Whooping Crane Research Paper

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Finding a way to keep whooping crane from being extinct, has brought a few options about. Another option that has been tested, but has brought its positives and negatives with it, is the removal of the second egg that the adult crane lays. Of the two eggs that whooping cranes lay, during the late months of April and mid­ May only one chick usually lives (Project Gutenberg Self­ Publishing Press, 2002). Because of this, experts have come up, with taking an egg from each nest to build a captive whooping crane flock, which majority of eggs are used for the reintroduced experiments in Canada. From the existing data sets, workers have found that the reproductive performance was on average,

when the removal of the second developing eggs than