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A trained African-hawk eagles can habitually kill European hares (Lepus europaeus) around 4,080 g (8.99 lb) in weight, and one eagles around 1,420 g (3.13 lb) kills a large male domestic cat (Felis catus) around 4,300 g (9.5 lb). [31] However, It is clear that wild eagles are usually focusing on much smaller prey. [31]
Cape hyrax, weighing from 1.8 to 5.5 kg (4.0 to 12.1 lb) with average of around 3.14 kg (6.9 lb), can be even larger than the Verreaux's eagles themselves, so can be more difficult to kill. Yellow-spotted rock hyraxes are more often taken in the Matobo Hills, perhaps because of their smaller size or its more diurnal habits.
It has been claimed that the golden eagle can lift more than its own body weight in flight. [6] However, other sources claim that a hare, marmot or deer calf weighing 4 kg (8.8 lb) is a struggle for even a large female to carry and that prey much over 2 kg (4.4 lb) would require favorably high wind conditions. [7] [8] [9]
A golden eagle has been killed after it attacked at least four people, including a toddler, in Norway. The young bird was repeatedly involved in attacks on humans across a five-day period in early ...
There were reported elephant bird sightings at least in folklore memory as Étienne de Flacourt wrote in 1658. [8] Its egg, live or subfossilised , was known as early as 1420, when sailors to the Cape of Good Hope found eggs of the roc, according to a caption in the 1456 Fra Mauro map of the world, which says that the roc "carries away an ...
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Mar. 30—An eagle was sacrificed last year as part of a Jemez Pueblo ceremony at Valles Caldera National Preserve, drawing criticism and a federal lawsuit that accuses federal officials of being ...
On the Isle of Rùm in Scotland, there are a few cases of red deer trampling golden eagles to death, probably the result of a doe having intercepted a bird that was trying to kill a fawn. [107] Although usually well out-matched by the predator, occasionally other large birds can put up a formidable fight against a golden eagle.