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18 December 2008

Not for the Squeamish (SLYT) PredatorFilter. . .Golden Eagles taking Mountain Goats→[More:] in (apparently) Spain or Portugal. One of my coworkers who is a hunter showed me this. It's pretty fucking amazing.

post by: danf at: 13:35 | 8 comments

Death from above! Amazing indeed.

The one that is carried back is done without ever putting it down. I imagine that is the only way they can do that, use the momentum of it falling to keep it in flight. Probably just too heavy to pick up off the ground.

posted by geekyguy 18 December | 14:03

I usually hate to watch predation of anything. But this is just so extraordinary. I can't always go well for the eagle, though. . .there is a lot of risk, but a LOT of food, given the body sizes.

posted by danf 18 December | 14:22

I saw a mountain goat once. It was LARGE. It's amazing that these birds can pick them up!

posted by Miko 18 December | 14:50

I only watched the first one (because, you know, ow) but that's amazing.

posted by Specklet 18 December | 17:45

That's outstanding!

posted by plinth 18 December | 20:41

Las cabras!

posted by buzzman 18 December | 20:58

When the hawk attacked my bird feeder, it bit off the wings and legs of it's victim before it flew off with the good parts.

posted by StickyCarpet 18 December | 23:24

The editing was a little cheesy and drawn-out, but damn, that was some amazing nature photography.

posted by BoringPostcards 18 December | 23:35

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