I, like many, have seen American Bald Eagles from afar, but the first time I got close to three of them guarding a bucket of crabs was intense. Someone up the dock from me went to their car to get something leaving their crabs unattended and the eagles flew in to grab some. I was leaving and walking that way on the dock towards them and one bald eagle got aggressive with me blocking my way as the other two grabbed the crabs. It was ready to attack had I not stopped. These are big birds much bigger than you would think if seeing them from afar. Their talons looked like knives and the beak like a razor. After seeing this smaller version of the hawk do this to the rat I am glad I backed off and waiting. By the size of this eagle it could of easily done that to a calf or bicep of a human ( me in this case) or easily taken me out at the neck.

I know a rat is just an animal doing what's necessary to survive....But I got no sympathy for the bastards.....I was raised in a housing project full of rats....they were notorious for taking bites outta babies in the projects in Sw Georgia...as they say ," What goes around comes around"

@@ROZAKRIU Don't forget the mice sized cockroaches :) On another note learn something new everyday. I had no idea that rats bit children as you describe. That is just very sad.

@@GoldChump Yeah it is sad....back in the Sw Georgia housing projects we used to call them " walf rats" I thought that was their name...but when I became older I learned that they were " Wharf rats". But people in the Deep, Deep South are kinda lazy with pronunciation...yeah they have a vicious bite....lots of project kids were bitten by them...I never was when I was a child, guess the GOOD LORD was looking out for me. As much as I hate the bastards I must grudgingly give them their due respect.....they are highly intelligent and they got more machismo than 100 Mexicans. I remember my older brother chasing one down the hall with a shoe to kill it, but when that 2 pound rat got cornered he jumped on my brother's pants leg and ripped a hole in it with his razor sharp teeth..absolutely crazy with courage. What is truly sad was when the old folks told a story about rats eating a baby alive....I was just a child then but I remember having nightmares about it

@@GoldChump they're smart too. They know where to attack. I saw a hawk this morning. I couldn't help but to at least look at it on my way to work. But I kept my distance!

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"mmm crunchy 😂"

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"very tasty"

That is the perfect, morbid description of just how casually this hawk ate a whole-ass rat.

Why? 🙄

@@nyakwarObatwhy what ?

@@Robhimsis and who the hell are you? Go away 🙄

@@nyakwarObathe just asked a question. 🙄

YT comments are a public forum, dude.@@nyakwarObat

I love this comment ❤😂

Take photos

😂😂fucking excellent

My ex mother in law ate people this way.......

Savage

Omg, lmfaooooooo.

or impala

In life, sometimes you’re falcon and sometimes you’re the rat

More specifically, at rat who looks up and sees those talons closing in

We should send this video to the fat rats in the White House 😉

Are you kidding? My ex' lawyers are thriving in their nest not too far away from this entrance ramp.

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i second that

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Vegans are against the inhumane treatment of animals for profit. Battery cages, force feeding, filthy conditions, etc. Most don't care about natures course. Especially since they want humans to follow it.

sarah, more stupid comment is not very often to see. I hope, you can be proud of yourself, turning even this against vegan. most vegans are descreasing suffering of animals, and successfuly. you know what is decreasing, right? It is not zeroing. Eliminating to zero. there's diametral difference between what you are responsible for. If you eat or enslave animals, you are the responsible. Even when you pay others to do it. You are not responsible for suffering from cycle of nature, that cannot be avoided. Clear?

You hate vegans, we get it

Vegans are not the brightest

Yeah why should humans behave better than animals. By your inbred logic we should allow murder because animals of the same species kill each other too. 🤡

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Rules of nature

Right that head came off so smooth I had to go back like hold tf on 😂

That truly was an unexpected powerful pull.

My mouth just hit the floor when I saw that shit

I can believe he tore apart a rat with NO TEETH. That is super strength and shows their bite force is nothing to play with

@@lamar310 These bird could be compared to pruning scissors. Its no joke.

I was shocked

Not trying to downplay the hawk but I don’t think a rat’s body is that durable anyways.

@@alfredoangel2359 have you tried tearing a rat 🐀 apart with your hands?

Underrated

I wouldn’t have seen that. Can never unsee

They can carry a 300 lb goat

@@beepboop5051 me either it was the most unexpected thing

@@wileecoyote5749 lmfao they absolutely can not

@@wileecoyote5749 That is surely impossible. Strong nonetheless.

@@theperson7718 nothing gets past you

Cameraman never dies.

​@@Yazan_Majdalawi there's always this type on nature documentary comments, just keep popping.

@@theperson7718 my bright fellow human being was unable to detect the sarcasm in this instance, may reading comprehension rest in peace. 🙏

@@theperson7718 it literally says they’re joking in their comment

Not quite. You see the legs move shortly after the eagle lands and the belly was moving rapidly with panicked breaths. Then the eagle waits for 10 seconds or so with its claws dug into the rat’s head and neck. The breathing stops. Then the head pull. I don’t think they would care one way or the other if the prey was alive (maybe someone can correct me on this). At best, it probably wants it dead so it doesn’t have to worry about any escape attempts.

​@@PootWindbreakerThat's certainly my understanding. Predators wait for their prey to die so they don't have to keep fighting it when eating. That's why the hawk waited until the rat stopped moving before starting to eat. But eating the head first makes doubly certain.

@@vk2igNot all. A bear will sometimes sit on its pray and start eating right away. Or orcas teach their young how to hunt with prey injured but alive. Still a lot of animals try to kill their prey fast, to not risk injuries themselves. Even a rat that bites you, can be deadly if the wound gets infected.

I don’t think very much effort was involved

Must be an ISIS hawk

@Always Blue I guess so, although I have no plans to eat a rat any time soon

Hold my beer

@Always Blue we have more body mass than an eagle so I’d expect so?

What did that even mean? Having a bad day is bad. Being human is why we have bad days.

@@floridaredneck he meant being human having a bad day is much much better than getting your head torn by a predator like shown in the video.

Humans do worse shit than animals wdym

Unless your in a 3rd world country or jail, or trafficked, I could go on....

Cause you know being eaten alive as a rat is not as bad as being in a 3rd world country as a human. . .

^underrated comment! Anything is possible.

If a lion could talk, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

I have another idea. Maybe the hawk would think, as long as my tummy is full, who cares about anything else?

A normal hawk would think that for sure, no question. But this hawk would be capable of communicating with a human so I think he would be more curious about the world than a normal hawk.@@maryblaufuss7533

He just ripped the head right off like he was opening a can of soda. I was expecting this to be brutal but I didn't expect the head to come off that easily.

Welcome to my stream, today I'll be doing a speed run

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Activist deciding we are herbivore instead of dual carnivore hervivore (omnivore) 😂

@@twistedyogert Literally

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That's table manners right there.

Vegans… “how do you feel about killing cows for food”

And then he ate the bag

And he took a shit at the end 😂

I’m so sorry to hear that

It makes you more down to earth and more connected to reality of this world !

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I'm thinking once you do it for awhile you learn that this is normal and it's prob animal blood from things like this

What kind of check are they doing on a metal pole cover made to last 50+ years?🤷🏻‍♂️

@@tg8150 checking the camera🤷‍♂️

@@tegarandikash for what 💀

@@CasualCat64for maintenance smart ass… it’s what I do.

This is just satisfying to watch

"torn"

I see what u did there

It's a rat dude. They get killed all day

So was the mouse

i think he making sure was sure it was dead in case it was alive and tried to bite him. just a guess

​@@igamehard8860It was moving its tiny feet, so I think it knew it was alive. I guess the hawk just wanted to examine if any other bird wanted to take the rat from him, then he saw that there wasnt and started eating

Ark Players: _We don’t do that here_

They used to be!

Feed them politicians.

They did exist 66M years ago, their ancestors that is, the fact that they're not around is the reason mankind exists today.

@@erlienfrommars and because mankind exists, they'll never exist again

As close to humane as the wild gets

I was so not prepared for that 😳

Bro it came off so easily wtf. Damn birds are strong AF

@@eastoakland-S65feen You could probably tear a childs head off bare handed in a fit of rage if you treated him like a peace of meat. And i could maybe do the same to you if i ever saw you do such a thing… humans are pretty strong too were just weak in modern times.

@@LogicCaster lol i would never do that little bud & u would get k.o'd clean if you step too close for your info. Happy new yrs tho

That's why I always remind myself that it's mother nature so it is the way it is , it makes me appreciate it and respect it so that I don't find it gruesome

Lmfao 😂😂😂😂

Pure gold comment! 😅

Yeah...earthling, we are about to take over your radiooooooooooo!!!

youre killing me man lol

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Mr. Ratt says he disagrees

Except for that one splot of blood he left behind 😂

@@Hendrick4life and pooping at 2:43

Very proper

yeah aside smearing blood on the lamp and pooping he is one behaved and well-mannered hawk.

Lmao

Manners maketh man

He clean the fork and knives he used.

Afterwards he even took a gentle 💩

@@backbone93Yeah lol. That shit poppep out of him

When I realized that the mouse was still living as the bird landed, I quickly rushed to express my farewells: Dear mouse, it has been very good ( annoying infact ) to know you. May your soul ( flesh ) rest in peace ( hawk's stomach) You will be well remembered ( er....forgotten ).🤣🤣🤣

@@henthust9784 Mouse? That is NOT a mouse!

@C. Haze not sure if im just andrew jackson, but that wasnt all too graphic

IKR! 😅

It's graphic for the people that don't wake up every morning and the first thing they see is rodent decapitation.

Probably hit a car too, smh

2:43 for the shit

Troo

Underrated comment😭😭

Man was like let’s leave this shit right here

LMFAOOO

Majestic af

Yeah this looks like a 12 year old who commented (no offence) and the eagle eats like a 12 year old(no offence)

What a clean gentleman looool

True, but rats don't have that much blood to begin with.

i've seen rats get eaten by birds and cats. They almost never spill blood. Guess they just don't need as much of it as the bigger animals do

And only a fraction of the GREASE, too!

You forgot how he wiped his beak clean!

It’s Talon licking good! Hehe

i think the hawk knew it was on camera, it wanted to do a mukbang video

That poop represents freedom baby

Hannibal lector

No waste

Icing on cake was the poop at 2:43

Not only that, he spit out the little pieces he didn’t want 😅

I just imagine an Italian guy sucking his fingers after eating meat balls with his hands

Waited until it was crushed and not moving

He was choking the rat m8

It was probably looking around for eagles who are clepto carnivores

@@tomheineman4369 my sentiments exactly 💯

I suppose the bird was waiting for its talons to unlock, in order to find a better purchase on the post, before consumption.

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you forgot to add the "nom nom" at the end 😳

You fool 😂😂😂😂

...go to the light...😂

Underrated comment for sure😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀

I was just going to read the comments and then.... 😳

There was nothing graphic here dont be dramatic

Enjoy?

@@juanroman4100 oooh look at this guy acting tough

@@koburrr you must be one of those femenine guys smh

Circle of life circling....lol

Why don't you post some vid's and stop writing about it. Therefore. I don't believe you.

Atleast you don't own a chihuahua

I had Hawks in my backyard, then ravens showed up and started "escorting" the hawks out the area which is common apparently , I still see them every now and then when the raven are not around

@@hardworkmcgee2998 wtf are you talking about you paranoid mf move on, there is no reason for them to fabricate such a normal story like that

You bet your butt they would. Lions are bigger than we are and they'd eat a person.

The shmokieness

I don't know, licking his fingers afterwards was a little uncouth.

Lol Facts tho 😅😅😅😅💯💯💯

​@@rashomonsanit's an animal tho lol

​@@rashomonsanHey licking your finger after eating means the food was delicious :)

@@rashomonsan dont judge him, the hawk is italian

terrifying when u realize they can fly on your head and prob rip your eye out likes its nothing

Doesn't take much force to rip the head off a tiny rat. Quit dramatizing everything

@@veryslyfox still tho for its size its strength is enormous and if u scale that bird bigger like back in prehistoric times that strength would be able to rip human heads off like its nothing

They are sky wolves

Imagine when birds were 5x bigger lol even condors have attacked humans lol biggest bird in the world I believe

Found another weirdo who thinks like me :)

How about alive one hour, and in the next few hours he’s poop lol

Yeah, most cannibals are a lot of nice people.

@CakeSteak Haha!

It really hit me when he pinched his head off like it was a freakin bottle cap. Nature is brutal.

Right, be it other animals or humans that have you killed for consumption.

You can chill....in a hawk's belly

Or u always have a day off untill other one hunts u down

@@perezsusel Not just in the wild. People kill or let animals get killed for their consumption, or to hang a trof ee on the wall. Or to experiment on or kill for the beauty industry and clothing industry.

I always wondered if birds just fly around and chill just because they can... Or if they always on a mission 🤔

His head just kinda came off, not much of a struggle at all 😟

Poped off like a toy

"Damn nature you scary" there is a reason this line exist. But this is just nature running it's course, happens all the time.

@@sean2015 birds dont have teeth 💀

All birds. They’re beautiful but can definitely be vicious. I learned that early in life while helping my aunt pick peaches from one of her peach trees. We didn’t realize a nest was in it. Mama & Papa Blue Jay started attacking us! My aunt said, “Looks like we’ll be picking plums today instead. They can have that tree!” Her always perfectly coiffed hair was a mess & I had a sore spot on my head where they dive bombed me. 🥴🤣

humans ain’t the only ones who enjoy a scrumptious meal.

Rat was bussin 🤤

Bro rly said talon licking good

@@TheReapersEditz I was going to say that.

@@RaymondHng lol

Bro left blood all over the pole😂

He took a dump in public after his meal...very classy😂

It eats RAW

​@@diybeast3943 To be fair, carrying cleaning supplies to wipe down the dining table f'd with his aerodynamics so he gives it a miss.😊

i think its trynna lick the blood instead of trying to clean itself

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IKR I thought it was one of those videos where they write “graphic” and nothing very graphic happens… but this was something else😨

This is what happens in nature all the time every hawk we’ve see has done this to some animal

Welcome to reality

Still the least graphic thing i’ll see on youtube today 😂

Yeah kinda hard to watch.

Doesn’t make mouse traps look so bad now does it (the ones that kill them instantly that is).😅

Nature doesn't finely cut the meat

Nature yo welcome to earth

It looks like it was eating a marshmallow. I'm used to seeing predators eating because I grew up watching documentaries & my cats brought their prey sometimes.

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Indeed ,very vicious

Some team casually named "The Mouses": [Chuckles] -I'm in danger.

And have the mouse's head censored with the visiting team's logo.. lol

@@airbaler off top!

@SrtGhost I think they probably mean all animals not just birds. Life survives by eating other life, so it happens all day long everywhere on earth

Whoa i million not even close it would its 317,700 Eagles so multiply by 2 for eating twice a day and subtract 150k for birds that don’t eat twice a day ruff math that’s 450k ish that’s why I said ruff math I could factor in the highways but don’t feel like doing the research

@@Crazy2MeTv let's add all predatory birds to that

@@srtghost5071 organisms definitely consume other organisms more than 100k times a day

@@Crazy2MeTv there are millions of hawks and eagles worldwide doofus.

True 😎

If only they were big enough to take down humans. The human numbers are higher than the rats at this point I’d say.

@@JK-vi3jm It is very toxic to think that humans must be killed because of their numbers. Stop believing silly theories done by criminal people with no real values other than selfishness and money.

Indeed bro

@@JK-vi3jmumans already wiped out the bigger birds of prey like the Haast Eagle which hunted large birds like moa and possibly early humans that arrived on New Zealand

*triple kill!*

Good eye, you.

yum

DAmn you might be right, at first I thought it was its heart still beating but yeah, most likely are just babies

dang thats crazy

Unlike the KZfaq diabetic obese mukbangers eating tons of junk food and McDonald’s

​@@jdos5643 This boy eats healthy. Fresh, free-range and no additives.

Enough with that korean shit.

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Most likely broke its neck

the talons were in deep

@@thickerliquor The talons delved too greedily and too deep

Nah, it was still moving right before the hawk broke its neck

@@gdpiscopo thanks Gandalf

The hawk's punishment; it ate rat...

It's fingers licking good!!🤣🤣😂🍗🍗

Talons?

@@Wiimaster.dont be naive

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"weak men creat hard times" They are the ones who put up windmills that are killing eagles.

​@@Deezhan You really think windmills are the main challenge facing endangered birds? -_-

Weak men create shitty overused over simplified sayings

​@@cksupremeshould look into how many bats they kill every year

That’s life in the wild.

Yeah I honestly didn't expect it to go right for the head. I never knew these things consumed their food in entirety; like the bones, fur, and everything.

It was a message to the humans.

@@cristianm7097Humans must remain neutral in the great bird rat war.

I mean for me it's the other way around here. I am pretty squeamish and it brought me comfort that he did it so quickly and cleanly... I'm not sure why I watched this in the first place though, but i wouldn't have dealt with it too well if the thing was still alive and being eaten, if that makes sense.

@@procrastinator6902 Yeah I was fully expecting it to drop the flesh after it devoured the entire creatures insides but he straight merked the entire thing tail and all. Started off like eating a delicate croissant then halfway through turned full Homer Simpson. I'm fuckin impressed tbh, It was like seeing myself in bird form eating the puh.

you think the wrong way... its not that the bird is a bit more like a human for doing that its the animal inside of the human getting through

@@philippflipper7728 ok Darwin, relax.

@@philippflipper7728 There’s absolutely no proof Man comes from animals. Except if you wanna believe in hoaxes, fabrications, and all that unscientific quackery.

How is that funny?? How old are you mid 20s. Lol

​@@marstillo8087 you're gay?

I've seen raw chicken get legs ripped and seen the throat of a raw turkey while my family prepares for Thanksgiving. Sure, cooked chicken and raw turkey are different but the imagery is still vague. So I don't see it as graphic but rather something normal. Reply made: 4:16 PM Tuesday, January 3 2022

To be fair you could rip a rats head off with your bite force too. Just wouldn't want to

It's really not that much effort to rip a rats head off with you're bare hands either

@@bradlywhite9602 you don't weigh 2 pounds

@@MikeBarbarossa He also doesn’t have a knife sharp beak and claws so what’s your point?

Birds of prey = Raptors

Best comment award!

The attack came from the sides

Well it didn't waste time ripping off the head

Same is true of many predators, especially the canines like wolves, coyotes, hyenas, dingoes, etc. Bears too will consume prey before killing it. Saw a vid just a few weeks back where a grizzly grabbed an elk and just stated chewing on its haunch, all the while the poor elk is bawling its lungs out. Insects like praying mantises and camel spiders just grab other insects and even small mammals and just start gnawing on them.

Their white blood cells are really made by iron steel to kick ass any pathogens.

It was actually a vole, a type of native meadow mouse, but hawks do ok eating street rats as long as the rats haven't been poisoned.

@@markmoore4088 your mom.

@@markmoore4088 That was no Vole, definitely a rat

@@wiganer9912 Because rats are known for having short little tails? Please take another look.

Yall sure do

Not how urban sprawl works… at all

Believe it or not, I do see a lot of hawks flying around but yeah, we definitely need more. The rat hawk ratio ain’t right.

And less Democrats

I think the flavor of the New York rats may be unappetizing lol