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Wearing a crane costume, Kathy checks on the progress of hatching whooper eggs. These eggs have been removed from the mechanical incubator and are in the hatcher. The temperature and the humidity of the hatcher are slightly different from the incubator, to give the chick more moisture during hatching, and to prevent the chick from hatching too quickly. (USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center photo)
Wearing a crane costume, Kathy checks on the progress of hatching whooper eggs. These eggs have been removed from the mechanical incubator and are in the hatcher. The temperature and the humidity of the hatcher are slightly different from the incubator, to give the chick more moisture during hatching, and to prevent the chick from hatching too quickly. (USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center photo)

                                           
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