Adelaide Zoo cassowary lays first eggs in 34 years

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAdelaide Zoo has its first cassowary eggs in thirty-four years, and the one the zoo showed off is fluorescent green, the New York Times reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFluorescent. Like a highlighter pen. From a bird the size of a wardrobe.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe mother is Martina, ten years old. The father is Jeffrey, who is thirteen.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe zoo says they had never met before it paired them in August.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAugust to eggs. That's a managed breeding program with a very short waiting list.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd the zoo says southern cassowaries are generally solitary and can be aggressive toward each other outside breeding season.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo somebody walked two aggressive birds into a pen, shut the gate, and went for tea. I'd have wanted a bigger fence.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorZoo staff say they don't know yet whether the eggs are fertile. So we have a green egg and no guarantee.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFour thousand five hundred southern cassowaries left in Australia, and the plan rests on a date between two strangers. That's the math.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThirty-four years of waiting, and the egg arrives in a colour nobody ordered.