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Eagle snatching baby video is fake: It’s a Montreal student animation
Relax, world — your baby won’t get snatched by an eagle if you visit Montreal. An online video of the massive bird plucking an infant off the ground has been acknowledged by its creators as a fake.
The admission comes after the video, produced by students at a new-media training school in Montreal, had gotten more than 2.7 million views on YouTube and been covered by dozens of media in Canada and internationally.
Update: Eagle snatching baby video is fake: It’s a Montreal student animation
The horrifying moment an eagle swoops in and apparently snatches up a Montreal toddler — Is it fake?
A Canadian family has become the centre of a viral hit as a YouTube video of a toddler being seemingly picked up by a huge golden eagle gets passed around the Internet.
The moment, apparently captured by chance by a park vistor filming the massive bird at the Montreal park, has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.
All that attention aside, it’s impossible to verify the authenticity of the video, posted by a user going by the name “MrNuclearCat” — a YouTube member since Tuesday with only one video to his credit.
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A tame golden eagle approaches a hunter during an annual hunting competition outside Almaty December 9, 2011. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
Poodle dropped by eagle, found by B.C. nursing home
She’s a vagabond toy poodle named May by SPCA staff after she fell out of the sky earlier this month and landed on the grounds of the Shorncliffe Nursing Home in Sechelt, B.C.
And how she came to be flying over the nursing home is explained by the deep talon marks in her back and sides, showing she was probably the unwilling passenger of a hungry eagle that had picked her up but eventually found her 18 pounds too much to hold.
May — her ribs broken and her body lacerated — was found by nursing staff on May 2 and delivered to the Sunshine Coast SPCA.
