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A thirteen year-old eagle huntress

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There is one other Kazhakh female hunting with eagles, Makpal Abdrazakova, and she also started at age 13. She's in her 20s at present.

Painful to see every culture slowly succumb to cubicles and factories. Eagle and huntress, fly free.

it 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.

Be sure to listen to the interview with the Photographer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wztnh

And an earlier piece of film of eagle hunting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/environments...

The photographers blog post with first hand account and more pictures: http://www.svidensky.com/post.aspx?id=18

Pretty awesome that they eventually release the eagles back into the wild.

if only they could do that to the foxes they have hunted.

Which they would hunt whether captive or not.

would eagle hunt that many foxes to make and sell all that nice outer-wear?

With 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.

this 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.

What metric are you using to quantify smartness in animals?

Smaltmetrics.

Wild 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.

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