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MONTREAL, Canada - A YouTube video of a golden eagle swooping down and lifting a toddler off the ground in Montreal could soar to Internet stardom as the latest episode of animals behaving strangely.

Coming just a week after a monkey wearing a sheepskin coat was found wandering around an IKEA parking lot in Toronto, the video shows the massive eagle — with a roughly six-foot (two-meter) wing span, circling a public park.

The eagle then swoops down, lifts an unsuspecting toddler off the ground by its Winter coat and carries it a few feet before dropping it on the grass.

After cursing in English, the French-speaking man filming the incident races over to comfort the bewildered child, who starts crying but does not appear to have been seriously hurt.

“A golden eagle tries to snatch a baby in Montreal! What if he got away with it!?” reads a caption under the video, posted by MrNuclearCat.

The golden eagle is the largest bird of prey in North America, and can dive at its quarry at speeds of more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour, according to the US National Geographic Society.

The eagle likely mistook the toddler for a rabbit, marmot or ground squirrel, its normal prey.

The incident happened in Mont-Royal Park, a popular public space.

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Dec 19, 2012

Lemtongthai

The Eagle must have been American from the USA sde of the border. Canadians do not steal from no one. They even get fooled by that guy who claimed refugee status because whites in SA were being persecuted.
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Dec 19, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

Tjo! tjo! tjo! life is every rough even birds dont have food to eat they want to eat beings now iyhooo!
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Dec 19, 2012

MommaC

the stork bringeth and the eagle taketh away.



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Dec 19, 2012

motlantheforpresident

Heei Madoda i am starting to suspect that the Mayans predicted the truth about the end of the World
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Dec 19, 2012

webcaddler

eish sowetan such poor reporting, what is it, is it the child?

yeyi!! just imagine really now, if the eagle managed to lift the child what could be the story headline now
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Dec 19, 2012

lindsay

After cursing in English, the French-speaking man filming the incident races over to comfort the bewildered child, who starts crying but does not appear to have been seriously hurt.

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hahaha so he ran short of curses in french
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Dec 19, 2012

oldlady12

Lindsay, maybe he thought the eagle only speaks english.
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