parent and his two siblings, this is the usual distress call which often brings the male back very fast if he is in earshot. Only ever given as an anxiety or distress call, can be very loud when really upset.

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Captive male bird. Would bow his head down and inflate his throat then emit this incredible call at exceptionally low-frequency <100hz . You'll need to have decent speakers or headphones to hear it well.

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The male brought the very tiny chick along on Aug 27 for the first time. Here you can hear the chick giving the peep alarm call, and the male growling in response.

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This juvenile is now 10 months old and has been on its own for some 2 months; today it was being chased by the big female, this is the alarm call and you can hear it crashing away at the end. The adults drive off the juvs but this female will tolerate it within about 5m before reacting

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The male and female were close by and every time she came close he gave this call, one of the pre-mating ones and not the usual deep slow 'uh uh uh' booming

Over the past few days I spent several hours trying to tape the deep infrasonic 3 or 4 syllabled 'departure call' of our male Cassowary, which he gives once or maybe twice each visit, over a couple of hours stay, and only in the mornings oddly enough. He bows his head and fluffs out the neck and back feathers to give this very deep rolling grunt, which you can feel in the pit of your stomach. I finally got it this morning, with him just below me off our veranda, but when I play back the ME 66 Sennheiser mike does not seem to have picked it up! Very disappointing

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The male was reacting to the presence of a newly arrived female, very anxious about her arriving here; this type of call is given when chicks are very small, as well as when alarmed in this sort of situation. It is very deep toned and grunting, best listened to through headphones, he calls some 4 times in this cut, with very short preamble grunts in a couple of cases. The female was calling for him yesterday, a higher pitched less grunting version, but I missed the chance to tape her, getting female calls is extremely challenging as they are so infrequent.

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Male giving the growling response call in reply to the anxiety note from the tiny chick, first seen Aug 27 and about 10 days old on Aug 30

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The pair of Cassowary were mating by the pond, a process which took about 2 minutes from the preliminary treading to the mating, then as usual the female leapt up and chased the male, who crashed off grunting- you can hear the crashing away and the grunts here

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Microphone left in a dry creek bed surrounded by tropical lowland rainforest. Recording has been edited to shorten the intervals between vocalisations which happened over around 5 minutes and the bass frequencies have been amplified significantly. I am assuming the cassowary was sleeping in the forest near to where I placed the microphones as I did near any walking through foliage before or after the vocalisations.

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This juvenile is now 10 months old and has been on its own for some 2 months; today it was being chased by the big female, this is the anxiety call just before the female drove it away.

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The male was with his 3 chicks 7 month old when the female appeared and they became quite antagonistic to each other, she followed him and he ran off grunting loudly. This will be a prelude to mating in a month or so

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