Marabou stork quite ill-tempered. It also resembles other storks in that it is not very vocal, but indulges in bill-rattling courtship displays. The throat sac is also used to make various noises at that time. A number of endoparasites have been identified in wild marabous including "Cheilospirura", "Echinura" and "Acuaria" nematodes, "Amoebotaenia sphenoides" (Cestoda) and "Dicrocoelium hospes" (Trematoda). The marabou stork is a frequent scavenger, and the naked head and neck are adaptations to this livelihood, as it is with the vultures with which the stork often feeds. In both cases, a feathered head would become rapidly clotted with blood and other
Marabou (ethnicity) the resemblance between dark-skinned Indians and marabous. Describing Marabous as an ethnic group is a stretch since the term applies to any person of mixed heritage with dark skin and straight or wavy hair. Marabous are no more an ethnic group than grimeaus, mulattoes, quadroons, or octoroons are; these terms merely describe the different phenotypes of mixed-race people. Marabou (ethnicity) Marabou () is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term describes the offspring of a Haitian person of mixed race: Africans, Europeans, Taíno Indian and South Asians (East Indians) ancestry. The Marabou label dates to the colonial