Do you know golden eagles can actually drag mountain goat off the cliff?

Golden Eagles are the most extensively distributed around the world and the largest in North America.

Golden eagles are very agile and can reach a speed of 320 km/h when diving after a prey. Interestingly golden eagle is the second fastest in the animal kingdom with Peregrine falcon being the fastest with a highest recorded speed of 389 km/h by NAT GEO.
The golden eagles are extremely powerful, they  can actually drag a mountain goat off the cliff.

They mostly hunt rabbits, dear, goats and squirrels.


Golden eagle is a very large bird, its wings are broad the wingspan is 1.8m - 2.34m and 0.66m - 1.02m in length. The females are larger than males.  Females and males weigh an average of 5.1 Kg and 3.6 Kg respectively. 


Mountain goat weigh between 45 kg - 140 kg, so it puzzles me to see a golden eagle that weighs less than 10 kg drag a goat that weight of the cliff and hold on to it in air for some second before dropping it to get it killed. That really amazes me.

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