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abandoned in a zoo enclosure and took it to the zoo hospital to nurse it to health. She ended up caring for the baby sloth for more than eight months, the first known example of a person successfully hand rearing a two-toed sloth. McCrane rigorously documented her experience as well as her
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observations for the benefit of science. The study that came out of her experience was titled "Behavior and Development of a Hand-Reared Two-Toed Sloth (choloepus didactylus)" and published in International Zoo Yearbook, Volume 6,
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and in the 1950s she lectured to over 30,000 school children a year in the New York City area. She referred to herself as the "Zoo Lady" when speaking to school and wanted to stimulate children's interest in zoology.
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McCrane was a member of the Anteaters Association. In addition to her work in the US, in 1965, McCrane brought a
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McCrane later became the head of the Information and Education Division at the
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New York Zoological Park
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white-tailed deer
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caracal
black-footed cats
flightless rails
Meyer's parrot
Cape parrot
"National Geographic 1956-11 110-5 Nov.pdf"
"SIA Acc. 01-157, McCrane, Marion P"
"The Substitute Mother"
"Smithsonian Year"
"Everything But Anteaters"
"Smithsonian Year 1966"

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