![]() “That an eagle would take down a deer? I wasn’t shocked,” she says. She had grown up in eastern Oregon and done her graduate work in Wyoming, places where golden eagles live. But Kerley, who, along with Jonathan Slaght of the Wildlife Conservation Society, published a report of the incident in the Journal of Raptor Research, knew what the massive birds-with wingspans up to seven feet-were capable of. Nobody had ever documented a golden eagle killing a deer in this region. Linda Kerley, Zoological Society of London ![]() ![]() When attacking large animals, the golden eagle strikes with a sustained grip of its talons. ![]()
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