GET TO KNOW THE HOATZIN BIRD, THE BOOTLEG JURASSIC BIRD
Hoatzin or in its scientific name is Ophisthocomus hoazin and is the only bird species from the Opisthocomidae family that is still alive today.
This bird is included in the order galliformes, consisting of peacocks, turkeys, or chickens. Now it has been included in its own order, friends, is the Order Opisthocomiformes.
Has a body size of approximately 66 cm or a weight of approximately 1 kg.
For its physical characteristics, it has a brown crest on its head. The small head is blue, the back or middle of the wings are black with white stripes, the wing tips are red, or the long tail feathers are dark with yellow tips.
This bird is in the area near the surrounding waters, for example, swamps and rivers. or including arboreal birds that spend their activities in trees.
birds are folivores that eat leaves or other succulent plants, these animals also rarely drink down, because the leaves they eat contain water.
Facts as a child This bird has claws on the joints of its wings which are used to climb or move from one branch to another.
Because of this, this bird is often dubbed as a reptile bird, similar to the ancient bird that lived in the Age of dinosaurs, namely Artchaeopteryx.
is a Bird has an unpleasant odor, almost no Predator animal that wants to eat it, even humans don't want to hunt it.
The smell is derived from bacteria from the leaves it eats. which provides a mutualism symbiosis to help the digestive process or is a foregut fermentation.
why, this bird has an unpleasant smell and even smells rotten.
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