Last during the week we recounted how Stone Age people might have grown cassowaries. A bird of a raging nature can be stigmatized to humans.
Sometimes stigmatization leads to strange situations. This has been the case in the United States, where a female spectacle stork named Walnut keeps its caregiver Chris Crowea as their life partner. Crowe even has to dance instrumental dances to it.
It is unclear whether Walnut himself believes he is human or whether he thinks Crowe is a stork.
Walnut was born in another orphanage in 1981. Originally it had an overly maternal caregiver who raised a stork cub even in her arms. It was a disservice. Walnut stigmatized man so strongly that as an adult it killed two male herons that were tried to marry her.
Asian spectacle herons are endangered. There are only 5,000 individuals in the wild. To save the species, storks are raised in zoos. It is very important that they increase, but what advice would Walnut hate his classmates?
Walnut became attached to his new caretaker, Croween, when he began work in the shelter in 2004. Crowe soon realized that the bird’s affection could be exploited. If Walnut once thinks he is a dog bird, then let’s play!
At call time Walnut and Crowe do the whole ritual – the bird waves its wings and Crowe his hands, sometimes a man jumps and throws leaves in the air as if as a nesting material.
Crowe then artificially inseminates Walnut with a syringe. The procedure is less stressful when the bird thinks of Crowe as its wing.
The “couple” has already had several chicks by this means. Walnut already has grandchildren.
“Yes, I’ve heard every possible joke,” Crowe told The newspaper Washington Post in a thing a couple of years ago.
Storks mate for age and mourn their dead spouses for weeks. If Crowe is away from the orchard for a long time, Walnut nods jealously.
Storks can live to be over 60 years old. In an interview, Crowe ponders what will happen if he retires before time leaves Walnut.
“I really can’t leave.”
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