A hornbill teaches love! 🕊️ When wild animals make people shy (is there a single love for life?)

Why is it that in some Thai wedding ceremonies "hornbill" is spoken of as a symbol of stable love?

If you don't know the reason, today I'd like to invite you to talk a little bit, because the love story of this bird is not only "cute," but it's a really amazing evolutionary survival strategy. 👀✨

What is a hornbill? Why is it raised to a symbol of love? ❓

Hornbill is a large bird with a unique curved beak, found in the rainforests of Thailand and Southeast Asia, biologically.

Most hornbills have a lifelong monogamy or monogamy mating system, which is not very common in the poultry world, and this is the beginning of the love myth that Thai people compare to today. 🥰

If you want to tell me the most dramatic part, you have to talk about the nesting behavior of hornbills. When the breeding season comes, the female enters a well-chosen wood cavity, and then they both use droppings and mud to close the mouth of the cavity almost completely, leaving only a small cavity to stick out the beak.

In other words, the female "trapped herself" in it throughout the hatching period and raised her young at an early stage, which may last for months without being able to feed herself, so all the functions of feeding the mother and child fall to one male.

Why is nature designed like this? 😘

Academically, ornithologists explain that this behavior is a strategy to protect eggs and larvae from predators such as snakes or other predators who prefer to climb trees for nest burrows; silencing the burrows to near-close thus significantly increasing the survival rate of the brood.

➡️ but what makes this a "love story" in the public eye is that over the course of months when the female is unable to save herself, the male has to fly back and forth to feed for dozens of noon a day without leaving, no matter how hot the rain or sun 🥺, and if the male dies in the meantime, the chance of survival of the mother bird and the cub in the burrow is almost zero...

This is why the ancient Thais saw the hornbill as a symbol of honesty and responsibility rather than just romantic love.

For this reason, it is not strange that conservation agencies like the Hornbill Research Foundation choose to use the image of this bird as a campaign for love and honesty in a wedding ceremony, or even the use of the word "hornbill love" as a metaphor for stable, unchanging love.

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