Rare footage of a Philippine eagle family over the course of five months shows parents intensively caring for a single eaglet and the eaglet learning to fly.
The Bagobo Tagabawa people, who live at the foot of Mount Apo in the Philippines, tell the story of a banog, or great eagle, that snatched a man and carried him away to its aerie. The banog had an eaglet, and that eaglet befriended the man. When the it grew up, it freed the man, returning him to the village the same way he’d come. The man named his son, who founded the first Bagobo Tagabawa villages, after the young banog out of gratitude—the title Datu Banog is still given to leaders of exceptional courage and wisdom.
Today, the Philippine eagle, one of the largest eagle species in the world, is better known for its ability to carry off monkeys
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