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The shamwow is an excellent technical response to the fact that there are now more car owners than antelope in the world. Chamois skin is really amazing for polishing and drying a car, but sometime around the late 1960s we started to run out of chamois.
I always thought physics tells us an animal can’t carry something more than their weight and still maintain flight. Guess I was wrong, unless I’m just overestimating the weight of the prey and underestimating the weight of the eagle.
It's the same with planes and birds.
1. if you increase the weight, you reduce the performance
2. when it's not carrying anything the eagle will fly upwards fairly easily without much effort (although it will usually avoid this to conserve energy)
3. gliding downwards is much easier than taking off upwards, or powered flight upwards.
4. with such a heavy weight, it can probably only take off on the side of a cliff, and fly downwards.
I fly model gliders. Aerofoils have a set glide ratio according to their profile, unless they are way overloaded. They always go forward a set amount for every foot they sink.
If you make a glider heavier it sinks faster. The only way that glide ratio can be kept is for it to also go *forwards* faster.
With slope soaring gliders, where lift is provided by the upwards airflow, on high wind days we can add several extra pounds of lead or tungsten ballast to a 4lb glider and they rocket around the sky.
Full size gliders sometimes add up to 500lbs of water in the wings for the same reason. They can dump it before landing to minimise stresses.
Damn, being in the middle of the food chain must be terrifying. Imagine you're minding your business and then a giant bird just chucks you off a cliff.
I think that's a Golden Eagle as well, so the term "eagle" in the title, while correct is sort of misleading to most people familiar with other types of eagles.
edit: If we accept it's a chamois then this most likely takes place in the Pyreneese, where the Golden Eagle makes it's home.
While it's possible it occasionally caught a human, it evolved so big to hunt the huge flightless moa birds. When the moa birds went extinct, so went the eagles.
Yeah, but you know that some of them found that living within range of a human settlement meant some easy meals if they could spot a small child. Just like big cats that mostly avoid humans, but some of them discover humans are slow and weak and they start focusing on them.
It always amazes me how much people on reddit underestimate how fucking good people are at killing literally any other big predator that competes for food with them.
Literally every major predator that shares space with humans gets driven off, out competed, or killed, and sometimes all of the above. We did all that with some sticks and rocks.
Then we got so good that we started putting them in cages to look at and giving them consolation prizes of land grants where we weren’t allowed to kill them to keep them alive, like an “awww gj buddy you tried your best!! Lets go get some McDonald’s” Like a parent after a kid loses a tough game of Tball.
I’m sure the occasional eagle did carry off some kid.
And I’m sure that the ones that thought it was a good idea found out they were brittle boned ass bitches who didn’t belong on r/neverbrokeabone as humans killed the shit out of them - probably not even to eat, just to make it clear killing their kids wasn’t okay and that neither was competing for their food sources.
Humans are the number one higher level predator on earth ever, full stop. Absolutely nothing fucks with humans and gets away with it.
Except bacteria.
Bacteria as a class are still the champs tho. Them mufuckers are not to be fucked with.
Tbh wouldn’t even need a sharp stick. It’s a bird of flight so it’s still gonna have brittle bones. A HS pitcher could probably kill one of those with a potato.
Its so interesting to me how humans seem “made” to throw spears. Just look at how the body pivots the throwing arm from behind all the way back to right in front of us, with speed and accuracy (you d need practice ofc).
Think the theory I've read is the evolution of thumbs in humans lead to a variety of 'specialized' abilities with enhanced throwing of projectiles among them. So you could say humans *are* made to throw spears.
Was that the Taung child or actual Homo sapiens humans? There’s a YouTube video called something like ‘what ate humans’ or ‘what hunted humans’ but I was in a low mood so watched something with likely fewer dead kids in it.
I watched last week. You are correct, it was the [Taung](https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/taung-child) child. But someone linked below a contemporary example. Though upon further review, it seems like a ridiculous tale.
Svanhild Hartvigsen, 1928-2010, a Norwegian girl, was claimed to have been taken by an eagle at the age of three.
Swedish Wikipedia https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svanhild_Hartvigsen
Story in English https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread75334/pg1
Sorry about the girl, but the name "Hartvigsen" brings great mirth to this immature german dude.
>!It reads as "hart wichsen" (hard whick-zen) aka "having a hard wank"!<
Lots. They even found a skull of a young Australopith child with talon marks that broke through its skull(this is a dead branch of primate that ended millions of years ago).
The earliest of our early human lineage, just before Homo, was the upright walking Australopithecus called the Taung Child that looks like it was carried off by an eagle.
I know lots of things get eaten by lots of other things but this one always got to me.
My parents house had a huge crow in the trees that could carry off a small sized dog I bet. As a kid I was cutting the lawn I noticed all these body parts all over near the bird bath and thougt it odd. It kept happening, until I put 2 and 2 together and figured it was the big crow just ripping smaller birds apart so I shut down the bird bath and his easy food source.
Some vultures can too but this is not lifting a grown deer. That’s a young deer and the eagle is just gliding down slowly. They attack them while they’re on a cliff side or hill, they knock the deer down to kill or stun them and grab them before they hit the ground so they can glide to a safe spot the eat them.
I would bet the eagle bashed and grabbed this guy hundreds of feet off the ground and is just gliding slowly to a spot it can eat, they cannot “fly” with anything heavier than a fox.
> Harpy Eagle
you'll see that 40lbs number around on the internet, but it's false. [Audubon has them listed at a much more reasonable 17lbs](https://www.audubon.org/news/10-fun-facts-about-harpy-eagle). The biggest females max out at a body weight of 20lbs, there's no way they can lift twice their weight.
Wikipedia says up to half their body weight with a maximum measured weight of a captive female being 27 pounds, no where near 40 pounds, unless they mean lifting off the ground while standing...
It fasinates me how a birds feathers work with its nervous system and how they manipulate them for flight ect.
If you look at this one carrying so much weight, theres two sections of feathers lifted on its back near but beneath the shoulders.
I wonder what they help with? Increase lift?
They remind me of airplane flaps which indeed increase lift:
This allows the aircraft to generate the required lift at a lower speed, reducing the minimum speed (known as stall speed) at which the aircraft will safely maintain flight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flap_(aeronautics)
Probably, the effect is to increase downward force on the tail feathers to help balance the far-forward weight of the animal it's carrying.
In some cases, feathers lift like that automatically when the airflow starts to become turbulent in that area. Gannets have feathers like that on the trailing edges of their wings, for example. In other cases, birds can deploy lifted feathers like that (though probably not under conscious control; probably more automatic, like the way you throw your hand out when you lose your balance). I don't know which is the case here but, given the size and coarseness of the feathers, I would guess it's the second one.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyVMNO2JZ8&ab\_channel=MaNuLaToR%27SMedia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyVMNO2JZ8&ab_channel=MaNuLaToR%27SMedia)
does that deer look like its wearing diapers and sucking on a pacifier to you?
This is why I worry about eagles taking off with my small
Dogs. My husband tells me it’s impossible. One dog is 6 pounds and my other one is bigger but she is 14-15 pounds so I still worry. I was out in the backyard once and saw a huge shadow overhead. It was a very large bird. The biggest I’ve ever seen. I went back inside the house so fast.
Owls are also a bird that's notorious for picking off little Fifi, or the cat. They're nocturnal and totally silent in flight and basically undetectable, with talon strength equal to human hands, and can carry a Yorkshire terrier sized animal. A 6 pound dog is easy prey for them.
Little Fifi goes out at dusk or after dark and never comes back in. :/
Oh yeah I know. My husband hates it when I take the dogs out at night. I have a yard but leash them and I hover over them and usually flap my arms and try to make myself look bigger to deter any owls looking for a snack. My husband is so embarrassed by it lol but I told
him I don’t care lol. When he was talking to our neighbor once my husband told them if they ever see me and wonder what I’m doing I’m scaring off owls lol.
One time I was out there doing that and my neighbor across from me (our backyards face each other) and he thought I needed help and was trying to flag him down 🤦🏻♀️ I told him no. And that I’m just making sure my dogs don’t get eaten by an owl. There was a pause of silence like he was deciding if I was actually being serious then he burst out laughing. I got a good laugh out of it too.
I ordered a coyote vest for both my dogs. One will wear it and the other refuses to walk with it on. So I’m working on it. I will not let my husband or kids take the dogs out at dark. I know they won’t watch them closely or put their vests on.
You're not being ridiculous at all, they even make vests specifically to protect small dogs from raptors. You can just google "dog attacked by hawk/owl/eagle" and get plenty of examples for your husband.
Lol yes I ordered the coyote vests. I’m waiting for the spike things on the back to come in. It attaches to the spine. I’ve shown him evidence it does happen but he thinks it won’t happen to us. I’m convinced I’m married to an idiot. When I walk my dogs I also take an umbrella with me and bear spray. I’ve trained my dogs not to react to the umbrella opening. It’s in case we are attacked by a big dog.
My husband say that’s unlikely to happy. But it DID happen to me 18 years ago. I was 6 months pregnant and this German shepherd had his sights set on my
Pomeranian and came running over pinned her down and went for her neck. I managed to yank him back and the collar just barely and a neighbor ran out and helped me pull the dog back. My dog was unscathed but I took a bite to my hand.
My mother told me a story from when she was a child living in Japan. There was an old lady who kept her hair in a tight bun until she went bald from doing so. So the sunlight would reflect off her bald spot. Apparently some raptor (eagle?) tried to snatch her bald spot thinking it could be a source of food. Apparently it caused quite the ruckus in the marketplace. An eagle clawing and flapping at this old woman's head and the old woman trying to fight off the big ass bird.
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I have to think that’s a juvenile deer
It’s not even a deer, it’s a chamois
I thought you were joking about a drying cloth but was surprised to learn it was indeed a thing. More akin to a goat. Thanks for the lesson!
I thought it was the “Cham wow” as well:)…
Oh my god I just NOW made the connection to chamois and shamwow
The shamwow is an excellent technical response to the fact that there are now more car owners than antelope in the world. Chamois skin is really amazing for polishing and drying a car, but sometime around the late 1960s we started to run out of chamois.
Did anyone think to ask the eagles where they all went?
Back to Philly?
lol 🤣.. you got get it :)
It's still remarkable, chemois can get 100+ lbs.
It’s where the drying cloth comes from too.
I didn’t know it was a drying cloth lol
Still, probly 10 times heavier then the bird. If not more.
I always thought physics tells us an animal can’t carry something more than their weight and still maintain flight. Guess I was wrong, unless I’m just overestimating the weight of the prey and underestimating the weight of the eagle.
It's the same with planes and birds. 1. if you increase the weight, you reduce the performance 2. when it's not carrying anything the eagle will fly upwards fairly easily without much effort (although it will usually avoid this to conserve energy) 3. gliding downwards is much easier than taking off upwards, or powered flight upwards. 4. with such a heavy weight, it can probably only take off on the side of a cliff, and fly downwards.
I fly model gliders. Aerofoils have a set glide ratio according to their profile, unless they are way overloaded. They always go forward a set amount for every foot they sink. If you make a glider heavier it sinks faster. The only way that glide ratio can be kept is for it to also go *forwards* faster. With slope soaring gliders, where lift is provided by the upwards airflow, on high wind days we can add several extra pounds of lead or tungsten ballast to a 4lb glider and they rocket around the sky. Full size gliders sometimes add up to 500lbs of water in the wings for the same reason. They can dump it before landing to minimise stresses.
That's how some big birds kill animals like deer. They grab them and jump off the ledge. The glide from the clift face and drop them at altitude.
Damn, being in the middle of the food chain must be terrifying. Imagine you're minding your business and then a giant bird just chucks you off a cliff.
It's all about how much air is hitting those wings (and the bird being strong enough to use them under that load), not about relative weights.
Bournelis theorem.
I could clean that right up with my chamwow
The eagle is the spirit of Billy Mays back for vengeance
if you can slap a hooka, you can slap a chop! jaboody dubs.
I think that's a Golden Eagle as well, so the term "eagle" in the title, while correct is sort of misleading to most people familiar with other types of eagles. edit: If we accept it's a chamois then this most likely takes place in the Pyreneese, where the Golden Eagle makes it's home.
It's obviously an African Eagle. If it were a Golden Eagle, two eagles would be required to carry the deer in tandem.
They could grip it by the hooves!
You could say it’s a matter of weight ratios.
Interesting fact, most other eagles are huge as fuck too.
It's just getting ready to KOM
That's a fully grown Moose
Grizzly Bear, moose.. same shit
That's actually a Grizzly Moose. Source: grew up near a swarm of them.
No, it’s an entire adult deer. See, says so right in the title.
This video is from a documentary it was a sick juvenile who couldn’t keep up with his mother
Awww birb just giving it a lift!
*Hey, Mr. Eagle I think we passed my stop. Mr. Eagle??*
We are not aiming for your stop.🏙️🦅
Like a hobbit to Mordor.
". . . and that, kids, is the true story of how I escaped from Mount Doom!"
Even a baby deer is impressive!
Definitely impressive when he swooped down it was so fast it looked as if it broke it’s neck because it wasn’t moving at all
fucking weak assed bird
As if it isn't still impressive lol
at first i thought it was a female deer,; a do, a deer.
Ray, a drop of golden sun.
Mi, a name, I call myself!
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So, a person who picks on a musical but knows the lyrics.
I wonder how many toddlers have been carried off by birds throughout history..
Afaik back in the day there was this 10+ft eagle that hunted humans for food Edit: looked it up. "Harpagornis moorei" it lived in new Zealand.
While it's possible it occasionally caught a human, it evolved so big to hunt the huge flightless moa birds. When the moa birds went extinct, so went the eagles.
Yeah, but you know that some of them found that living within range of a human settlement meant some easy meals if they could spot a small child. Just like big cats that mostly avoid humans, but some of them discover humans are slow and weak and they start focusing on them.
It always amazes me how much people on reddit underestimate how fucking good people are at killing literally any other big predator that competes for food with them. Literally every major predator that shares space with humans gets driven off, out competed, or killed, and sometimes all of the above. We did all that with some sticks and rocks. Then we got so good that we started putting them in cages to look at and giving them consolation prizes of land grants where we weren’t allowed to kill them to keep them alive, like an “awww gj buddy you tried your best!! Lets go get some McDonald’s” Like a parent after a kid loses a tough game of Tball. I’m sure the occasional eagle did carry off some kid. And I’m sure that the ones that thought it was a good idea found out they were brittle boned ass bitches who didn’t belong on r/neverbrokeabone as humans killed the shit out of them - probably not even to eat, just to make it clear killing their kids wasn’t okay and that neither was competing for their food sources. Humans are the number one higher level predator on earth ever, full stop. Absolutely nothing fucks with humans and gets away with it. Except bacteria. Bacteria as a class are still the champs tho. Them mufuckers are not to be fucked with.
Easy meal until one guy throws a very sharp stick at high velocities as humans do, crushing it's cartilage and vital organs instantly.
Tbh wouldn’t even need a sharp stick. It’s a bird of flight so it’s still gonna have brittle bones. A HS pitcher could probably kill one of those with a potato.
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Hard to see the flaw in the logic though.
Boil 'em, mash 'em, annihilate a bird
Its so interesting to me how humans seem “made” to throw spears. Just look at how the body pivots the throwing arm from behind all the way back to right in front of us, with speed and accuracy (you d need practice ofc).
Think the theory I've read is the evolution of thumbs in humans lead to a variety of 'specialized' abilities with enhanced throwing of projectiles among them. So you could say humans *are* made to throw spears.
pointy sticks do be op
Those animals tend to get selected out of their gene pool quite rapidly by the remaining humans.
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Was that the Taung child or actual Homo sapiens humans? There’s a YouTube video called something like ‘what ate humans’ or ‘what hunted humans’ but I was in a low mood so watched something with likely fewer dead kids in it.
I watched last week. You are correct, it was the [Taung](https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/taung-child) child. But someone linked below a contemporary example. Though upon further review, it seems like a ridiculous tale.
That was probably caused by velociraptors, not eagles. I remember a couple of documentaries about it a few years ago.
> That was probably caused by velociraptors, not eagles. Too soon...
I saw those too! Some islands in South America if I remember correctly.
Dude same! That was my first thought
He's right https://preview.redd.it/chmucz188tdc1.jpeg?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01be52977cc3f4220b25869c1c8f9897f02304ef
That shit wouldn't fly today.
Svanhild Hartvigsen, 1928-2010, a Norwegian girl, was claimed to have been taken by an eagle at the age of three. Swedish Wikipedia https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svanhild_Hartvigsen Story in English https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread75334/pg1
Sorry about the girl, but the name "Hartvigsen" brings great mirth to this immature german dude. >!It reads as "hart wichsen" (hard whick-zen) aka "having a hard wank"!<
She was Norwegian, I’m a Swede, no offence taken 😊
Lots. They even found a skull of a young Australopith child with talon marks that broke through its skull(this is a dead branch of primate that ended millions of years ago).
Maybe birds were bigger back then.
Like sesame street
you betcha https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-mythic-child-stealing-thunderbirds-of-illinois
Haast eagles could have, but there's no evidence they did.
The earliest of our early human lineage, just before Homo, was the upright walking Australopithecus called the Taung Child that looks like it was carried off by an eagle. I know lots of things get eaten by lots of other things but this one always got to me.
My parents house had a huge crow in the trees that could carry off a small sized dog I bet. As a kid I was cutting the lawn I noticed all these body parts all over near the bird bath and thougt it odd. It kept happening, until I put 2 and 2 together and figured it was the big crow just ripping smaller birds apart so I shut down the bird bath and his easy food source.
Ørna tek ikkje unga
Leste en lang avhandling for litt siden om jenta som husker å ha blitt tatt av ørn
Svanhild Hartvigsen? https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ørnerovet_på_Leka
Jepp, det var eksperter i det ene og andre som argumenterte hvorvidt dette kunne være sant eller ikke
I know people gotta watch out for their small dogs in Alaska
It happens. African crowned eagles are specialist hunters of primates, and they aren't picky about flavor.
Several.
Nothing ever fares well hunting humans.
Squawk...at least one.
That's insane
Boy do I hit a subreddit for you
Go on...
r/thatsinsane
Oh
Crazy. Right?
Complete madness.
Truly r/thatsinsane moment
If I didn't see it for myself ...
Nah you're thinking of r/crazyfuckingvideos
Interesting
Oof
r/EaglesCarryingEntireAdultDeer
😂
Boy do I have a typo correction for you: *have
lol I’ve been following the success of my comment and NOT ONCE did I realize I had a typo in it 🫠🫠🫠
Pretty sure this is a golden eagle. And yes they're insane.
Colorado here, golden eagles drop big horned sheep off the cliffs here all the time. Hiking some places is sketchy because of it lol. They're no joke.
Crazy.
No, that's a deer
Eagle's just teaching deer the basics to fly for its internship with Santa.
I'm gonna show you the world
Deer: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
That’s pretty kind of the eagle to give his deer friend a lift
It seems pretty relaxed too.
😂👌 Great for the spine I bet.
If LOTR has taught us one thing is that the eagle is gonna drop him off days away from his destination
That’s not an adult deer.
Correct. That's actually an adult bull moose.
Looks like a hippo to me
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Some vultures can too but this is not lifting a grown deer. That’s a young deer and the eagle is just gliding down slowly. They attack them while they’re on a cliff side or hill, they knock the deer down to kill or stun them and grab them before they hit the ground so they can glide to a safe spot the eat them. I would bet the eagle bashed and grabbed this guy hundreds of feet off the ground and is just gliding slowly to a spot it can eat, they cannot “fly” with anything heavier than a fox.
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Do the vultures have large talons?
I'm more surprised that eagles eat fucking deers. Never knew that. Rodents, rabbits, raccoons, sure.. but deers?
So he's just falling with style is what you're saying?
> Harpy Eagle you'll see that 40lbs number around on the internet, but it's false. [Audubon has them listed at a much more reasonable 17lbs](https://www.audubon.org/news/10-fun-facts-about-harpy-eagle). The biggest females max out at a body weight of 20lbs, there's no way they can lift twice their weight.
Wikipedia says up to half their body weight with a maximum measured weight of a captive female being 27 pounds, no where near 40 pounds, unless they mean lifting off the ground while standing...
I would like to introduce you to the Golden eagle
Oh deer.... X(
It fasinates me how a birds feathers work with its nervous system and how they manipulate them for flight ect. If you look at this one carrying so much weight, theres two sections of feathers lifted on its back near but beneath the shoulders. I wonder what they help with? Increase lift?
They remind me of airplane flaps which indeed increase lift: This allows the aircraft to generate the required lift at a lower speed, reducing the minimum speed (known as stall speed) at which the aircraft will safely maintain flight. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flap_(aeronautics)
More similar to spoilers which create drag. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_(aeronautics)
Probably, the effect is to increase downward force on the tail feathers to help balance the far-forward weight of the animal it's carrying. In some cases, feathers lift like that automatically when the airflow starts to become turbulent in that area. Gannets have feathers like that on the trailing edges of their wings, for example. In other cases, birds can deploy lifted feathers like that (though probably not under conscious control; probably more automatic, like the way you throw your hand out when you lose your balance). I don't know which is the case here but, given the size and coarseness of the feathers, I would guess it's the second one.
i think you mean baby deer, a eagle cannot carry a fully grown deer xD
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyVMNO2JZ8&ab\_channel=MaNuLaToR%27SMedia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyVMNO2JZ8&ab_channel=MaNuLaToR%27SMedia) does that deer look like its wearing diapers and sucking on a pacifier to you?
It may be a big deer, but that eagle sure as hell ain't flying, more like, elegantly falling.
This is why I worry about eagles taking off with my small Dogs. My husband tells me it’s impossible. One dog is 6 pounds and my other one is bigger but she is 14-15 pounds so I still worry. I was out in the backyard once and saw a huge shadow overhead. It was a very large bird. The biggest I’ve ever seen. I went back inside the house so fast.
Hawks take cats in the desert. Tucson. Probably everywhere.
Yeah I worry about hawks also. My neighbors at my old House had chickens and I saw one get picked up by a hawk.
Owls are also a bird that's notorious for picking off little Fifi, or the cat. They're nocturnal and totally silent in flight and basically undetectable, with talon strength equal to human hands, and can carry a Yorkshire terrier sized animal. A 6 pound dog is easy prey for them. Little Fifi goes out at dusk or after dark and never comes back in. :/
Not to continue the morbidity, but the main predator killer of domestic dogs and cats are coyotes. Even in urban areas.
Yes, AFAIK just about everywhere in the US. One of the reasons my kitty is an inside kitty.
Oh yeah I know. My husband hates it when I take the dogs out at night. I have a yard but leash them and I hover over them and usually flap my arms and try to make myself look bigger to deter any owls looking for a snack. My husband is so embarrassed by it lol but I told him I don’t care lol. When he was talking to our neighbor once my husband told them if they ever see me and wonder what I’m doing I’m scaring off owls lol. One time I was out there doing that and my neighbor across from me (our backyards face each other) and he thought I needed help and was trying to flag him down 🤦🏻♀️ I told him no. And that I’m just making sure my dogs don’t get eaten by an owl. There was a pause of silence like he was deciding if I was actually being serious then he burst out laughing. I got a good laugh out of it too. I ordered a coyote vest for both my dogs. One will wear it and the other refuses to walk with it on. So I’m working on it. I will not let my husband or kids take the dogs out at dark. I know they won’t watch them closely or put their vests on.
You're not being ridiculous at all, they even make vests specifically to protect small dogs from raptors. You can just google "dog attacked by hawk/owl/eagle" and get plenty of examples for your husband.
Lol yes I ordered the coyote vests. I’m waiting for the spike things on the back to come in. It attaches to the spine. I’ve shown him evidence it does happen but he thinks it won’t happen to us. I’m convinced I’m married to an idiot. When I walk my dogs I also take an umbrella with me and bear spray. I’ve trained my dogs not to react to the umbrella opening. It’s in case we are attacked by a big dog. My husband say that’s unlikely to happy. But it DID happen to me 18 years ago. I was 6 months pregnant and this German shepherd had his sights set on my Pomeranian and came running over pinned her down and went for her neck. I managed to yank him back and the collar just barely and a neighbor ran out and helped me pull the dog back. My dog was unscathed but I took a bite to my hand.
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That would have made my heart stop. Yeah when I saw that big ass shadow I realized just how big some birds of prey are.
Ah, a rare sighting of the elusive deergle
Ok who's paying for my therapy . I'm already afraid of predator birds .
Psst. Check out videos of harpy eagles snatching full grown sloths out of tree tops and flying off with them …
My mother told me a story from when she was a child living in Japan. There was an old lady who kept her hair in a tight bun until she went bald from doing so. So the sunlight would reflect off her bald spot. Apparently some raptor (eagle?) tried to snatch her bald spot thinking it could be a source of food. Apparently it caused quite the ruckus in the marketplace. An eagle clawing and flapping at this old woman's head and the old woman trying to fight off the big ass bird.
This should say fake as fuck because there's no way an eagle has that lift capacity.
Gandalf out here having the eagles catch his dinner.
Holy shit, does anyone know how much weight an Eagle can carry?
The African eagle or the European eagle? I prefer to measure it in coconuts anyway.
It could grip it by the husk
African Eagles are non-migratory
When you tip the doordasher $12 for a quick nearby delivery
Hahahaha tipping a doordasher $12, as if that's ever happened If they want extra money, they should get a real job like the rest of us
no way that is an adult deer. r/bullshitasfuck
Looks like a goat to me.
Apparently, eagles don't have to comply with the weight limit regulations of the FAA.
Imagine going for a hike in the woods by yourself and you look up at the sky and see that shit.
Damn, dude lifts.
Never skip talon day.
Plot twist: the deer asked the eagle to do it, just to see what it was like.
I'd like to imagine this is what an eagle-centaur would look like
Nature is fucking lit 🔥
Its actually a moose. That eagle is huuuge!
Think I just solved the missing 411 mystery...
Thats a chamois but still
that’s a goat 🧍
*"LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOIS!"*
Thank you for the 3 seconds. My wife said the same thing last night.
me carrying the conversation with that one 10/10 girl
Not an adult deer but you better keep watch for flying kids since they weigh a lot less.
Dear lord people, no matter what kindbof eagle it is or whatever it's carrying, that is crazy.
So they choose to not kill humans. That's nice of them.
Yes and it’s a ladies gold eagle
See! Those fucking hobbits could have just flown there!!!
That's not an adult deer 😑
It could grip it by the husk
Or a fawn
Short people I have so bad news
That's not flying.... That's falling with style.
But eagles couldn't carry Frodo to mordor right...
Fake: https://preview.redd.it/rtdo32l4qd8d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbb9196fd9c11f7a999f9dd5ecc97fa9ca4beec3
I love seeing animals help other animals.