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Bird of prey.. wait wth?! (i.imgur.com)

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[–]SaladFengasPapit 201 points202 points ago

The stork gives children, the stork takes children. You can't explain that.

[–]Qweef 67 points68 points ago

but thats......

[–]Zoloir 85 points86 points ago

dude... when does that gif loop... or had it not ended yet....

[–]neverdreams 24 points25 points ago

I think it goes forward and backward.

[–]homesweetocean 13 points14 points ago

After the eyebrow raise.

[–]GLaPOS 4 points5 points ago

This may help in the future: http://gif-explode.com/

Link to Current GIF: http://gif-explode.com/http://i.imgur.com/KJ1M5.gif

[–]floridaderp 5 points6 points ago

Grid of Winslows is my new wallpaper

[–]jumblebutt 0 points1 point ago

I started to feel a little awkward after a while... like ok dude, how weird can it be?

[–]purple_pumpkin_eater 0 points1 point ago

I'm freaking out, man

[–]steaksawse 11 points12 points ago

First it giveth then it taketh away.

[–]Tropicanicus 6 points7 points ago

Some advice.....

[–]Talic_Zealot 2 points3 points ago

Awesome stork's wings look like a cylon raider's.

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[–]Hewbajewb 4 points5 points ago

I see the tards who don't understand the context are beginning to use this.

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[–]Hewbajewb -1 points0 points ago

"So brave."

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[–]shorty6049 5 points6 points ago

Because you said it in a context in which it did not make sense.

[–]haashmaluum -4 points-3 points ago

So clever.

Witless twat.

[–]bigcitycrows 155 points156 points ago

For those inevitably curious- these are stills from the early 1900s film "Journey to an Eagle's Nest", the eagle featured is a taxidermied specimen, and no, that eagle when alive would not have been physically capable of flying off with that child.

Most stories of human babies kidnapped by birds of prey are incredibly exaggerated or blatantly false.

[–]M0b1u5 77 points78 points ago

Most but not all.

The world's largest Eagle, the Haast Eagle of New Zealand weighed almost 15 Kilograms but with a wing span of only 2.5 Metres. It is known to have taken fullly-grown Moa weighing over 100 Kilograms, by divebombing through the forest and hitting the beast with claws over 3 inches long.

Moa skeletons have been found with actual claw punctures right the way through the pelvic bones. Calculations of force show the impact to be in excess of 85 km/h (about 50 mph).

The Maori effectively killed off the Eagle, by killing all the Moa, but the cultural memory of them remained, with many stories of babies being taken by Eagles.

Knowing what we know about the bird now, these stories seem highly believable.

[–]DoubleBrownClown 26 points27 points ago

Imagine if the Haast eagle was still alive today, can't imagine the nocturnal flightless Kiwi would still be the national animal.

Plus, having to watch out for giant eagle attacks would certainly make NZ a more interesting place.

[–]soyabstemio 34 points35 points ago

Hobbits would be particularly at risk.

[–]nhjuyt 6 points7 points ago

The sheep there would have another reason to be scared.

[–]yetanotherhero 0 points1 point ago

As a New Zealander, I think this would be awesome

[–]jtablerd 1 point2 points ago

We would call you Haasts instead of Kiwis ;-)

[–]klaqua 0 points1 point ago

Because NZ needs more dangerous animals... lol

[–]Oznog99 46 points47 points ago

It's not a matter of where he GRIPS it- it's a simple matter a' weight ratios!

[–]Undope 22 points23 points ago

Are you suggesting a one ounce bird could carry a five ounce coconut?

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[–]BlinkOh 8 points9 points ago

20 orgasms divided by the 4 inch peen = High 5.

[–]ExplodingUnicorns 3 points4 points ago

Women everywhere would be lucky to have that penis.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

Is your username an exploding penis joke?

[–]th3thund3r 2 points3 points ago

Eagles can lift some pretty heavy stuff, man.

[–]Oznog99 0 points1 point ago

Look, I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man!

[–]evesea 4 points5 points ago

Do you guys know these kinds of things on spot... Or did you google things like this just to disagree with them lol

[–]Grammer_NotZ 2 points3 points ago

Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, an eagle needs to beat its wings .76 times every second, right?

[–]bigcitycrows 3 points4 points ago

A Haast's eagle could have, but as you mentioned they're extinct. The only eagle I'd give credit enough to carry off a child would be the sloth-eating Harpy, but unfortunately (for the eagles) everyone and their mother seems to think all eagles can do the same.

As I exhaustively must say every time someone asks this question when we're displaying our eagles: kill, yes...fly up into the air with...no.

[–]Adrn19 1 point2 points ago

Ahhhh you just answered my question...

[–]Adrn19 2 points3 points ago

Eagles are also used for hunting wolves, it's on YouTube, I don't see why a fully grown eagle couldn't take a small child.

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

Killing large prey =/= grabbing it and flying off with it. I readily admit to the former, but the latter is just plain folkmyth.

[–]ridik_ulass 0 points1 point ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/11gxvc/bird_of_prey_wait_wth/c6mjtst

my reply to the same post, you might be intrested in.

[–]adrian5b 1 point2 points ago

A red tailed hawk once stole a chihuahua from a friend =(

[–]remadi 0 points1 point ago

My dad's afraid their local hawk is going to take off with their new Maltese which is very small. :/

[–]adrian5b 1 point2 points ago

dude it happens, and it sucks, I mean I love birds of pray to death, but I just wish they eat mice from the meadows instead of my precious dogs

[–]kaytINSANE 0 points1 point ago

Amen.

[–]alejo699 0 points1 point ago

You describe the eagle killing the moa, but not carrying it in flight. Big difference.

[–]DiogenesHoSinopeus 10 points11 points ago

A dog in our family was carried off by a bird of prey. It wasn't a small pocket dog either. The owls in my country are also well known to carry dogs and cats.

[–]bigcitycrows 5 points6 points ago

Great Horned owls or Eagle Owls can lift very large prey relative to their body size; dogs and cats fall right in there. Without knowing your country I can't think of what diurnal bird of prey would be most likely, but keeping in line with the thread a small dog is not a small child.

[–]babyluvangie 0 points1 point ago

This is the first time I lived in an area where I've encountered owls. Whenever I hear the owls, I run around the house making sure my cat is inside. Thanks for validating my concern, I thought I was over reacting

[–]DiogenesHoSinopeus 2 points3 points ago

I thought I was over reacting

...not at all. Even though cats are adept at hunting birds, the larger ones are a threat. My cat was almost lifted by one of these demons once, it even chased the cat indoors a good meter or so until giving up.

They grow large too

[–]binaryice 0 points1 point ago

Owls have an instinctual tendency to pierce the heart with their talons. Scary shit, even when they can't fly yet.

[–]CanadaEh97 0 points1 point ago

Dam I hope the dog was ok.

[–]daxattacks 13 points14 points ago

Maybe your puny American eagles couldn't carry off a baby...

[–]dangerevans007 6 points7 points ago

you take that back.

[–]emlgsh 6 points7 points ago

So they duct taped a baby to a dead bird and fired it out of a cannon. Gotcha.

[–]Guitarmaggedon 5 points6 points ago

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. They used a catapult.

[–]emlgsh 4 points5 points ago

True Hollywood magic.

[–]FiMack 1 point2 points ago

This is the most sensible explanation on this thread. I'm feeling sorry for bigcitycrows trying to bring basic science into the world of disbelief!

[–]LettersFromTheSky 7 points8 points ago

Here's a video of a Eagle carrying off a goat.

Eagle throws goats off cliffs

Eagle visits cats - safe ending.

[–]bigcitycrows 4 points5 points ago

Notice the eagle is grabbing the goats, pulling them over empty space, and flying down with them; they can't do what everyone tries to say they can re: OP's pictures, which is pulling, straight up into the air for quite some distance and length of time, something multiple times heavier than themselves.

[–]FiMack 3 points4 points ago

I don't think you're ever going to be satisfied that anyone gets the physics of a bird trying to lift such a heavy object. Perhaps use the analogy of a plane trying to take off with too much weight? I'd just give up and let them believe it.

[–]nkei0 2 points3 points ago

Also, still alive, Golden Eagles are capable.

[–]SnDin9 6 points7 points ago

Not a baby, but it'll do.

And a goat...

[–]bigcitycrows 2 points3 points ago

They can kill even larger pronghorn antelope and have incredibly strong feet, but no, they don't lift them off the ground and fly away with them as is constantly claimed.

[–]nkei0 0 points1 point ago

See the above goat video, after 5 minutes the bird takes the goat to its nest. I believe that counts.

[–]bigcitycrows 2 points3 points ago

4 minutes in is the eagle harassing the goat and its baby, 5 minutes in the eagle is diving down after tearing a goat off the cliff face, never once does it flap and actually make any kind of ascent while holding a goat of any size. A dude with a parachute can make a graceful touchdown after a long glide, but he's not rising like a hot air balloon.

[–]bigcitycrows 1 point2 points ago

Killing, yes; literally picking up off the ground and flying off with as is presented in OP's stills, no.

[–]FranklinWearsPants 0 points1 point ago

Golden eagles will harass bears. I don't know that they'll trying to eat them, but still, brass ones.

[–]davidso12 2 points3 points ago

Prey specimens found at the eagle's nest have ranged in size from a small bat weighing 10 g (0.35 oz) to a Philippine deer weighing 14 kg (31 lb).[28] The primary prey varies from island to island depending on species availability, particularly in Luzon and Mindanao. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Eagle

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

Since the citation is a dead link I cannot access any details (were they saying they found remnants of a deer that is normally 30 pounds, or an entire deer of that weight?), but large dead prey can be carried by BOPs in short bursts up branch by branch until it's in the nest, or even with help from the other mate, or is torn into sections and carried by halves or quarters (Gyrfalcons, for example, will transport large arctic hares by hindquarters, head, and torso). It's very unlikely, given all possible transportation methods and the dense canopies Philippine eagles live in, that the original prey was carried by entire bulk straight up into their air to the nest.

Average human male weight is 22-35 pounds at age 2 with quickly rising weight of 30-45 pounds by age 4. I'm not arguing that it's impossible for that size prey to somehow be killed by an eagle and get from point A to point B, but the image of an eagle swooping down, grabbing a child, lifting straight off and flying off into the sunset (without getting winded and landing for a breather well within sight) is pure fiction.

[–]Nikola_S 1 point2 points ago

A newborn baby can have 5 pounds, will you claim an eagle couldn't fly away with it?

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

that eagle when alive would not have been physically capable of flying off with that child.

A newborn baby can have 5 pounds, will you claim an eagle couldn't fly away with it?

An infant is not a child, the human pictured is a toddler at least. An average human is born over 7 pounds, by a few weeks old the human will outweigh an adult bald eagle; by a couple of months in, the human will outweigh a golden eagle of either sex, and by "child" stage the human is twice as heavy as any golden eagle and outweighs a Harpy eagle.

There is at least one confirmed case of an eagle flying off with a baby, but as you said the difference between a 5-pound infant and a 25-pound toddler is significant and the only reason this is possible. Side note, they probably did not make the same babysitting mistake twice.

[–]Peter89 0 points1 point ago

A wedge tail eagle can kill and carry small kangaroos. A small child is very light.

[–]bigcitycrows 2 points3 points ago

Citation? "Small kangaroo" can mean any weight, and small children aren't very light at all- by a few weeks old the average human weighs more than the average bald eagle.

They can certainly kill very large animals- "They display considerable adaptability, and have sometimes been known to team up to hunt animals as large as the Red Kangaroo"- but they can't swoop down and fly off with something bigger than their lifting capacity, which is much less than most people assume it to be.

[–]FiMack 0 points1 point ago

A wedge tail eagle can carry about half of its own weight, which means about 2kg. So, yes, a small joey would fit into this category. They can also pick off small lambs but apparently this is not a frequent occurrence. They are good at taking off with your chooks if you don't have a roof on your chook shed and live in the bush.

No way a wedge tail is taking off with a kid, though, unless you're into leaving infants under 2kg out in the paddock on the off chance one is flying around.

Have never heard of them attacking people, but a group of them can take out a big red roo. They can't carry it off, though!

[–]PunsDeLeon 2 points3 points ago

what the fuck is a chook and why does it need its own shed

[–]FiMack 0 points1 point ago

Chook = chicken. Man, that CAN'T be just Aussie slang, surely?

We see raptors flying about eyeing off chooks all the time where I live. Neighbours lost quite a few ducks and chooks as they didn't have a roof on their shed. And yes, you see them swoop in and take off with the unsuspecting victim.

[–]PunsDeLeon 0 points1 point ago

I can't speak for other anglophone countries, but that word is not in wide use here in the US.

You ozzies have some odd words.

[–]FiMack 0 points1 point ago

Yes, we sure do have some very odd words and sayings. I did look it up and it does appear to be yet another Aussie slang word, though apparently the Kiwis use it, too.

[–]PunsDeLeon 1 point2 points ago

If I ever go to Australia, I'm going to refer to every unfamiliar thing as a Chazzwazzer.

[–]FiMack 0 points1 point ago

Good, because then we'll be thinking, "Fucking tourist doesn't even know what to call that hooseywhat'sit!"

[–]FiMack 0 points1 point ago

Well, well, apparently it is Aussie slang. Just think, I have expanded your vocabulary by one word today!

[–]Peter89 0 points1 point ago

I never said they did attack people, just said it might be possible.

http://www.australian-information-stories.com/wedge-tailed-eagle.html

[–]ericcurty 0 points1 point ago

Tagged as "Persistently denies that eagles can kill small children"

[–]bigcitycrows 3 points4 points ago

I demand you change that to "Persistently reinforces that eagles can kill small children while persistently denying they can fly off with their kills."

[–]ericcurty 1 point2 points ago

Haha.. Sure thing buddy

[–]Peter89 0 points1 point ago

http://www.australian-information-stories.com/wedge-tailed-eagle.html

[–]Peter89 0 points1 point ago

http://www.australian-information-stories.com/wedge-tailed-eagle.html

"The majority of a their diet is made up of rabbits, wallabies and small kangaroos, although they will eat lizards, snakes, foxes, feral cats and other small animals. "

[–]bigcitycrows -1 points0 points ago

A wedge tail eagle can kill and carry small kangaroos

The "and carry" part was what I was looking for a citation for, I readily offer that they kill child-sized animals, but it's the whole "swoop down and spirit away a child" myth I'm continuously having to debunk.

[–]ridik_ulass 2 points3 points ago

I worked reintroducing golden eagles into my country, I had issues with local farmers who thought the eagles would steal thier sheep and lambs, to the extent they resorted to poisoning and one of the birds died.

Golden eagles don't fly thier food to thier nests, but rather swoop down and drag the target into the ait and drop it killing it. I could fathom them doing this to a child, as I have seen them do it to larger animals.

I didn't spend a lot of time with the birds, but based on what I know I would belive it is possible.

[–]bigcitycrows 4 points5 points ago

I had issues with local farmers who thought the eagles would steal thier sheep and lambs, to the extent they resorted to poisoning and one of the birds died.

This is also exactly why I try to smack down needless paranoia whenever I can. All it does is cause fear and incite violence against the eagles, they already have a bad enough rap from the 1900s, we don't need more. The amount of times I've had people run up to me and swear up and down that a hawk swooped out of nowhere and steal their golden retriever or whatever...then when you ask them if they actually saw it happen, they admit they didn't...it's ridiculous, ridik_ulass!

Golden eagles don't fly thier food to thier nests, but rather swoop down and drag the target into the ait and drop it killing it. I could fathom them doing this to a child, as I have seen them do it to larger animals.

What kind of larger animals? Were they swooping down, lifting off straight up high into the air with them and dropping them? Here in the US, they divebomb pronhorn antelope and kill them that way, I've never really heard of a "rise and drop" method other than when the prey is already high up on a cliff and the eagle is dragging it off the edge.

[–]ridik_ulass 1 point2 points ago

well birds are smarter then people give them credit, they were trowing lambs, small calf's and baby deer infront of cars on roads, getting the car's to do the work rather then them and gravity. I kinda wanted to omit that because of "paranoia" as you said.

after the poisoned female I took the male into my personal care, to have an actual pitch fork weilding lynch mob turn up and give out about the bird, It was like I had frankenstine in my backagarden, it was a cliche at best and a mob of angry men at worst. I don't think they brought them as weapons, just had them in thier hands when they got so agrovated they dropped what they were doing to form a mob, but I couldn't take them seriously.

[–]bigcitycrows 1 point2 points ago

Don't you have a wildlife officer service in...Ireland, I think you're in? Or predator compensation programs? I think you said the repopulation programs were very small and individualistic; are there any national programs?

Here in the US we don't have angry mobs, we have individuals who shoot eagles and leave their bodies or cut off hawk's wings, but they don't make themselves known because they know they'd be arrested. Our repopulation programs for bald eagles succeeded because it was a large network and countrywide effort from many individuals.

[–]ridik_ulass 0 points1 point ago

yes ireland,

It was just fear mongering and some scared farmers, it calmed down and didn't need to be esclated to the police, the poisoning of the birds could have been accidental, guns aren't common here and the best way to get rid of pests like rabbits and such is poison which could have effected the food chain. there is national land for the birds, but the reintroduction was to encourage them in naturally. It was very hands off, there was a few steps back but its working wonderfully now.

with the benifit of hinds sight, maybe a local education scheme would have been in order, people appriciate the birds more now and are proud to have them around, spotters and such have been a positive economic impact on the local businesses and all is well.

ps:how did you know I was in ireland, I didn't say.

[–]bigcitycrows 2 points3 points ago

I see you on some reddit posts and also on OKCupid a couple of times, it's because of your birds. I'm an apprentice falconer in the USA, we've talked briefly before about...burrowing owls, I think. Please don't think I'm a stalker- there's a gal in Australia I also see around a lot, and some other raptor enthusiasts from the States. It's because all I do on Reddit is think about/talk about/look at posts of birds of prey and now I kind of recognize people who routinely comment knowledgeably.

How many nesting pairs of golden eagles would you estimate are in Ireland total now versus when you began?

[–]Trundar 0 points1 point ago

You know an amazing deal about predatory birds. It sure does sound like you have this, and probably other equally infuriating, argument about birds a lot. This man/woman is an expert damn it!

[–]bigcitycrows 1 point2 points ago

Only two: people running around like chickens with their heads cut off about raptors swooping down and flying off with pets/children, and people finding injured/orphaned raptors and deciding to keep them as pets.

Other than that I'm tame as an African pygmy falcon.

It's also not so much I'm an expert, but that I now see 90% of people as lacking in basic natural history education. It's like normal, everyday, reasonable people turn into Neanderthals cowering before the Thunderbird.

[–]ridik_ulass 0 points1 point ago

Like most animals, birds have had enough contact with people to be afraid of them, and they are smart enough to know generally to stay away. just because it is possible for a large bird to take a small child doesn't mean it happens.

also the child would have to be very small, but standing and not confined to a buggy or pram, so maybe 2-3 and also grossely unattended, there is to many factors at play i think for this to occur with out some sort if rare external rare event at play

[–]ridik_ulass 0 points1 point ago

when I got involved there was 3 or so nesting pairs, I hadn't actually planned on it, but just as the female was poisoned the man careing for the birds died, I was the most knowledgable person in the area so I was roped in to help.

now the nesting pairs are upwards of 20, the male I worked with has gone to england to find a mate and thier children will be sent here to be released.

I think I remember you now, if you have any other questions feel free to ask

[–]BlindBoy 7 points8 points ago

Ummmm... Why is it that some eagles can carry off small deer and goats? They can do it. A baby is no different.

[–]bigcitycrows 15 points16 points ago

Eagles are amazingly powerful animals and can kill mammals many times their own size and weight; however, the stereotypical idea of a bird of prey swooping down, grabbing something like a kid or a deer on the ground, then lifting off with it high into the sky is...well, wrong.

To give you an idea of what we're working with, a bald eagle weighs a bit more than a jug of milk. Very strong for their size, but far too little lifting capability for half the things (average, non-eagle-versed) people claim they fly off with.

[–]Skeeball_Fanatic 3 points4 points ago

It concerns me the comment you replied to has 20 upvotes.

[–]bigcitycrows 4 points5 points ago

It's like I'm ruining everyone's Christmas by telling them that as children they were under no threat of suddenly being lifted away by an eagle.

[–]quantumcoffeemug 1 point2 points ago

But those children could still be killed by an eagle, it would just have to eat them on the ground. So there's still some hope.

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

Consolation prize: Redditor dads now have new and actually plausible ammo for trolling their kids.

[–]berdiesan 0 points1 point ago

They can't carry a kid off, but birds of prey can sure scare the crap out of them. When we were kids, my 4-yr-old sister was dive-bombed by a red-tailed hawk. It was trippy, I was about 5 feet away from her and this THING came swooping down out of the sky, talons down, then just changed it's birdbrain or suddenly got sober or something and whooshed back up and flew off. Got about a foot from her head. Crazy bird.

[–]Diggidy -3 points-2 points ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VklTs-Tid_I#t=294s

Seems possible to me.

[–]bigcitycrows 6 points7 points ago

Until you realize that out-and-down is not up-and-away.

For like the fiftieth time and to no personal agenda against you but rather exasperation with the persistence of this belief: dragging a goat off a high cliff to fall to its death is not the same as picking one up from the ground and flying off into the sunset with it.

[–]Diggidy 0 points1 point ago

True, but dude didn't posit a goat. He offered "a kid or a deer on the ground". Pretty broad. I'm going to make "kid" an infant. The head of that goat, sans body, weighs more. I stand by possible.

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

Dude was me. "Kid" as in "child other than infant", like the child in the photos above. The average human at birth is over 7 pounds and within weeks is over 10- that's the weight of an adult bald eagle. By age 2 low average child weight is 25-35 pounds, twice as much as an adult golden eagle and well beyond carrying capacity.

There is one non-bullshit confirmed occurrence of a golden eagle carrying off a very young infant- a baby in swaddling cloth- in the early 1900s on the American frontier; the eagle was found by a search party with the dead baby on the ground and subsequently killed. But again, this was an infant, not a child.

[–]TripperDay 1 point2 points ago

Congratulations, you are now RES tagged as "fights ignorance".

[–]Thorston 2 points3 points ago

This is discussed in the comments above yours. They don't carry off deer and goats. They latch onto them and pull them off the sides of cliffs. It's the difference between pushing your fat friend into the pool and putting him on your shoulders and sprinting.

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

It's the difference between pushing your fat friend into the pool and putting him on your shoulders and sprinting.

You have eloquently in one metaphor taken care of half of my explanation problems. I will be using this from now on.

[–]Thorston 0 points1 point ago

Are half of your explanation problems related to how eagles kill things?

[–]bigcitycrows 0 points1 point ago

On Reddit? Yeah, probably. Is that bad?

[–]Thorston 0 points1 point ago

Not bad. Just very unusual.

[–]soyabstemio -2 points-1 points ago

Where I come from babies are very different to deer and goats.

[–]mearvk 0 points1 point ago

Their falseness is blatantly exaggerated!!!

Also, http://imgur.com/Etd9t.

[–]singleserving- 0 points1 point ago

BOOM!

[–]bigcitycrows 4 points5 points ago

Eagles can kill deer and it's super-duper cool. They can't, however, fly off like Captain Planet with one straight from the ground and keep going into the sunset because screw America. It's physically impossible, and the perpetuation of this folkmyth only harms eagles by making people needlessly fearful of them.

[–]Ze_Invisible_Man 10 points11 points ago

Ah, yes, the Great Eagle Scourge of 1822.

[–]wirelesswizard64 0 points1 point ago

More like Ze_Invisible_Mann

[–]JesusofTorn 7 points8 points ago

And everyone blames the Dingos.

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Out of the house, into the food chain 19coms 277pts 10dys funny
Great Parenting 13coms 125pts 4mos WTF
Picture of a lifetime. They can get another baby. 245coms 1090pts 4mos pics
I'd like to know the story behind THIS one 22coms 40pts 8mos WTF
unknown 157coms 418pts 1yr pics
The scourge of London, the Eagle. 16coms 75pts 2mos tf2
Just picking up the kids. 47coms 458pts 2mos WTF
Quick, honey! Get the camera! 28coms 232pts 7mos WTF
Hope this isn't real... 3coms -3pts 8mos WTF
If the stork brings them I guess that means... Abortion raven. 109coms 879pts 8mos WTF
Apex Predator 10coms 13pts 1yr pics
i wonder what went on the photographer's mind... 11coms 20pts 1yr pics

source: karmadecay

[–]boba79 4 points5 points ago

At least 100 times this has been on Reddit.

[–]TheCannon 4 points5 points ago

I would double that estimate.

[–]DrTRollingston 2 points3 points ago

An Eagle ate mah baybay!

[–]count1to10 0 points1 point ago

I can show the world.....

[–]PsYk0TiC 2 points3 points ago

The birdo ate my baby!

[–]btg643 0 points1 point ago

OMG. When i was about 4 years old I saw these pictures at the grocery store on one of those "National Enquirer" type magazines. The shit broke my brain for a long time. I then later convinced myself that it had to be fake. Now that I have seen this once again (24 years later) I am completely broken again. Thanks buddy.

[–]TripperDay 0 points1 point ago

It's still fake.

[–]TucoR 0 points1 point ago

I've seen videos of birds lifting 60 pound goats off cliffs and dropping them to their deaths, as well as hunting wolves, so it should be possible to lift up a child,

[–]bigcitycrows 1 point2 points ago

"Killing" and "swooping down and flying off with" are two very different things. The goat killing eagles aren't literally lifting the goats into the air, they're grabbing them and pulling them out over the ledge and making slowed descents. They couldn't go "grab, flap flap flap" off into the sunset with a 60-pound goat.

[–]TripperDay -1 points0 points ago

I can push a car off a cliff, so lifting one over my head should be possible.

[–]my2penniesworth 0 points1 point ago

So, even back then, the bystander takes a photo instead of helping...I guess people don't change.

[–]EmaNeva 1 point2 points ago

CURSE YOU DEMON BIRD, I'LL SMOTHER YOU BOTH!

[–]ErikDrummer 1 point2 points ago

hide yo kids!

[–]SnakeLegs616 0 points1 point ago

More like a... 6 foot turkey.

[–]bobzwik 0 points1 point ago

Exactly what happened to Gray Mann.

[–]JAEitler 1 point2 points ago

I actually watched this movie in a cinema class, it's one of D.W. Griffith's early short silent films.

[–]ChesterChuckles 0 points1 point ago

I'll smother you both!

[–]metalmonkey69 0 points1 point ago

What have we learned today? Don't leave your children unattended because a bird will come out of nowhere and take it.

[–]njloof 1 point2 points ago

"I saw things...They have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles. Really. In the evening, I would stand in front of my hut and watch in horror as these giant flies would pick children off the ground and carry them away.

Oh, it was an incredible sight. Peasants screaming...chasing these flies down the road, waving brooms. You can imagine the pathetic quality of this. Waving these crudely fashioned brooms at these enormous flies... ...as they carried their children off to almost certain death.

Natives had a name for them. 'José Grecos de Muertos.' 'Flamenco dancers of death.'

The enormous flies flapping slowly away into the sunset. Small brown babies clutched in their beaks."

[–]civilian11214 -1 points0 points ago

I have seen this fucking photo so many fucking times. Get some OC you fucks. And fuck you, whatever this poser's name is-I'm too lazy to type it out.

[–]bonedoc59 1 point2 points ago

I have been trolling this sub for a long time. This is the first one that has turned my stomach

[–]bigcitycrows 2 points3 points ago

Be calmed, my son, these are stills from a movie and the eagle is taxidermied. There's only one case of child-carried-off-by-eagle that doesn't smell like complete bullshit, and the girl lived with no injuries.

[–]pega123 0 points1 point ago

I'm scarred 0.0

[–]Sponger544 0 points1 point ago

Jeepers creepers?

[–]ExplodingUnicorns 1 point2 points ago

Babies are merely the caviar of the predator world.

[–]wrinkleslorett 0 points1 point ago

Reminds me of the scene in Inuyasha right before Kagome shatters the jewel.

[–]6DemonBag 0 points1 point ago

This thread needs to see this thread...

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/11h25s/bird_vs_deer/

[–]HuckleZin 0 points1 point ago

He then grew up to become Gray Mann

[–]_man_bear_pig -1 points0 points ago

Back to the orphanage

[–]Woden1Eye 1 point2 points ago

who the fuck is taking this picture?

[–]lazymycroft -1 points0 points ago

Damn, I have been on here long enough that i remember this repost, from twice before! Damn. Damn. Damn.

[–]I_AM_JEW2 0 points1 point ago

I believe you mean wtf

[–]reagan2016 1 point2 points ago

Daddy just couldn't put down his new camera.

[–]SilverVendetta 0 points1 point ago

“…You See!? Ar has spoken—he wants your children!”

[–]yogurtshwartz 0 points1 point ago

felix baumgartner as a child

[–]Burgers_yum 0 points1 point ago

Medical footage of the method and latest stage of development allowable for abortion in the 1930's. Classic.

[–]backsidewedgie 1 point2 points ago

My dads old boss had an eagle try and grab him off a boat. He has scars on his back and chest from it to this day, pretty intense shit!

[–]Cveezy 0 points1 point ago

First the Dingoes..... Now this!?!?

[–]PinneappleSoup 0 points1 point ago

He be aight...

[–]judestaner 1 point2 points ago

Mmmm, baby back ribs.

[–]lemonhead75 0 points1 point ago

I clicked this because I thought it was Star Trek related. However, I was not disappointed.

[–]animalia_ 0 points1 point ago

must be a beastly baby

[–]Mustard317 0 points1 point ago

I call this the "redneck late-term abortion."

[–]Absolum 0 points1 point ago

I think this is a golden eagle stealing a child. Look up "golden eagle vs mountain goat" on YouTube. You won't be disappointed.

[–]soykommander 0 points1 point ago

If this was true the USA would have released falcons in the ghetto instead of HIV and crack.

[–]rkzh 0 points1 point ago

Fuck you, Anivia!

[–]ciglany 0 points1 point ago

my boyfriend was born in Chile in the mountaneous region to the North and he was always told by parents and relatives when he was little not to go too close to the mountains because a condor might get him :/

[–]moonheadZ 0 points1 point ago

This would go well with:

Bird of prey? ..... what are you doing? .....Bird of prey......STAHP!

[–]Saine 0 points1 point ago

Yes photographer, just sit there and take pictures of a child being carried off.

[–]crack-a-lacking 0 points1 point ago

FAKE...the wings never change position

[–]parkinglotguy 1 point2 points ago

Bastard kid had it coming. Always throwing rocks at the eagle's nest.

[–]margusenock 0 points1 point ago

Hate this post!

[–]Crowscream 0 points1 point ago

Survival of the fittest.

[–]WasayZ -3 points-2 points ago

It saddens me when good content is ruined by unimaginative titles.

[–]chocolateapot 0 points1 point ago

Who's the person that's taking pictures of this? I think they need to sort out their priorities...

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