This Would Be the Best Alarm EVAH!

Posted on April 10, 2013 by mikethemadbiologist

Cricket, the keel-billed toucan from the National Zoo–no idea what she was worked up about:

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3 Responses to This Would Be the Best Alarm EVAH!

  1. Chris Hill says:
    April 10, 2013 at 11:42 am

    Can see where he got his name.

  2. george.w says:
    April 10, 2013 at 1:43 pm

    Our neighbors in Washington state had peacocks. No way in hell anyone could approach that house without them (and us and everyone else) knowing about it.

  3. Terry McGlynn says:
    April 12, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    I usually hear keel-billed toucans doing this in the wild, at my field site. Though usually for only, maybe, 10-second stretches, then a pause, and then again. I think it was bored, just like a lonely pacing polar bear.

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