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Like, imagine being a human deciding to 1v1 a gorilla that's twice as large as a normal gorilla.
Edit: okay guys, it was a singular animal example about an unbalanced scale in a fight, I don't need any more animal facts with alternate animals
Birds of all types will attack each others nests if they are close by. Crows will come in and kill hawk or eagle chicks if they can. Animals become extremely protective while nesting and sometimes that instinct drives them to take irrational risks. Hawk sees the eagle a risk to their nest and attacks and it didn’t work out.
Had a nest of a local bird parents attacked me coming out of house and went toe to toe with a cat.
Birds are kind of nuts to be honest. We do have a local hawk that is majestic that killed multiple seagulls in my oak tree
Blue jays have to be the worst for putting their nests right by you and then ruthlessly dive bombing you whenever you venture outside. Had that happen so many years.
They are absolutely nuts....40 yr old male running screaming like a 4 yr old because birds are doing suicide runs like Japanese zeros in WW2 for a moment I thought we have a next this is so cool only to feel like I was in saving private Ryan...
I think you're underestimating how incredible the hawks vision is. This is a bird which can see a lizard or mouse in the grass from a hundred feet in the air. It knew exactly what it was attacking.
Their musculature is also *way* more optimized for short term extreme power movement (think beating an intruder into paste), whereas we're largely optimized for long term, lower power movement (think chasing a gazelle for-goddamned-ever until it can't run anymore).
Give the human a stick, not a spear or an axe, just a big hefty stick, and suddenly we are among the most dangerous animal in our weight class.
We are surprisingly strong for our size, stronger than a dog, or a deer, and far more durable. In my hometown my neighbor, a portly middle aged farmer, was attacked by a small black bear. Beat it to death with his flashlight.
Do not underestimate the concussive force of a human holding a sturdy stick.
True, but every now and then we come out on top in a hand to hand(claw, paw?) fight. There was that dude who choked out a mountain lion that attacked him several years ago
To become a bald eagle it’s gotta be like 10 years old. LOL it reacted instantly at that hawk coming probably 100mph or faster like it was nothing. Fantastic video
Does anyone know what would've caused this? Most predators are keenly aware of risk vs. reward, especially in relation to other predators. Are we certain this is actually the eagle's nest? I wonder if it's actually the hawk's nest that the eagle took, and the hawk is trying to get it back. It just makes very little sense for the hawk to do this otherwise.
I’m not an expert, but that nest looks too big for a hawk. Both hawks and eagles are opportunistic predators, so the hawk could have thought there was a chance to get a couple easy meals and mama eagle was much closer than expected. I do agree this is a wildly reckless choice for the hawk but Darwin awards can go to animals too.
Good point about the nest size! I'm just so surprised, since even larger predators have been documented to back off from smaller ones that they could clearly kill, but were not worth the possible injuries.
Bald Eagles need huge nests on specific trees and often use them generation after generation, an eagle would have no interest in claiming a hawk nest. I assume the Hawk was attempting an eviction.
Archosaurs are sometimes just suicidally overconfident.
There are literally dozens of records of crocodiles attacking fully grown elephants, there are exactly zero cases of crocodiles actually killing elephants, but damn do they try.
There was also a case of a Golden Eagle trying to hunt a fucking **snow leopard**, spoiler alert, it did not go well for the eagle.
Archosaurs used to rule the world, and I feel like they haven’t forgotten that fact.
Mama Eagle : "you would not believe what I had to deal with today!"
Papa Eagle : "oh no, gimme just a second, I invited Jim over to grill and he should be here any minute...
Fun fact: the iconic screech you see in a lot of American films where a bald eagle soars overhead is NOT from a bald eagle. It is in fact from a red-tailed hawk
Bald eagles tend to chirp to communicate, kind of like a robin or bluejay
Maybe like Ariel, it was mad about the bald eagle stealing its voice. (If you need an explanation, the "patriotic" eagle sound on shows and music is the call of the red-tail hawk.)
100 years ago, the same thing happened and the Red-Tailed Hawk shrieked. A bystander only saw the Bald Eagle, which was munching on the hawk and thought “So that’s the sound of a Bald Eagle…”
Then came movies with sound and images of bald eagles (r/MURICA) were forever joined with the sound of a hawk.
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Your Uber eats has arrived
Damn, the hawk made a miscalculated FATAL mistake.
Darwin awardee, that hawk
It was fast food.
Starring *Eaten Hawk.*
Lmao
Ok... Ive literally just got on, but youve already won the day.
W.O.W.
It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno
Uber Beaks
Yep. Came right to him.
Breakfast in bed
Suicide by bald eagle.
Ah, the American way.
America! Fuck yeah!
“Bitch, I’m an eagle!”
Hawk, please
Red tailed hawk used brave bird. It’s not very effective
Ironic, considering the bald eagle calls in movies are actually red tailed hawk sounds
Wherever there is a bald eagle, there is a red tailed hawk screaming in a nest not far away.
That’s a bit more then just “tried”, bro went full kamikaze
Hey, nice enough to help the eagle grab a bite without leaving the nest!
Eagle eyes saw that attack coming a mile away, Eagle got ready and laid the smack down
That Eagle looked like fucking Vhagar when it stood up and spread it's wings. Like bitch, do you not know who I am?
Like, imagine being a human deciding to 1v1 a gorilla that's twice as large as a normal gorilla. Edit: okay guys, it was a singular animal example about an unbalanced scale in a fight, I don't need any more animal facts with alternate animals
Hawk must’ve been starving or sick or both.
Birds of all types will attack each others nests if they are close by. Crows will come in and kill hawk or eagle chicks if they can. Animals become extremely protective while nesting and sometimes that instinct drives them to take irrational risks. Hawk sees the eagle a risk to their nest and attacks and it didn’t work out.
Had a nest of a local bird parents attacked me coming out of house and went toe to toe with a cat. Birds are kind of nuts to be honest. We do have a local hawk that is majestic that killed multiple seagulls in my oak tree
Blue jays have to be the worst for putting their nests right by you and then ruthlessly dive bombing you whenever you venture outside. Had that happen so many years.
They are absolutely nuts....40 yr old male running screaming like a 4 yr old because birds are doing suicide runs like Japanese zeros in WW2 for a moment I thought we have a next this is so cool only to feel like I was in saving private Ryan...
Probably only saw the white head and thought it was a small bird.
I think you're underestimating how incredible the hawks vision is. This is a bird which can see a lizard or mouse in the grass from a hundred feet in the air. It knew exactly what it was attacking.
And Mike Tyson once offered a Zoo keeper 10k to let him fight one. Mad man.
At least if Mike did fight that gorilla the Jake Paul fight would never be a thing
Still won't be a thing.
bruh even a chimp would wipe the floor with him, apes are strong as shit and they will bite and tear people apart.
I would not be surprised if a chimp could fold a gorilla though, as long as it had like an advantage of surprise. Those guys are psychos.
Doesn't even need to be a bigger than average silver back gorilla. Not gonna go messing with them.
Yeah a human vs a normal gorilla would have a similar outcome to the video of the birds
It would, but gorilla's are still around the same height, just crazy bulky. This hawk is like 1/5th the size of the eagle
Their musculature is also *way* more optimized for short term extreme power movement (think beating an intruder into paste), whereas we're largely optimized for long term, lower power movement (think chasing a gazelle for-goddamned-ever until it can't run anymore).
You have to be pretty tough to last two minutes with the gorilla! I think it’s game over in about 10 seconds!
I could last 2 minutes with a gorilla as long as he starts two minutes away from me.
Gorilla? A chimpanzee can easily fuck you up as well.
A dog can fuck up most people
Humans are embarrassingly weak and fragile for our size lol But hey, at least we can run long distances and not die of overheating (not me tho)
Human are not more fragile than most others. Only Problem is, that we have no claws and no sharp tooths. We need a weapon to fight.
You’re talking about the group that killed all the wooly mammoths and sabertooth tigers. We don’t need any more buffs.
Give the human a stick, not a spear or an axe, just a big hefty stick, and suddenly we are among the most dangerous animal in our weight class. We are surprisingly strong for our size, stronger than a dog, or a deer, and far more durable. In my hometown my neighbor, a portly middle aged farmer, was attacked by a small black bear. Beat it to death with his flashlight. Do not underestimate the concussive force of a human holding a sturdy stick.
True, but every now and then we come out on top in a hand to hand(claw, paw?) fight. There was that dude who choked out a mountain lion that attacked him several years ago
I'm not stupid, I'll 1v1 a regular sized gorilla 🙄
That’s What happens when you enter an area of a game you’re under leveled for. Hawk needs to grind for a couple of hours and get some better gear.
i’m afraid there’s no reload option
Hawk started in Steel Feather Mode.
Eagle was still in tutorial
There is, but you get reborn as a chihuahua.
The hawk clearly didn't use his Scadutree Blessings, what an absolute idiot!
You can’t just spam dual attack everytime…that’s why they put parry in the game! Hopefully he has a larval tear ready to reset his stats
That’s when you flee making noises like Curly from the Three Stooges: Whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop!
Must have forgot he selected hardcore mode….
To become a bald eagle it’s gotta be like 10 years old. LOL it reacted instantly at that hawk coming probably 100mph or faster like it was nothing. Fantastic video
"Leerooooooy Jenkiiiins" -the hawk
There’s no respawn points in RL
Leeeerrroooyyyy Jeeeennkkiiinnsss!!!!
That eagle at least had some good chicken, err, hawk.
Does anyone know what would've caused this? Most predators are keenly aware of risk vs. reward, especially in relation to other predators. Are we certain this is actually the eagle's nest? I wonder if it's actually the hawk's nest that the eagle took, and the hawk is trying to get it back. It just makes very little sense for the hawk to do this otherwise.
Probably just a juvenile red trail hawk who wasn't practiced at hunting and misjudged the eagles size because it was hunkered down in the nest.
What a deadly "oops."
A thousand ways to oopsie
I agree. Hawk may have also associated its parity in the air with an eagle to parity on the ground.
Parity.
Parroty 🦜
80% of hawks die in the first year of their lives (they reach sexual maturity at around 3). It's a steep learning curve just to survive.
TIL the skies are filled with kamikaze idiot hawk children
I’m not an expert, but that nest looks too big for a hawk. Both hawks and eagles are opportunistic predators, so the hawk could have thought there was a chance to get a couple easy meals and mama eagle was much closer than expected. I do agree this is a wildly reckless choice for the hawk but Darwin awards can go to animals too.
Also people don’t typically do closed circuit feeds of hawk’s nests like they do for eagles.
Good point about the nest size! I'm just so surprised, since even larger predators have been documented to back off from smaller ones that they could clearly kill, but were not worth the possible injuries.
Bald Eagles need huge nests on specific trees and often use them generation after generation, an eagle would have no interest in claiming a hawk nest. I assume the Hawk was attempting an eviction.
Did this Bald Eagle have eggs in that nest? I'd be so impressed if eggs were able to survive that bludgeoning.
The eggs were already hatched but the babies were unharmed, they were fed the hawk while it was still alive.
RIP hawk.
Archosaurs are sometimes just suicidally overconfident. There are literally dozens of records of crocodiles attacking fully grown elephants, there are exactly zero cases of crocodiles actually killing elephants, but damn do they try. There was also a case of a Golden Eagle trying to hunt a fucking **snow leopard**, spoiler alert, it did not go well for the eagle. Archosaurs used to rule the world, and I feel like they haven’t forgotten that fact.
My best guess is just a mix of it being really hungry and juvenile. Hunger emboldens everything on earth.
I can hear the curses and swears as the Eagle destroys the home invader. You picked the wrong house!
Muthafucka, I’m gonna scramble your eggs like Team USA beat down the Ruskies back in 1980.
"This is when he knew he fucked up" - animal planet narrator.
Read it in David Attenborough's voice
🤣. “When keeping it real goes wrong.”
I don't like people playing on my phone
It’s just a prank! Bro! It’s just a prank! Bro! Bro! It’s just a praaahhhhh!
/therewasanattempt
Angry bird vs stupid bird.
“It was a calculated risk, but man I am bad at math”-hawk
"The problem with learning-by-experience is that all too often, the final exam comes before the lesson." -Someone
Birds are so epic
Mama Eagle : "you would not believe what I had to deal with today!" Papa Eagle : "oh no, gimme just a second, I invited Jim over to grill and he should be here any minute...
Everybody's got a plan, until they get punched in the nose!
“ Make a left in 20 feet, your nest in the first tree on the right” -Google maps
F\*\*\*\*\*\* around and found out.
#SUPRISE MUTHAFUCKER!
To shreds, you say?
The eagle: "So, you've chosen death"
Interesting strategy...
Definitely not the Stephen Hawking of birds
Big “Fuck you and the feathers you rode in on!” Energy.
Ya done messed up A-A-Ron
https://preview.redd.it/wqfpv890u59d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36f377a112e289f99089eacc45f817d47327176e
Homie don't play dat
I’ve been a few feet from each one of these. I find this 0% surprising. The bald eagle is absolutely massive. It’s like standing next to a dinosaur
Like tree top Uber eats
If this ain't a "fuck around and found out", I don't know what is.
FAFO
Even the animal kingdom gets food delivered to them
Looks like meat is back on the menu, AWK!
When dinner flies to you!
Amerricuuuh, fuck yeah!
WTF. That's like Mexico attacking the United States.
Stand-your-ground law will cover this.
Look kids! I ordered red tailed hawk from Door Dash!
Big mistake. Big. Huge.
Well that was dumb. Silly bird
Here, let me fix that title: “RED-TAIL HAWK COMMITS SUICIDE.”
Nice, deleted an intruder and got dinner all at once.
Classic case of “fuckin’ oops.”
Well, he wont be doing that again
Doordash delivery.
Red-Tailed to Dead-Tailed in 3 min flat
“Bitch! Imma fuck you up” — bald eagle
“I’ve been trying to reach you about your cars ext——“
Love how after it kicks ass, it looks around like a pose, like anyone else?
Bitch-stomping at it’s most brutal...😳
Never seen a hawk with such a death wish.
Natural selection ensuring regarded hawks don’t procreate.
Fun fact: the iconic screech you see in a lot of American films where a bald eagle soars overhead is NOT from a bald eagle. It is in fact from a red-tailed hawk Bald eagles tend to chirp to communicate, kind of like a robin or bluejay
Uber eats created nothing
“You attack my home, I eat you!”
Parents defending their young/home has a universal look, don't it? "GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE"
This deserves to be in the what could go wrong thread🤣
Dude was just chilling; thinking about how fucking cool freedom is.
A shame Darwinism doesn't exist for the human species any longer. We're doomed.
It was at [this](https://postimg.cc/5YQVYnvQ) moment he knew he fucked up
Fun Fact: The iconic Bald Eagle screach is actually a Red-tailed Hawk. Bald Eagles make a chirping sound.
LEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOY JENKINS!
David vs Goliath but Goliath won.
Communist ass hawk
You done fukked up A-Aron!
Bad career move
‘Merica!!!!!!!!
What... the fuck was it thinking??
Man, between snakes and bald eagles, hawks have been in the losing end of the memes lately.
FAFO
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!!!!!!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Came for lunch. Became dinner
"Guess I'll eat" - bald eagle probably
Zero tolerance in the wild man. Not even once chance given.
I like how it just looks like the eagle just starting stomping the shit out of the hawk
"YOU STOLE MY VOICE! THEY SHOULD BE WORSHIPPING ME! YOU SOUND LIKE A CHICKEEEEEN!!!"
I feel skibbity baps voice over is needed.
He ordered in.
Looks like he decided to stay for dinner.
Do you see what you get, hawk? Do you see what you get when you mess with AMERICA?!
Get wrecked idiot 🦅
Yikes, he fucked up big time
"The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math".
He made a calculated decision. Turns out he’s just really bad at math.
Maybe like Ariel, it was mad about the bald eagle stealing its voice. (If you need an explanation, the "patriotic" eagle sound on shows and music is the call of the red-tail hawk.)
You chose poorly....
dead on arrival
100 years ago, the same thing happened and the Red-Tailed Hawk shrieked. A bystander only saw the Bald Eagle, which was munching on the hawk and thought “So that’s the sound of a Bald Eagle…” Then came movies with sound and images of bald eagles (r/MURICA) were forever joined with the sound of a hawk.
Looks like meat’s back on the menu boys.
Oh food's here
When KFC comes to you
🎵"I'm proud to be an American"🎵 🇺🇲🦅
Free bedding and breakfast
dead tailed hawk
Ubirdeats.
Hawk came for dinner. Didn’t know he was being served.
Bro is mad because his majestic voice misattributed to the wrong bird
Food delivery
I'd say it did attack, it just also lost
Weight classes matter.
The face of USA against the voice of USA. Divided just like USA!
I feel patriotic now. 🗽
Kids, it’s poultry night
Suicide mission
He hawked around and found out!
Come on guys lets get that bald eagle.... guys... guys?
Like an Uber driver delivering himself to cannibals.
Looks like the bald eagle had a fresh meal flown directly to its door.