Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Bucerotiformes > Bucerotidae > Lophoceros nasutus > Lophoceros nasutus epirhinus

Lophoceros nasutus epirhinus (South African grey hornbill)

Synonyms: Buceros epirhinus; Tockus nasutus epirhinus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  156 grams
Female Weight [1]  146 grams
Male Weight [1]  167 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  14.4 %

Prey / Diet

Anas capensis (Cape Teal)[2]
Phrynobatrachus mababiensis (Mababe River Frog)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aonyx capensis (African Clawless Otter)[2]
Haliaeetus vocifer (African Fish Eagle)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kemp, A. 1995. The Hornbills. Oxford: Oxford University Press
♦ 2The Serengeti food web: empirical quantification and analysis of topological changes under increasing human impact, Sara N. de Visser, Bernd P. Freymann and Han Olff, Journal of Animal Ecology 2011, 80, 484–494
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0