Be good - or Santa sends his eagles in!
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If thats a real bit of footage and not some viral vid, all i can say is thats one lucky kid .if that eagle had grabed his head it tallons would have punctured his skull
I'm sceptical about it.
Quite a slow attack, no injuries to the kid, kid right beside an adult.
Pure conjecture on how this could come about would be a captive bird having been hacked back too close to habitation. Hungry, still fairly habituated to people - suppose it could happen.
Scary, I once watched footage of an eagle dragging a goat from a cliffside and hereabouts we sometimes have Eagle owls carrying cats and small dogs off, so quite believable.
Interesting footage as you say, and quite believable IMO.
There was some hoo ha about a bird of prey attacking a young child in this country not too long ago, while the owner was flying the bird, but can't remember the exact details.
There was some hoo ha about a bird of prey attacking a young child in this country not too long ago, while the owner was flying the bird, but can't remember the exact details.
Looks very real to me. The eagle just looks like it got a hold and thought mm this doesn't feel right...
if it was fake, then it was very well done. Mebbe the "baby" was fake and replaced with the real one. Still an interesting piece of footage.
Don't know if it is real or fake. But the bit about being right beside an adult is irrelevant. A few years ago a hawk locally snatched a small dog, a chihuahua IIRC, that was being held on a short leash (much closer than the adult in the video) It also refused to let go until the owner (who also refused to let go of the leash) swung it into a door and slammed it shut squeezing the hawk between the door and frame.
Not sure it's that irrelevant, one incident a few years ago being memorable enough that it's remembered now probably backs the theory?
Since this morning there's been quite a few doubts raised - like individual frames showing evidence of editing & eagle experts thinking it was a juvenile imperial eagle. I'm more and more thinking very well made fake - but wonder at the motives to scare people about eagles.....
http://blogue.centrenad.com/2012/12...source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
I think Royal Eagle is another name for the Golden Eagle - but anyway - an admitted fake - I thought it was well done though.
I think Royal Eagle is another name for the Golden Eagle - but anyway - an admitted fake - I thought it was well done though.
Theres a video of - I think Mongolians - hunting wolves with eagles, which wasn't a fake. now that was scary! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re644qgnCtw
I feel so bad for that wolf at 2:21! He was like: I'll eat you! And then he gets attacked from behind poor doggie
The video was fake by the way, maybe it's on an English news site too but I don't know any:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/21171209/__Studenten_achter_filmpje_arend__.html
What it says is that it was made by some students from a Canadian design school. Very skilled ones I'd say!
EDIT: The guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environme...lden-eagle-youtube-video-birders-fake-footage
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/21171209/__Studenten_achter_filmpje_arend__.html
What it says is that it was made by some students from a Canadian design school. Very skilled ones I'd say!
EDIT: The guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environme...lden-eagle-youtube-video-birders-fake-footage
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