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Golden Eagles are quite the prolific hunters. We have already seen them try to take away a toddler, take down wolves, but that was done with the aid of humans who probably help tire the wolf out before the eagle went for a swoop. As it turns out, even in the wild, golden eagles are not averse to attacking prey much larger than themselves, and they’re often successful. A wildlife camera set up in a remote region of Siberia shows just how dangerous an eagle can be.

It shows an eagle attacking a deer, latching itself on the back of the animal and killed the deer. The camera was set up to track endangered Siberian tigers at the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve, this just happened to be a happy bonus from the project. Well, not so happy for the deer, but you get the point.

The images have only recently been made public, though they were captured in 2011 and published in the Journal of Raptor Research.

Via ScientificAmerican, PetaPixel