The Yellow-billed Hornbill in Kruger National Park

The southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) is the most familiar bird in the Greater Kruger. Visible at every rest camp, ubiquitous along roadsides, and famous globally as the inspiration (almost) for Zazu in The Lion King. Worth more attention than first-time visitors give it — the breeding biology alone is one of the strangest in the bird world.