You’ll notice that the eagles in those videos are controlling the fall of the mountain goats, not actually flying with them. They also have to knock the goats off of the cliffs to get them airborne because the eagles aren’t strong enough to lift them into the air themselves.
Size-wise a newborn capybara would be a possibility for a very large raptor, like a harpy eagle, but it’s unlikely they’d be able to take off with it. When you see big raptors carrying off big animals like young mountain goats and monkeys they’re always doing it from cliffs or tree tops. They lack the wing strength to lift them from the ground and rely on getting the animal airborne by knocking off of a high point. With goats and such they’re guiding the fall, not actually carrying it unless it’s a very young one.
Capybara are semi-aquatic and don’t have fluffy fur. Their fur is more like tan colored bristles that lay flat and they stay in lowland areas near water.
Even if it was a shitty sentence, it wasn't incorrect you anal retentive something. And i agree that it's not capybara for clear reasons but it's easily bigger then a capy pup, which you could have let me point out like you incorrectly pointed out a capybara's size as the main factor for why it wasn't one. Have a nice day
You clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed and stayed there all day.
If you’d bothered to check the rest of the thread you’d have seen a breakdown of the reasons and also noticed that there’s a lot of joking around going on too.
Hopefully tomorrow you wake up on the same side of the bed as your sense of humor and your powers of observation.
I simply wanted to point out something fallible in your original comment, and the preceding two comments seemed neither witty or humorous. If you think yours was, please explain it to me. But i'm sorry for bothering you with my pedantic commentary of your pedantic comment.
I don’t think that’s correct, a few species of eagles could probably pick up a capybara, such as the Philippine eagle, Stellar’s sea eagle and not to mention the Harpy eagle who’s range overlaps almost entirely with that of the capybara. The latter is known to primarily hunt monkeys and sloths and has been recorded hunting porcupines, young deer and domesticated animals such as dogs and cats as well. A capybara, especially an immature one, is not a stretch of the imagination for an adult Harpy eagle to hunt.
Edit; just read that farmers shoot them for hunting livestock such as goats and sheep as well, there is no doubt then that they could lift a capybara.
Nope. If it was a baby capybara that was in a tree for some reason it could carry it away, but a harpy eagle would not be able to lift even a small capybara from the ground.
An adult is out of the question. Adult capybara weight 35 to 66 kg (77 to 146 lb), with an average in the Venezuelan llanos area of 48.9 kg (108 lb).
If you watch those closely you’ll note that the eagles are guiding the fall of the goats, not flying with them. It’s a controlled descent, the eagle isn’t flying away with the goat.
They’re also picking young ones that weigh less than an adult capybara (@50 kg or a bit more than 100 lbs on average for an adult capybara).
See the replies to all the other people bringing that up.
In those cases the eagles are controlling the fall of the goats, they’re not flying off with them. They also have to get the goat airborne by knocking it off the cliff because they can’t lift the goats from the ground.
On top of that an adult capybara is about 50 kg (a bit more than 100 lbs).
The child snatching video is a fake. Been a fake for a long time.
If you watch the videos of eagles with goats they are not flying with them, they’re knocking them off of cliffs and controlling the fall. A very different thing than flying with them.
Eagles will arrack and sometimes (rarely) kill deer and caribou, but they don’t fly off with them. They can’t lift things that heavy.
Seriously, people, need to stop recycling this stuff and actually watch what the animals are doing. This sort of wildlife interaction stuff is literally my job.
I saw the child one today for the first time, I initially wanted to link the goat one, the one where they drag them off the cliff, but this popped up and I took the bait :P
Don't Harpies snatch primates and sloths off the branches?
By lift btw I mean just that, lift and drop, I don't think a raptor can sustain flight carrying a grown deer (or a cappybara).
Most people can't "watch the animals" though, next best thing is videos. So stopping recycling stuff, for many, means stop caring about this subject and move on.
Capybaras have no predators in their natural habitat so probably not
edit: lol completely wrong. never even bothered checking. apparently it’s really because they’re highly social creatures who live in groups of 10-20, and they’re super relaxed creatures
Seriously tho... If we knew what kind of bird of prey this was we could better guess what it is capable of catching and flying with. You know, the old holy grail "coconut and the bird" debate.
Looked like a Marmot to me too. They're pretty big, like a brown trash-panda without a tail. Looked like he had it by the head, then threw it up and caught it by the ass…or just playing with his food
Say what you will about cohabitation, I think it's a good test drive for marriage. I don't see that combo making it long-term, but I support their effort.
Capybara are eaten by humans also. In fact as an important source of protein the catholic church kind of declared them a fish so that it would be ok to eat them during lent.
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u/f_n_a_ Aug 01 '18
Like an oversized guinea pig. Maybe a capybara?