Hoatzin

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     Hoatzins live in the trees of the Amazon Forest.  The adults can grow to be 36 cm.  They have a short fat body, stout legs and feet, broad tail, a long scruffy neck, tiny head capped by a scraggly crest of spiky feathers, and big weak wings.  They eat fruits and leaves of

   Lots-of-different-trees.  Their young hatch out of eggs.  They are closely related to the cuckoos.  But watch out, they stink! 

 

 

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