Adelaide Zoo's Southern Cassowary Lays Eggs for First Time in 34 Years

A southern cassowary, a large bird, has laid eggs at Adelaide Zoo in southern Australia for the first time in 34 years, The New York Times reports.

The eggs came after a carefully managed breeding process, in which the zoo worked to bring the giant birds together. The article's headline casts the zoo as a matchmaker, with the big green eggs as the evidence of its efforts.

The source text states only that the eggs are the first laid at the zoo in 34 years. It gives no further details, such as how many eggs there are or whether chicks are expected to hatch.