Demoiselle Crane facts: the smallest living cranes | Animal Fact Files
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- Demoiselle cranes are the smallest living cranes. They are monogamous animals that remain with the same partner for life. Their elaborate displays help them to strengthen their bonds during time away from one another. Demoiselle cranes migrate from breeding grounds in central Eurasia to wintering grounds in northern African as well as India and the surrounding countries. When they do begin breeding, they typically give birth to two eggs and the babies will stick with their parents for nearly a year even going on their first migration together with their parents!
Scientific Name: Anthropoides virgo (Synonym: Grus virgo)
Range: Central Eurasia and northern Africa
Size: 3 feet (90cm) tall, 5.7 foot (175cm) wingspan, weigh about 5.3 pounds (2.4kg)
Diet: seeds, leaves, nuts, berries, insects, worms, small mammals and reptiles
Lifespan: unknown in the wild, 60+ in captivity
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These birds are often sung to and about in turkish folk songs. They often are asked to carry messages to a missed one, to bring ones deepest wishes to god and symbolize both hope and despair. i love these birds.
Telli turnam, as they are called in turkish is one of the most famous turkish songs.
Turnalar or turnam are also songs one could look up.
Thanks for the wonderful video. We are happy to report that we saw thousands of these today at a place called Khichan in Rajasthan India
Can you do coyotes next? There's a pack that lives really close to our house and I'd like to know more about them.
That's been requested in the past so I'll move it up the list! Thanks!
I like looking at the deceptive techniques some animals use to trick predators (or prey). The broken wing trick would be quite effective, I'd think.
Thanks for the video. Birds rock!
I imagine it would be really effective for distracting a predator away from a nest. It's amazing what animals are able to do!
Next episode is about Javan lapwing
Cool suggestion! We'll add that to our list. Thanks for watching 😄
I want know more about this elusive creture
Like they said in jurrasic park clever girl
can you make episode🐞🐡
so if the two sexes look the same, I wonder how they tell male from female? do they just watch each others behavior when they are looking for a mate? I'm just curious...
Probably a behavioral thing like you mentioned. Could also be a chemical que, though I would have to look into it more to know for sure.
@@AnimalFactFiles usually mammal use smell, but birds tend to have poor noses.
That might be a reason why animals with low sexual dimorphism tend to be more monogamous. It's just a bigger pain to find date. Lol
@@marvalice3455 I love this concept - it gave me a big chuckle; and you make a good point about the generally bad sense of smell!
can you do dingos or blue footed booby
Here's a link to our dingo episode: ua-cam.com/video/1F-qgDAAGdI/v-deo.html
We have blue footed boobies on the list, too, so that'll be coming in the future! 😉