Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. Artisteinsiedler CollectionAnimals
Description Animal that belongs to the class of the birds, family Ramphastidae, gender Ramphastos In Brazil, the toucan is found at the Swampland, in the Savannah and in the Amazonian. Is an omnivorous animal, and feeds of insects, lizards, eggs, nestlings of other birds and, mainly, fruits. His alimentary habit is of the day. Tucanou or toucan-stub is larger toucan species (Ramphastdeos). His enormous beak of brilliant colors seems heavy, but however it is formed by a bone structure no solid and polished that he reminds a honey honeycomb. That does with that his/her beak is lighter and therefore it doesn't hinder the flight. In spite of not being solid, the beak is quite resistant. He reproduces in the end of the spring and the female bounces from 2 to 4 eggs in located nests in the high of the trunks of the trees. The couple takes turns in the task of shocking the eggs, which emerge between 16 and 20 days. To the nasceremm, his/her appearance is disproportionate; his beak is big and the body, small; the eyes only open after three weeks and the parents take care from their nestlings to them to leave the nests, what happens in six weeks. The coloration of the beak is only defined months after the birth. The beak is the more notable characteristic of the toucans, being useful to pick fruits in difficult places, to peel them, to intimidate others encourages, to perforate wood, to probe the mud and to impress the females; the beak is also used to play fruits one in the other ones, during the mating ritual. He gets to measure 66 cm until the beak. Their claws are another characteristic of the animal; it is constituted by two front fingers and two back that guarantees him/her a good sustentation in the branches. The toucan-stub for the time being is not a threatened species of extinction, however it has been captured and trafficked for other countries in order to be sold at stores of animals. This back as consequence the decrease of his/her population