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Keep an eye on your kids! Golden Eagle snatches...
Baby!
 Damn almost got away with it too! Wow!
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An old neighbor, where I grew up, moved to Alaska when he was working for the air line told me an eagle had come down one day and took his little dog. Crazy.
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12-18-2012, 09:53 PM
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Holy crap!!!
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12-18-2012, 09:58 PM
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They use Golden Eagles to hunt deer, wolves and fox. They are extremely powerful, and a small dog would be a joke for one of them.
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12-18-2012, 10:03 PM
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Wow - that eagle is huge. Glad the kid was in winter garb - that would have hurt in summer! Are there any cases where the eagle got away? Never heard of it.
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12-18-2012, 10:37 PM
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When it's lambing season here in the Willamette Valley, Bald Eagles can be spotted perched in trees near flocks of sheep.
Gee, what do you think they could be feeding on?
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12-18-2012, 10:47 PM
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I'm gonna go ahead and call it fake.
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12-19-2012, 04:21 AM
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  Interesting seeing the slo-mo, it does seem doctored. Something didn't sit right with me after watching the "attack". When a bird of prey that size goes after a large land animal the angle of attack would be greater and much faster. They use speed and impact to drive the talons deep into the prey and cause as much traumatic injury as possible to immobilize the animal. There is little reason for the animal to attempt to fly away with the prey immediately as it is risky for the predator. They will drag large prey like mountain goat kids off of cliffs and use gravity to kill of the animal then feed. This low angle swoop looks like something an eagle would use to scoop up a fish from the water. Fish pose little threat to the animal but the water can be dangerous if the eagles feathers get wet. Some of the deer kills by eagles have shown that the talons actually penetrated the heart of the prey on first impact. |
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Oh and put me down on the "I think that video is fake" list too, please. |
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12-19-2012, 05:54 AM
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if that eagle took that kid and it wsa not on camera, that lady would be locked up for murder and being crazy.
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pretty slick.
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The Eagles Bald and Golden's are visible in great numbers during caving season they eat the placenta's / After birth of both calves and lambs. I have taken some great eagle shots ( Pictures) during this time early march in MT. It's like a McRib, only better for them and only available for a brief time 
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12-19-2012, 08:13 AM
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Those are some serious Talons!
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12-19-2012, 09:36 AM
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I just hit a falcon on my way back to work after lunch. Poor critter hit the windscreen and broke his wing, but he is alright otherwise. I went home grabbed a dog kennel, gloves and towel and hunted him down in some nearby woods.
I have a wildlife rehabilitation person coming out to pick him up. They said they'd email me on his progress. I hope he can fly again, but the wing break was close to his body and I'm uncertain as to how bad that is.
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12-19-2012, 11:48 AM
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As per Aggie93 post # 15 How a fake video of an eagle stealing a Montreal baby fooled the world (with video) MONTREAL - Relax, world — your baby won't get snatched by an eagle if you visit Montreal. An online video of the massive bird plucking an infant off the ground has been acknowledged by its creators as a fake. The admission comes after the video, produced by students at a new-media training school in Montreal, had gotten more than 1.2 million views on YouTube and been covered by dozens of media in Canada and internationally. The video was picked up by newspapers in the U.K., was tweeted by at least one member of the White House press corps in Washington, and it moved on the international news wires through Agence France Presse as well as in numerous other major international publications. But Claude Arsenault, a spokesman for the Centre NAD, says the video was done as part of a class project in 3D animation and digital design. "Both the eagle and the kid were created in 3D animation and integrated in to the film afterwards," said a statement from the school. An online debate raged about whether or not the video was real, with many people weighing in that it was fake. As that debate raged, media picked up the story — with some treating it seriously and others warning that it could be a stunt. It's not the first time a hoax from that class has gotten attention. An earlier effort showed a penguin escaping from the Montreal Biodome. Although that earlier video of the pengiun waddling down Sherbrooke Street, outside the Olympic Stadium, only got a fraction of the attention generated by the stolen-baby video. It was the second time in a week that media and the public had been drawn in by a hoax involving animals in Montreal. A fake CBC Radio interview where a phoney Montreal city councillor proposed a bylaw requiring dogs in public spaces to be bilingual also caused a tempest before it was denied by the public broadcaster. In the meantime, the Montreal eagle has shown up with his own Twitter account, saying he grabbed the child because he thought it was a Hobbit. The Agence France Presse news service noted the proliferation of weird stories emerging lately from Canada. "A YouTube video of a golden eagle swooping down and lifting a toddler off the ground in Montreal could soar to Internet stardom as the latest episode of animals behaving strangely in Canada," the report began. "(It comes) just a week after a monkey wearing a sheepskin coat was found wandering around an IKEA parking lot in Toronto Read more: How a fake video of an eagle stealing a Montreal baby fooled the world (with video)
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