- Look up
crane or
cranes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Crane or
cranes may
refer to:
Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird
Crane (machine), industrial...
- fit the
above definition of a
crane, but are
generally known as
cranes, such as
stacker cranes and
loader cranes.
Cranes were so
called from the resemblance...
- the face, but the
crowned cranes of the
genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured
wings and
golden "crowns" of feathers.
Cranes fly with
their necks extended...
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recognize other whooping cranes as
their conspecifics, and
unsuccessfully tried to pair with
sandhill cranes, instead.
Florida sandhill crane,
Ocala National Forest...
-
thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴, senbazuru, lit. 'one
thousand cranes') are made, one for each year. In some stories, it is
believed that the
cranes must be completed...
-
keeps cranes. Some
literati even
reared cranes and
trained them to
dance to
guqin music. The Ming and Qing
Dynasties endowed the Red
Crowned Crane with...
- wild (and two captive)
cranes remaining by 1941,
conservation efforts would lead to a
partial recovery. The
total number of
cranes in the
surviving migratory...
-
Alison and Jim Shaw and
named after the many
mechanical cranes around the city's docks,
Cranes are best
known for the
singular childlike vocals of lead...
-
involving cranes, and in
Chinese mythology cranes are
generally symbolically connected with the idea of longevity.: 86–87 In China, the
crane mythology...
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called a
gantry crane (USA, ASME B30 series) or a
goliath crane (UK, BS 466).
Unlike mobile or
construction cranes,
overhead cranes are
typically used...
