Houston Zoo Pantanal Aviary

I can see a potential problem with them cohabitating with the motmot, barbet, tanager, and caciques ESPECIALLY due to their size and the toucan's predatory nature. In the wild, toco toucans (well every araçari and toucan species within their wide range) especially love to predate, eat, and destroy nests of the yellow-rumped caciques and oropendolas. I'm iffy about a motmot doing well but I did capture a picture of a motmot holding its own against a spotted thick-knee, and zoos have reported that them and plush-crested jays should NEVER mix because one species WILL kill the other

San Diego has kept Tocos with those species a long time, though I don't know what the breeding situation is with any of those species.
 
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