Well, there's bunch of birds, ostriches, emus, and cassowaries, these three birds are really, really big.

有一些鸟，鸵鸟、 鸸鹋和食火鸡，这三种鸟真的很大。

His mind was not on bears and buffaloes and cassowaries and lizards and hawks and owls and people in bedrooms.

他的心思根本不在熊和野牛，食火鸡和蜥蜴，鹰，猫头鹰和卧室里的人们的身上。

The cassowary is one of approximately 60 living species of flightless birds.

食火鸡是现存约 60 种不会飞的鸟类之一。

The birds flee to safety all but the cassowary, who can’t clear the ground on her puny wings.

除了食火鸡，鸟儿们都逃到了安全的地方，食火鸡无法用她那微弱的翅膀清理地面。

Large birds like cassowaries were one of the main ones in the past, but nowadays they're more likely to be caught and killed by snakes.

像石火鸡这种大型鸟在过去曾经是主要的捕食者之一，但是现在它们更多的是被蛇所捕杀。

It was known elephant birds were ratites-an ancient group of mostly big, flightless birds, including emus and cassowaries from Australia, ostriches from Africa, rheas from South America and others.

众所周知，象鸟属于平胸类鸟群，一种古老的无飞行能力的大型鸟，这类鸟包括澳大利亚的鸸鹋、鹤鸵，非洲的鸵鸟，南美的美洲鸵等。

So, Merri set out to find some answers using a database of CT scanned sternums from 105 different bird species, like the Red-capped lark, Leach's Storm petrel and the Southern cassowary.

因此，梅里开始利用105种不同鸟类的胸骨CT扫描数据库来寻找答案，这些鸟类包括红顶短趾百灵、白腰叉尾海燕和双垂鹤鸵。