Among the winding waterways and mangroves of South America, the hoatzin roams—a bird whose presence evokes both curiosity and ...

A handful of bird species are known to consume plant matter, but only one is a true herbivore: the hoatzin. It's a ...

Scientists have examined fossil relatives of the South American Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), which point to African origins for the enigmatic bird. A team comprising German, Brazilian and French ...

According to the researchers, analysis of all the material suggests that the origins of the South-American bird lie in Africa, the oldest species related to the hoatzin had been found in the State of ...

This bizarre creature is widespread in swamp forest habitat across northern South America and the Amazon ... Scientists once thought the hoatzin – pronounced "ho-AT-zin" – traced its lineage ...

The hoatzin is a neotropical, obligate folivorous feeder, weighing approximately 700–750 g, that inhabits the low-land riverine swamps and gallery forests of South America, from Guyana and ...

These unusual birds, only one species of which exists in South America today, originated in the Old World. Studies of the oldest known fossils of Hoatzin ancestors have now shown that these birds ...

have spread out across South America in part because they have something in common with humans and other mammals. The clue is in the name “stinkbird.” That’s right, the hoatzin stinks.

Sir David Attenborough presents the South American hoatzin. Moving clumsily through riverside trees the funky Mohican head crested hoatzin looks like it has been assembled by a committee.

The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a South American strict folivorous bird, with a crop microbial ecosystem that ferments dietary plants. Chicks progressively become independent from the adult ...

The Hoatzin is a funny old bird: a poor flyer, the chicks equipped with claws on their wings, it lives on the banks of the Amazon and Orinoco basins in South America. What is particularly unusual ...