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Our usual image of birds of prey is the lone eagle soaring high and solitary, waiting to dive with tremendous velocity on its hapless prey. But do they also work together, like wolves?
Dr. David Ellis, an ecologist and raptor expert with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, describes a number of observations in the wild in which birds of prey were seen in cooperative hunting. One instance involved an adult and juvenile golden eagle attacking a fox. The juvenile would dive at the fox from behind causing it to turn and snap. The adult would then attack from the other direction. After about four repetitions the adult finally sank its talons into the fox and was then joined by the juvenile for the final kill.
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