Does Rhinoceros hornbill’s casque affect its viability?
Introduction
The rainforests and tropics near Thailand are home to many species including the Rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros Rhinoceros) (DWA, n.d.). In many tourists’ eyes, one cannot help but be attracted to the unusual horn like bone sticking out of the top of the rhinoceros hornbill’s head. That spectacular horn like bone on top of its head is called a casque (DWA, n.d.). Alexander et al. (1994) discovered that the hollowness of the casque helps with its resonance frequency, thus helping the rhinoceros in various ways, such as bird calls and producing loud sounds to scare off other rhinoceros hornbills from their territory. Besides that, not much is really known about the casque. Because of this lack of information regarding the casque in the scientific community, I would like to investigate more about whether or not the casque is vital to the rhinoceros hornbill’s life. …show more content…
One possible conclusion of why this might be the case is that the size of casque will affect the casque’s ability to resonate profoundly, which helps the rhinoceros hornbill in communications, thus it may help warn enemies and warn others off of their territories from a distance so they don’t get invade by other hornbills (Alexander et al.,1994). Furthermore, Policht et al. (2009) states that with a larger casque, the rhinoceros hornbills can produce louder calls, and as a result, it may be able to show that it’s more healthy than ones with softer calls, therefore attracting more females to mate and reproduce, thereby resulting in more offsprings being produced. Moreover, with a louder call, it can warn its family when it sees a predator, so they can hide and increasing their chance of
Introduction
The rainforests and tropics near Thailand are home to many species including the Rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros Rhinoceros) (DWA, n.d.). In many tourists’ eyes, one cannot help but be attracted to the unusual horn like bone sticking out of the top of the rhinoceros hornbill’s head. That spectacular horn like bone on top of its head is called a casque (DWA, n.d.). Alexander et al. (1994) discovered that the hollowness of the casque helps with its resonance frequency, thus helping the rhinoceros in various ways, such as bird calls and producing loud sounds to scare off other rhinoceros hornbills from their territory. Besides that, not much is really known about the casque. Because of this lack of information regarding the casque in the scientific community, I would like to investigate more about whether or not the casque is vital to the rhinoceros hornbill’s life. …show more content…
One possible conclusion of why this might be the case is that the size of casque will affect the casque’s ability to resonate profoundly, which helps the rhinoceros hornbill in communications, thus it may help warn enemies and warn others off of their territories from a distance so they don’t get invade by other hornbills (Alexander et al.,1994). Furthermore, Policht et al. (2009) states that with a larger casque, the rhinoceros hornbills can produce louder calls, and as a result, it may be able to show that it’s more healthy than ones with softer calls, therefore attracting more females to mate and reproduce, thereby resulting in more offsprings being produced. Moreover, with a louder call, it can warn its family when it sees a predator, so they can hide and increasing their chance of