Only one of the nine African savanna hornbill species, the Southern Ground-Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri: hereafter SGH) is listed as being of conservation concern. The species is an apex predator ...

Southern ground hornbills are both ecologically—as a top-order predator—and culturally—as the bringer of rain, banisher of droughts, killer of snakes, keeper of time—valuable. It has been determined ...