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I love the knowing look in this chick's eye. Photographed in a Hmong village near Luang Prabang, Laos.

Ornithology

Gross generalisation exception to prove the rule:

Japanese cranes stand on two legs! And their "knees" bend backwards too. I've been watching them in various rivers in most of the cities that I've visited, and the crane behaviour is consistent. I don't know if it's to deal with the water flowing constantly in one way rather than the still lakes or wavy oceans I see them in in Canada. Or if they are just of biologically different descendence, since both the smaller white cranes and the larger blue/grey ones do this, even though the latter look much like the one-leg-standing cranes of Canada.

I suppose I could look it up, but supper calls louded than my thirst for knowledge...