Hornbills and tortoises?

[Max Mcglasson]

Has anyone ever seen or tried to house Hornbills together with tortoises? Eastern pipings and white thighed?

 

[filovirus]

I know the southern ground hornbill is known to eat tortoises. While the eastern piping and white thighed are clearly quite different varieties (the white-thighed in particular has such a large horn that I'm not sure it'd easily be able to eat a tortoise), it might be worth bearing in mind.

Both the varieties you've listed seem quite uncommon in captivity, so data on cohabitation is probably slim.

 

[Max Mcglasson]

I was assuming this well. Thank you!

 

[ralph]

When I last visited Zoo Veldhoven, I saw free-roaming piping hornbills in their tropical house. There are also turtles in the same building.
This would count as a mixed enclosure, even though it is a very large one

 

[Rizz Carlton]

An small walkthrough aviary in Gembira Loka Zoo (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) have a pair of wreathed hornbill in the same space with some African spurred tortoises. Though, the walkthrough aviary itself already have a very bizarre mix aside from those two.

 

[birdsandbats]

Milwaukee used to mix African Spurred Tortoise and Southern Ground-Hornbill.

 

[NNM.]

This is a stupid thing to drop here but the African spurred tortoise exhibit at Franklin Park used to be for a Southern ground hornbill. Just a small bit of trivia.