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An Eagle Appears To Steal A Toddler (Or Not)

I'm glad the baby is ok and everything turned out fine but I "LOL'ed" when the guy said "oh ****" - he certainly wasn't expecting that to happen. He thought he was capturing a beautiful image of a bird landing next to a baby (which would be cute) but the bird attacks the baby (or sees it as prey) and tries to fly off with him/her.

That is definitely one of those "did that really just happen" moments.
 
I think a nationwide ban on assault weapons owned by large birds of prey is in order.

Its time for a change

Oh sure just trample all over my right to bear children into the sky and drop them.
 

Always gotta be a little suspicious when the camera seems to always miss the most important part of what happened. Like the old "Faces of Death" movies. Guy gets eaten by alligator but the camera is all shaky and all you see is a shoe being drug under water.

I still dont think it's impossible. I've not said I believe it could fly off with one, but go after one and fail... yes.
 
Of course it did. Again how can something with hollow bones weighing about 4 or 5 pounds to this? Please provide a scientific explanation to justify your assertion.

BTW ALiens have captured my cat.

So did you watch the video and are claiming it a fake or are you just claiming it a fake without watching?
 
It looked to me like the eagle was more in a controlled fall than flight. He was descending pretty quickly.

Lets say you can fly. Now attach a 300 pound rock to your ankles and take off. Same result. End of story and probably end of you.
 
So did you watch the video and are claiming it a fake or are you just claiming it a fake without watching?

NO its real alright. That eagle is really one of the aliens who stole my cat.
 
Lets say you can fly. Now attach a 300 pound rock to your ankles and take off. Same result. End of story and probably end of you.

The eagle glided. He didn't ascend, he glided downwards. That's what he's saying. Just like a 50 pound hang glider can glide a being much heavier than itself.
 

Yeah, I could see someone doing that - the attack was certainly real tho. I suppose using software that is presently available, one could replace a rabbit (or whatever the bird was attacking) with a baby.

However the notion that a huge predator bird wouldn't try to snatch a 15lb baby is ludicrous. I saw a hawk try to take a small "lap dog" one time - and that was real.
 
NO its real alright. That eagle is really one of the aliens who stole my cat.

Experiments with captive eagles indicate that adults require about 3/4 pound (1/3 kg) of meat per day to maintain their weight; young, growing eagles require much more food.

Accounts of the weight that an eagle can carry in flight often have been misstated. Experiments indicate that, without wind to assist them, even large eagles cannot take off from flat ground with more than 5 or 6 pounds (2 to 3 kg) in their talons. Eagles flying into the wind and taking prey from hillsides, however, sometimes carry animals of twice those weights for considerable distances.

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NO its real alright. That eagle is really one of the aliens who stole my cat.

Being that you dodged that question there I'll take it that you didn't watch it... and that my post above this one with a bunch of Eagle FAQ's says it is possible.
 
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On a side not... The sport of Falconry ain't got shyte on these mongolians. They use Eagles.

 
Here's an eagle actually attacking a human boy. Not to fly off with but to take down. Mongolian hunting gone wrong... happens around :47

 
Its not a fake. Large birds of prey will go after prey that they know they cant carry off but will drop them
from heights that will injure them and then they'll finish them off.


 
Here's an eagle actually attacking a human boy. Not to fly off with but to take down. Mongolian hunting gone wrong... happens around :47


I cant believe they didnt snap its ****in neck. Instead they try to pull it off the boy without harming it..... My first thought would have been to separate its spinal cord as soon as possible.

On a separate note: If these guys could do this this well (the OPs vid)... Imagine what some elitist or CIA could do.
 
See my post below. Not true as for reasons stated. Vultures are only a few pounds heavier. Problem is in order for birds to fly thier bones are HOLLOW

Vultures eat on location.
 
Its not a fake. Large birds of prey will go after prey that they know they cant carry off but will drop them
from heights that will injure them and then they'll finish them off.

That video is a fake, if you look at it frame-by-frame, it's clear someone has painted out parts of the wing to go behind the adult. Whether birds of prey might do that is irrelevant, in this case, it didn't happen.
 
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That video is a fake, if you look at it frame-by-frame, it's clear someone has painted out parts of the wing to go behind the adult. Whether birds of prey might do that is irrelevant, in this case, it didn't happen.

You are correct:

Published: Dec. 19, 2012 at 7:04 PM

MONTREAL, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A video seeming to show a golden eagle grabbing a small child in its talons in Montreal is actually the work of animation school students, the school said.

The clip, titled "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid," depicts the bird grabbing the child in front of his mother and carrying the toddler a few feet into the air before dropping him, The Independent reported Wednesday. The child is then seen crying, but does not appear to be seriously hurt.

The video had been viewed more than 5 million times on YouTube as of Wednesday evening.

The National Animation and Design Center -- Centre NAD -- posted a message on its website Wednesday saying the video was made by Normand Archambault, Loic Mireault and Felix Marquis-Poulin, students in a production simulation workshop class that "aims to produce creative projects according to industry production and quality standards while developing team work skills."

"Hoaxes produced in this class have already garnered attention, amongst others a video of a penguin having escaped the Montreal Biodome," the school said.

Alex Hearn, a blogger for the New Statesman, said there was evidence in the video to suggest it was a fake.

"When the bird swoops down, its shadow pops in one frame after it does. And for one frame, and one frame only, around three seconds in, its right wing becomes transparent," he wrote. "Then there is the slightly odd motion of the child after the eagle lets go of it. Not only does it carry on going up -- which would just be momentum -- but its ascent actually speeds up a bit before falling."



Read more: YouTube video depicting golden eagle lifting tot in Canada is a hoax - UPI.com
 


Obviously eagles can lift humans. Just ask Abe Lincoln.

Skip to about 2:10 to see eagle power
 
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I saw it on TV today, and I thought it was real. I'm actually kind of glad that it isn't. That would be kind of scary to have birds trying to steal small children. :lol:
 
Vultures eat on location.

UH Yeah So? We were talking about the myth that birds can pick up food items largerr or the same size as them and carry them away. If you had read the post I was responding to you would know what I was talking about.
 
UH Yeah So? We were talking about the myth that birds can pick up food items largerr or the same size as them and carry them away. If you had read the post I was responding to you would know what I was talking about.

They can as I proved in this thread.
 
UH Yeah So? We were talking about the myth that birds can pick up food items largerr or the same size as them and carry them away. If you had read the post I was responding to you would know what I was talking about.

Ah, I thought this was only dealing with birds eating kids.
 
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