Biology or Love?

That is very sweet.

Eagles are majestic creatures. They're fascinating to watch. The seem to know things.

That's a great story, Kelly. Thank you for sharing it here.

I this. I'll have to check it out tomorrow in the daytime.

Good story with a happy ending.

That cures my ick from watching a documentary on the less pleasant mating rituals of some animals (you don't want to know what some of them are... they may the worst excesses of human bad behaviour look pale...). This is the sort of thing my work frequently forces me to do...

He's clearly the pick of the eagle world then... all the female eagles want him and all the male eagles want to be him

This is one of the problems of competitive mating in a small population size... all the females will still compete for the one most eligible male and leave all the other males in the cold. Not the best thing for your gene pool necessarily.

One of the scenes in the video I saw had a herd animal in africa (can't remember what they were called without checking the video again, not gazelle though). The males mark out territory and the females who want to mate with them 'hang out' in that territory waiting to be 'dealt with'. In the video they showed one strong male with a territory full of females (reminded me a little of a rock star and his posse of groupies ) and many other males standing in their own territories looking forlorn. The attitude seemed to be 'why bother with a non-entity when you can wait in line for the stud?'

To paraphrase DH Lawrence:

I never saw an eagle sorry for itself.

We *can* learn from nature.

That is so cool!