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These birds take down full sized wolves. I think they will have a chance at immortalizing a drown. And it's a bird if it loses it's life and saved one human the

These birds take down full sized wolves. I think they will have a chance at immortalizing a drown. And it's a bird if it loses it's life and saved one human then so be it. Please don't post stuff from reddit it's full of idiots.

pvaldes 10y ago
We forget that raptors are protected species. In USA you can't even keep the dropped feathers of a bald eagle in your house. Is illegal without a very special permit. To kill and chop bald eagles with a drone would be symbolically an huge success and desirable goal for any terrorist. This birds can't be easily exported to France or other countries for its huge symbolic value In Europe is the same. To deliberately train a golden eagle to fly across a meat mincer would upset a lot of people sweating blood and tears 365 days/year for protecting predators. You would need to pass law exceptions for all EU and argue the convenience to do so. To use the highly endangered Eastern Imperial Eagles for this would be even worse and unforgivable. The trainer will be sued and will face a lot of legal issues. For Pete's sake, this is idiot! just use another drone for that!
- palunon 10y ago
  They are being hatched specifically for this purpose. These aren't random eagles captured in the wild.
  - pvaldes 10y ago
    I hope so, because to capture protected species in the wild is a crime. In any case even if you can keep an endangered species in captivity in a few special cases, you still could not deliberately put in danger the life of those captive species, because is not a cool toy, is a protected species by both the european and also the french laws. It does not matter if hatched for this or for that. Is still illegal. You can't even let fly freely this species in a public space like a city without breaking the law. For USA see: The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 668-668d) In European community "Member states shall prohibit, for species in Annex 1 (that includes Aquila pomarina, Aquila clanga, Aquila heliaca, Aquila adalberti, Aquila chrysaetos, Hieraaetus fasciatus and Hieraaetus pennatus among other species) the sale, transport for sale, keeping for sale and the offering for sale of live or dead birds and of any recognisable parts or derivatives of such birds". Also eggs. And of course to deliberately annoy or harm this species is strictly forbidden. See directive 2009/147/EC
- clock_tower 10y ago
  Still, an anti-robot eagle program would improve the population of golden eagles, and I doubt many of them would see combat. Conservationists seem to be pretty enthusiastic about falconing as a way of getting bird-of-prey numbers up; this should produce similar opportunities.
  - pvaldes 10y ago
    Falcons are not teared apart each time they fly. I have a better idea. What if we dismantle the Tour Eiffel and use all this useles iron planks to fix bars in any of the windows of Paris. Would serve two purposes, parisiens would be safer against drones or muslims entering in your room at night and zero risk of somebody putting a bomb in the Tour Eiffel. Win-win situation!. If we forget all about the legal issues, to fly an $4200 eagle trough a lawmower is a really silly idea and an useless method to stop a drone unless your goal is spending so many money from the french as you can, as fast as possible. Eagles can not carry drones of more than 3kg so they will still drop the bombs in a dangerous unpredictable trajectory. With a target big enough the difference between having an eagle or not could be a few hundred dollars more in damages (with eagle). I can understand the coolness of having a powerful eagle sitting in your fist and parade in front of a bunch of chicks, but this is either an hoax, or PR (most probably) or the boys had seen too many times the Hobbit.
    - clock_tower 10y ago
      Like I said, I doubt many of them would see combat. Aren't attacks by explosive quadcopter drones still hypothetical?

pvaldes 10y ago

We forget that raptors are protected species. In USA you can't even keep the dropped feathers of a bald eagle in your house. Is illegal without a very special permit. To kill and chop bald eagles with a drone would be symbolically an huge success and desirable goal for any terrorist. This birds can't be easily exported to France or other countries for its huge symbolic value In Europe is the same. To deliberately train a golden eagle to fly across a meat mincer would upset a lot of people sweating blood and tears 365 days/year for protecting predators. You would need to pass law exceptions for all EU and argue the convenience to do so. To use the highly endangered Eastern Imperial Eagles for this would be even worse and unforgivable. The trainer will be sued and will face a lot of legal issues. For Pete's sake, this is idiot! just use another drone for that!

palunon 10y ago
They are being hatched specifically for this purpose. These aren't random eagles captured in the wild.
- pvaldes 10y ago
  I hope so, because to capture protected species in the wild is a crime. In any case even if you can keep an endangered species in captivity in a few special cases, you still could not deliberately put in danger the life of those captive species, because is not a cool toy, is a protected species by both the european and also the french laws. It does not matter if hatched for this or for that. Is still illegal. You can't even let fly freely this species in a public space like a city without breaking the law. For USA see: The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 668-668d) In European community "Member states shall prohibit, for species in Annex 1 (that includes Aquila pomarina, Aquila clanga, Aquila heliaca, Aquila adalberti, Aquila chrysaetos, Hieraaetus fasciatus and Hieraaetus pennatus among other species) the sale, transport for sale, keeping for sale and the offering for sale of live or dead birds and of any recognisable parts or derivatives of such birds". Also eggs. And of course to deliberately annoy or harm this species is strictly forbidden. See directive 2009/147/EC
clock_tower 10y ago
Still, an anti-robot eagle program would improve the population of golden eagles, and I doubt many of them would see combat. Conservationists seem to be pretty enthusiastic about falconing as a way of getting bird-of-prey numbers up; this should produce similar opportunities.
- pvaldes 10y ago
  Falcons are not teared apart each time they fly. I have a better idea. What if we dismantle the Tour Eiffel and use all this useles iron planks to fix bars in any of the windows of Paris. Would serve two purposes, parisiens would be safer against drones or muslims entering in your room at night and zero risk of somebody putting a bomb in the Tour Eiffel. Win-win situation!. If we forget all about the legal issues, to fly an $4200 eagle trough a lawmower is a really silly idea and an useless method to stop a drone unless your goal is spending so many money from the french as you can, as fast as possible. Eagles can not carry drones of more than 3kg so they will still drop the bombs in a dangerous unpredictable trajectory. With a target big enough the difference between having an eagle or not could be a few hundred dollars more in damages (with eagle). I can understand the coolness of having a powerful eagle sitting in your fist and parade in front of a bunch of chicks, but this is either an hoax, or PR (most probably) or the boys had seen too many times the Hobbit.
  - clock_tower 10y ago
    Like I said, I doubt many of them would see combat. Aren't attacks by explosive quadcopter drones still hypothetical?