There are a total of 4 toucans in the exhibition area!

There are two toucans standing on different treetops, listening to the chirping and whining of various birds outside, motionless, occasionally turning their heads, looking at each other, as if to say, noisy but noisy, let's be a quiet beautiful man (woman)!

One jumps around on the perch in the tree, flies around, and bites the leaves for a while, looking very lively.

There is also a toucan standing on a curved tree trunk in the middle of the stream - it is a stream, but it is actually a one-meter-wide stream of water, which bends and falls from a few rustic earthy yellow rocks, splashing white water, which is quite ornamental to look at.

On the back wall, there is also a wall painting painted by Zhuang Xiaobai, a pale green forest, with golden sunlight and shadows, the details are very in place, and the streams and trees in the exhibition area are integrated, looking natural and harmonious.

The toucan was cleaning itself with the water stream, its blue paws scratching its huge orange beak quickly, on the left and right, and then raising its wings and combing the feathers under the black wings with its beak.

After combing it for a while, he jumped into the stream, flapped his wings and made a splash, wetting his body, turned around and jumped back, and then flapped his wings and flew to the treetops.

Ying Ying was fascinated, and then asked curiously: "Ma Ma, why are their mouths so big?" How did such a big mouth fly? ”

Liu Xueqing looked at a sign next to her, which was a picture of a toucan with a big mouth, which was about this problem!

The toucan can only stay inside, and of course there will be no shortage of its display signs.

Tourists who see the strange appearance of toucans, whether adults or children, must have this doubt.

Liu Xueqing picked out the simple and understandable content above and told Ying Ying: "The toucan's beak is hollow!" It's actually very light, not as heavy as it seems. ”

The beak of the toucan is covered with a thin sheath on the outside and a hollow foamy structure like a beehive, which can effectively absorb the impact from the outside.

Naturalists have studied why toucans are so exaggerated and what their purpose is, and found that they play a role similar to chopsticks.

Toucans are bulky and want to pick berries and seeds, but if they stand on the ends of thinner branches, the branches will not be able to bear their weight.

However, by standing on a thicker branch with a huge mouth, you can eat the fruit that grows on the branch.

Usually they use their claws to scrape their beaks, and they also rub their beaks on branches to rub away food debris and aging cuticles on their beaks, so as to prevent the beaks from overgrowing or bending because they are not worn out, which will affect the sensitivity of feeding.

Liu Xueqing's eyes lit up when she thought of the toucan that was washing herself in the stream just now and rubbing her beak with her paws!

There is a feeling that when I was doing problems in school, I suddenly saw a subtle solution that I hadn't thought of, and I suddenly felt enlightened.

At this time, the door on the back wall quietly opened a crack.

The keeper opened the door lightly, poked his head in, and the toucans turned their heads to look over.

When I first came to the new environment, I was familiar with the exhibition area and the keepers, especially the small space for the toucan exhibit area to hide, so the keepers' movements would be lighter and slower, so that they could understand that they were not malicious.

I entered the exhibition with a basket of food and tied the grapes to the branches and perches with strings!

Tie it separately and hang two or three on one branch.

Liu Xueqing suddenly had a doubt, other animals can bite into their mouths and chew and swallow them, the toucan has such a long beak and a third of its body length, how does it eat and swallow?

With doubts, he hurriedly reminded: "Yingying, look, the toucan is going to eat!" ”

When the keeper left, he saw a bold toucan, which was the first to let down its vigilance and fly to the perch.

Standing in the middle of the perch, observing the food situation, the body suddenly leaned forward, leaned over the body to probe the mouth, grabbed a grape with the tip of the beak, and picked it smoothly!

Then put the grapes under your feet and bite them off halfway with your beak.

Tourists are watching with wide eyes and intently.

An unexpected situation has arisen!

The toucan suddenly raised its beak and threw the grapes into the air with a clever force, then tilted its head back and opened its mouth wide, and the grapes fell into its mouth with precision.

The action is done in one go, handsome and smooth!

The tourists were dumbfounded: "! Handsome! ”

"Good fellow, eating is like acrobatics!"

"I even played this with my classmates! Throw the snack into the sky and see who can catch it. But I'm stupid, so I don't usually get it. ”

Liu Xueqing finally understood how a toucan ate with such a long beak!

Ying Ying watched intently, very happy, and clapped her hands.

After watching the toucan eat, he continued to walk.

It's time for the hornbill exhibit!

Hornbills and toucans also have huge beaks, which are often confusing by tourists.

"Mama, what kind of bird is this?"

Liu Xueqing glanced at the sign: "This is a two-horned hornbill!" ”

The adult of the two-horned hornbill has a large beak of 30cm and a large, wide helmet, the helmet is slightly concave above, and there are two horn-like protrusions on the front edge, like the helmet of ancient warriors, hence the name two-hornbill!

It is much larger than the toucan, with a wingspan of 140-160cm, which is a large bird, and the space in the exhibition area is much larger than that of the toucan.

At this time, two hornbills stood on the perch, and the keeper explained to the tourists: "The one on the left is the hornbill wife, named Tian Tian, and the one on the right is the hornbill husband, Feifei!" ”

It seemed that he had just replenished the food, but he saw Tian Tian pick up a nut from the container hanging on the perch, lean his head to the right, and stuff it into Feifei's mouth. Honey, this one is for you!

Feifei grabbed the nut in his mouth, the tips of the two hornbills touched the tips of their mouths, and then Tian Tian let go of his mouth, Fei Fei blinked and glanced at Tian Tian, and handed the nuts to Tian Tian again. Honey, let's eat it!

Tourists, especially single young people, were very sad to see: "! I was actually loved by the bird show! ”

"In these years, when you go to a wolf house and are fed dog food, you have to be fed a mouthful of bird food when you visit a bird house! It's so hard for me! ”

"It's sour, it's sour!"

"I'm doing something wrong, you're going to show me this!"

Tian Tian tossed twice in her mouth, and stuffed Feifei again!

When Feifei handed it back this time, Tiantian's mouth was not clamped, and the nuts fell down.

When the keeper saw it, he couldn't help but laugh out loud: "You can see that our hornbill couple is indeed very affectionate!" Delicious nuts are reluctant to eat by themselves, and they are feeding each other. ”

The two hornbills glanced at each other, Feifei took out another one from the container, and fed it to Tian Tian, who ate it this time.