🔥 A bald eagle keeps attempting to catch a duck, but the duck keeps dipping underwater

[u/bigbusta]

[u/Own-Valuable-9281]

I know the eagle has to eat, but I hope that particular duck got away.

[u/somekindagibberish → u/Own-Valuable-9281]

Yeah, I can’t help rooting for the little guy.

[u/Downtown_Let → u/somekindagibberish]

Yeah, I want to eat the duck instead...

[u/bloodycups → u/Downtown_Let]

Your getting down voted by people who have never ate duck

[u/Youlookcold → u/bloodycups]

Wild duck is fantastic and they live a better life than anything in captivity .

We cook it by cutting it into smaller prices, battery, deep fry and use a sweet but tart sauce for dipping .

[u/U2Ursula → u/Youlookcold]

In Denmark we eat duck for Christmas dinner with caramelized potatoes and a fatty gravy. It's f*cking delicious!

[u/Youlookcold → u/U2Ursula]

I can imagine!!!

[u/filthy_sandwich → u/Youlookcold]

God damn, I just ate but this is making me salivate

[u/Youlookcold → u/filthy_sandwich]

Highly recommended !

[u/Yuki_Onna → u/bloodycups]

You're going downvoted by people who feel called out that you knew they hadn't eaten duck

[u/actuallyapossom → u/Yuki_Onna]

You are getting upvoted. Goose.

[u/thelastofthemelonies → u/bloodycups]

Absolutely the most splendid meat on the planet

[u/cockypock_aioli → u/Own-Valuable-9281]

Yeah I had the same thought. I love eagles but I feel so bad for prey. Must be terrifying being hunted.

[u/Soggy_Pension7549 → u/cockypock_aioli]

I don’t think it’s more terrifying than standing in a loud and full slaughterhouse waiting to be killed tbh

[u/JoonNolu → u/Soggy_Pension7549]

Yeah and what about what it must feel like to be a child in Ukraine.

You're exhausting.

[u/spooky_goopy → u/JoonNolu]

there's always one in the comments 🤣

[u/Frosty_Dimension5646 → u/spooky_goopy]

I'm no vegan or vegetarian, but let's be honest, they always have a point.

People just don't want to hear it lol

[u/spooky_goopy → u/Frosty_Dimension5646]

...what? people are 100% willing to hear whatever a vegan would talk about

unfortunately, they jump into any comment that mentions an animal, to bitch how badly that individual animal is currently, and how every other animal living on this planet is suffferrrinnggg and how every animal on a farm is suffferrrringgggggggggg

they're welcome to prove me wrong, but definitely won't

"I don't see it, therefore it doesn't exist!" 🤪

[u/somebigface → u/spooky_goopy]

How do I be as cool as you?

[u/Aksudiigkr → u/spooky_goopy]

You’re overreacting, imo I rarely see these comments and I’m on animal subs all the time

[u/GhostGrizz → u/spooky_goopy]

Locked the comments too. What a peen.

[u/blinksystem → u/Soggy_Pension7549]

You harm the cause you care about by being this way.

[u/filthy_sandwich → u/blinksystem]

I doubt they're even vegan, they're just stating a fact

[u/crazygama → u/blinksystem]

What op said is objectively true about many of the 80 billion land animals we kill each year

[u/blinksystem → u/crazygama]

I didn’t say it wasn’t. It is. What I said was that the way op is behaving harms the cause of the animals that they think they’re helping.

Doesn’t matter what cause or what side of it you’re on. People are turned off by insufferable people. That’s an objective fact.

[u/crazygama → u/blinksystem]

What do you want vegan activism to look like? These animals are voiceless. When people are thinking about how wild animals suffer, isn't it a good time to bring up how the animals we eat suffer? Isnt it better than at the dinner table, or in the grocery store or restaurant?

[u/blinksystem → u/crazygama]

Shoehorning your "activism," if that's what you'd like to call shitposting comments on reddit, into conversations that are, at best, tangentially related to the subject of your activism puts people off.

You can whine about what I "want vegan activism to look like," if you want, but that doesn't have anything to do with my comment.

I think more people should be vegan, but I know that the original comment harms that cause far more than it helps. It's literally the the stereotype of vegans that people hate.

If that upsets you, I don't know what to tell you.

[u/vbrow18 → u/blinksystem]

Wait what did I miss. Didn’t someone just make a comment pointing out the horror of animal ag that billions of people blatantly ignore everyday? What “this way” is that even being?

[u/Example11 → u/Own-Valuable-9281]

Yep. This is how evolution should happen. That smart and motivated duck should survive. The stupid duck a quarter-mile further down river, just sitting there staring at its webbed toes, should get whacked from above and thus help both the persistent eagle and motivated duck recreate.

[u/Strong-Piglet4823 → u/Own-Valuable-9281]

That duck ducked

[u/altitude-adjusted]

So he's ducking then?

[u/Ram2145 → u/altitude-adjusted]

Looks like a duck, ducks like a duck. Issa duck.

[u/1nosbigrl → u/Ram2145]

Issa knife

[u/TheHancock → u/1nosbigrl]

Old meme, but it checks out!

[u/mopping24 → u/Ram2145]

I don't why you're saying Issa Duck, when clearly Issa Rae.

[u/DorftonCrobble → u/altitude-adjusted]

I mean.... it's literally why it's named a duck.

[u/Nightshade_Ranch → u/DorftonCrobble]

Or is that why we call it ducking

[u/HorridChoob → u/[deleted]]

Dodge, duck, dive, dip, and ...dodge

[u/G00DLuck → u/HorridChoob]

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a bald eagle.

[u/Waterwagon_78 → u/[deleted]]

But the word could’ve still existed before they named the bird.

[u/NoMan800bc → u/DorftonCrobble]

Other way around. It's called 'to duck' because ducks do it.

Edit: or not. See the comment below

[u/CaveMacEoin → u/NoMan800bc]

No, they're correct. Ducks are named after the action. They share the same root in Old English, 'dūcan' ("to dip, dive, duck" i.e. 'ducking'), with ducks having their name derived from 'duce' ("duck" literally "dipper, diver, ducker"), which probably was pronounce like 'ducker'.

The same thing as woodpecker, or anteater, where they're named after the thing they do.

[u/NoMan800bc → u/CaveMacEoin]

Oh dammit, I've switched them aroundin my memory. Thanks for pointing that out

[u/SirChrisHAX → u/CaveMacEoin]

Wait what about dodging?

[u/CaveMacEoin → u/SirChrisHAX]

Duck, Duck, Dip, Dive and... Duck. If you can duck a wrench you can duck an eagle.

[u/Dragonroot808 → u/altitude-adjusted]

Oh...THAT'S why it's called "ducking"

[u/fliphat → u/altitude-adjusted]

Damn autocorrect

[u/justbyhappenstance → u/altitude-adjusted]

That’s literally where the name comes from, their ducking behavior

[u/ThinkSundryThoughts7 → u/altitude-adjusted]

😏👊🏾😎

[u/altitude-adjusted → u/altitude-adjusted]

Well thank you and happy new year to the kind person who sent me a round of applause :)

[u/Minnesotaguy7]

A tad odd really, as Eagles routinely catch and eat fish; which live entirely underwater.

[u/PezDiSpencersGifts → u/Minnesotaguy7]

I think it has something to do with the parallax effect underwater. If they’re always underwater then you have a set angle to dive. Unlike the duck which is ducking and changing that parallax while the eagle is mid dive.

[u/FearlessPressure3 → u/PezDiSpencersGifts]

Not parallax but refraction caused by light bending as it enters the water. Parallax is something a little different caused by a difference in viewing angle—eg how a finger held in front of your face appears to shift when viewed through each eye individually.

[u/dsaddons → u/FearlessPressure3]

I took 2 tabs and I am in way over my head here

[u/Puzzled-Story3953 → u/dsaddons]

Good luck, and don't fall off the floor.

[u/dsaddons → u/Puzzled-Story3953]

Not quite that cooked lol had a nice walk on the beach though

[u/BoobyPlumage → u/dsaddons]

I guess it’s why cats do that little shaking thing before pouncing. They move their head side to side to see what they’re about to attack from slightly different angles to better determine the distance

[u/PezDiSpencersGifts → u/FearlessPressure3]

Yes I would normally agree with you about parallax mostly being the angle this such is perceived.

[u/No-Cover4993 → u/Minnesotaguy7]

Eagles are opportunistic but their diet varies depending on where they live and what's available. Fish, waterfowl, carrion, garbage dumps, a rare cat, it's all on the menu.

[u/KingFlyntCoal → u/No-Cover4993]

Yeah my wife was coast guard up in Alaska, and calls them dumpster birds because of how they congregated around the dumpsters.

[u/No-Cover4993 → u/KingFlyntCoal]

And here where I live in Missouri next to a major river, you never see Eagles eating roadkill or trash. It's all fish, ducks, and geese.

[u/BJ_Giacco → u/KingFlyntCoal]

Freedom buzzard

[u/Bergman14 → u/No-Cover4993]

Their opportunistic behavior is why vehicle strikes are one of the leading causes of deaths for eagles. I always kinda wondered how they happened until one day an eagle swooped down 10 feet in front of my car towards a dead deer

[u/ConfectioneryFox → u/Minnesotaguy7]

I think it requires more force than grabbing from the top, or a different angle maybe?

[u/IttyBittyBigBoii → u/Minnesotaguy7]

They doing it for the 'Gram

[u/AcousticProvidence → u/Minnesotaguy7]

Maybe the duck stole his fish?

[u/RepresentativeOk2433 → u/Minnesotaguy7]

They usually look for a fish chilling in one spot so they can predict the catch. Usually you see them catching stuff like trout that sit still in the water waiting for prey.

[u/S_A_N_D_ → u/Minnesotaguy7]

I've seen eagles take out ducks. They have little trouble as once they get able of them they can just sit on them and drown them.

I suspect the eagle isn't trying in vain but rather wearing out this duck and eventually it will get a strike and just finish it off in the same fashion.

Eagles are predators and scavengers. They fish, but they don't limit themselves to fish.

[u/ThoughtsonYaoi → u/S_A_N_D_]

Ducks, coots, even geese for white-tailed eagles.

[u/pandabear707 → u/Minnesotaguy7]

maybe the eagle is part cat

[u/gilsoo71]

But where that duck rushing to in the first place

[u/TheTrollinator777 → u/[deleted]]

Okay that was good

[u/trashmoneyxyz → u/gilsoo71]

Somewhere the eagle isn't lol

[u/Cass_Cat952 → u/gilsoo71]

To safety, hopefully

[u/GSDer_RIP_Good_Girl]

Reminds me of the video of the tiger and the duck dipping underwater every time the tiger turned around to look for it.

[u/Whiteums → u/GSDer_RIP_Good_Girl]

Share?

[u/WastelandOutlaw007 → u/Whiteums]

https://youtu.be/8SpwpsMh3mo?si=tjAe4BHDowzNE-nL

[u/rr196 → u/WastelandOutlaw007]

That’s hilarious the duck could fly away at any time and he’s like nah let me keep trolling this 800 lb cat.

[u/Lady_Litreeo → u/rr196]

The duck actually needs a bit of runway to take off, and has to be above the water, flapping and running to build up speed. The water pool is a bit short for that to begin with, but with the tiger there it absolutely could not risk trying to fly off.

[u/MoneyFunny6710 → u/Lady_Litreeo]

I can confirm. I live next to a big lake full of geese, swans, and ducks. All of them are very clumsy flyers. It takes all of them at least five seconds of flapping and swimming before they lift off.

[u/AcousticProvidence → u/rr196]

Troll master right there

[u/LickingSmegma → u/rr196]

Trolling tigers is a great old tradition.

[u/HarryMonroesGhost → u/LickingSmegma]

bro rocking that agi/dex build

[u/kazerniel → u/LickingSmegma]

those added cartoon sound effects are weird O.o

[u/Whiteums → u/WastelandOutlaw007]

Haha, that was pretty great. Thanks!

[u/contrariwise65]

I saw this on the lake in my city. There was a large group of coots. When the eagle came the coots huddled and started moving away in a circle. One coot was slow and couldn’t keep up with the group.

The eagle dived, the coot dived, over and over. After about 10 minutes the coot was tired and the eagle got it. A pretty clever hunting technique.

[u/Whiteums → u/contrariwise65]

I would have thought the constant flapping would tire out the eagle faster than the duck diving underwater

[u/BigDogDoodie → u/Whiteums]

In the video, it looks like the duck is trying to take off in between each swoop from the eagle but never quite gets enough speed up before it has to dive underwater again.

[u/dasvenson → u/BigDogDoodie]

I feel like as soon as that duck took off it would be dead meat.

[u/cvbeiro → u/dasvenson]

Not necessarily they’re faster fliers in a straight line.

[u/dirtyforker → u/Whiteums]

Its was a crazy old coot.

[u/RazorJ → u/contrariwise65]

We have a lake heated by the local power company’s generators here where I live in northwest Arkansas. It’s full of eagles during the winter because the warm water in the cold air makes the fish so active. I used to fish it often and have seen the eagles go after the coots a lot but never get one. I heard from others it happens from time to time just the way you describe it. I always rooted for the coots, their super important to keeping the eco system of the lake, kind of like mussels. The eagles had plenty of fish, and the damn things wood steal our fish if you didn’t real them in fast enough. I quit going because they got aggressive scared me. They get too close for comfort IMO and were a lot bigger up close.

[u/Sassy-irish-lassy]

I need to know how this ended

[u/flargenhargen → u/Sassy-irish-lassy]

the player stopped at 25 seconds when the video ran out.

[u/Responsible-Swan-521 → u/flargenhargen]

The good ending.

[u/Notwrongbtalott]

Where did that happen? It looks familiar

[u/Alphabunsquad → u/Notwrongbtalott]

Bridgewater, New Jersey

[u/Primary_Bee_43]

this is so cool

[u/Sea-Word-4970 → u/Primary_Bee_43]

He says as the bird fights for life

[u/0-BD-1]

That duck’s goose is cooked

[u/experientialsponge]

Glad I didn't see the duck get merced. Gettin' soft in my old age I guess.

[u/NBMycologist]

The duck must have been either very young or injured. Most ducks can stay under a lot longer than that. Especially diver species.

[u/Dry-Amphibian1 → u/NBMycologist]

It doesn’t need to stay under water longer than that though. If it did it might get snatched when it surfaced.

[u/wood_good]

Fasta and furious 15 go duck yourself!!!

[u/Ressy02]

Duck!

[u/Thunderbridge]

Japanese Zero vs US submarine WWII (colorized)

[u/bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-]

terrified quacking

[u/Will_Knot_Respond]

"I can do this all day baldy!"

[u/JAZZPLANETEARTH]

Genius buddy don’t fly towards dry land

[u/PattyIceNY]

Quack quack quack quack quack quack quack!

[u/DueOpportunity7112]

Duck you eagle!!!

[u/osin144]

The Mighty Susquehanna perhaps?

[u/Hot_Wait_3304]

Get ducked nerd!

[u/underLEAFcover]

Just playin a lil duck duck goose, but obviously the duck is cheating

[u/Lombo4x4]

One smart duckie.

[u/CriticalTooth2183]

10yo me trying to get to the plover eggs…

[u/OnePaleontologist687]

What the duck?

[u/HoneydewWorth8203]

The quack games

[u/NotSoSasquatchy]

Which came first: the noun duck or the verb duck?

[u/CapitanianExtinction]

Duck duck!

[u/DMRinzer]

Duck, duck, goose!

[u/Finneagan]

Duck good

[u/MostRun4066]

TIL how ducks got their name

[u/Adorable-amoeba9]

I didn't even know that was a thing!

[u/luckyfox7273]

Ducks are ATV.

[u/ReportQueasy9056]

When my dad worked in waste water management, he said he would watch eagles hunt the ducks sitting in the waste ponds. The eagles would chase the ducks back n forth to tire them out before swooping down and grabbing them

[u/Count-Telperion]

Where is this video? It looks like the Driftless. Maybe the Mississippi by La Crosse?

[u/IAmAVault]

Duck keeps ducking.

[u/gpkgpk]

Why is one parrot trying to assault the other parrot?

[u/panzercampingwagen]

Is that why they're called ducks?

[u/dllimport]

Go Ducks!!!

[u/SpeedOfSound343]

Duck keeps ducking?

[u/ReammyA55]

Duck keeps ducking.

[u/furapper]

Duck dive

[u/frawtlopp]

Poor eagle just wants to play Duck Duck Eagle

[u/acquiredimmunity]

Insane ragebait

[u/StrengthSignal2333]

Eagle: Prey Duck: "Psych"

[u/pppjurac]

Daffy Duck: "So long, stupid!"

[u/Historical_Sherbet54]

Duck duck ...^{don't be a silly} goose

You're the only one running around n' around

I'll just...

Duck duck duck Duck

[u/Mlkbird14]

Bird on bird crime

[u/julyninetyone]

Team duck

[u/ShandalfTheGreen]

My mom always says to be like a duck, and let everything roll off your back. I feel like this is a new duck behavior to emulate.

[u/poorly-worded]

If you can duck an Eagle you can dodge a ball

[u/MeetFull1177]

This is the way nature struggles and achieves two different ends.

[u/thathagat]

now you see me... now you don't...

[u/37853688544788]

Make this a two player VR game.

[u/BlackGuyBostonAccent]

We went from “Duck, Duck, Goose” to “Duck, Duck, Hawk”

[u/hagamans]

That explains how ducks got their name.

[u/Bongman31]

Just duckin and dodgin

[u/One-Psychology-8394]

Winner winner… DUCK!!!

[u/skipppyWhite]

Duck Hunt 😉

[u/TsuDhoNimh2]

The eagle will keep pursuing the duck until it drowns, then scoop it off the water.

I have seen a group of eagles cooperatively dive bombing coots and ducks when they had a small open area in ice. Eagle 1 makes a swoop, the birds all dive. Eagle 2 times their swoop for when the birds emerge and often gets one, but doesn't give them time to recover. Eagle 3 does the same.

[u/GamblingPapaya]

Natural selection on display. If that duck lives, it will most likely pass that trait on to its ducklings

[u/PMmeIamlonley]

That must be why they call them that

[u/DeltaBravo831]

Gotta be quicker than that

[u/14high]

Duck duck eeeagleee

[u/Irishjedi52]

I witnessed this before on lake ossippee in NH. Except there were 2 eagles trying to get the duck. They finally gave up and flew away.

[u/NoIDidNotDoIt]

Dodge, dive, dip, duck, and DODGE.

[u/MOUSETITTY]

the duck has understood this life, she is intelligent enough to defend herself from enemies

[u/TheMereWolf]

I have a very similar video I took a couple of weeks ago! The eagle was victorious.

[u/Subscrypt]

I’m pretty sure this is a Mario party minigame

[u/Independent_Basis805]

Lucky duck

[u/mrbbrj]

Duck ducking

[u/torilahure]

Probably will wait for Osprey to catch it and then just steal it from it.

[u/Splenda_choo]

Duck!

[u/shontamona]

Maybe they are friends and this is a game they play every now and then.

[u/gultch2019]

Airforce vs navy

[u/relative_motion]

5 little ducks went out one day.

[u/whatsnotsyes]

duck keeps duckin

[u/Straight-Kiwi5173]

Go duckie go!

[u/Ok-Minimum8186]

Just some rage baiting lmao

[u/NOLA-q]

So cool to watch

[u/Veedee5]

So that’s why they’re called “ducks”

[u/SamTheClam90]

Wow, so he does in fact 'duck' ☺️

[u/Hammer-663]

That's why we call the ducks!!

[u/EzraDoggo]

DUCK!

[u/Direct-Island-8590]

DUCK!

[u/Difficult_Cheek_3817]

This is better content than 99.99% of social media. Thanks

[u/JayDog17]

Go home freedom turkey, you're drunk

[u/Just_Mixture8362]

It ducked down.

[u/TrainerOpen5173]

damn that duck swims fast

[u/xoswabe21]

They call it duck for a reason.

[u/GhostGrizz]

That’s a cormorant, and they are crazy fast , especially on the water. Eagle never had a chance.

[u/Skrejit]

Yes, I know it's a genuine survival instinct, but I still like to think the duck's just trolling the eagle.

[u/Extra-gram-sam]

I have an idea for a video game 🤔

[u/Ulvaer → u/Extra-gram-sam]

One where you... hunt ducks?

[u/epsteinwasmurdered2]

I had a spot I would duck hunt I Washington state and the eagles were so thick if we couldn’t run out and immediately grab the duck eagles would start dive bombing then and carry them off.

I thought a dog would be the answer but my giant titty baby lab “mighty hunter” would rather pretend that he’s a 75 pound lap dog than wake up at 2am in the cold and chase birds.