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| Welcome aboard Beth Anderson, and welcome back Mark Nipper! Both interns are currently assisting the crane crew at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and are working with the new Whooping crane chicks to prepare them for the 2003 WCEP reintroduction. | |
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| Part of the exercise process involves swimming the new chicks several times, which helps overcome any potential hock rotation problems. | |
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| Crane chicks 310 & 311 hatched on May 6th. From their still damp appearance it looks as if they may have had a race to see which would hatch out first... | |
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| The puppet teaches one of the young chicks how to eat. | |
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Photos taken by: Dan Sprague |
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