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Cassowaries are considered to be frugivores, or fruit-eating birds, and while their preferred food is fallen fruit, they have also been known to eat small reptiles, dead mammals and even birds. Their wide range of foods also includes:

  • seeds
  • fungi
  • berries
  • snails
  • insects

Cassowaries feed on the fruit of up to 238 species of plants.

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