10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 21, 2009
South Florida is home to the most racetracks and Greyhound farms and trainers in the country, and you can’t turn on the radio or the television without encountering a commercial for the tracks. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. There is a God, I thought.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
129 
Let's personalize your content