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07-12-2016, 07:34 PM
An**yed eagle attempts to carry young boy away in Australia
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While nature can be breathtakingly beautiful, wildlife can pose a lot of potential danger.
The Alice Springs Desert Park (http://www.alicespringsdesertpark.com.au/) in Australia was reminded of this after a wedge-tailed eagle tried to fly away with a young boy on July 6.
As BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36771205) reported, the wedge-tailed eagle attempted to airlift the boy during a popular wildlife show at the park. They wrote that the surrounding crowd was stunned by the event and witnesses explained that the bird "attempted to pick him up like a small animal."*
BBC News spoke with onlooker, Christine O'Connell, who captured several photos of the attack and even posted one on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/BHrZqrvDfp7/?hl=en) with a short account of what she witnessed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/12/eagle-attacks-little-boy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The Alice Springs Desert Park (http://www.alicespringsdesertpark.com.au/) in Australia was reminded of this after a wedge-tailed eagle tried to fly away with a young boy on July 6.
As BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36771205) reported, the wedge-tailed eagle attempted to airlift the boy during a popular wildlife show at the park. They wrote that the surrounding crowd was stunned by the event and witnesses explained that the bird "attempted to pick him up like a small animal."*
BBC News spoke with onlooker, Christine O'Connell, who captured several photos of the attack and even posted one on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/BHrZqrvDfp7/?hl=en) with a short account of what she witnessed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/12/eagle-attacks-little-boy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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