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I think this will go viral. Amazing video

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aerospacemango

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Definitely fake. Not in a million years could a bird pick a toddler up.

 

I would disagree with you there!

 

It seems a Golden Eagle could potentially carry 3 times its own weight. The size of the eagle in the film would suggest it's fully grown and could easily lift a toddler. The toddler may only be 20-30lbs. This is well within the limits to pick up....but not light enough to get away with?

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LosOjos

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Definitely fake. Not in a million years could a bird pick a toddler up.

 

If it was fake, I think they'd have gone further and had the eagle actually fly away with the toddler. Looks totally legit to me...

DT2

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Definitely fake. Not in a million years could a bird pick a toddler up.

 

The eagles that nest in the tree by my house are bigger than anything I've ever seen, and have been known to take salmon upto 20lbs from the river, so a toddler wouldn't be a problem for a bird that size. This summer several people lost their dogs to eagles around here...

featured_spectre

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Considering in Mongolia eagles are used for hunting elk/reindeer, foxes/wolves/other small animals and dragging them/carrying them along (and I have seen a fair few documentaries on said subject and how it is "barbaric"), it is entirely plausible that an eagle could pick up a small child.

 

Also, for a fake, it is one of the best I have seen considering they got the shadows to match up perfectly.

gmj

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Wait a minute -- supposing two Eagles carried it together? Using a strand of creeper held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
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Steve21

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I'm disappointed in you all for not using more of the Monty Python reference! (Apart from gmj! :D )

 

GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.

GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?

ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!

GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple

question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound

coconut.

ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master

that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.

GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow

needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?

ARTHUR: Please!

GUARD #1: Am I right?

ARTHUR: I'm not interested!

GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!

GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European

swallow, that's my point.

GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that...

ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court

at Camelot?!

GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory.

GUARD #2: Oh, yeah...

GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...

[clop clop]

GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?

GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.

GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a standard creeper!

GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?

GUARD #2: Well, why not?

 

:getmecoat:

 

Steve

laserblazer

laserblazer

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I'd say fake. The baby just dangles like a dummy and the reaction of the cameraman and the parent doesn't ring true. Great piece of deception if it is fake and almost 15 million youtube views already.
shadowx

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I knew it!! I showed the NM and said to him it looks fake, the part where the eagle swoops in from the right of the frame just looked wrong. Admittedly though the bit where the kid is picked up looked pretty real...

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