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Eagle v octopus: Canadians rescue bird locked in battle with giant mollusc
the guardian ^ | 12/13/2019

Posted on 12/14/2019 6:56:17 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

F’in cephalopods! You can’t trust these ...things that have NO Backbone.

Let’s start Octopussy Pogroms now.


21 posted on 12/14/2019 9:06:05 PM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: BenLurkin
remember the old saying, some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you...
22 posted on 12/14/2019 9:12:14 PM PST by rolling_stone (no justice no peace no epstein no justice)
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23 posted on 12/14/2019 9:13:44 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: rlmorel

Good grief! That’s right out of Alien! Wow.


24 posted on 12/14/2019 9:43:12 PM PST by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Simple. They are players in the game, not its referee.


25 posted on 12/14/2019 9:54:47 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: BenLurkin

That looks and feels like an eagle wearing a CPAP contraption


26 posted on 12/14/2019 10:58:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Bob434

I had a standard poodle who snatched a golden eagle out of the air and killed it. Golden was flying too low investigating the poodle as possible prey. Golden thought it was safely high. But birds have no concept how high poodles can jump from a standing position. Once the bird was to the ground, it was no contest. The dog outweighed the eagle by multiples and has four feet on the ground, not two. It was over in an instant.


27 posted on 12/14/2019 11:23:17 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: BenLurkin

The symbolism in this can’t be ignored. America being strangled by the tentacles of the left!


28 posted on 12/14/2019 11:27:30 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: ModelBreaker

THAT IS UNUSUAL- YOU CAN FIND YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF THE GOLDEN EAGLES KILLING WOLVES- srry cps lock- it’s pretty wild- they grasp on and don’t let go even when the wolf is rolling down a hill- their talons are sunk deep into the wolves-

Of course if the poodle caught it by surprise, the eagle might not have known what to do being surprised and all- you were fortunate the eagle didn’t go into attack mode


29 posted on 12/14/2019 11:37:32 PM PST by Bob434
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To: ModelBreaker

here’s a video of it- it looks to me though that they might starve the eagles to get them to hunt because the eagles are eating like they haven’t eaten in awhile right after the kill- they just look famished-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re644qgnCtw


30 posted on 12/14/2019 11:44:22 PM PST by Bob434
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To: BenLurkin

Night of the Giant Mollusc


31 posted on 12/15/2019 12:05:07 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Bob434

“Of course if the poodle caught it by surprise, the eagle might not have known what to do being surprised and all- you were fortunate the eagle didn’t go into attack mode”

It was over before the eagle could respond. An angry dog and an eagle on the ground is an unfair match. The eagle can equalize that if they dive and sink talons or break the spine. But that’s not what happened. My dog was the aggressor and took the eagle to the ground. The weight and mobility of the dog is properly suited to the ground and the eagle’s is not. A standard outweighs a golden by about 50 pounds and has four feet to maneuver. An eagle waddles on two.


32 posted on 12/15/2019 1:25:49 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: BenLurkin

No, you humans do not have the right to interfere with natural selection. If one wild animal kills and eats another, it’s because that’s the natural order of things. Do not interfere.


33 posted on 12/15/2019 5:51:47 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: I want the USA back
No, you humans do not have the right to interfere with natural selection. If one wild animal kills and eats another, it’s because that’s the natural order of things. Do not interfere.

Not sure what you mean by "you humans" - what exactly are you? That aside, we interfere with natural selection all the time, and the last time I checked we are part of the natural order. We just have the ability to alter it.

34 posted on 12/15/2019 7:44:12 AM PST by Ranxerox
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To: ModelBreaker

did you have a look at that video i posted? It’s wild- the wolves look like they have the upper hand at times, but the eagles are just relentless and tenacious- I’m not sure if their talons can puncture the skulls or not- but when they get a grip on like hte throat- I heard they have a ratchet-like talon grip that cinches down and doesn’t let go until the eagle relaxes it’s grip- I was shocked at just how fierce these eagles are -I’m sure the handlers lose a few of them to the wolves from time to time, especially if they hunt with only one eagle- but my goodness- I wouldn’t want to tangle with an angry eagle- that’s for sure-


35 posted on 12/15/2019 9:01:05 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oatka

Eagles go after dogs, cats, anything
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6jliwh


36 posted on 12/15/2019 8:43:53 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: minnesota_bound

They probably knock rock climbers off mountains too just as they do goats.


37 posted on 12/15/2019 8:48:27 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: slouper
*Fake German Accent* This ant is engaged in a life or death struggle with the wolf. You can see the ant creeping up on the wolf on all sixes. (a moving arrow is superimposed) Now he stops to observe. Satisfied that the wolf has not heard him, he approaches nearer. With great skill he chooses his moment and then, quick as a limpet, with one mighty bound (the arrow moves to the wolf's throat; the wolf does not move) buries his fangs in the wolf's neck. The wolf struggles to no avail. A battle of this kind can take anything up to fifteen years because the timber ant has such a tiny mouth.


38 posted on 12/15/2019 8:53:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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