The Ballad of the Crane Breeder

My brother’s girlfriend’s dad, Tom Zimmer, had the craziest job out of high school I’ve ever heard of. He shipped up to a wildlife preserve in Wisconsin run by the International Crane Foundation and there found his job was, among other things, to artificially inseminate cranes. They wouldn’t breed in captivity, so he had to go to their pens — the male first, then the female — to collect and…