You might have grown up with the story of how storks bring human babies gently to their family. You might
not know that the
Greater Adjutant, a stork in India, has human help delivering its own babies.
The Greater Adjutant, the rarest of 19 species of storks on earth, is found in India and Cambodia. The name is derived from their stiff "military" gait when walking on the ground. There are only 800 of these five feet tall, large billed, bare headed birds left in the world. Their main diet is carrion and they can often be found on garbage dumps. The video below is from PBS’s
Nature: The Beauty of Ugly and shows a little of their story
. Watch the video:
http://youtu.be/OBskuBPNcYo
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