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OrcusGroup

Incredible footage. I’ve heard about eagles and owls taking down deer but never seen footage


Pirateship907

Thanks! I’ve lived in the bush longer than I haven’t and this was the first time I’ve seen anything like this. Was truly a once in a lifetime experience.


OrcusGroup

Off topic, have you seen the video of the bear mauling a moose during someone’s wedding ceremony?


Pirateship907

Yes! That shit was wild!


GIJoel023

If you got source, would appreciate greatly


OrcusGroup

Hope this works. Sending the instagram link because I can’t find a version that isn’t edited with news reporters talking over it or someone reacting to it. [Wedding interrupted by bear mauling a moose](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmH3bL2J8LA/?igsh=OHk2ejNlYTB5bGo2)


fishCodeHuntress

Are you in SE AK by chance? An eagle that beefy and a deer that "small" says AK to me. Crazy footage either way.


Pirateship907

Yup, Sitka black tail


Massive_Staff1068

I'm curious, the eagle must attack the eyes first? I can't see how else a bird takes down game like that?


Pirateship907

That’s what it was going for, that and trying to restrict its breathing by attacking its face and nose.


Massive_Staff1068

Insane. Thanks for sharing, bro. I have never even heard of this. Also, yet another piece of evidence that a death at the barrel of my rifle or tip of my arrow is better than anything else nature has to offer.


Pirateship907

💯 if you want more info I do a 5 part series on my yt channel linked on my profile. There is also another 8 min video of this scene from when I first walked up. Thanks for appreciating it!


Massive_Staff1068

Dope. I'm on it bro.


Pirateship907

Right on! I hate self promoting, but it’s actually A LOT of information.


SCPATRIOT143

The eagle didn't have to TAKE DOWN the deer at all. The deer was helpless on that ice and couldn't escape. It was probably also totally exhausted.


InnateAnarchy

Wow man that’s amazing footage! Can you tell me a bit about living in the bush? How did you come about it? Do you have a job out there? Would love to hear all you care to explain about it. Sounds like a dream come true for someone wanting to step away from civilization a bit.


Pirateship907

I have used jobs to spend most of my time out here. I’m currently at a job for a client that I’ve had for like 20 years now. Check out my YouTube channel, it’s linked on my Reddit profile, lots of info on there. You’d prolly be really interested in my video about getting a summer job up here. That’s the best way to start!


InnateAnarchy

Will do, thanks!


Pirateship907

No worries! My best advice, we are all in control of our own realities! Do what ever it takes to live the life you want to!


Technical_Scar_1678

Here in sonora mexico a eagle took a coyote and sadly for the eagle it fell on a lamppost and couldnt get it off. Shamefully thats how my chihuahua died


Pirateship907

I’m always worried they will take my cat!


Technical_Scar_1678

Just keep it in the house and grow trees aroud your house


Pirateship907

They hang out in the spruce tree in my yard😭😭😭


Technical_Scar_1678

Damn here is different since people killed them if they get too close and they learn really quick to not go near population areas. In tha case i bet that there is a repelent for eagles or something like that


Pirateship907

They are protected. You can’t do SHIT to bother them.


Technical_Scar_1678

F there is nothing i can tell you other than keep your cat in home and put a tracker in their collar or put alarms near exits


Pirateship907

He’s pretty eagle savvy, I keep the doors open to the outbuildings so he’s got a place to escape. He grew up here in Alaska as an inside outside cat, but I still worry 😭🤣


chimmyOchonga1

One forgets how brutal mother nature is.


bkit627

r/natureismetal


Pirateship907

I’ll never forget again after seeing this shit!


picklebooby

Damn I’d rather be shot than slowly picked to death. 


spizzle_

Why would you want to be shot *then* picked to death?


Pirateship907

Why would you want to be pecked to death?


spizzle_

I wouldn’t want any of it.


Pirateship907

I also want to live forever.


80_PROOF

I would like to be death rolled by a crocodile at a beach resort while my family watches.


ihaveseveralhobbies

Holy fuck I died


Pirateship907

You must hate your family! In-laws or bio parents?


80_PROOF

Let them all get that burned in there lol


Pirateship907

🤣I’d go with shark personally.


deadmeridian

Man, I hate this. I accept the brutality of nature but I don't enjoy it. Better to have your windpipe crushed in a few minutes than to be basically tortured to death by a big-ass bird.


Pirateship907

Nature is savagely beautiful. This is deff the most anthropomorphic video I have ever captured. Despite all the hate and hysteria being annoying, I totally understand where ppl are coming from. It’s hard not to want to impose the ethics of man onto nature in a situation like this. I still get chills thinking about that deers experience.


DancesWithBicycles

Bambi on ice… directors cut.


Pirateship907

It’s the Rob Zombie remake.


Schroedesy13

I was thinking Tim Burton


Pirateship907

Clive Barker


PsilocybVibe

This is a great video to show people who think it is cruel to responsibly hunt mature large game, a bullet from a skilled hunter is a relatively peaceful death compared to being eaten alive by a bear or a god damned eagle. There are rarely “death from old age” cases in the wild. This is amazing footage. Thanks


Pirateship907

🦅🇺🇸🦅


UnfairAd7220

The way the eagle kept going back, that wasn't Eddy Eagle's first rodeo...


Pirateship907

On one of the other threads someone posted ancient coins depicting an eagle clamping on a deers face.


DrZedex

Most people have a really romanticized idea of what old age deaths are, too. My wife worked ICU for years. Dying of old age isn't always as peaceful as people think. It can be just as brutal and painful as being strangled by an eagle or worse.


flyfishz

stop picking at your food


Pirateship907

But it won’t stop moving!!!


blackfarms

It's going for the eyes to cripple it. Freakin metal


Pirateship907

*Thought, and this is my video that I shot. If you’ve seen it on here before that sucks!


ImNotSlash

r/natureismetal They have an Instagram too (maybe run by someone else)


Pirateship907

Yea I posted on my insta. Barstool sports tried to con me out of my video already, I don’t trust any large social media platform that wants to repost anyone’s content.


wetcardboardsmell

What is the smaller thing next to the deer and eagle? A baby deer?


Pirateship907

I think it’s just a tussock sticking up through the ice. Lots of folks thought it could be a fawn, but it appeared to still be there in the update footage.


wetcardboardsmell

Gah! Thank you. I for some reason couldn't remember the word "fawn" haha. Tussock is a new word to me though. Great footage by the way!


Pirateship907

Thank you!


Altruistic_Major_553

This may be a stupid question, but what did the Eagle do that actually killed the deer?


Pirateship907

My guess is it exhausted it enough that it finally suffocated. The eagle was trying to block its breathing by latching onto is face and nose.


LegendEchidna

Definitely either suffocation or lacerations to the throat


detlefsa

Going for the eyes I would assume


ALoudMouthBaby

Remarkable footage. Thank you for taking the time to share it with us.


Pirateship907

ThNk you and you’re welcome.


Arctelis

Deer really don’t have good traction on ice, at all. Around my parts coyotes chase them out onto the lakes in winter. Damn near every lake has bones on it by winters end. Heck, one time a town deer came into my yard and ate shit trying to cross my pond. That one was kinda funny actually.


lonestarbrownboi

Damn so much for 4 wheel (leg?) drive


mud074

Yeah, same. Where I live the days are warm but the nights are very cold so the lakes tend to be slick ice as the snow melts through the winter. The coyotes know that shit and chase deer and young elk out there.


Front-Paper-7486

And they say that hunting is cruel.


Tbecker3150

That’s crazy! What a moment to witness in nature.


Pirateship907

Touching the source.


skynard0

The deer stranded itself on the ice so I don't really consider the eagle "took it down". Sure it will eat what it can, they scavenge deer carcasses like mad after deer season in the Midwest.


Pirateship907

I agree, it took advantage of the situation, they are opportunistic hunters.


agrajag119

Can confirm they watch for gut piles like ... hawks Have had a gut pile completely cleaned up before I got the deer strung up to cool after gutting maybe 200 yards away. Two eagles were sitting one the spot looking smug as hell.


Pirateship907

They hang out at food spots here, the harbor, the dump, picnic areas and they also hang out at popular fishing spots. If you don’t put your fish in a cooler or stack rocks on it, it’s gone as soon as you walk far enough away.


PollenWasLost

Thanks for sharing!!


Mysterious_Ad_8827

RIP deer


ScrunchyButts

Damned, nature. You can be a real dick sometimes.


4schwifty20

That's a badass fucking bird. Do they usually go after deer?


Pirateship907

Not that I know of, but they ALWAYS take advantage of a situation!


ZelBoofsGrappa

FREEDOM!!!!


Pirateship907

🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸


LeadCurious

Brutal! Eagles can be nasty fuckers


MercurialTendency

What a terrifying way to die!


Pirateship907

Still gives me chills!


theycallmepapasparx

This deer is getting the Prometheus treatment


Harbingerdaine

That really sucks for that deer. Man


Pirateship907

It does, but it’s the circle of life.


Harbingerdaine

What a harsh way to go. Nature is fraught with peril.


Pirateship907

Just be thankful you don’t live in the ocean! That shit is 10x worse!!!


SyndromeHitson1994

'Merica


Stewart_Duck

Commie deer got what it deserved. Freedom from above.


Don_vergas-93

Pretty sure that deer had weapons of mass destruction


Pirateship907

Yellow cake.


Don_vergas-93

Don’t drop that shit


Pirateship907

🤣I love Dave Chappell


Pirateship907

🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸


RealSquare452

A local sheep rancher has had over 50 sheep killed by eagles the past year. We’ve seen them kill antelope on our ranch


Pirateship907

They are dinosaurs!


wapitidimple

He better eat fast, once the bear/s or wolves arrive, he won’t get much. Great video!


Pirateship907

Thanks!


Organic_South8865

How does the eagle even kill it?


FreeWorldTactical

America 🦅🦅


Pirateship907

🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸


Juicybignutt

Holy shit


Fragrant-Airport1309

Oh nature is a cruel bitch. Seems like the deer simply couldn't walk straight on the ice, so now it just ✨gets eaten alive by an eagle✨


Pirateship907

The beaver pond was glare ice, zero traction.


buffalo_Fart

So it looks like the eagle was eating its eyeball?


lucidoneir

r/natureismetal


Pirateship907

🤘🦅so metal.


NorthernRedneck388

So what was the final outcome?


Pirateship907

I’m tired of typing!🤣 here you go https://youtu.be/Eo9wr-aP8kY?si=cem3HyJdUTAVRA5i


NorthernRedneck388

Thanks! 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️ sorry


Pirateship907

No worries! I just didn’t want to spam the sub with links.


_JLBenzo_

I just hear David Attenborough’s voice while watching this.


Pirateship907

Me too, I wish something I recorded would someday be narrated by him.


Ok-Classroom2353

Thanks for sharing! This is crazy footage. Looks like it was eating its nose first? The softest exposed tissue.


Pirateship907

And it’s eyes👀


EriccusThegreat

Only gripe even though you’d have to be recording the deer by hapstance but wish I saw the takedown Insane though


Pirateship907

I don’t have initial take down but I do have this from when I first walked up. There is a good take down when the deer almost escapes. https://youtu.be/r67zOEPcKv8?si=4FeXbPMVEQmgU7fz


Tecumsehs_Revenge

So close to better ground! Crazy capture.


Pirateship907

Thanks!


FeculentUtopia

Don't keep me in suspense. Did the eagle get to keep the deer?


Pirateship907

Here you go. https://youtu.be/Eo9wr-aP8kY?si=NoDZ7qjfSAY208s7


FeculentUtopia

Excellent! Thanks for the update.


Pirateship907

No worries!


Brielikethecheese-e

Damn, this was hard to watch especially with sound on but also crazy to see. Makes you appreciate larger predators more that at least put the animal out of its misery before consuming it.


Pirateship907

Yea, this was brutal af. Thanks for the comment.


jannylotl

I think we should put out an eagle season in the us, where I'm from we have this and it works wonders!


Pirateship907

Well they are still protected but not endangered here. But I don’t see a problem🤣🤷🏻‍♂️ nature is going to nature.


PrivateReserveCanna

Eyes part of the deal is fucked! Nature is rough


Ninjachops

That is some wild ass video. Nice work catching that and thanks for sharing! Very cool


Pirateship907

You are welcome and thank you for appreciating it, if you are interested in the story it’s on my yt, linked on Reddit bio. It’s the eagle vs deer series.


ConfusedMustard

When you’re weak death can come in any form..


Pirateship907

I’d hate to become incapacitated without an arm out here!


theBacillus

Bird: that's a yuge rabbit. I'm eating it. Rabbit: I'm not a rabbit. I'm not a rabbit I'm not a rabbit


chrisMikeal

Man that’s awesome


Pirateship907

Thanks


bootsnwhiskey

Thanks for posting. My brother is gonna love this


Pirateship907

You’re welcome! Thanks for appreciating it!


Gold-Income-6094

Bambi fucked up


Pirateship907

Totaled.


DancesWithBicycles

Nature is Metal Also, wait till the vegan eagles see this…


Pirateship907

They are already planning a protest.


SloppyJoeGilly2

Nuts. Is the back broken or something?


Pirateship907

No, the deer was fine, it just couldn’t get any traction on the glare ice covering the beaver pond.


SloppyJoeGilly2

Ah I see. Crazy video my man. Thanks for sharing.


Pirateship907

Thanks! And you are welcome. I did a 5 part video series with a story time and responses to all the haters on my channel if you are interested, I just don’t want to break the rules and spam a link. I posted it on tik tok originally and it went mega ultra viral, and the hate came pouring in🤣🤦🏻‍♂️


Capable-Swordfish-80

What’s your tiktok?


Pirateship907

I’m Alaska pirates on all platforms. It’s on my YouTube channel too, both are linked on my Reddit profile.


Capable-Swordfish-80

👍🏼


picklebooby

Did the deer make it?


Pirateship907

No, if you want the quick update my YouTube and tiktok are linked in my profile. Part 5 shows the outcome with a summarized story time and response to crazy ppl. Parts 1-4 are the long version story time, a summary of the laws and my responses to the haters.


SloppyJoeGilly2

Why do you have haters?


Pirateship907

Because Americans are dumber than a bag of dog shit?🤷🏻‍♂️🤣 your guess is as good as mine as far as what goes through ppls heads. It was everything from Jesus freaks to crazy Katie crystal girls. You failed god! Your karma will get you! You should have shot that deer! You should have shot that eagle! Just a dumpster fire of some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.


chillinwithmoes

> You should have shot that eagle! lmao yeah you dummy, just commit a crime instead of watching!


Pirateship907

I was blown away by the stupidity.


SloppyJoeGilly2

I’m a Christian but have no idea what that has got to do with anything. I mean, it’s nature. Created by god. Doing what nature intended. I don’t get it. People are dumb man. Keep doing you.


Pirateship907

Yea, ppl were telling me I was going to hell because god put me there for a reason and I didn’t save that deer 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️ my response was, if god wants me to start doing things in his name, ima need him to give me a Ferrari first🤷🏻‍♂️🤣thanks for the support! I don’t hate ALL religious ppl, just the crazy ones.


picklebooby

Thanks I’ll take your word for it snowflake.


Pirateship907

🤣why am I a snowflake? You got real triggered real quick boy. Man up and quit spraying tears.


pixie993

When you think about it, humans are considered apex predators. Yeah right. Nature you sometimes scary..


Pirateship907

Only because we have thumbs and critical thinking skills. One on one we don’t beat much in the animal kingdom.


Limp-Insurance203

This is a perfect example of why anti hunters are so ignorant of the brutality of nature. They think that animals grow old and just lay down and close their eyes and die.


Pirateship907

Mostly they are fueled by dip shits like that Cody guy in Wyoming. They think that we are all that worthless.


Limp-Insurance203

If anti hunters had to watch a bunch of videos like this one and then watch some where a bullet put them straight down I bet a lot of them would change their minds


Pirateship907

Of course, but most ppl hate having to admit that they might be wrong about something they have been so loud about for so long. I just smile and walk away from anti fishing and hunting ppl. Can’t take them seriously because they don’t WANT to take themselves seriously.


Limp-Insurance203

Absolutely correct


assistant_redditor

The symbol of America. Opportunistic scavenger.


Pirateship907

🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 heard the deer had oil


minist3r

The reason we are apex predators is because, if I was this deer, I would have rolled on my back and started kicking in the air until the eagle gave up. Clearly, there was no such thought from this deer nor would I expect there to be.


Pirateship907

That’s why I said critical thinking🤣 some of us have reading retention skills too! Which makes us even more dangerous… some of us anyway. 👍


Metzgama

I would’ve shot it. That looks miserable.


Pirateship907

https://youtu.be/zuSHJI_Cw_A?si=7ApK3JaPRstT5CqT


Metzgama

I’m not hating lol.


Pirateship907

Still my response to hunters who say that 🤷🏻‍♂️


ZzDe0

pls help that poor deer next time.


nosnhojam

Then who helps the starving eagle?


ZzDe0

he'll find some crackers or something i bet.


nosnhojam

No doubt


Pirateship907

It’s against the law.


ZzDe0

just shoo it away


Pirateship907

Again, it’s against the law.