The most beautiful thing you will watch today. Great #Hornbill male is feeding the female who has locked her inside nest. This he will do for months !!
This is a story about hornbills which are perfect couple and which are also called as Gardner of the forest. How ?
There are 9 species of hornbills found in India. From Great to Grey. Hornbills are generally monogamous. The pair lasts long. Here a Wreathed Hornbill couple.
They move together and live very long.
When the couple is expecting they go shopping for a house. A nest.
It can be a natural cavity in a tree or nest of some other bird or their old nest.
After finding that house the female will enter. She will occupy the nest and will seal the nest from inside with whatever material is available. Just a small slit will be kept for open food. Like this one. A female hornbill is inside it.
Now time will test them. The lady will stay inside for next 3-4 months with just small opening in nest. Looking outside & waiting for husband. Soon with kids.
So now male will roam around the forest. Collect the food and bring it to the family. As the kids grow, he has to increase frequency of the trips. This is his daily job, many times a day. He need to feed himself & collect everything for family.
Not all fruits are delivered, some simply get dropped on the floor while the exchange takes place. They swallow the fruits as whole and in this process the seeds are taken to long distances. Male remain nearby nest. If male doesn't come or gets poached the family dies waiting.
They swallow the fruits as whole. They spread them wherever they are going and they especially where there are nests.
Just example. Seeds of different species of trees below three such tree with hornbill nests. They will soon grow. This is how nature manages the forest.
All pictures and videos are taken by me. It took quite some time in collecting all.
Thank you all for the good response. The story is published in all national dailies. That is the purpose of such documentation. It is not about the good pictures but about the process.
The total documentation is spread across many days. Including camping. But it was worth it.
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Show me a more beautiful love story than this on #Valentines Day. The male Hornbill feeding the female, who has locked herself in nest to raise the kids. This he will do for few months, daily.
Hornbills have partners for lifetime. When they are expecting they search for a cavity or old nest. After finding one, the female enter the nest and seal from inside with whatever material is available.
Now the time tests them. Male keep searching for food and keep bringing that to the nest. While female remains locked in the nest for next 3-4 months. As the kid is growing the male has to increase the frequency. With this he has to feed himself and also protect the nest from predators.
If the male is poached on the way the family dies waiting in the nest.
Isn’t it the loveliest love story !!
This is a story about hornbills which are perfect couple and which are also called as Gardner of the forest. How ?
There are 9 species of hornbills found in India. From Great to Grey. Hornbills are generally monogamous. The pair lasts long. Here a Wreathed Hornbill couple.
They move together and live very long.
When the couple is expecting they go shopping for a house. A nest.
It can be a natural cavity in a tree or nest of some other bird or their old nest. They encroach upon other birds nests also.
Do you know #elephant family is all women group. Made of #mother, #aunts, #grandmother & all other #ladies. Most of the times Male leave herd early. Kids are looked by all female elephants in herd not only mother. Most experienced female makes all decision for family. #WomensDay
Obvious that experienced matriarch should lead #elephant family. She has accumulated immense traits/wisdom due to her long life. Which comes handy in long journeys & dangers. So when matriarch dies of some accident, the herd is directionless for some time.
Males keep on joining & leaving herds. Well one of the accepted theory is. That males when they get young are pushed out from the herd/family by dominant female, also called as matriarch. To check the inbreeding. Which only shows elephants are highly intelligent.
Show me a more beautiful love story than this. The male Hornbill feeding the female, who has locked herself in nest to raise the kids. This he will do for few months, daily.
This is a story about hornbills which are perfect couple and which are also called as Gardner of the forest. How ?
There are 9 species of hornbills found in India. From Great to Grey. Hornbills are generally monogamous. The pair lasts long. Here a Wreathed Hornbill couple.
They move together and live very long.
When the couple is expecting they go shopping for a house. A nest.
It can be a natural cavity in a tree or nest of some other bird or their old nest.
An Indian scientist who demonstrated to the world that plants have life.
On May 10, 1901 at jam-packed hall of Royal Society, London he demonstrated how plants have life with crescograph. Invented telegram. Remembering JC Bose, 1st modern scientist of India on death anniversary.
He recorded motion of plant tissues to about 10K times of their actual size.
Demonstrated how Plant died like a rat due to poisoned bromide solution.
Jagadish Chandra Bose became first Indian to be appointed as Professor of Physics in the Presidency College, and later to IES.
JC Bose was Offered half payment vis-a-vis European professors, in protest refused salary for 3 years and taught.
In 1998, Dr. Probir found out how Bose was the real inventor of Wireless Receiver, didn't patent, but Marcony patented.
Today Shri Srinivas Rao, Forest Range Officer, Kothagudem circle in Telangana was attacked with sharp weapons. He laid his life while on forest protection duty and was protecting a plantation site. To the green soldier 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Shri Rao was a dedicated staff and won many prizes also. Rest in peace. Hope culprits will be punished soon.