I Thought This Only Happens To Humans

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska –

An acrobatic display of passion proved too much for a pair of eagles engaged in a mating dance over Alaska’s Prince William Sound.

The female bird is recovering from an injured wing and other injuries sustained when the couple slammed beak-first into a hard snowbank in what her rescuers believe was an aerial courting ritual gone awry. The male eagle died in the impact, which left the birds buried upside down at least two feet in the snow in the town of Valdez.

It’s mating season for eagles, who perform an elaborate ritual where they clasp talons and spiral toward the ground. This pair probably got caught up in the throes of the moment, said Bob Benda, a bird rescuer and biology professor at Prince William Sound Community College who was among those responding to the Easter Sunday crash.

“They just lose track of what they’re doing and don’t know how close they are to the ground,” he said. “It’s raging hormones or something.”


Source: Excerpt from an article by By RACHEL D’ORO, posted on Yahoo
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