{"id":1416,"date":"2014-10-19T12:19:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2014-10-19T12:19:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:19:53","slug":"southern-ground-hornbill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/10\/19\/southern-ground-hornbill\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Ground Hornbill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The southern ground hornbill is the largest species of hornbill, a type of bird with a large beak resembling a cow’s horn.
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Southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri<\/em>), Toronto Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div> <\/p>\n

In the wild southern ground hornbills live in the African savanna where they forage for all sorts of small animals — insects, reptiles, small mammals. Southern ground hornbills have a complicated breeding process that requires several individuals to take care of the young in one nest thus in addition to the actual parents there are always helpers in a family of hornbills. The incubation period for southern ground hornbill eggs is very long, up to 45 days.<\/p>\n

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Also southern ground hornbill pairs skip a year or two between breeding periods thus often producing a single chick every three years. This with that slow reproduction process it is not surprising that southern ground hornbills are threatened in the wild.<\/p>\n

Further Readings:<\/h4>\n
\nSouthern ground-hornbill videos, photos and facts – Bucorvus leadbeateri<\/em><\/a> on ARKIVE.
\nSouthern ground hornbill<\/a> on Wikipedia.
\nSouthern Ground hornbill<\/a> on the Toronto Zoo website.
\nSouthern ground hornbills<\/a> on the Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve web site.
\nHornbill<\/a> on Wikipedia.
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