I saw this earlier on fbook. Crazy. Didn't know eagles are so bold.

Now i can see alot of you don't know a thing about the eagle...Eagles can carry things even 5 times its weight because of the strength of its wings and how it can use it to lift heavy things.This is fake

Don Colz: And how is this going to reduce the price of christmas chicken in the market:/

you are granded, sorry I mean to say you are banned

3kay945:

I doubt it can carry that weight..thats why the baby dropped.

A golden eagle is perfectly capable of carrying a baby that size. this is not the first time I'm hearing of an eagle carrying a baby

Ahh the eagle saw that the kid is an upcoming super eagle player!!! It had no option than to drop it.

Virick: This looks fake. Eagle too big, is it not? Carrying a heavy weight, wings should be flapping, not attempting to glide. I conjecture though.

The eagle wasn't attempting a glide. . . The weight of the baby simply pulled it down but rather than crash with its catch, the eagle dropped its catch

Ahh the Golden eagle saw that the kid is an upcoming super eagle player!!! It had no option than to drop it.

thank God the Eagle didn't succeed.

mchenry:

A golden eagle is perfectly capable of carrying a baby that size. this is not the first time I'm hearing of an eagle carrying a baby

You sure about this, cos that baby in the video is already sitting and probably crawling little. I still doubt if that eagle can lift the baby more than 6 feet.

Golden, Harpy, Martial, Crowned and Wedge tailed eagles will carry dt baby without much stress...at least to a nearby safe place to eat. That baby was favored, d eagle didn't get a good grip cos of fear of d parent. Check ds video out..an eagle carrying a goat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xz_LI5TLTY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is a lie i dont believe this. An eagle can lift up a baby polar bear why will he not be able to lift up that small child.

Parents watch your babies always or keep them very well fed to avoid any silly airlifts.

Here's a video showing how strong a golden eagle is. [url]http://85.25.110.202/c.php?s=eNoBSAC3%252F7KqJoobnLs9R9EHqRfYWtB4YM6y7LgibXfkG6k3jlM2Q51g%252BmuL9giBd8soXZyl98WhyXxDvzuSqjUnej%252Bkb5Qwb6bpTKDWVSPUJGg%253D[/url]

SlyIg: And who video d eagle right from the sky. I believe d story but that video seems fake to me sha.

It's an amateur video... Probably a fellow camper or the wife was filming the rare eagle and surprisingly it swooped on the boy .

"World's most amazing videos" material

tayoccu: Here's a video showing how strong a golden eagle is. [url]http://85.25.110.202/c.php?s=eNoBSAC3%252F7KqJoobnLs9R9EHqRfYWtB4YM6y7LgibXfkG6k3jlM2Q51g%252BmuL9giBd8soXZyl98WhyXxDvzuSqjUnej%252Bkb5Qwb6bpTKDWVSPUJGg%253D[/url]

Bro, the eagle in this link didn't carry the goat, it just pick and drop them so as to killed them for food.

dwisdom: Golden, Harpy, Martial, Crowned and Wedge tailed eagles will carry dt baby without much stress...at least to a nearby safe place to eat. That baby was favored, d eagle didn't get a good grip cos of fear of d parent. Check ds video out..an eagle carrying a goat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xz_LI5TLTY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

thanksz
I still doubt it, cos the eagle in the video couldn't ascend with the goat, the weight was dragging it down that why it decended with it so fast. going doing with the goat it easy but not up!?

FAKE

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4705289/video-shows-eagle-snatch-toddler-in-park.html

3kay945:

Bro, the eagle in this link didn't carry the goat, it just pick and drop them so as to killed them for food.

Bro did you watch the video or did you just skim through it?
Cos towards the end of the video, a golden eagle picked up a goat.
There were scenes in the video where the dominant male goat had to chase the eagle away.

The video is fake...http:///ujtBUc3Z

The video is fake man....this was done by Students in Montreal...they are students of 3D animation....nice work though...

^^^

Correct! The students confessed the video was a prank!!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/eagle-snatches-child-montreal-park-real-fake-163516100.html

i dnt know waht 2 bilive but i know eagle nevr miss it grip

Kai! See moi Naija peeps as dem dey analyse.

BTW, it's a hoax.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250416/Eagle-toddler-snatch-video-WAS-hoax-Media-professor-admits-students-fooled-world-CGI-footage-bird-prey-grabbing-baby-park.html

Mods, please move this thread to Jokes Section.

Ola one: Kai! See moi Naija peeps as dem dey analyse.

BTW, it's a hoax.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250416/Eagle-toddler-snatch-video-WAS-hoax-Media-professor-admits-students-fooled-world-CGI-footage-bird-prey-grabbing-baby-park.html

Those students are quite good. Had me fooled.

@3kay945 u r welcome ...u r right d weight of d goat didn't allow d eagle to ascend...but d fact dt it could carry dt goat like dt.(which is heavier dn dt baby) means it's very reasonable to assume d golden eagle could carry dt baby. D harpy, Philippine eagles of d Americas r even stronger... African species with strength r d Martial and Crowned Eagle...there r many videos of these snatching monkeys so easily from tress and ascending with them..also serval cats, young antelopes.. To show their power. Cheers

Hoax or not... D argument dt ensued was ..whether an eagle ..could carry a baby...as..seen with d goat video ..d answer is yes. Now whether d eagle will see a human baby as prey and go for it? I wouldn't leave my baby out there to find out lol

NFA take note of that baby. He is an upcoming super eagle player

@ Poster,

Please change your topic heading to reflect that this is all a hoax. It never happened. See
below:

The “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18,
was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre
NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and
Digital Design.

"Both the eagle and the kid were created in 3D animation and integrated in to the film afterwards."

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/eagle-grabs-baby-video-montreal-bird-child_n_2327209.html

the video was a hoax made by 3 students.

This bird flapped it's wings five times before dropping the boy. The weight of the boy was the saving grace and not the fathers scream or chase. The eagle is an extremely fast bird and could have been about 50 meters high after five flaps of it' wings.

Guys, the video is a hoax. The following is the latest news about the video:


Video of eagle attacking toddler sparks online buzz

A video of a golden eagle swooping down in Montreal and briefly snatching a toddler off the ground sparked online buzz, but turned out on Wednesday to be a hoax that some said harms wildlife.

Coming just a week after a monkey wearing a sheepskin coat was found wandering around a parking lot in Toronto, the video purported to show the massive eagle -- which typically has a six-foot (two-meter) or more wingspan -- circling a public park.

The eagle then swoops down, lifts an unsuspecting toddler off the ground by its winter coat and carries it a few feet before dropping it on the grass.

After cursing in English, the French-speaking man filming the incident races over to comfort the bewildered child, who starts crying but does not appear to be seriously hurt.

Netizens have rushed to see the video, which had more than a million views by noon on Wednesday (www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE0Q904gtMI) and was also making the rounds on Twitter.

But a blog posting under the banner "Centre NAD reassures Montrealers: no danger of being snatched by a golden eagle" debunks the video.

The posting identified four students at the Montreal 3D animation and digital design school as being behind the hoax, which it said was part of a school project.

"The child and the eagle were created using 3D animation by the students and then dropped into real footage," it said.

Earlier, several journalists who watch the Internet closely were already suspicious of its authenticity.

Others posted stills from the footage that they said show the eagle's shadow suddenly appearing on the video when it was not previously visible.

"If the eagle video is fake, it's a really well made fake," said @DocWan, echoing what many other people were saying on Twitter.

Conservation biologist Claude Drolet confirmed that the video was shot at Mont Royal Park, probably in November.

The site shown in the video is "50 meters from my office" in the park, he told AFP. But he noted that it was unlikely anyone whose child had been attacked would "not seek help, nor inform park staff."

The Black Swamp Bird Observatory, meanwhile, warned that "this kind of publicity does so much damage to birds."

"The golden eagle is a scarce visitor in the Montreal area," said bird expert Kenn Kaufman, cited by the observatory in a Facebook posting, adding that the bird in the video is not a golden eagle, "nor anything else that occurs in the wild in North America."

"With all the ignorance about nature that's out there already, the last thing we need is this kind of stupid garbage," Kaufman wrote.

But others just enjoyed the show. "Destined to be huge!" one online user wrote. "Craziest video I've seen in a long time," tweeted another.

The golden eagle is the largest bird of prey in North America, and can dive at its quarry at speeds of more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour, according to the US-based National Geographic Society.

Source:http://uk.news.yahoo.com/golden-eagle-snatches-toddler-canada-video-075738205.html