Yep, mother nature is a cruel heartless bitch.  At least it was over quickly.

The baboon/gazelle video.  Ah, the sweet sounds of kind Mother Nature.

More specifically, Kazakhs.

Falconry is their heritage. Very interesting hunting culture.

So how many eagles vs a Silverback?    

Something about a Aimless is dead thread, and a gofundme page to help his family fight falconry in NY.

Pretty smart using the environment to help catch prey like that. I like how he looks around after he lands by the goat. Probably checking for other predators that are willing to move in on the kill. 

Surprised if that bird's bones are intact.

Exactly. Unlike what Disney and the tree huggers want us to think. Nature is cruel. Almost everything dies a horrible death.

Dammit!  I was going to post that exact photo of Aimless' latest adventure!

Badass bird  

Birds are smart when it comes to using the environment to their advantage.
Not in the same league as the Eagle but all winter the gulls at the beach will take muscles at low tide, fly over the campground and drop them on the campground roads to break open

Kinda off topic, but I had completely forgotten about that song!

Fuckin' Seth.

That Mongolia vid is pretty cool. Powerful birds.

We have had them kill a few new calves. Some think eagles only eat fresh kills. They do prefer it but like already mentioned, they aren't that picky at times. I set a game cam near a horse we had die expecting to get some good coyote pics. Over the course of a month in the summer the meat was all eaten. I only had one coyote visit one night to eat out the ass a little. Every morning at daybreak like clockwork about 50 crows would show up and go to work on it. About 9am every day a couple huge golden eagles would arrive and scatter the crows. The eagles would really rip that horse open exposing new meat. They would eat their fill and leave. Crows would get back on it and all be gone by noon. Magpies would hit it for awhile. This went on till it was only bones and some hide.

I had a dump site for skinned carcasses on our property. A couple times while coming in with more skinned coyotes I'd scare off eagles that would take flight with a coyote carcass. Not sure how far they would get with it as it was in trees but they would carry it far enough to get out of sight and 50' in the air.

Goat seemed to know he was fucked.no thrashing, nothing, just dropped like a rock

Look up harpy eagles...

Their talons are huge and sharper than knives.