In the Moscow zoo was first hatched chick gentoo hornbills. This species of birds listed in the International Red book. Two exotic birds native to New Guinea arrived in the capital, the zoo in 2015, however, to achieve the completion of the family was only five years later.
In the natural environment females gentoo Hornbill equip nests in tree holes and there hatching. The inside of the bird virtually walled in their houses with clay, rotten wood, and remnants of food. Expectant mother leaves only a small slit through which the male passes her food. The watchers of the capital’s zoo was offered the female of Callao as a nest cozy house and a barrel with a small hole. The bird chose a barrel. Male, as relatives in the wild, I fed her through a small hole.
After the chick hatched, the mother continued to keep him inside his secluded home within three months. When the baby was covered in bright plumage, and almost reached the size of adult birds, he finally left the nest.
Now a little calao born in the Moscow zoo, often sitting on the top branches of the acacia trees with their parents. They still feed him to eat on his own the chick will begin in about a month. While his neck and head covered with yellow feathers, but over time they will become characteristic for this kind of red-brown hue.
Gentoo hornbills inhabit New Guinea, the Bismarck archipelago, the Solomon and the Moluccas. Prefer to gnezdovja in dense tropical forests. It is a large bird, the length of their body along with tail is 60-80 centimeters, and can weigh up to two kilograms. A large part of the trunk is covered with black feathers, the tail and the cheeks white. Females have the feathers on the head black, the males are red — brown. A distinctive feature of the hornbills are considered to be their huge curved downward beak with Horny excrescences in the form of transverse folds.
Kalo Feed on small invertebrates, insects and fruit. Wild birds can eat land crabs, and also love honeycomb. Due to the short language, they can’t eat from the ground. Birds have to throw food and catch it in a way that hit him right in the throat.
this year at the Moscow zoo were born rare Dalmatian pelicans and Bush dogs. In addition, puppies are born maned wolf, one of the rarest representatives of the family Canidae. In March replenished the family of Humboldt penguins. Now in the Moscow zoo lives the most numerous in Russia, the group of these birds, consisting of nine breeding pairs and more than a dozen specimens of different ages from Chicks to adults penguins. Along with vilup��chimica kids collection includes 35 species.
in Addition, the spring on the birth of baby rare cat lemur and nestling black storks, and in June — cub huge smoky rats. From July on Great pond, you can see newborn pink and red flamingos.
