At 11:19 AM 3/25/97 -0800, you wrote:

For what its worth, a friend observed a Golden Eagle fly up behind a coyote,
grab it by the back, carry it a short horizontal distance, and drop it into
a canyon. The coyote's legs went straight out like a sky-diver, but to no
avail, it died.

Craig Corder
Hermiston OR
ccorder at eonet.com

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>On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Dan Victor wrote:
>>I was talking to a guy there who described an owl killing a cat near Hood
>>Canal. The owl apparently lifted the cat about 200 feet in the air and
>>dropped it, as a method for killing it. Possibly a Great Horned? Have
>>any of you heard of owls using this method?
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