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A thirteen year-old eagle huntress
- fallinghawks 13y agoThere is one other Kazhakh female hunting with eagles, Makpal Abdrazakova, and she also started at age 13. She's in her 20s at present.
- webwielder 13y agoPainful to see every culture slowly succumb to cubicles and factories. Eagle and huntress, fly free.
- trhway 13y agoit is easy to be free while you, a super-predator, are alone in the forest/mountains. Being free while surrounded by fellow super-predators is a much tougher challenge, requires much more neuron connections firing just to stay afloat.
- jonah 13y agoBe sure to listen to the interview with the Photographer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wztnh http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wztnh And an earlier piece of film of eagle hunting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/environments/mountains#p00dwd5x http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/environments...
- codezero 13y agoPretty awesome that they eventually release the eagles back into the wild.
- trhway 13y agoif only they could do that to the foxes they have hunted.
- codezero 13y agoWhich they would hunt whether captive or not.
- trhway 13y agowould eagle hunt that many foxes to make and sell all that nice outer-wear?
- codezero 13y agoWith one, maybe two people maintaining this cultural tradition, I'm not going to act concerned over the fox population there. Fox hunting is a thing in lots of places all over the world, it's pretty weak to confound my earlier sentiment towards the release of the captive predator with the supposed oppression of a prey animal.
- trhway 13y agothis prey animal is among the smartest animals, and is being killed basically just for fun. Releasing of the eagle - well, yes, seems like sometimes at least something isn't killed by us just for fun. Big sentiment here.
- fallinghawks 13y agoWild goldens are known to hunt deer; the Kazakhs hunt wolves with eagles as well. A fox isn't that hard, comparatively speaking. Getting the eagles to make and sell outerwear is quite a challenge, though.
- chanon 13y agoThe photographers blog post with first hand account and more pictures: http://www.svidensky.com/post.aspx?id=18 http://www.svidensky.com/post.aspx?id=18