There is a saying in China's collection circles that "one red, two black and three white". "Two black" refers to the two horns of rhinoceros, "three white" refers to ivory white, and what is the "one red" at the top of them? It is "Crane Top Red". Presumably, everyone is not unfamiliar with "Crane Top Red", and people who have watched the palace fight drama must be familiar with it. In the palace, if any concubine looks at anyone unfavorably, she will "reward" a cup of poison at any time. The "crane top red" mentioned today is not a poison, but a critically endangered bird - helmeted hornbills.
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The helmeted hornbill belongs to the Buddhist monk hornbill family and is mainly distributed in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. They prefer to live more in the rainforest below 1500 meters above sea level, generally about 1.1 meters to 1.2 meters in length, female birds weigh about 5 pounds, male birds are higher than females, about 6 pounds, such a large hornbill is worthy of being called "Asia's largest hornbill".
Most of this family of hornbills is known for its bright colors, and generally has helmet-like bumps on the top of its head, which are called helmet protrusions. Among them, the helmet protrusion of the helmeted hornbill is the most obvious. Because the helmeted hornbill's fat glands secrete a red liquid that can dye the skull red, showing a bright color of red on the outside and yellow on the inside, and its helmet protrusion is hard and solid, like a helmet, it is firmly attached to the protruding beak. Such a beautiful variety of people want to "take it for themselves", people cruelly take off its skull to make various crafts such as ornaments, snuff bottles, bead chains and so on.
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Hornbills were not originally native to China, and were first paid tribute. Its existence was already known in the Yuan Dynasty of China, but it was not introduced until the Ming Dynasty when Zheng He went to the West. At that time, some small countries in Southeast Asia paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and helmeted hornbill skulls appeared in their tributes. In everyone's perception, we didn't know what this thing was at that time? I just feel that its bright color is very similar to a red-crowned crane, and this is how the name of the red-crowned crane comes from.
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Helmeted hornbills often roost in the woods, sometimes descending to the ground in search of food. As mentioned earlier, it is the largest hornbill in Asia, so the demand for eating in a day is also relatively large. It feeds mainly on fruits, figs and other fruits or seeds. They are also not picky eaters, and they also eat some insects, snakes, rats and other creatures.
Generally, when living creatures eat, they stuff food directly into their mouths, and the helmeted hornbill is very unique, it often likes to throw food into the air, and then hold it with its own mouth, it seems that "flying food in the air" is its favorite. When it encounters a core or animal bone that it cannot digest, it will also spit out of the stomach.
Every creature needs metabolism, and the helmeted hornbill is no exception, after digestion of the food tract, the helmeted hornbill will scatter its feces into the forest on its way to flight. This is a natural fertilizer for plants and is good for afforestation.
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Because the crafts made of helmeted hornbills are very beautiful, some people maliciously plunder helmets for their own benefit. The method is very cruel, people directly saw off the helmet hornbills while they are alive. It then carved a lot of delicate patterns on top of its skull.
It is understood that the price of this handicraft has shown a straight upward trend, and some have been fried to more than 30,000 yuan per kilogram. It is 3 times more expensive than the price of ivory. Some people say that if you sell 2 helmeted hornbills, it is equivalent to the cost of an Indonesian family for a year.
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It seems that humans hunt only one helmeted hornbill, but "pull a hair and move the whole body", which will cause the destruction of the entire helmeted hornbill family. Helmeted hornbills are only available in male helmeted hornbills, and when people hunt a male, the female helmeted hornbills in the nursing period lose their source of livelihood because they have no foraging ability during this period, and once the mother starves to death, the young birds will die one after another.
Helmeted hornbills also reproduce more slowly, generally only 1-2 young birds at a time. Even if the helmeted hornbill escapes hunting, its reproduction rate is not as fast as the race is hunted.
Driven by profit, more and more people are participating in the hunting of helmeted hornbills, and now the number is becoming less and less, and what was originally 6,000 has now become 100. The helmeted hornbilly was still seen in Singapore and is now largely never seen again.
In response to the regulations on the protection of endangered wild animals and the strict prohibition of smuggling and trafficking of precious animals and products, in September 2012, a batch of helmeted hornbills were seized at the customs office of The Shenzhen Bay Port in China, with a number of 159 and weighing 10 kilograms.
There is no killing without buying and selling, for every creature is a treasure born of nature, we should not treat them with malice, especially endangered species.
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