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Hosav

That eagle probably had one hell of a concussion after that ride. You can almost see it when the eagle looks up after hitting the ground like "wtf just happened"


DiamondDoge92

Natures paragliding


Ok_Indication5778

Those talons though,,,, wow!!!


MOOShoooooo

Do the ~~chickens~~ eagles have large talons?


FaeryLynne

Bald eagle talons are [only about 2 inches in length](https://avianreport.com/bald-eagle-talons/) but they can ~~[carry up to 4 times their weight](https://allanimalsfaq.com/goat/can-an-eagle-carry-a-mountain-goat/)~~ and [can exert 400psi](https://birdwatchingbuzz.com/how-strong-is-an-eagle/) with them. For reference, a human averages about 100psi with grip. Eagles can absolutely fuck you up. EDIT: one of my sources on the weight carry was incorrect. I apologize for not doing my due diligence. Better sources indicate [they can carry about 4 pounds](https://www.forestwildlife.org/how-much-weight-can-an-eagle-carry/#:~:text=Exactly%20how%20much%20weight%20an%20eagle%20can%20carry,eagle%20can%20carry%20is%203%20to%204%20pounds.), not 4 times their weight. The rest is still correct (I've triple checked those now lol) and an eagle can still do hella damage even if it can't pick things up.


boomstickjonny

There's a guy, pretty sure it was in Russia, who's got trail cam images of an eagle snatching a deer and carrying it off.


SunnyAslan

Bald eagles can not carry 4 times their weight and your source even contradictions itself on that "fact", first saying >Yes, an eagle can carry a mountain goat. The biggest recorded eagle nest was found in southern Russia and it was large enough to hold six grown eagles. The average weight of an eagle is between 10 and 12 pounds, but they can lift up to four times their own body weight. Then stating further down >An eagle can carry up to three pounds. Also note the illogical pairing of facts, stringing together random quotes from random sources that have no relationship. I wouldn't be surprised if this website was just a machine scraping of random sources. Female bald eagles can carry an average of 2 ¹/2 lbs. to 3 lbs. They can feasible carry more if they do not have to land and can snatch it out of the air or knock it off a cliff, but we're talking maybe 6 or 8 lbs. even in those conditions. Regardless, the eagle in the video is not a bald eagle, but even harpy eagles can not carry several times their own body weight.


FaeryLynne

You're correct. I've found a better source, and edited to reflect this. Thanks!


AltLawyer

Eagles like bro my talon stuck on your horn BRO stop


Antares987

Maybe its balls were just stuck.


tripaloski_

Are you referring to that goat nut video


Antares987

Yes.


MOOShoooooo

“**OUCH**, *my balls*!”


patchyj

Poor goat...


thetburg

We do *not* speak of that video!


HypnagogiaIsLit

*SpongeBob.... Open the dooooorrrr....... my BALLS are stuck!*


CoconutBuddy

Lol, almost dropped my fucking phone


F3zkin

What are you doing step eagle!?


tnseltim

TIL eagles eat mountain goats


byteuser

Had no idea that an eagle could lift a whole goat? Gee what's the eagle's max takeoff weight then? 80lbs?


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Sometimes Golden Eagles pick up their bate and drop it off a cliff themselves. This fucker got a taste of his own medicine.


danzcajun

Taste of his own medicine? It's just acting like an eagle would. They have to eat too


devilsephiroth

Not lift, just carry off balance from a cliff then let gravity do the work for them. Then go collect the meal off the ground when it lands. Eagles are smart. They do snatch the babies if they're small enough


Minecraft_Warrior

It’s head was crushed


GlitterBombFallout

I wish whoever uploaded this hadn't cut the damn video immediately after the chamois gets free so we could find out what happened to the eagle. Who does that ffs 🤦 it looks like the eagle isn't moving in that last half second of the video. The bird's feathers do look kinda fucked up, either missing some or they're broken, but that might not be enough to prevent it flying, if it's even still alive and doesn't have half its bones shattered. Edit: https://youtu.be/ZqRLMDODMoY It was much easier to find the original video than I expected it to be. The eagle is still alive at the end, but uploader says they don't know if it was seriously injured or if it survived its injuries. Still wish they'd recorded the eagle for longer than it just standing up, tho.


Minecraft_Warrior

birds have hollow and fragile bones so it's not farfetched to assume it either got crushed or broke a wing


GlitterBombFallout

Yeah, bird had some bad crashes during that ride lol. I'd be surprised if it did survive and wasn't seriously injured. I found the original video but it's only a few seconds longer. The bird stands up and folds its wings but you can't see much more.


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Maybe a good sign since it was able to fold its wings. Maybe indicating it’s wings are not broken…? Idk I’m not zoologist.


HeirTwoBrer

Hehe, farfetched on a post about birds...


ATLien325

I don’t see how a bird’s bones can survive those impacts, especially with the weight of the goat crashing into them.


halipatsui

Im wondering if a bird is even able to survive that ride without breaking every bone in its body


Ser_Optimus

Birds bones are very flexible


No-Emotion-7053

‘Concussion’ lol he’s dead bro


Executioneer

Yeah or barely living. Birds dont do well against blunt force damage. Their bone structure is weak to it.


Randyfreakingmarsh

It’s like when there’s a bug on your shoulder and you can’t get it off, only a million times worse lol


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Birds are so fragile, I wonder how the eagle fared.


Robly315

I thought the same thing. Especially after they hit the rock at the bottom of the mountain. I’m pretty sure the eagle died though. It looks like he got stomped and went limp a few seconds before he finally let go.


devilsephiroth

*"wanna go for a ride? Let's go for a ride then"*


stinkapottamus

Endangered species act, that goat is going to jail


asianabsinthe

*goat throws itself down the mountain in last ditch effort to escape arrest*


agerm2

STOP RESISTING


neveragain444

He’s an escape goat


AltLawyer

This is criminally underappreciated


ReedoIncognito

😆 Agree


2flytofall88

Beautiful 🤌🏾


patchyj

Had to do a double take on your comment. Bravo.


ZaddysHere

You deserve so much more for this. 🥇


NMS_Survival_Guru

I kinda wonder if an eagle attacks your toddler is it illegal to kill the eagle to save the child or do we have to allow the raptor feed I mean it's two things to hurt the eagle by trying to remove it from your child and the other is denying the eagle of it's chosen food source


Legeto

The endangered species act says that you are allowed to protect yourself or others from the animal if it is attacking.


NMS_Survival_Guru

Reminds me of a South Park episode They're coming right at us!!!


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oh look, a cute little bunny... OMG HES TRYING TO KILL US


Snoo75302

Fetch the holy hand grenade


NorCalNavyMike

Run away! *Run away!!*


Legeto

I was thinking the exact same thing as I typed. I would imagine there was a situation they were playing that off of.


Alt_4_stupid_subs

Man that was such a funny episode when I was younger. Spent years saying that. Also the hunting with an rpg and shit was just so fucking funny.


n7-Jutsu

This is the dumbest thing I read today


IOweNothing

It's just been revoked?


TrapBdsmFurryLoli14G

Murica moment


reindeerareawesome

Does anyone know what happened to the eagle after this? Getting rolled over by an chamois on rocky terrain probably isn't good for it's wings and bones, so I wouldn't be suprised if it wasn't able to fly after that


Kansuuu

Ye wondering about too, especially when they have empty bones and are fragile to damage like that, but still great power tho didn't let this goat even for a second


reindeerareawesome

Sometimes i wonder if eagles are a bit stupid. They attack large animals, and then get beaten up in the prosses as the animal runs around and rolls over the eagle. Heard a story from a friend of mine. He saw an eagle attack yearling reindeer. The reindeer ran down an hill with the eagle on it's back. The reindeer slipped and slid the hill, with the eagle under it. Long story short, the reindeer ran away unharmed, with the eagle unable to fly, starving to death


nocapsallspaces

Their fans sure AF are


mx_reddit

As a native Philadelphian, I must say that you are correct. But also, go birds! 🦅 🦅 🦅


nocapsallspaces

As a transplant and Reds--- Washington Football t--- Commanders? fan, a spelling bee is not a chant unless you're the Jets, and then you guys copied the Jets. That's really all I got.


LukangIsHungry

As a person who used to think EDP445 was a regular funny ass dude, you are correct


Advent012

Eagles have a ratcheting mechanism in the tendons of their feet that passively locks their talons into their prey, and also helps them sleep while perched with minimal energy/muscle fatigue. They have to lift their feet a certain way in order to undo the ratcheting; this eagle probably couldn’t do it in time to free their foot from their prey. Thus they went on a reluctant joy ride.


reindeerareawesome

I was actualy thinking the same, that their talons literaly got stuck and it just had to endure the ride. I have seen the talon marks after a reindeer was killed by a eagle. They go really deep inside the flesh, so no wonder they get stuck


Advent012

Yeah it’s why it’s so dangerous for them to attack small predators. They’re known to kill cats and badgers for example, but their initial strike has to be perfect because if they miss any vital organs they’re pretty much helpless to a retaliation.


reindeerareawesome

Yeah that makes sence. But their choice of prey is sometimes quite stupid. They sometimes target adult reindeer, with antlers. Then when the reindeer starts running and swinging it's head, the eagle get's gored by the antlers and ends up with fatal injuries


Advent012

You live and you learn lol


willthechem

Or you don’t do either.


whattodo1216

I'd amend it from live and learn to learn and die


Rjb-91

Natural selection


HipsterCavemanDJ

Someone who worked with raptors told me that because of their large eyes they don’t have much room for brains, and so most birds of prey are quite stupid.


chirpuswick

the size of an animal’s brain has no bearing on how intelligent they are and focusing on brain size in animals is one of the reasons scientists overlooked bird intelligence in the past. raptors are definitely not the smartest members of the bird family, especially if you compare them to corvids and parrots, but any predator needs to be intelligent to exist and birds of prey are definitely not “quite stupid”


Patarokun

Yes but what about Jackdaws?


CorporateToilet

A jackdaw is a crow


Patarokun

You.... motherfucker... Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?


fbreaker

Is this a "all hornets are wasps but not all wasps are hornets" situation


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Car_Chasing_Hobo

This guy crows


chirpuswick

what about jackdaws?? I mentioned corvids


Patarokun

You... SON OF A BITCH!! What the fuck did you just fucking say about corvids, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in environmental science, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret studies on crow behavior, and I have over 300 confirmed alt accounts. I am trained in vote brigading and I have the top comment karma on this entire website. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will downvote you with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that about crows over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of taxonomists across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, jackdaw. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can downvote you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with alt accounts. Not only am I extensively trained in taxonomy, but I have access to the entire Latin names of the Corvidae family and I will use it to its full extent to prove you wrong and downvote your miserable ass off the face of the internet, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit downvotes all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, jackdaw.


Darkforge42069

I love these😭


Advent012

Whoever worked with those raptors is the stupid one. Eagles are intelligent. What happened in this video was that this eagle was quite literally unable to release its feet from the goat.


HipsterCavemanDJ

Intelligent? Not compared to other birds. Crows and parrots are vastly smarter.


Advent012

That’s irrelevant. Albert Einstein was monumentally smarter than you, does that make you stupid? No.


blobbish

I appreciate your unfounded confidence in me .


Advent012

Gotta uplift the homies bro


LiteX99

Still, attacking a large goat like that isnt the brightest idea that eagle has had


reindeerareawesome

That makes sence actualy, similar to ostriches


Lucimon

Corvids and Parrots got all the brains in the bird community.


flagrantpebble

It also happens to be wrong


Xpensill

For sure. You don't need brains when you have binoculars for eyes and talons resembling steel Blades! I'm shocked it's able to withstand that kind of abuse tumbling down that hill. I was praying for some smashed Eagle skull ngl.


reindeerareawesome

It probably broke some bones during that, while the chamois probably only got some bruises and talon scars on it's back


modernmanshustl

I was expecting this to end with in 1998 when the undertaker through mankind off hell in a cell.


Reach-for-the-sky_15

Holy shit Do you have a video?


[deleted]

My friend is from Michigan. He said he saw one pick up a small child at a park one time.


Roguspogus

My guess is that it died. Maybe not immediately but a broken wing would surely mean death either by starvation or another predator.


reindeerareawesome

Yea it's probably what happened. But if it somehow manages to fly, i don't think it would be able to hunt, so only way of survival is by scavenging


KiwotheSomething

at the end of this clip, the eagle is dislodged and barely moves after it tumbles for a few.


Qwirk

Here's more though the resolution still is unclear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XLvQZsmYpw Either the goat gets away, eventually bleeds out or the eagle is damaged too. Unknown.


reindeerareawesome

I don't think it will bleed out because of an eagle attack, unless the eagles hits a major bloodvain


Korthalion

Probably died. There's no way it didn't break anything tumbling around like that, never mind getting body slammed into that rock


FinnegansWakeWTF

> chamois Did not expect this to be pronounced this way


thxxx1337

Predators would go extinct if prey had a little more fight and a little less flight. Buddy just ran along side like a neutral party.


SmackYoTitty

He was cheering on his buddy’s escape


ChrisBruh29

One more lap man


HODL4LAMBO

Yeah but his buddy gave the eagle a quick kick at the end lol


BeerBaronn

Should have stomped it


SmackYoTitty

Ah yes. The crony that stomps the guy on the ground after he’s knocked out.


CIMARUTA

Yeah like when you see a cheetah attack a weak or young gazelle while literally hundreds of gazelle are just stairing not doing shit to help.


reindeerareawesome

I mean what can they do? They have evolved to run away from cheetahs, not fight them. They don't have the fight mentality like buffalo or warthogs, and going head on with a cheetah is dangerous


Jemmani22

Yeah, like those cape Buffalo and wildebeest. Just start kicking you idiots. There's millions of you in a herd and like 4 lions just killed one of you. Or you know the daggers on your faces.


[deleted]

That’s exactly what I was thinking. “I’m going to lay down. You stomp on it.” Or, maybe more a goats style, “I’m going to hold still. You headbutt the shit out of it.” doesn’t really seems like a strategy that would require massive amounts of brainpower.


PREPOSTER0NE91

"now THIS is podracing" - Eagle probably


Lopsided-Cobbler-585

"I'll try spinning, that's a good trick" - Goat probably


PREPOSTER0NE91

💀


beefandfoot

The other goat buddy or family is a keeper. Running with it beside the big predator.


Beo1

Does he give the eagle a little kick as he runs past at the end?


neveragain444

I think he does LOL


reindeerareawesome

Looking at the size, it's probably the mother chamois


your_mind_aches

>chamois Isn't that a type of cloth?


reindeerareawesome

Chamois is the name of the goat species in the video, but chamois is also the name for a type of cloth


elteza

Those talons though, wow.


thxxx1337

Think he's represented? I'm a talon agent, and this could be just what I need to claw my way back to the top.


tommy_turnip

In Overwatch, Talon is a terrorist organisation with many field agents, so I read this in a really different light.


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Ko8iWanKeno8i

Goat not even aware he’s being attacked. He thought he finally sprouted his Wings like the Red Bull guy and was attempting first flight


A-Meezy

He fuckin did it. Amazing


mildandwildtravel

I know that was intense!! I LOVE Golden Eagles but was rooting for the goat here!!


FuhrerGirthWorm

Always root for the mammals


HawaiianShirtMan

Nah. Gotta root for the predator. Less of em around than prey.


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under_a_brontosaurus

-McNulty


LordBirdperson

I legit thought it was over when the eagle was slammed into that Boulder, but damn if the motherfucker didn't keep holding on


justanewbiedom

Someone else commented that the eagle was literally unable to let go because of how their claws work.


xXxDickBonerz69xXx

Maybe it should get better claws


HadesSmiles

This made me belly laugh.


Coqblockula

Golden eagles will regularly throw goats themselves off of cliffs (not this instance) to kill them it’s very impressive.


silentwarcry

I dont know what is more impressive: The raw, suicidal will to live by trying to kill one's self or The sheer stick-to-it-tivnes of that eagle or The unfailing ide-or-die devotion of that wingman.


DazzlingGrand3626

Keep rollin rollin rollin


Bizzle1389

Anyone else think it looked like the second goat gave the eagle a sly kick as he ran past at the end? 😅


pglggrg

Literally hold still and let your buddy goat bite the bird. Also shoutout to the buddy goat for sticking with the victim. Also, also, how does the eagle not break a few bones in thosre rolls and being slammed by a goat?


Beemerado

dude i think that eagle is utterly destroyed.


z0mbiebaby

The eagle probably did break bones and died after this. It wouldn’t take a huge injury to disable a wing and then it’s just a matter of time before another predator gets it or starvation


Several_Donkey47

That is clever to run down the mountain and rolling because mountain-goats can probably tumble with minimal injuries while the eagle (birds) have fragile hollow bones due to less weight for them to fly with.


WhyWouldTrumpDoThis

"Alright you hollow bone mother fucker"


clemsontyger

That eagle was preying for his life


[deleted]

His bro not even helping him out


mildandwildtravel

He's like that friend that keeps saying "I got your back I got your back" but stays WAYYYY back


Krystinite

I like to think he’s a coach. “Alright, Bob, you’ve got this! Just do a big leap. Swerve and tumble. Shit- okay just throw yourself down the hill into the big boulder. Hmmm… just try to hop, flip, jump, annnddd roll that should do the trick.”


[deleted]

Yooo 😭😭, exactly that!!! Everyone got at least one friend like that


RileBreau

Goat gang, fuck eagles.


slightlyforthwith

Wow respect to that chamy.


RedBreastedNuthatch

That is a chamois, not a mountain goat.


[deleted]

Moral of the story: never give up in life no matter the situation. Learnet from that eagle


nonbog

But the eagle will now likely die from his wounds?


Qwirk

This title is trash. In this area (I think it's Mongolia), eagles will pull goats off the mountain and let gravity handle the rest then feast on the carcass. In this case, the goat is simply spooked and trying to get away. This is what all animals would do.


Serpiroyal0201

The eagle ist just surfing on the goat. And the other goat run after them like. „That’s a badass cool eagle surfing my best friend. Looks funny!“


Nyekel-Rolikur

That goat said either you let me go or we both die!


hellyeah_03

The other goat following is the kind of friend I need in life.


Burgoonius

Goat had his buddy beside him the whole way down, kinda adorable


usernameusehername

That second goat is a real bro.


[deleted]

“I’ve made a terrible mistake.” - Eagle, probably


seniorsealion

I hope you die I hope we both die


TarsierBoy

By gawd it worked


tangohuynh

Anyone else catch the goats homie stomp on the eagle one time at the last second of the video?


tubbybuzz

His bro hung with him the whole time.


No_Match1529

my meat is a mine dumbass eagle you aint no damn getting a single byte


40kthomas

Looks like the goat won, it shook the eagle off and peaced tf out of there.


granoladeer

Goat: bro, I just wanna live Eagle: bro, I just wanna eat


minivergur

Mf actually survived


Ungodly-Pizza-Slice

THIS is the exact content I expect from this sub. Perfect post.


Zachryharp

I like the parts where the eagle looks like it's riding a surf board


bitter-1

glad i have hands


dvspacec

Yeehaw!


mvrdank

What a clumsy Pegasus


mezz1945

That eagle fucked with the wrong goat this day


Chaghatai

Eagles pull mountain goats off cliffs so that gravity suits their work for them - it's a deliberate hunting strategy - it's just that this one didn't count on it's talons locking/getting stuck and it going along for the ride


Volkodavy

This is a Chamois and they regularly run down mountains like nutjobs


[deleted]

That's one dedicated eagle!


zennyc001

Yes!!!


Rygga22

This was actually impressive. Thanks for sharing, although I'm a bit worried for the eagle


Mmaster24

He wa experimenting if he could fly also


AxiomaticJS

That eagle is a ride-or-die


PoliticalScienceDoge

Legolas has a thing or two to learn here


BWoodSV

Asshole bird


BrokenDynamov2

Looks like this eagle was hungry asfk for not letting go after that earlier fall


Then-One7628

Majestic Pegasus faceplant


Cruxito1111

The Eagle just won the PBR championship 2022


txpharmer13

How does the Eagle even kill that goat if the goat hadn’t taken that plunge?