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Toucans
A member of family Ramphastidae, a Toucan is a large-billed, long tail bird in South and Central America. Many Toucans are black with a bold breast color and brightly colored, thick saw-edged bills. They feed on fruit, insects and lizards.
548 Questions
What does a Toco Toucan look like?
The Toco Toucan has small wings and weighs about ten to seventeen ounces. The massive bill is hard outside and hollow on the inside. It is very bright and colorful. Its tongue is feather like and is six inches long.
How far can you hear a toucan?
A toucan can be heard from approximately 20 kilometers away.
That's about 12 miles... it really depends on how quiet it is in the area at the time.
If you have headphones (or speakers) on you computer, you can hear the calls of several types of Toucans on the related link provided below:
The Kingfisher bird does not conventionally sing but makes a different sound that is a rattling squall. There is sound clips at the following website: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Belted_Kingfisher/lifehistory
Do toucans migrate or hibernate?
no where they are born they stay unless somthing happens.
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Orangutans generally don't do either, unless something happens that causes some sort of harm or destruction to their habitat they live around the same generally area for their entire life-span.
It's preferred diet is mainly other venomous and non-venomous snakes but includes small reptiles, birds and amphibians as well.
General Information
King Cobra Scientific Cassification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Genus: Ophiophagus
Species: O. Hannah
The largest poisonous snake would be the King Cobra(Ophiophagus hanna), the Latin wordOphiophagus means "Snake-eater". The king cobra can reach a length of around 18.5ft (5.6388m), and lives in the Rainforest's and grasslands of Southeast Asia, India and China. Color is generally tan, olive-green or black with faint pale yellow cross bands, the females lay around 50 eggs in a constructed nest where they will guard and incubate them faithfully for 60 to 80 days, the young are called Hatchlings and about 1.5 ft. (50cm ) long at birth, the King cobra is very fast and agile with an average lifespan of about 20 years.
Although not the most toxic of poisonous snakes a king cobra can kill an elephant with one bite, the king cobra kills it's prey by striking and injecting it with venom and swallowing it whole, it's preferred diet is mainly other venomous and non-venomous snakes but includes small reptiles, birds and amphibians as well. King Cobras are aggressive and will rear up to confront the intruder where most other cobras will slither away and hide. The only predators are the mongoose and man.
Do macaws and toucans eat the same food?
toucans and macaws both eat fruits, nuts, seeds, insects, and small creatures
Does the Toucan eat any animal in the Rainforest?
not really a toucan I'm familiar with. but i do know that they eat lots of berries. so most vegetables, nuts, grains, and fruit.
Why do the toucans live 20 years?
because of there lifespan a toucan can live to twenty years without going with food as well! how clever is that?
No, there are not toucans in Borneo. Borneo has hornbills some of which look similar to toucans. Toucans inhabit Southern Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean region.
Why do toucans spit out seeds?
A toucan's large bill allows it to eat fruit whole. The purpose of spitting the seeds is to spread the growth of that tree. That creates more food for the toucan
Toucans are in:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Ramphastidae
(wikipedia is my source for the above)
Toucans are a family of birds, also known as ramphastids and within that family there are several genus, and within each genus there are several species.
The five toucan genus (and some examples of species of toucans) are:
Aulacorhynchus - the green toucanets, such as the emerald toucanet
Selenidera - the often called dichromatic toucanets such as the Guyana toucanet
Andigena - the mountain toucans, including the plate-billed mountain toucan
Pteroglossus - the aracaris, including the green aracari
Ramphastos - the black toucans, including the toco toucan
In case you hear about there being six genus in family ramphastidae:
The saffron toucanet used to be placed in its own genus (Baillonius), so for a while there were believed to be six genus in family ramphastidae. It is now recognized that the saffron toucanet is in fact an aracari, and belongs in gneus Pteroglossus.
