golden eagle sntches kid in Montreal

[Daniel]

These Dad's would have been in a lot of trouble...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJWuObNoQ6o

 

[theXman]

Wow! Thanks for posting. I thought it was fake at first, but might be real. Makes sense. Scary for sure, glad no more height was gained before droping.

 

[theXman]

yeah, i don't know if that's real. in slow motion, the eagles left talons has the kid only, kids body would have been more twisted, plus to be able to pick up that weight, the talons would have peirced the sweatshirt and shirt would have stuck to talons breifly.

The kid hitting the ground was real, but I bet it was some other accident and they peiced two things together.

I hate fake crap. It's getting harder and harder all the time to tell.

Plus, knowing eagles, if it thought that kid was prey or a target, it would have hit that kid with force and went tumbling on the ground with him.

they don't hit prey and try to fly off with it.

 

[Daniel]

Looks like the bird had enough for the snatch and only dropped the kid when the man turned and started towards him..

 

[Oroboros]

Kid had layers on. Jacket also. Looked real enough to me. Eagle had it by the clothes. Wild. Literally.

 

[Daniel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFPilW9ecc

If its fake they dd a nice job with the shadows, but apparently there are some issues as described in the above vid..

 

[theXman]

you guys aren't listening to me.

Eagles and other birds of prey don't grab something like this unless it's on the water.

that eagle flew away with NOTHING in it's feet. there was a little glitch there too.

I've been on plenty of hunts and watched plenty of real videos of eagles and other wraptors.

This was not real.

a very very good edit.

let me check my favorites to see if i still have some saved of some real golden eagle hits.

yeah, the goat one is exception, those were cliffs and the eagle needed the drop to kill the goat and possibly pull off a fly away.

 

[theXman]

here, this is how that eagle would have hit that kid if it thought it was something to get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_4d_99ApE

these deer are lighter than they look.



the version you saw was like a movie, like Clash of the Titans or something.

Eagles don't act like that.

 

[grappleyarder]

Child-snatching eagle video created as student project
Digital animation students created video depicting eagle grabbing toddler

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/12/19/montreal-golden-eagle-viral-video.html

Eagle pictures of a real encounter at the lake where I grew up. Eagle against a Trumpeter Swan...

 

[Bucknut]

X,

you beat me to it. When you said Golden Eagles don't hit prey and drag it like that, my first thought was the goats and the cliffs. I never knew they were that strong. Plus, dropping goats off a cliff proves an understanding of physics and an intelligence that made me think this was possible.

 

[theXman]

Wow! Students did that! amazing job.

Great bald eagle pictures!

Nice to see one hunting instead of being a lazy scavenger like most of them are around here.

 

[Oroboros]

Burned again. Bummer.

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Check this out!

http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_oddities/2011/07/eagle-knocks-out-power-line-with-dead-deer.html

 

[CHOPPER]

First clip...

Surely you would of been prepared and had a loaded semi auto matic gun to knock the eagle out of the sky.

Isnt that why you own guns....

 

[CreTree]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/15682952/eagle-vid-a-gold-plated-hoax/