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Transplanted Whooping Cranes Begin Migration

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25994
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Whooper crane juveniles have been transplanted in the nests of sandhill cranes, living alongside their foster parents in order to learn to forage and fly. Researchers hope the whooping cranes will adopt the migration patterns of the sandhill crane and flourish when old enough to mate.
Source:
Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 19 Issue 5, Nov-Dec 1975, p5
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