Stats

Lifespan: Up to 35 yrs
Size: Huge
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Pair
Biome: Tropical rainforest
Range: Southeast Asia
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Critically Endangered

About

The Helmeted Hornbill's casque is solid keratin rather than hollow like other hornbills', comprising roughly 11% of its body weight — its ivory-like density has fuelled a devastating black-market trade that has driven this Southeast Asian bird to Critically Endangered status.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2.
hatchling
A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Rhinoplax
Species: Rhinoplax vigil