The Crane who Fell in Love with a Human

Bridging a 320-million-year evolutionary divide, Walnut likely made some human fall in love with her. This volunteer must have been very motherly indeed, posits Lynch. “I can only imagine that when someone hand-raised her … they perhaps even carried her around like a baby or something,” he says. “I’ve just never seen a bird that strongly imprinted.” 

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