Description
RARE ANTIGONE CRANE
On a wooden plinth.
Height: 1.33 m, length: 1.22 m.
II/B, Grus antigone.
Provenance
Kahn-Dumousset auction, 30 October 2008, lot 76.
Distribution
Indian subcontinent and northern Australia.
Note
This is the largest species of crane. Pairs mate for life and perform very elegant courtship displays every year: hopping, dancing and flapping their wings, they utter very powerful calls that can be heard for kilometres.
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