Hornbill

casques than adult females (Reilly, 1988). There are other features that represent neutral traits for fitness, for example, the casque in males have a special black pigmentation that is not present in female hornbills (Reilly, 1988). This ornamentation has a peculiar…

Saving the Malabar Hornbill Introduction: As man continues to extend his developmental practices, nature bears the brunt of it silently. Every year thousands of organisms are wiped from the face of earth permanently. The numbers on the almost extinct list goes on increasing too. To blame man alone for it would be the answer to all the problems, but to try to understand how his activities are harming them seems like a more viable option. The Western Ghats of India is teeming with both flora and…

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…

home seeds will be dispersed by fruit bats after digestion or elephants could trample upon figs releasing the seeds inside. To protect itself from insects, the fig tree has adapted the ability to release a gooey latex onto its leaves to protect itself from predators like the katydid, longhorn beetle, and the pink mantis. The insects are the parasites that are trying to feed off of the sycamore tree, which is the host; moreover, this relationship can be labeled as parasitism. However, the most…

Description: The great blue turaco is a blue bird that has yellow, blue, and black feathers. On its head it has black feathers that make it look like they have a mohawk. This bird can fly and lives for about 30 years. A male turaco is about M: 855-950 g – F: 820-1230 g and they grow to be about 70 centimeters long. They are also asymmetrical, because if you were to slice them down the middle they wouldn’t look the same, because they aren’t perfect like us. It may look like this…

available at a nearby crocodile farm. When they got to the farm there was one left. Buyers said his snout was too long, and so were his legs for a Jack Russel Terrier,but Anna and Steve thought he was perfect. When Anna first got the puppy she had regrets. After some time though they realize, Bulu is a special dog in many ways. 3. Some key ideas presented in the text are how difficult it can be living in Luangwa, and how Bulu is learning about his surroundings. Living in Luangwa is…

The Batek obtained food in many different ways, their main source of hunting being blowpipe hunting. However they also collect food from a hunting aspect by smoking animals out of holes, digging out burrows, clubbing/spearing, and chopping down trees as a way to get to nesting game. Blowpiping was used to hunt animals living in trees like monkeys, gibbons, squirrels, birds, civets, and bearcats(72). Although blowpipe hunting was done by both men and women, the men were the main ones hunting the…

Every line was said with as much emotion as possible and every action was made effortlessly, as if they had done this for all their life. The two kid actors, one for Simba and one for Nala, allowed the show to connect with the younger viewers. The hilarious lines of Zazu, the red-billed hornbill, and the Hyenas fill the entire theatre with laughter. All the characters were some type of animal, making it very difficult to create completely believable and accurate costumes, but despite that, they…

mannerisms. Witnessing murder was just a typical Tuesday for a toddler in Tudor times, but capital punishment is not even accepted as an option anymore in some countries. They substituted animals for humans, so that when they hurt each other it would not upset the families watching. Children are more capable of handling animal deaths than human deaths and more adept at understanding the reasons for murder because animals are said to be unintelligent and barbaric. Claudius, like Scar, killed his…

done on top of a cathedral with the technology we have today? Most of these questions cannot be answered, because someone simply became disinterested and did not want to pass down the information. Now people of today, see it as a wonder of the world. It is frustrating to see so many topics disappear from the world one by one, and most people are willing to let it go simply because it’s no longer “popular”. One day the world will need this information for the sake of protecting human kind, and…