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The yellow-billed hornbill, cousins of fan-favorite Zazu from The Lion King, faces local extinction due to the climate crisis. Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought ...

The yellow-billed hornbill, a cousin of fan-favorite Zazu from The Lion King, faces local extinction due to the climate crisis. Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought ...

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbills struggled to breed at high temperatures. Nicholas B. Pattinson For birds in arid zones, rising temperatures pose a significant problem. Birds in these dry zones ...

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WASHINGTON — In the short-term, ways to beat the heat are cool. But for desert birds, even simple panting or flying into the shade have some sneaky long-term costs. When male southern yellow-billed ...

In the scorching heat of the Kalahari Desert, some birds still manage to keep their cool. When air temperatures hit 30.7° Celsius, the difference between beak surface temperature and air temperature ...

When temperatures are scorching, southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa dilate blood vessels in their beaks to thermoregulate and cool off, according to a study ...

Birds called southern yellow-billed hornbills have long lived in the arid Kalahari Desert. But new findings show that the breeding performance of one population of the birds is collapsing — and ...