【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

【中文翻译】

客房服务：一只长有红色盔突的雄犀鸟带着早餐翩然而至。雄犀鸟将会把食物反刍给它大约3个月大的雏鸟，雏鸟安全地在一棵鸡骨常山属树木的巢穴里。尽管雌犀鸟已经解除巢穴“禁闭”，雏鸟仍然再在巢里度过几周，依赖它的父母直到羽毛丰满能够飞翔。

---摘自1999年《国家地理杂志》7月号《正在缩小的犀鸟世界》

作者：Tim Laman 来源： 《国家地理》杂志

【图片故事】

“犀鸟”又叫“巨嘴鸟”，是热带的代表物种。别看他们的嘴很大，却非常轻巧。因为是坚硬的中空结构，使得它的“大嘴”可以轻易地啄破果实的硬壳，而携带并不费力。