I young 20-something man showed me his traditional cranes that he learned "as a child" and he bends the neck back and then has a rather short/small head. It is kinda like an "S" shape or maybe a kind of lightening bolt shape. I never saw diagrams for this version and I wonder if anyone has ever seen this variation before. Where does it come from? Who started teaching this crane this way? More importantly, do cranes look like that in the wild? I guess in a way, a Whooping Crane does bend its neck back and lifts up its head. It looks so unnatural (as an Origami crane) that I would like to tell him to stop making them that way. Any comments?
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