Near the earth's equator, there is a huge forest ecosystem - tropical rainforest, where the climate is hot all year round, the rainfall is abundant, the seasonal differences are very insignificant, the biome succession rate is extremely fast, and it is the habitat of more than 50% of the world's animal and plant species, and is known as the world's largest gene bank.
tropical rainforest
In the tropical rainforest of the Americas, there is a colorful and precious bird - macaw, a total of 6 genera and 17 species, they are the most beautiful and colorful parrots, each species has a unique plumage, but also the largest parrot, of which the size of the purple and blue macaw, the measured body length is 95-100 cm, is a large climbing bird!
Blue-throated macaw
Macaws mainly inhabit tropical forests at altitudes of 450 to 1000 meters, often inhabiting humid tropical lowlands below 1,000 meters, are social birds, like to move in pairs, often gather in small groups of 10 to 30, and more than 40 family members can be seen together during the breeding season.
Group-dwelling
Great green macaw
Macaws are called Hercules because they have a large sickle-like beak and are powerful, and there are many palm trees in the Amazon forest that bear huge fruits, and the seed coats of these fruits are usually extremely hard, and it is difficult for people to easily break them with a hammer, while macaws can easily use pecks to open the outer skin of the fruit and eat the seeds inside. In addition to nuts, they mainly feed on fruits, flowers, insects and snails, and they eat a lot of food!
Powerful beak
Staple nuts
The macaw not only has a beautiful appearance, a huge body, and great strength, it also has a characteristic, that is, it is invincible! In the rainforest, many fruits and flowers are poisonous, and the macaw's diet is made up of many fruits and flowers, but the macaw is not poisoned. It turns out that macaws will often peck at the soil on the rock walls, and the soil contains special minerals that can neutralize the toxicity in the body, and this magical action may be the result of natural evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest!
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Pecking at dirt blocks on rock walls
The macaw's call was loud, rough and noisy, very harsh, not tactful, and the screams often echoed through the forest canopy, which turned out to be through the sound, which could communicate within the group, mark territory, and identify each other. It can get along well with other species of parrots, but can also bite other animals and strangers.
Turquoise macaw
Red-green macaw
They are a very intelligent type of parrot, relatively easy to accept human training, will imitate people's gentle voices, and are easy to become people's good friends! Among birds, such as myna, wrens, etc., they will imitate human language, but they are not as articulate and lively as macaws. Therefore, on the "clever and eloquent", the macaw is the champion of birds!
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The so beautiful and precious, unique and individual macaw is undoubtedly loved by many people, so in Central America, the poaching situation is very serious, coupled with their breeding, nesting in hollow tree trunks or caves on limestone geological cliffs, each season can breed quite a few young birds, resulting in their presence is less and less, and now all of them are listed in the IUCN 2012 Red List of Threatened Species!
Many people like beautiful and intelligent animals and use them as pets, but not all animals are particularly suitable, for wild birds living in the forest, like it, but must have it, let it return to nature, breeding is a real love and protection! Without illegal trade, illegal wildlife capture will be reduced!
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