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Sometimes people need to wear camouflage to help nature. By the 1940s, habitat loss and hunting had almost caused the whooping crane to become extinct. Whooping crane chicks bond with the first big object they see after they hatch. Costume-rearing cranes was a technique developed in 1985. A full-length crane costume hides the human form to ensure that the captive-reared chicks know they are whooping cranes when they are released in the wild. Costume-rearing has helped successfully establish two separate populations of whooping cranes. When I see the crane costume, it makes me laugh, and Gary Larson (The Far Side American cartoonist) takes over my brain and drawing hand.