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To: DUMBGRUNT

A day or two ago, I was walking the dog and spotted a large hawk with a still-twitching squirrel pinned down to the ground. The hawk was enjoying breakfast. I can easily imagine a pterosaur going after a human.


7 posted on 02/23/2022 9:19:14 AM PST by moovova
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I watched an immature eagle doing the same yesterday. It was working on what had been a bird. Feathers were everywhere. Something else carried the carcass off, but the eagle came back looking for it later. What a sight! Very glad the dinosaurs are gone, too.


14 posted on 02/23/2022 9:27:22 AM PST by luckymom (The Son of God became a man that men might become sons of God. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: moovova
I can easily imagine a pterosaur going after a human.


22 posted on 02/23/2022 9:44:27 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: moovova
spotted a large hawk with a still-twitching squirrel pinned down to the ground

A couple of years ago, I was driving down the street and something flashed in front of me. I stopped the car, not knowing what that was. It turned out to be an eagle carrying a live cat in its talons.

That cat was fighting for its life; but, it lost. The eagle just held it down for a few secs, then flew off with it, probably to it's nest.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I get an email from our neighborhood group telling me that some woman is looking for her cat which disappeared a week or so ago. It had a link, so I went to the link and there it was, the cat that I had seen losing a fight with an eagle. It was the color of the fur (calico) that hit my memory bank and I was right back to that day watching that eagle take that cat.

Now, my dilemma. Do I tell this woman that an eagle ate her beloved pet cat, or do I just let her think that it got hit by a car or something. I chose the coward's route and did not tell her. I just didn't want to be the one to tell this lady that an eagle ate her cat.

26 posted on 02/23/2022 10:11:38 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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