【英文原文】

Indonesia, Indonesia Hornbill, 1999
"Room service: A red-knobbed hornbill arrives with breakfast, which he will regurgitate for his roughly three-month-old chick safely inside a nest hole in an Alstonia tree. Though its mother has left the confines of the nest, the chick remains within for another few weeks, dependent on its parents until it fledges.”

—From “The Shrinking World of Hornbills,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine

【中文翻譯】

客房服務：一只長有紅色盔突的雄犀鳥帶著早餐翩然而至。雄犀鳥將會把食物反芻給它大約3個月大的雛鳥，雛鳥安全地在一棵雞骨常山屬樹木的巢穴里。盡管雌犀鳥已經解除巢穴“禁閉”，雛鳥仍然再在巢里度過幾周，依賴它的父母直到羽毛豐滿能夠飛翔。

---摘自1999年《國家地理雜志》7月號《正在縮小的犀鳥世界》

作者：Tim Laman 來源： 《國家地理》雜志

【圖片故事】

“犀鳥”又叫“巨嘴鳥”，是熱帶的代表物種。別看他們的嘴很大，卻非常輕巧。因為是堅硬的中空結構，使得它的“大嘴”可以輕易地啄破果實的硬殼，而攜帶并不費力。