Rainforest Revelations

Archive for June, 2009

In a complex rainforest, where every imaginable shade of green dapples into kaleidoscopic patterns, the blue on the Cassowary’s neck, blue cassowary plums, blue quandongs, blue Ulysses butterflies and the amazing blue water of Cooper Creek, contrast vividly against the verdant hues of the Daintree rainforest vegetation.

According to renowned naturalist and film-maker David Attenborough, the blue colour on the cassowary’s neck is the sexual attraction and he suggested that their diet of blue fruit (Cassowary plums, blue quandongs, blue ruby and others) could enhance colour during mating time.

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