The Yellow-throated Toucan, or Black-Mandibled Toucan, lives in the rainforests of Central and South America. It is mostly black, with a marked maroon hue on the back.
By swallowing fruit and passing seeds, many toucans and aracaris act as important long-distance seed dispersers in tropical forests. "Toucan" and "aracari" aren't separate families: both are ramphastids, with aracaris generally smaller and often more group-living.
Discover fascinating toucan facts, including their habitat, behavior, diet, threats, and ongoing conservation efforts to protect these vibrant rainforest birds.
Definition of effect noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable, uncountable] a change that somebody/something causes in somebody/something else; a result. What are the long-term effects of this treatment? The results show a statistically significant effect. effect on somebody/something Her tears had no effect on him.
A person's effects are the things that they have with them at a particular time, for example when they are arrested or admitted to hospital, or the things that they owned when they died.
Effect is most commonly used as a noun meaning a result or consequence. Affect is most commonly used as a verb meaning to act on or produce a change in someone or something. Remembering the difference between the words can be especially hard because these senses of the words have just about the same pronunciation.