Does Rain Forest Bird “Boom” Like a Dinosaur?
From deep in the rain forest comes a low, booming sound. It rumbles on for several minutes; enough time for any listeners to wonder whether they’ve stumbled into some real-life Jurassic Park. Far-fetched? Not according to scientists who’ve been investigating the noise. They say it could hark back to the time of the dinosaurs. Biologists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society recorded these rumbles in the jungle during a recent study of the cassowary. The ostrich-like bird which grows up to five feet (1.5 meters) tall, weighs upwards of 125 pounds (57 kilograms), and can reach running speeds up to 30 miles per hour (50 kilometers per hour) is the world’s largest forest bird.
