An Eagle Takes Down A Deer!

Deer hunting season is coming up and it's time to get those rifles sighted in, OR, just send your pet eagle out to kill the deer for you. Yeah, look at this picture. An EAGLE taking down a DEER!

A seemingly unlikely battle between a golden eagle and a baby deer was photographed by a camera trap set up to capture poachers seeking Russia's endangered tigers.

The three images captured by the camera cover a 2-second period, and show an adult golden eagle clinging to the deer's back. Its carcass was found two weeks later, just a few yards from the camera, initially puzzling researchers.

'I couldn't believe what I was seeing.'

- Linda Kerley of the Zoological Society of London

The paper and images appear in the September issue of the Journal of Raptor Research. Authors include Linda Kerley of the Zoological Society of London and Jonathan Slaght of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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