What is the total population of whoopers, including wild and captive birds?
As of February, 2000, there were 188 whoopers in the Aransas/Wood Buffalo wild population, 3 whoopers left in an experimental Rocky Mountain population, and 91 in the experimental Florida population, for a total of 282 whoopers in the wild. In captivity, as of February, there were 47 whoopers at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center with 9 breeding pairs. There were 30 whoopers at the International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin, with 6 breeding pairs. Twenty-one whoopers live at the Calgary Zoo breeding facility in Canada, with 3 breeding pairs. Four whoopers live at the San Antonio Zoological Gardens in Texas, with 2 breeding pairs. And there are 4 whoopers living in other captive facilities: the Lowery Park Zoo, Tampa, Florida, the White Oak facility in Mississippi, and the Audubon Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana. The total number of birds in captivity is 106. This means that the total number of whoopers in the entire world is 388. There are more pandas alive today than cranes. Cra
