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|name_sci=Buceros bicornis | |name_sci=Buceros bicornis | ||
|distribution=Indian | |distribution=Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia | ||
|diet=Omnivore | |diet=Omnivore | ||
|lifespan=35-50 Years | |lifespan=35-50 Years | ||
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|conservationstatus={{VU}} | |conservationstatus={{VU}} | ||
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|introduction='''Great Hornbill''' is a type of bird [[Friend]]. Her design was released for JAZA's "Hornbill Day" on March 1st alongside [[Rhinoceros Hornbill]]. | |introduction=The '''Great Hornbill''' is a type of bird [[Friend]]. Her design was released for JAZA's "Hornbill Day" on March 1st alongside [[Rhinoceros Hornbill]]. | ||
|appearance= | |appearance=Great Hornbill has short black and white hair—black at the top, and increasingly white down the back and towards the ends—with a long, humongous yellow and white cowlick curving down in front of her face, so as to evoke the species' eponymous bill. She has steely blue eyes, accented by bold black mascara and reddish eye shadow. | ||
|reallife=[[File:Great hornbill Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg|thumb|upright= | |||
On top of her head, Great Hornbill wears a yellow news cap which evokes the species' helmet-like ''casque'' structure, with a cross-stitch in its side. She wears a plain black t-shirt and a ruffled, black-and-white skirt, white leggings, and pale yellow boots with black toes and fluffy white collars. She accessorizes with a large, fluffy white collar around her neck, a circular red pendant with a half-circle void cut out of it, and baggy white fingerless gloves which run up to just past her elbows, and are adorned with a black stripe just below each elbow. | |||
Great Hornbill has a pair of black and white wings atop her head, with a flash of yellow, and a fanned black and white feather tail, both akin to those found on her species of origin. | |||
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|reallife=[[File:Great hornbill Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|275px|left|Male great hornbill in Raigad, Maharashtra, India. Photo by Shantanu Kuveskar, 2020.]] | |||
The great hornbill is a large Asian hornbill species—the heaviest of Asia's hornbills, with male specimens weighing around 3 kg (6.6 lb) on average<ref name=BirdWeight>Dunning, J. B. Jr., ed. (2008). ''CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses (Second ed.).'' CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-6444-5.</ref>—native to forests of the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, with a small population residing in Singapore. The species appears to rely on rain forest habitat,<ref name=RainForestBill>Shankar Raman, T. R. & Mudappa, D. (2003). "Correlates of hornbill distribution and abundance in rainforest fragments in the southern Western Ghats, India". ''Bird Conservation International.'' 13 (3): 199–212.</ref> showing a particular preference for undisturbed old growth forest.<ref name=OldGrowth>Datta, A. (1998). "Hornbill abundance in unlogged forest, selectively logged forest and a forest plantation in Arunachal Pradesh, India". ''Oryx.'' 32 (4): 285–294.</ref> The plumage of males and females is virtually identical: primarily black and white, featuring a yellow and/or white collar around much of the upper neck. Both sexes also sport massive, curved bills and a large, distinguishing yellow ''casque'' atop said bills, which extends on top of the head. When viewed from the front, the concave shape of the casque can be seen, making a wide U-shape; this gives the appearance of two crests, from which the species moniker of ''bicornis''—"two horned"—is derived. The back of the ''casque'' has a red coloration in females, while males sport a black-backed casque, with that black also present on the underside of the casque's front side. The full extent of the casque's purpose is uncertain; males are known to engage in aerial combat using their ''casques'' to strike one another,<ref name=CasqueButt>Shankar Raman, T. R. (1998). "[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c1a9e03f407b482a158da87/t/5c1fbdda898583352e2b5544/1545584091020/Shankar-Hornbill.pdf Aerial casque-butting in the Great Hornbill Buceros bicornis" (PDF)]. ''Forktail.'' 13: 123–124.</ref> but seeing as females also boast this structure, it may be that it is simply the product of sexual selection. The casque is a complex structure which typically takes five years to fully develop, with juvenile birds having no trace of the ornament until their second year of life.<ref name=CasqueGrowth>Tickell, S.R. (1864). "On the hornbills of India and Burmah". ''Ibis''. 6 (2): 173–182.</ref> The primary distinguishing features between male and female birds are their body sizes and their eyes: males are larger than females and sport red eyes ringed by black skin, while females have steely-blue eyes ringed by reddish-pink skin. | |||
Great hornbills are omnivores with a strong preference for arboreal fruit, such as figs.<ref name=HornFruit>Datta, A. & Rawat, G. S. (2003). "Foraging patterns of sympatric Hornbills during the nonbreeding season in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India". ''Biotropica.'' 35 (2): 208–218.</ref> Consequently, great hornbills are an important seed dispersal species for many fruit-bearing trees within their range, as the hornbills carry the seeds of the fruit a great distance before delivering them to new areas via their droppings. This fruit-heavy diet is supplemented by small animals such as insects, lizards, and even small mammals and the young of other birds.<ref name=ScaryHornbillWood>Wood, W. S. (1927). "Is the Large Hornbill Dichoceros bicornis carnivorous?". ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.'' 32 (2): 374.</ref><ref name=ScaryHornbillKannan>Kannan, R. & James, D. A. (1997). "Breeding biology of the Great Pied Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) in the Anaimalai Hills of southern India". ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.'' 94 (3): 451–465.</ref> The manner in which they eat fruit and animals is much the same: the food is tossed up into the air and swallowed whole. | |||
Great hornbills are very social animals, often living in groups and congregating in the same trees to eat. Although they sometimes form communal roosts, they are monogamous birds. After mating, the female finds a hollow tree and seals herself inside with a plaster of feces, then lays a clutch of generally one to two eggs; during this self-imprisonment, she will moult her flight feathers and be wholly dependent on her male partner to bring food to her and the chicks. After the young hatch, and before the chicks fledge, the female will have re-grown her flight feathers, and will leave the nest to help the male in delivering food. The chicks will re-seal the nest,<ref name=PoopJail>Rasmussen, P. C.; Anderton, J. C. (2005). ''Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Vol. 2.'' Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions. pp. 273–274.</ref> then re-emerge once they have fledged. | |||
|trivia=* The great hornbill is the official state bird for the Indian state of Kerala. | |||
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Great Hornbill
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| AKA | Great Indian Hornbill, Great Pied Hornbill
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| Romaji | Oosaichou
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| Animal Data | |||
| Scientific Name | Buceros bicornis
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| Distribution | Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia
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| Diet | Omnivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 35-50 Years
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| Read More | Great hornbill
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The Great Hornbill is a type of bird Friend. Her design was released for JAZA's "Hornbill Day" on March 1st alongside Rhinoceros Hornbill.
Appearance
Great Hornbill has short black and white hair—black at the top, and increasingly white down the back and towards the ends—with a long, humongous yellow and white cowlick curving down in front of her face, so as to evoke the species' eponymous bill. She has steely blue eyes, accented by bold black mascara and reddish eye shadow.
On top of her head, Great Hornbill wears a yellow news cap which evokes the species' helmet-like casque structure, with a cross-stitch in its side. She wears a plain black t-shirt and a ruffled, black-and-white skirt, white leggings, and pale yellow boots with black toes and fluffy white collars. She accessorizes with a large, fluffy white collar around her neck, a circular red pendant with a half-circle void cut out of it, and baggy white fingerless gloves which run up to just past her elbows, and are adorned with a black stripe just below each elbow.
Great Hornbill has a pair of black and white wings atop her head, with a flash of yellow, and a fanned black and white feather tail, both akin to those found on her species of origin.
Series Appearances
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| 2019 | Kemono Friends 3 | ↪ Minor character, playable |
In Real Life
The great hornbill is a large Asian hornbill species—the heaviest of Asia's hornbills, with male specimens weighing around 3 kg (6.6 lb) on average[1]—native to forests of the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, with a small population residing in Singapore. The species appears to rely on rain forest habitat,[2] showing a particular preference for undisturbed old growth forest.[3] The plumage of males and females is virtually identical: primarily black and white, featuring a yellow and/or white collar around much of the upper neck. Both sexes also sport massive, curved bills and a large, distinguishing yellow casque atop said bills, which extends on top of the head. When viewed from the front, the concave shape of the casque can be seen, making a wide U-shape; this gives the appearance of two crests, from which the species moniker of bicornis—"two horned"—is derived. The back of the casque has a red coloration in females, while males sport a black-backed casque, with that black also present on the underside of the casque's front side. The full extent of the casque's purpose is uncertain; males are known to engage in aerial combat using their casques to strike one another,[4] but seeing as females also boast this structure, it may be that it is simply the product of sexual selection. The casque is a complex structure which typically takes five years to fully develop, with juvenile birds having no trace of the ornament until their second year of life.[5] The primary distinguishing features between male and female birds are their body sizes and their eyes: males are larger than females and sport red eyes ringed by black skin, while females have steely-blue eyes ringed by reddish-pink skin.
Great hornbills are omnivores with a strong preference for arboreal fruit, such as figs.[6] Consequently, great hornbills are an important seed dispersal species for many fruit-bearing trees within their range, as the hornbills carry the seeds of the fruit a great distance before delivering them to new areas via their droppings. This fruit-heavy diet is supplemented by small animals such as insects, lizards, and even small mammals and the young of other birds.[7][8] The manner in which they eat fruit and animals is much the same: the food is tossed up into the air and swallowed whole.
Great hornbills are very social animals, often living in groups and congregating in the same trees to eat. Although they sometimes form communal roosts, they are monogamous birds. After mating, the female finds a hollow tree and seals herself inside with a plaster of feces, then lays a clutch of generally one to two eggs; during this self-imprisonment, she will moult her flight feathers and be wholly dependent on her male partner to bring food to her and the chicks. After the young hatch, and before the chicks fledge, the female will have re-grown her flight feathers, and will leave the nest to help the male in delivering food. The chicks will re-seal the nest,[9] then re-emerge once they have fledged.
Trivia
- The great hornbill is the official state bird for the Indian state of Kerala.
References
- ↑ Dunning, J. B. Jr., ed. (2008). CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses (Second ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-6444-5.
- ↑ Shankar Raman, T. R. & Mudappa, D. (2003). "Correlates of hornbill distribution and abundance in rainforest fragments in the southern Western Ghats, India". Bird Conservation International. 13 (3): 199–212.
- ↑ Datta, A. (1998). "Hornbill abundance in unlogged forest, selectively logged forest and a forest plantation in Arunachal Pradesh, India". Oryx. 32 (4): 285–294.
- ↑ Shankar Raman, T. R. (1998). "Aerial casque-butting in the Great Hornbill Buceros bicornis" (PDF). Forktail. 13: 123–124.
- ↑ Tickell, S.R. (1864). "On the hornbills of India and Burmah". Ibis. 6 (2): 173–182.
- ↑ Datta, A. & Rawat, G. S. (2003). "Foraging patterns of sympatric Hornbills during the nonbreeding season in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India". Biotropica. 35 (2): 208–218.
- ↑ Wood, W. S. (1927). "Is the Large Hornbill Dichoceros bicornis carnivorous?". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 32 (2): 374.
- ↑ Kannan, R. & James, D. A. (1997). "Breeding biology of the Great Pied Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) in the Anaimalai Hills of southern India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 94 (3): 451–465.
- ↑ Rasmussen, P. C.; Anderton, J. C. (2005). Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Vol. 2. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions. pp. 273–274.
https://animalia.bio/great-hornbill