The southern ground hornbill is one of Africa's most unusual predatory birds, standing up to 110 centimeters tall and hunting ...
The Safari West Preserve is always looking for new ways to provide enrichment for their animals in their daily lives. In a recent video, it was the Southern Ground Hornbills Sansa and Kamba's turn to ...
A southern ground hornbill at a Netherlands zoo has become the first bird in the world to receive 3D-printed prosthesis on both its upper and lower beak.
An injured hornbill at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo received two 3D-printed beak prostheses in a world-first procedure.
An injured southern ground hornbill at Artis Zoo in Amsterdam has received two 3D-printed prostheses to replace the broken upper and lower parts of its beak. And with great success. The bird was ...
Injured birds have seen success with similar prosthetics in the past, but this marks the first replacement of a bird's upper and lower beaks.
The Potawatomi Zoo just announced that a rare southern ground hornbill chick hatched recently to parents Timmy and Jenny. “Southern ground hornbills are considered vulnerable in the wild, so these ...
We encountered this female Southern Ground Hornbill on a trip to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania in 2018. Hornbills are large, aggressive hunters that feed on lizards, snakes, insects, and ...
Repairs have been completed on the Honolulu Zoo’s Southern Ground Hornbill and Marabou Stork exhibits. A tree toppled and damaged the enclosure during gale force winds last February. Staff and ...
On a recent afternoon at the Dallas Zoo, a large, long-beaked bird eagerly snapped a worm from a caretaker's hand. But Okpara, the 18-year-old father of a family of southern ground hornbills, didn't ...