Raising Crane

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this short, costumed scientists create a carefully choreographed childhood for a flock of whooping cranes to save them from extinction. It's the ultimate feel-good story, but it also raises some troubling questions about what it takes to get a species back to being wild.

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0:22.9	And today on the podcast, sort of kind of following in the footsteps of our inheritance show, we have, it's a feel-good story that you may not know how to feel about.
0:35.9	There's like a bad feel-good story?
0:54.4	It's, I don't know. Okay. I'm willing to be confused in my feelings, if that's what it's going to take. Yes, let me get things rolling and introduce reporter Andrea Seabrook. Hello. Hey, how's it going? She'll be telling us this next story. Good, how are you? I'm excited to hear what it is you've discovered on your adventures. I have discovered many things, young grasshopper. I'm ready. Okay, so, so I went to this
1:02.4	place. Paul Entry Road into Patuxent. Which I sort of knew existed, but I thought it was just like
1:07.4	a little place north of Washington. U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,
1:13.1	Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
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