Most animals in nature are very timid and afraid of people. Even a cobra whose venom can kill 20 adults will slip away instantly when it encounters a human.
As a kind of raptor, the eagle has a ferocious temperament and mainly eats meat, but the eagle mostly soars in the sky. They have a rebellious personality. Apart from foraging, they rarely move on land, and they rarely get close to humans.
News of eagles actively attacking people is even rarer. Under normal circumstances, eagles will actively avoid contact with humans, and rarely confront humans head-on. Even if they are captured by humans, they will not give in easily.
Therefore, in ancient times, there was a profession dedicated to taming eagles.
In order to successfully tame eagles, falconers fed young female eagles from an early age and began training when the young eagles were one year old, until the eagles truly obeyed to them.
Judging from the living habits of eagles, they should usually stay away from humans. In addition, this animal is naturally aloof, unlike other birds that like to approach humans actively, so under what circumstances would they actively attack humans?
There are mainly the following reasons.
1. The eagle smells the food and will attack out of hunger.
Eagles are carnivorous animals, mainly eating pheasants, hares, and snakes on the grassland, and also eating some insects or fish.
Like eagles living in nomadic areas, they will also eat beef and mutton bones or animal carcasses thrown away by herdsmen. But when the cold winter comes, the food for the eagle is not enough, the ground is covered with snow, and the water in the lake is also frozen.
When they fly to areas where humans live, if they see humans, they will instinctively attack.
In a park in Montreal, Canada, a family of three was having a picnic in the park when suddenly an eagle swooped down from high altitude, opened its sharp talons, and directly grabbed a child under 2 years old sitting on the lawn.
The child's parents rushed to beat the eagle, and the eagle finally dropped the child at a height of about 1 meter from the ground. Fortunately, the child was only frightened and not injured.
Later, relevant local experts analyzed that the eagle lived deep in the forest. It was autumn and winter in Canada at that time, and it may be that there was no food in the forest, so it came out to look for food.
2. Eagles are very territorial and will take the initiative to attack in order to defend their territory.
Almost all animals in nature have a sense of territory, such as wolves, lions, tigers, snakes, dogs, cats, etc. that we are familiar. But compared to these animals, eagles have a stronger sense of territory, because eagles are not group animals and generally live alone.
Moreover, two eagles cannot appear in the same sky, unless they are male and female, otherwise, these two eagles will fight to the death.
This is also because the eagle has a strong sense of territory, and no other creatures are allowed in its domain. Once other creatures invade its domain, the eagle will actively attack and fight with the intruder until it drives the opponent out.
3. The eagle is a very "vengeful" bird. When humans attack it, it will fight back.
Eagles are very vengeful birds. If humans destroy its nest, hurt its children, or even once attacked it, the eagle will rely on its super memory to remember the opponent's smell, appearance, and body shape, and retaliate in the future.
