Hornbill Birds or is a species of bird
that has abeak-shaped horns of the cow but
without the
circle. Usually that light-colored beak. The
scientific name "Mascot" refers to the shape
of the beak, and has the
meaning "ox horns" in the language
of Greece.
Hornbill in the Bucerotidae group belongs
to include 57 species. Nine endemic species there
of
originating in the southern partof Africa. The
food especially fruits also lizards, bats,
rats, snakes and various types of insects. (Source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enggang)
63 (Allo, Ruai/term for Dayaks Arue) is
a type of bird which is on the island of
Borneo. Hornbill has a pretty large body size, which
is about 100 cm. There are about 8 different types
of Hornbill with body color combination of black and
white, while the color of the beak is a mix of yellow,
Orange and red. Typical of this is the existence
ofbird beak Horn (casque) that grows on the top
of its beak. Bird food
is figs has specialized nesting behavior. Hornbill has a
habit of living pairs and how bertelurnya is
an attraction. At the beginning of the period
of spawning males make a hole locatedhigh on tree
trunks for nesting place and bertelurnya the
female then male feeding
the birds females through a small hole during
the incubation period, and continuing until their
children grow up to be a
young bird. Why this Hornbill in use as a
symbolby the dayak tribe? It symbolises
the dayak befits Dove symbolises purity
and eternity in Christian religious. Therefore, Hornbill was
featured as an example of life for the people
of dayak community to keep loving
and loved her
life partner and parenting them to become
an independent and mature dayak. But now
this Hornbill is a rare bird that has been
very difficult to find in the jungle of borneo, this
is because thepengerusakan borneo that constantly occur, such
as well logging illegal logging as
well as land for Palm oil plantations. The fate
of the Hornbill is now the same as the fate
of the Dayak tribe in borneo that is
increasingly marginalized in their own land.Now this
bird as a symbol only and can only be seen
in a picture that shows footage of its heyday in
the past. It can only be seen as a symbol
of that depicted in the form of motifs as in this
picture. Pity once their fate. The
remaining part of it is just an image and a few parts
of the beak and feathers which remain stored neatly by
the dayak community.
Based on the trust of the people of
old, symbolizing Hornbill is equivalent
to symbolizing the Dragon, who considered that
the Hornbill as symbolizing nature's top
(ceiling) and the dragon as symbolizing nature (land). Here
the Hornbill as a guard overnature, and as a manifestation
of the balance with nature.
The thinking of the founder of the University
of gastric Mangkurat with symbolizingnature's top can
be thought of as a manifestation of nature's thought
or idea or idea that is perfect
with the campus community lives his days studying at
the same time knitting ideas of humanity.
The specialities of the Hornbill, namely at a
time when the female incubating their eggs until they
hatch never left the nest, then the
dining needs during the disarang provided
by the Hornbill. In terms
of food the Hornbill was not too picky an
important origin of the fruit that is ripe it will
be ate, such as bananas, mangoes, then kestelais also
sometimes eat small animals for digestion.
The female Hornbill will
long be disarangnya so long as disarangnya the
female form covered with a single nest hole is
not too large, then the nest was continuously strung
together into a large nest if his sons have
already hatched, as well as children who have
started the great can take this nest
of merevarasi be great for his own by
connecting from a parent's nest.
Rare wildlife poaching activity protected more languid days. The
person catching the animals hunters hunting in many
ways. Their purpose is only one, so get the
rare animal for sale with exorbitant prices.
Endangered types of poultry also
include wildlife is often hunted. One of
the Hornbill or often called Hornbill. Birds
with specific width and long-beaked it becomes it. As
a result, populations of animals that threatened to
diminish.
Some time ago in the city of Padang, a number
of members
of the Hornbill bird hunters arrested police. They bring results found for
sale to neighboring countries. According to their confessions,
a total of 48 bird beak fruit can be sold
at exorbitant prices because it is believed
to be efficacious for drugs. In fact there are
also making half of the Hornbill for ring and other
jewellery.
Because of the difficulty of getting the
current Hornbill, Borneo plumage typical of this sale are
expensive to Rp.250 thousand($25) per painting.
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