Great hornbill, known as the concave-casqued hornbill, great Indian hornbill or great pied hornbill, is one of the larger members of the hornbill family.
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10 Facts About Great hornbill
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Great hornbill was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.
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Great hornbill placed it with the rhinoceros hornbill in the genus Buceros and coined the binomial name Buceros bicornis.
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Great hornbill is native to the forests of India, Bhutan, Nepal, mainland Southeast Asia and Sumatra.
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Great hornbill remains imprisoned there, relying on the male to bring her food, until the chicks are half developed.
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Great hornbill is threatened mainly by habitat loss due to deforestation.
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When dancing with the feathers of the Great hornbill, they avoid eating vegetables, as doing so is believed to produce the same sores on the feet.
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