🚨 New paper on helmeted hornbill trabecular bone with Hong Kong colleagues.
The bone in the casque is remarkable - my eye was first caught by a specimen in the
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Trabeculae are arranged unusually like a bundle of long, thick sticks melted together.
doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
NYAS Publications
Critically endangered helmeted hornbills (Rhinoplax vigil) use their casques for aerial jousting, where birds collide mid-air. X-ray microtomography revealed that the casque consists of a thick kerat...