Hello everyone, welcome back to relax with Animal Facts. I am Steph Wolf, and today I am going to be

learning with you about our furry, scaly, or possibly even slimy friends. And in today's case, it is definitely going to be a feathery

friend of ours because we are covering the oh so wonderful cassowary. This is, of course, a very

special listener episode dedicated to Chelsea, Matt, and Zoe. Thank you for taking the time

to write in to request this amazing creature that I'm so excited to learn about with you.

For those of you that would like to request your very own animal episode, I will talk about how

you can do so at the end of the show,

but that information is also immediately available in the description below.

I will also cover all of the resources used at the end of the show, but they are also in the show notes.

If you love the show and would like more of it for only a dollar a month,

you can go to patreon.com slash relax with animal facts. We just learned about the mechanism of

camouflage and I'm so excited to finish up this miniseries and continue on with all that has been

requested thus far. I look forward to seeing

you there. As always, I have three primary exhortations for you. The first is that you put on a good

pair of running shoes or even hiking shoes. We are going to be needing those where we are going today. The second thing

I ask of you is to realize perhaps where you are carrying some tension. It can help to just

scan through the body bit by bit, by calf, then by leg, then by chest, then by shoulders. And one

helpful thing to think about is jello.

Bring up your conception of jello and just do your best to do your Oscar award-winning impression of it.

Simply let it go, become the jello.

And the third thing I ask is that you give your mind permission to wander and journey

with me into an Australian rainforest where the cassowary resides. This may not be such a surprise anymore, but Australia is home to some of the most amazing creatures

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