Mooruk

Weight

30.5 kg – 35 kg

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

26 years

Diet

Frugivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forest

Egg incubation

50.5 days

Young per litter or clutch

5

Age at maturity

4 years

Lifestyle

Terrestrial

Migration

Sedentary

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The mooruk is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderCasuariiformes
5. familyCasuariidae
6. genusCasuarius
7. SpeciesCasuarius bennetti Gould, 1857

Synonyms Casuarius benettii kaupi, Casuarius bennetti foersteri, Casuarius bennetti keysseri, Casuarius foersteri, Casuarius kaupi, Casuarius picticollis

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Southern cassowary

Casuarius casuarius

Casuariidae

N

Northern cassowary

Casuarius unappendiculatus

CasuariidaeNo free photo yet

P

Pygmy cassowary

Casuarius lydekkeri

CasuariidaeNo free photo yet

C

Casuarius diemenianus

CasuariidaeNo free photo yet

C

Casuarius novaehollandiae

CasuariidaeNo free photo yet

CompareMooruk vs Southern cassowaryMooruk vs Northern cassowaryMooruk vs Pygmy cassowaryMooruk vs Casuarius diemenianus

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@misc{mooruk_2026,
  title = {Mooruk (Casuarius bennetti)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mooruk},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}