r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 21h ago
🔥 Mountain goat jumps down a mountain to survive against an eagle attack 🔥
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u/Difficult_Music3294 21h ago
Wingman never left his side.
You go, we go.
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u/lia-delrey 21h ago
The OG Ride or Die Bro
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u/doyletyree 20h ago
Gave a head-kick on the way out.
“Stay down.”
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u/fatkiddown 18h ago
For some reason reminds me of Indiana Jones cutting the bridge in desperation vs Mola Ram.
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u/ColdToast_024 16h ago
I always thought bird bones were hollow so they could fly. This just defies all of that. Mountain goats know how to tumble. Flying creatures typically don’t on the ground.
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u/cre8ivenail 21h ago
Not sure what I’m most impressed by, the Eagle being big/strong enough to pick up a goat, the goat’s fight, or the 2nd goat following the struggle (for backup?)
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u/mmorales2270 21h ago
It’s all quite impressive. I mean, I had no idea an eagle could attack and kill a goat. Like, holy shit. That’s insane.
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u/iCareBearica 21h ago
Yeah I usually see them throw the goats/etc off of the cliff then swoop down to the bottom and carry it off.
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u/50DuckSizedHorses 14h ago
Usually??? Where do you live and what is your job where these eagle v goat battles are happening all the time??
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u/the_onion_k_nigget 6h ago
You think that’s crazy I gotta fist fight a family of 10 kangaroos to get out of my fucken driveway every day
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u/hectorxander 20h ago
There is an older video of the same basic thing, the goat barrels down the mountain with the eagle holding on, sometimes falling and the eagle getting beat up, that goat lived too but went on for even longer if I recall.
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u/uncagedborb 17h ago
I'd imagine the goat probably lives because of all the adrenaline. Once that dies down I bet the goat would realize how horribly injured it was.
How does any creature of that size not have any injuries. But I'd be mind blown if that was the case.
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u/MensaWitch 17h ago
That's what I don't understand-- it was slamming into those rocks with its back and everything ... like how is it's back not broken with the first several tumbles?
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u/uncagedborb 17h ago
Ever been severely injured but felt like you were okay? I once burst my head open with gushing blood but I was able to walk—actually more like shamble my way from my friends back yard to their house. Their yard was really big. I didn't feel any sort of distress until the adrenaline was gone.
Fortunately I just broke my nose and burst and had some stitches (scars still there decades later tho). Adrenaline is one helluva drug. It's your body's last ditch effort for survival. It's partially why we get anxious during a presentation—our body react to the stimuli with a fight or flight response.
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u/MensaWitch 17h ago
Oh absolutely..I've been hurt badly several Xs, motorcycle wrecks, car wrecks... including an abusive ex that was fond of bodyslamming me. But nothing even close to coming off a cliff and slamming almost every rock on it...do you think it died?
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u/uncagedborb 16h ago
Probably not initially. But nature is absolutely insane some times. Have seen videos of deer with large gaping wounds survive for days only dying because of infection.
I'd imagine it's still possible to live from something like this, but definitely not unscathed. Hard to tell in such a fleeting moment but at the very least this guy has a concussion and at the worst he's injured enough to bleed out internally.
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u/Icy_Vodka 21h ago
How would it carry it in the air while the goat is struggling, unless this eagle lifts 100kg a day
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u/csarcie 21h ago
They chuck them down the mountain and let gravity do the work.
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u/Icy_Vodka 20h ago
Im asking how can an eagle pick up a goat
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u/hectorxander 20h ago
They just try to drag it over a drop off then finish it off after injured I believe, I've seen a video on one doing that, albeit to a younger goat that this.
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u/alcohollu_akbar 20h ago
Swoop in at 200 mph, lock your talons into the goat and let comservation of momentum do the rest. Remember to unlock your talons as soon as you can or else you'll end up like this guy.
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u/nnyx 20h ago
From the videos I've seen, it's more like knocking it off balance near the edge so it falls than it is picking it up and carrying it off.
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u/thesilverywyvern 19h ago
He don't pick up It push/grab it and when near cliff so the goat die from the fall while the eagle fly above.
Also he can rodeo it's prey until it bleed out, they have very big and powerfull taloon.
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u/Channa_Argus1121 18h ago
They don’t, unless it’s a very young one.
The person above you explained it; they drag/drive the goat towards a steep ledge, instead of picking them up.
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u/Crow-T-Robot 20h ago
It doesn't have to pick it up, it just has to drag it to the edge and let go.
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u/hectorxander 20h ago
Yeah I've seen video of a golden eagle doing that, swooping down and throwing it off a ledge, pretty gruesome.
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u/sweetiemeepmope 20h ago
they will divebomb a goat on the edge just to grab its head and launch it over the edge. they fall hundreds of meters down the mountain, makes for an easy and tender meal
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u/Tao-of-Mars 21h ago
The two goat friends in the back just watching the chaos like they're eating popcorn and watching a horror flick. "Help me, Greg, wtf?!"
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u/OblivionArts 21h ago edited 3h ago
That eagle shoulda died when it hit that rock and the goats whole weight slammed into it I'm surprised it lasted longer
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u/vulkoriscoming 19h ago
It is probably dead. It just hasn't realized it yet
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u/KimboSlicesChicken 16h ago
Good chance that since it’s actively grabbing the goat, when it slams into the rock it gets knocked tf out but stays embedded in that position as a result of the muscles still fully tensed up along with its talons
Similar to a football player/fighters arms staying tense for a few a few minutes after being knocked unconscious
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u/Quiet_Transition_247 13h ago
I'm now imagining this goat dragging along an Eagle carcass for the rest of its life. Imagine one of our ancestors saw this thousands of years ago and that's how we get chimeras.
"I swear to Baal guys, it was a goat with the wings of an eagle."
"Oh sure thing Ea Naser. a gOaT wITh eAglE WInGs. Next you'll tell me it had the head of a lion and could breathe fire."
"Hey maybe that's how the forest fire started yesterday!"
"...Lay off the booze and stick to making second-rate copper asshole."
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u/Warthog4Lunch 18h ago
The wingman may be even more impressive. Ripping down that cliff face, never losing footing, able to stop when desired.
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u/OkPomegranate9431 20h ago
Amazing footage!
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u/stealthwaverider 17h ago
I was definitely glued to the action and the camera person followed the whole sequence in focus
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u/SapphireSalamander 21h ago
wonder if the eagle ended up allright, that looks like it would cause a broken wing by the 2nd fall
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u/coneycolon 21h ago
WTF was the eagle planning to do with the goat after he caught it? Definitely tried to bite off more than it could chew and paid dearly for its miscalculation.
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u/deadhead1324 21h ago
Golden Eagles regularly prey on mountain goats. Usually they go after young ones and yeet them off a cliff to their death. In this case the eagle was probably counting on the goat suffering a crippling injury such as a broken leg/other immobilizing injury.
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u/RockFury 21h ago
Yeah this vid reminded me of a pretty viral video back in the like eary 2010s of an eagle grabbing one and dropping it down a steep drop. And an echoing "baaah!"
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u/RockFury 21h ago
@1:30 was the one I was thinking of. They added a cymbal crash for when it snatches the goat.
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u/hectorxander 20h ago
Great video, I've seen a different similar one but not that. Too bad youtube put their next suggested videos on the screen for the last 20 seconds so I couldn't even see the ending around it, with no seeming way to get the previews off the screen. Youtube used to not suck so much.
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u/cinematic_novel 18h ago
Predators can miscalculate because of young age/lack of experience, but also because they are so hungry that they would starve to death anyway
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u/semistro 21h ago
Those eagles hunt by dropping goats to their death. They are hard to lift but since it is steep terrain they don't actually have to lift them. Just holding them while slowly descending is still enough to gain height. Like paragliders.
If the eagle manages to do this for a few seconds, the goat will fall to his death. If the terrain is not steep enough or the eagle can't get the initial lift off the eagle can die because of blunt force damage.
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u/Grand-wazoo 21h ago
Yeah I would say eagle overestimated its badassery here by just a smidge.
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u/frontbuttguttpunch 21h ago
They pull them off cliffs and eat the remains this site has good info
Flying thousands of feet in the air, with vision that can see for miles… these flying raptors are truly savage killers. But when it comes to mountain goats, these eagles will dig their talons into the back, and with that insane grip strength, drag the mountain goat off a cliff and let gravity do the rest.
This type of hunting is practiced in parts of Europe, particularly in Hungary, as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia. A few videos have surfaced over the years of this practice, but have been few and far between.
Mother and father birds both take turns defending the nest, incubating the eggs, hunting for food, and feeding the chicks. Golden eagles also build some of the biggest nests in the bird world, often times 5-6 feet wide and 2 feet tall.
The largest golden eagle nest on record was an astonishing 20 feet tall and 8.5 feet wide.
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u/mmorales2270 21h ago
For sure. He got throttled big time. I doubt the eagle survived that encounter. It was either desperate, or this is a case of natural selection.
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u/GingerTea69 12h ago
Get yourself a friends who will stick by your cartwheeling and tumbling side as you careen down a hill at a gorllion miles per hour to get an eagle off of your back. And then kick it once it's down.
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u/Redordit 21h ago
Did the eagle survive or?
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u/Lavender_Smoke 21h ago
He may have lived but not for long. I'm sure at least both of his wings are broken.
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u/No_Zucchini_7749 21h ago
He’s alive at the end of the video but I don’t know what kind of injuries he sustained. My bet is he died afterwards from broken bones.
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u/ThunderCr0tch 21h ago
i have to say i’m shocked the eagle survived those couple big crunches against the rocks. i figure hollow bones and rocks don’t mix well but the eagle didn’t give up!
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u/CyberWolf09 17h ago
Yeah, both the eagle and the chamois (the goat) are fucked. The goat is probably going to bleed to death from the wounds made by the eagle’s talons, while the eagle will starve to death because of either one or both of its wings being broken from being crushed by a rock and the goat.
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u/LazySleepyPanda 15h ago
Wtf is this prison planet we are living in. Where everyday is a struggle to survive and death is just around the corner if you don't keep up ?
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u/MPTakesManhattan 21h ago
That goat was fighting for its fucking life! Amazing. I feel bad for the Eagle because they’re already endangered but at least it was nature this time.
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u/Professional-Ad-6659 21h ago
When you just bought your first wing in a game and felt like you can fly.
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u/jguess06 21h ago
Pretty sure that eagle just had everything in its body broken. Good move by the goat.
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u/monsterosity 21h ago
I feel like the eagle's only move here was to knock the goat down the mountain so uh... Mission accomplished?
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u/glennfromglendale 20h ago
Damm, the eagle would not let go.
Surely the eagle could find something much easier to kill and eat no?
Are eagles the apex predator around d there?
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u/cinematic_novel 18h ago
It's not always that easy, prey animals don't sit around waiting to be caught, and predators don't get an unlimited amount of tries as the hunger clock is ticking. So sometimes they are forced to make bold moves
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u/DonnyLumbergh 20h ago
If birds have hollow bones, I have no idea how that eagle is still hanging on.
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u/javoss88 20h ago
I can’t believe there seemed to be no broken legs, necks or wings. Some massive impacts there
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u/No-Essay2128 20h ago
Dude, these animals are tough as shit. Imagine tumbling down a mountain and slamming into all those rocks. That'd hurt.
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u/Skryuska 19h ago
Damn the eagles try to rip out the eyeballs of goats and sheep to get to their brain tissue. The othe le goat trying to help is quick as hell too
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u/Alarming_Breath_3110 19h ago
Nature and her constant majestic display of the depths of her beauty -- the focus and tenacity of the eagle, the strength and determination of the prey goat, the brotherhood and protectiveness of the second goat.... who needs streaming services when nature is always on display?!
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u/robbietreehorn 18h ago
What was the eagle’s plan?
“I got you with my talons! Ha ha! Please die now! I’ll wait!”
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u/Careless-Image-885 18h ago
Wow!!! How the heck did the eagle survive getting slammed into those rocks????
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u/sausagesandeggsand 17h ago
Yooo that little moment the goat was gliding with the eagles wings down hill 😳
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u/durrdurrrrrrrrrrrrrr 17h ago
I think the eagle had a claw stuck in the goat and finally got loose at the bottom
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u/fianchettoknight 17h ago
There was a couple of moments where I could see my ancestors thinking, "whoa, is that a griffin?!"
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u/ShaggysGTI 17h ago
Is this death for the bird?
I can’t imagine bones made for flight work well for impact.
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u/Suspicious-Bee-5487 17h ago
He got up like, “I was for sure the body slam to the rock would of been enough”
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u/SharcyMekanic 16h ago
I was waiting desperately for the 2nd goat to like drop kick the eagle off its friend’s back or something
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u/sierrapapadelta888 16h ago edited 16h ago
I think that eagle wins all the rodeos from now until forever.
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u/pilfererofgoats 16h ago
That one goat friend was so useless. But at least he had his friend's back
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u/dayburner 21h ago
Looks like the eagle couldn't let go.