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Not being much of football fan, I did not know anything thing about this, but it seems that the Seattle Seahawks have a big bird that is trained to fly around the stadium for the amusement of fans. On this one occasion the bird apparently grew tired, had muscle cramps or whatever, and had to touch down. But it was in a football stadium, so the only place to touch down was on top of a fan.
He said that the bird was clearly frightened (and so was he) and he stroked it to try to calm it down, which seemed to help. After a couple minutes the bird's trainer came up into the stands to pick it up.
A nephew of mine was an Air Force veterinarian who got the great assignment to train a peregrine falcon for the Air Force Academy. They're treated well. I wouldn't call it abuse.
Not the wisest choice for them to have an animal in those circumstances. Could be worse. Check out this bunch of jugheads at Oral Roberts University with a bald eagle, likely frightened by their chanting U-S-A. Pitiable, unknowing animal flies into a window and the a-holes laugh about it. That's abuse: ---v
Not the wisest choice for them to have an animal in those circumstances. Could be worse. Check out this bunch of jugheads at Oral Roberts University with a bald eagle, likely frightened by their chanting U-S-A. Pitiable, unknowing animal flies into a window and the a-holes laugh about it. That's abuse: ---v
The two scenarios appear to be virtually identical, and equally abusive. I am hard pressed to see a difference between the two. Even in both cases, the birds were lucky that they did not wind up dead or maimed from this stupidity.
That's upsetting in both situations with the hawk and the eagle. I would think that there should be some perches around
the stadium in Seattle for the hawk to rest. Plus the feet and claws on any raptor can cause cuts. Shame on those
immature adults at that university....it wasn't funny.
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