After failed courtship, zoo helps rare birds breed
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 17:28
in Biology & Nature
When the National Zoo tried to set up a pair of rare white-naped cranes, the date went sour and the lovebirds fought. Staff at the zoo artificially inseminated the female crane, and a female chick was born last month in what the zoo calls an important step for the threatened species.