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Hornbills of Sabah

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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. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.)

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

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When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” It is certainly not true that writing a post about Australia and not mentioning flying foxes is illegal, but why take the risk? It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths.

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