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(86 posts)to the tenth power!!
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)See links some of us have posted below.
d06204
(86 posts)thanks," he said sheepishly.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)I guess it happens to very small dogs quite often.
msongs
(67,417 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)No outside news reports or verification.
No details in the original YouTube posting beyond "Montreal," - no reaction video after the event, ends almost immediately.
Parent has child sitting well away from him.
Parent doesn't "flinch" as huge object moves past him, but simply turns and runs.
Baby dropping looks really CGI in slo-mo.
NO TALON DAMAGE???
willhe
(97 posts)i dunno but if my baby got snatched up a slow jog wouldve turned into a mad dash dive and tackle of that bird
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)to the Oklahoma City Zoo. A few of us were going to grab some new shots for our photography class.
She and I had been getting along well for several weeks, and we seemed to really be enjoying each others company that day.
So we went into the aviary. She looked really good in with that blond hair falling down the back, and I had snapped a few shots when I found out I wasn't the only one interested.
Apparently an eagle, high up in the cage, decided that the fake rabbit-skin coat she was wearing was too much to resist.
Now, I don't know about you, but I'm a good student, and I try to do the best I can. As that eagle tugged on her coat (she wasn't really tall, but it wasn't much bigger than a turkey, so not too big a threat, iirc). I actually got a couple of pretty good shots.
The problem came when I was trying to stop laughing so I could steady the camera. The bird managed to pull a few faux tufts out of the shoulder, but we were able to shoo it away fairly easily.
Apparently she wasn't that interested in photography, 'cause I don't think we talked much after that.
Casandia
(649 posts)Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Please don't pass on video like this - fake crap that puts animals in a bad light gets them killed.
IDoMath
(404 posts)The physics in this don't hold up. An eagles lifting capacity is about 1/3 of its body weight. Golden Eagles top out around 7lbs and Imperial eagles, maybe 9 lbs. That toddler easily outweighs that bird and there is no way for that bird to lift him off the ground.
Crap like this get hawks, owls and eagles killed despite federal laws making it a crime. Please don't share it.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)so I can laugh at the way the kid flies through the air, with no guilt
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Here is the original:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/12/19/montreal-golden-eagle-viral-video.html
Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, have come forward to claim responsibility for the overnight sensation...
The video garnered over five million views in one day.
Archambault said his team came up with the perfect equation to get people to talk about their work.
"We brainstormed some ideas of what is viral online," said Archambauld. "Everything that is animal related and baby related are super popular so we tried to bring both together and make something extraordinary that wouldn't happen every day."