Who is a toucan? Detailed answer

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Who is a toucan?

The toucan is one of the strangest looking birds. It is truly one of the wonders of nature. Firstly, the toucan has a huge beak, the size of which exceeds the size of its head! In some toucans, the beak is one third of the length of the entire body. In shape, it resembles the claw of a huge cancer and is painted in bright colors. If you have ever seen a toucan, then you probably could not understand how this bird manages to maintain balance with such a beak.

The answer is simple: this beak is very light for its size. Outside, it has a coating that is no thicker than paper, and inside it is reinforced with porous bone. At its base, the beak is the same size as the bird's head. Along the edges of the beak are uneven notches.

Toucan language is also unusual. It is flat, with teeth along the edges, and looks like a feather. Another feature of the toucan is the way the tail is attached. The tail appears to be attached with a swivel. The toucan can jerk its tail sharply and lift it higher than its back. The toucan is a bird of the American tropics, constituting a whole family, related to honey bears, bearded vultures, barbets and, in the distant, with woodpeckers.

There are 37 varieties of toucan, the largest of which is about 60 centimeters long. The toucan's appetite almost matches the size of its beak. He eats almost everything and is able to get a wide variety of food. In his native forests, he eats fruits, eggs or chicks of smaller birds with equal greed. While eating, he makes a rattling sound with his huge beak. He is also capable of emitting a sharp, unpleasant cry.

Toucans live in small flocks in the forests of Central and South America. Little is known about their lifestyle, but it is believed that they make their nests in hollow trees. Toucans can be tamed and do well in captivity.

Author: Likum A.

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For a long time, almost a millennium and a half, the teachings of Ptolemy dominated the minds of people, stating that the Earth rests motionlessly in the center of the Universe. The geocentric system of Ptolemy was refuted by the great Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). After thirty years of hard work, long observations of the sky, complex mathematical calculations, he proved that the Earth is only one of the planets and that all planets revolve around the Sun.

He proved that it is the movement of the Earth around the Sun and its daily rotation around its axis that explains the apparent movement of the Sun, the strange entanglement in the movement of the planets and the apparent rotation of the firmament.

Copernicus brilliantly simply explained that we perceive the movement of distant celestial bodies in the same way as the movement of various objects on Earth when we ourselves are in motion. It seems to us that the banks are receding when we are sailing in a boat, it seems to us that we are floating above the water when we look down on the current from the bridge. In the same way, when the Earth in its motion overtakes another planet, it seems to us that the planet is moving backward, describing a loop in the sky. In reality, the planets move in regular orbits without making any loops.

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