Amazon Daily Quiz (February 4, 2021): %u2018Zazu%u2019 in the %u2018Lion King%u2019 was this bird. What is it called?
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The options are:
-Parrot
-Hornbill
-Toucan
-Macaw
Answer: Hornbill
Hornbills have a two-lobed kidney. They are the only birds in which the first and second neck vertebrae (the atlas and axis respectively) are fused together; this probably provides a more stable platform for carrying the bill.
Their family is omnivorous, feeding on fruit and small animals. These birds are monogamous breeders nesting in natural cavities in trees and sometimes cliffs. Most of mainly insular species of hornbill with small ranges are threatened with extinction, namely in Southeast Asia. In the Neotropical realm, toucans occupy the hornbills’ ecological niche, an example of convergent evolution.
Hornbills show significant variation in size.
The largest and most massive species appears to be the southern ground hornbill which has an average weight of 3.77 kg (8.3 lb), and can weigh up to 6.3 kg (14 lb) and span about 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) across the wings.
Other species rival the southern ground species in length, at up to about 130 cm (4 ft 3 in), including the Abyssinian ground hornbill (Bucorvus abyssinicus), the great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) and, probably the longest of all (perhaps exceeding 150 cm (4 ft 11 in)) thanks in part to its extended tail feathers, the helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil).
