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Photo Jane Duden
Meet
Robo-Crane
Dan Sprague helps care for and train these chicks after their birth. Dan helped
make a special puppet called Robo-crane. It
has a trigger that drops treats from its beak. The chicks get the treats when
they
perform well in training. Crane experts in big white costumes wear this puppet
on their arm.
Robo-crane has a tiny hidden recorder. It plays the whooping crane parent's call to
its chick. The call means “It’s okay. Follow me.” To
a chick,
Robo-crane looks and sounds real. This puppet is a big help to the humans who
are
raising the chicks for the newEastern flock.