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Horned Raven: The voice of a demon and an otherworldly look. The creepiest bird of the savannah On a foggy African morning, the voice of this bird can be heard throughout the savannah. Booming, dull, penetrating - it penetrates the body, making the soul freeze. This is what the afterlife music sounds like. This is how the Kaffir horned raven greets the day - a harbinger of war, drought, rain and fire. He moves without losing his royal dignity. Tall, heavy, black, with red bare skin on the throat and face, with eyelashes that look indecently luxurious for a creature that spends its life among dust, termite mounds and dead meat. The size of the bird is impressive: up to 130 cm in length, up to 6 kg in weight. By the way, our hero has nothing to do with crows. The gloomy bird is a member of the hornbill family. Under this collective name, scientists have united all birds with unusual outgrowths on their beaks. And Kaffir crows are the most bloodthirsty of them. They are the only truly carnivorous hornbills. Under the blow of a powerful beak, shells and bones crack. Anyone who is smaller and weaker will become a victim. The bird collects its harvest slowly, walking along the savannah scorched by the sun and fire - horned crows love to search the ground after fires, not hesitating to eat the bodies of dead animals. In order not to turn into a grilled chicken under the scorching rays, the Kaffir raven acquired anatomical adaptations. Red skin on the head and neck is not for beauty, but from overheating. Bare areas are densely permeated with vessels that remove excess heat. That's why they are so red. This gothic diva has one more detail that makes beauty gurus cry, biting their elbows - phenomenal eyelashes. Long and dense, they emphasize the look as if they were not grown in the savannah, but carefully glued before shooting. In reality, of course, it is just another survival tool. The African sun is truly aggressive. Hard light, high levels of ultraviolet radiation and constant glare from dry grass and burnt earth quickly overload your vision. I know this from personal experience: looking for animals in the field for a long time, sometimes I get nauseous and have a headache, and this happens even with good sunglasses. Hard and long eyelashes protect the bird's eyes from foreign bodies, injuries and rays. The side effect of this functionality is luxurious. The ravens' gaze turns out to be fatal - deep, heavy, almost human. Their appearance is captivating. But the voice is even more impressive. They say on the Internet that Kaffir crows roar like lions. I have never heard this personally and have not found video evidence of it. In fact, their singing is much worse. It sounds like the music of the underworld. A booming resonant sound that you don’t so much hear as feel in your body. This is not paranormalism, not magic. And physics. The fact is that the voice of birds goes to the level of infrasound. These are oscillations with a