Rhinoceros hornbill - Buceros rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Hornbill)

In 2017, the Zoo hatched its 14 th and 15 th rhinoceros hornbill chicks.

The Rhinoceros Hornbill eats fruit, insects, small reptiles, rodents and smaller birds.

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Some , especially the Ibanic groups, believe it to be the chief of worldly birds or the supreme worldly bird, and its statue is used to welcome the god of the augural birds, Sengalang Burong, to the feasts and celebrations of humankind.

Three species are believed to be native to Singapore—the Oriental Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros albiros- tris , Rhinoceros Hornbill Buceros rhinoceros , and Helmeted Hornbill Rhinoplax vigil.

But hornbillshave elegance and grace while swooping and gliding from their nests high in the treetops.