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Shooting a film from crane. The generally accepted definition of a crane is a machine for lifting and moving heavy objects by means of ropes or cables suspended from a movable arm. As such, a lifting machine that does not use cables, or else provides only vertical and not horizontal movement, cannot strictly be called a 'crane'.
The family name Gruidae comes from the genus Grus, this genus name is obtained from the epithet of the common crane which is Ardea grus, it is named by Carl Linnaeus from the Latin word grus meaning "crane". [9] The 15 living species of cranes are placed in four genera. [1]
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The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, [3] [1] named for its "whooping" calls. Along with the sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), it is one of only two crane species native to North America, and it is also the tallest North American bird species. [3]
Snow Plums and Twin Cranes, early Ming dynasty (1368–1644). When a crane is depicted with a fenghuang, mandarin duck, heron and a wagtail, this represents the Confucianist concepts of the five relationship between people (δΊδΌ¦). [1]: 86–87 In this particular combination, the crane symbolizes the relationship between father and son.
ΓερΞ¬να is a modified spelling of γΞρανος, which is the Ancient Greek word for crane. [2] It derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *gerh 2-en-/-eu-, meaning the same thing; cognate with the English word 'crane.' [3] It seems to be attested in Mycenaean Greek in the dative plural form gerenai (Linear B: ππ©ππ, ke-re-na-i), though Beekes expressed some doubt over it.
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The name Grus is the Latin word for "crane". [2] The German ornithologist Peter Simon Pallas was sometimes credited with erecting the genus in 1766 [ 3 ] but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1956 that Brisson should have priority.