Great hornbill: Habitat to Habit

Question 1 · multiple choice

A rescue team is planning a habitat release for a healthy Great hornbill. Which setting fits best?

tropical evergreen and moist deciduous forest tropical rain forest including peat swamp forest warm forests, scrub, grasslands, and stream edges cool freshwater canals and lakes around Mexico City

Question 2 · multiple choice

To avoid giving unsuitable food, which menu should a Great hornbill receive in a specialist wildlife centre?

small insects and other arthropods mainly fruit, plus insects and small animals insects, scorpions, small reptiles, eggs, and bulbs aquatic insect larvae, worms, and small crustaceans

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which observation plan is best aligned with a Great hornbill's usual active period?

active by day or night depending on season and disturbance activity follows feeding cycles rather than a strict day-night schedule active by day and travels between fruiting trees travels and feeds across day and night during vast migrations

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which movement clue would help identify a Great hornbill without using colour or sound?

swims with body waves, webbed feet, and a steering tail walks and migrates long distances and swims broad rivers swims continuously with long front flippers flies with deep wingbeats interrupted by glides

Question 5 · multiple choice

A young engineer studies a Great hornbill for a nature-inspired design. Which feature should be copied?

a large casque may amplify calls and strengthen the bill without being solid vertical stripes break up its outline among vegetation and shadow a specialised mucus coating prevents the host anemone from stinging it book gills exchange gases and can function briefly while kept moist on land

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which parent-and-young scenario belongs to a Great hornbill?

eggs are laid on leaves above water and tadpoles drop into the stream the female seals herself inside a tree cavity while the male delivers food releases eggs and sperm into water where larvae develop eggs overwinter inside a protected silk sac

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which observation accurately describes communication or cooperation in a Great hornbill?

lives in prides with related females, cubs, and a coalition of males forms flexible groups called mobs around food and water pairs cooperate closely and may gather at fruiting trees mostly solitary, gathering around large carcasses

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which environmental change is most directly linked to the normal activities of a Great hornbill?

preys on small invertebrates and feeds larger animals turns soil while searching for prey and influences insect numbers stirs stream sediment and controls aquatic invertebrate populations disperses large forest seeds far from parent trees

Question 9 · multiple choice

How is a Great hornbill most likely to respond when escape becomes difficult?

retreats to canopy and uses a powerful bill if cornered avoids danger in the canopy and may shake branches or vocalise jumps vertically when startled and digs rapidly for cover hides, swims away, and can regrow damaged limbs

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A great hornbill loud wingbeats can be heard from far away because air moves through gaps between flight feathers.

True False