urbpan: (dandelion)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2014-01-28 06:40 pm

3:00 snapshot #1526

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Artificial crane eggs!

[identity profile] kryptyd.livejournal.com 2014-01-28 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? Why are you trying to make the cranes broody? Or are you trying to confuse crane egg robbers?

Somewhere in the dusty corners of my mind I know why someone would want/need fake eggs for animal husbandry reasons, but I can't remember. And as I often say to you, I'd rather you tell me than I google it :) Sorry, I'm a demanding lj friend.

[identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com 2014-01-29 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
From the Zoo New England website:

"Red-Crowned Crane Egg Transfer Program

Another successful SSP conservation partnership is the red-crowned crane egg transfer program. Through the years, Zoo New England has provided fertile eggs for transfer to the Khinganski Nature Reserve in Far East Russia. This egg transfer program utilizes these eggs to supplement the wild population.

Eggs transferred are hatched in Russia, reared in a manner that maintains some level of fear to humans, and at the same time encourages them to establish nesting sites closer to local villages. A number of Zoo New England eggs have been hatched, reared, and released to the wild. There has been confirmation that at least one of these offspring has migrated between Russia and Japan."

[identity profile] kryptyd.livejournal.com 2014-01-29 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
They are introducing changelings to unknowing bird families! Where is the sanctity of the family!