Human pursuit of material things is sometimes incomprehensible: in order to make a beautiful scarf, to hunt a mink; for a brand-name bag, to hunt a crocodile; for a momentary greed of tongue, to hunt wild civets; for a good hair ornament, to hunt a beautiful kingfisher, there are many such examples, human beings for their own selfish desires, poaching ivory, live to take rhino horns.
Three taboos in the literary and play world: one red, two whites, one of the three blacks, red refers to the crane top red, white refers to ivory, black refers to rhino horn; these three things are taboo in the literary and play world, can not be touched, the main reason is that human beings for their own selfish desires, let thousands of creatures be slaughtered inhumane, ivory, rhino horn believe that many people have seen this kind of report, people in order to obtain ivory, rhino horn, poachers hunt them, rhinoceros has been extinct in China, elephants were originally a species found everywhere on the African continent, Nowadays, it is difficult to find elephant herds in addition to Namibia and other countries.
In addition to ivory, rhino horn, let's talk about "one red", in fact, this red refers to the crane top red, many people may wonder, crane top red is not a poison? It is indeed affected by the TV series, the crane top red in people's impression is to wear intestinal poison, there is no cure, and the crane top red here does not refer to poison, but refers to the skull of a bird, this bird is a helmet hornbill.
The helmeted hornbill is the largest of all the birds in the family Hornbill family, with a body length of 110-120 cm, the male weighs 3.1 kg and the female weighs 2.6-2.8 kg; the helmeted hornbill is so named in relation to its skull, which resembles a helmet and is attached to a protruding beak. Helmet convex changes, the protrusion is associated with the skull, unlike other hornbills, the inside of the skull is solid, constituting nearly 10% of the total weight of the bird, and the outer red and inner yellow, the color is good-looking, and it is precisely because of this feature that the helmeted hornbill skull is made of various crafts that are widely collected, known as crane top red.
Helmeted hornbills, for it is its own arrogant weapon, in the competition for food, they will use helmet collision to decide who will eventually own the food; in courtship, male helmeted hornbills will use helmets to fight to win the favor of female birds; when attracting the opposite sex, they will secrete red waxy liquid through the fat glands, can dye their original yellow helmet convexity, with black and white feathers, so that the helmeted hornbill looks extremely powerful, in order to achieve the purpose of opposite sex attraction.
Piaf innocent of its guilt, originally the helmet hornbill has a "helmet" is its own thing, but human beings look at it, red edges and yellow cores, hard texture, very suitable for carving various crafts, so the disaster of the helmet hornbill has come, it is said that the price on the black market, the helmet hornbill skull is more valuable than gold, the price is 10 times that of ivory, so driven by interests, poachers do everything they can, they will take out its skull alive when the helmet hornbill is alive, and after taking it out, the helmeted hornbill is directly discarded. The helmeted hornbilly with the skull can only wait for death to come.
In 1950, Singapore's helmeted hornbills, which are protected by the Washington Convention (CITES) Level 1 (extremely endangered and prohibited from international trade), were also listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2015, which was reduced from "near-threaten" to "critically endangered"!
The female helmeted hornbill has no helmet bump, perhaps you will think that she will survive, but what you don't know is that the helmeted hornbill is a real "monogamous", during the breeding period, the female helmeted hornbill can only stay in the nest, the diet is all dependent on the "husband", and once the male helmeted hornbill is killed, then his wife and children are not spared, it can be said that the murder of a male helmeted hornbill is equivalent to the destruction of a helmeted hornbill family.
The helmeted hornbills are mainly found in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Usually living in pairs or small groups, mainly feeding on the fruits and seeds of fruits, figs and other plants, but also eating snails, worms, insects, rodents and snakes, etc.; evergreen or semi-evergreen lowland forests are their main habitat, but human activities cause their habitat loss, reduced precipitation, tourism impacts, road development, and invasion of exotic plants, resulting in changes in the living environment, further exacerbating the decline of helmeted hornbills.
Myanmar, Thailand is the origin of helmeted hornbills, Laos has become a transshipment point, the "Golden Triangle" rampant smuggling of these various wild animals and plants, in 2016, China intercepted 1503 helmeted hornbill skull products; Indonesia seized 1117 products, wildlife criminal gangs in northern Sumatra Indonesia when trying to trade, a total of 12 helmeted hornbill skulls were intercepted, another 2 mobile phones, guns captured; according to incomplete statistics, thousands of shotguns are provided to poachers in northern and southern Sumatra every year.
There is no trade, there is no harm, carved on the helmeted hornbill skull of the bodhisattva, the bodhisattva will also shed tears, we can't do anything, but we can not buy, refuse all helmeted hornbill videos, without interests, money driven, natural helmet hornbill is safe.