The hottest facts about cranes this side of Zoobooks.

• The Whooping Crane is highly endangered, with only 437 birds living in the wild. Many conservationists believe the species has struggled because of its large, enticingly snappable neck.

• Cranes perform elaborate mating dances including but not limited to: the Black Bottom, the Cake Walk, the Fox Trot, and the Shuffle Off To Buffalo.
• Cranes are revered in Japan, it seems. Maybe?
• Cranes are largely monogamous, forming long-term relationships that turn each bird into a bitter shell of regret and loathing.
• The cranes have always been jealous of the stork for its baby-delivering responsibilities. Madly jealous. 
• A crane will eat a whole crawdad right out of the pond just like that.
• Cranes are so named because their necks resemble cranes.
• If you are attacked by a crane: Play dead. The birds are simply too powerful to fight, and you must hope that they lose interest.
• Crane > Frasier Crane > Kelsey Grammar > Grammar School > School's Out > Alice Cooper > Chicken Coop. THEREFORE: Cranes are chickens.

Wear this shirt: to a David Barton gym.

Don't wear this shirt: near a male crane during the mating season.

This shirt tells the world: "Nature! Birds! Ummmm…Art Nouveau!"

We call this color: Cranberry/Craneberry

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