Eagle time with Dr Lauren! #TetZooCon

#TetZooCon Lauren McGough: “My passion is watching eagle predation. I know that sounds weird, but we’re all a little weird here.”

Now here’s a blast from the past for #TetZooCon - Mongolian Golden Eagle hunting, with Lauren McGough, a practice she describes as “Hunting with Dinosaurs”

Crowned eagles can kill surprisingly large mammals (Steenbok, Foxes and Aardwolves)! Their wings are "a vehicle for their massive feet" which can bring a falconer to their knees, even through a glove!" Says Lauren McGough at #TetZooCon

Stoked to be a part of #TetZooCon!

Finally got to meet Darren Naish in real life! And talk raptors, camels, UK lynx reintroduction...#TetZooCon is a blast!

Nailed it! 👏

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Have a listen to the world's loudest bird. 🐥📢🐤 It's also got one of the weirdest facial ornaments. theguardian.com/environment/20…

TIL courtesy of the London Zoo and Darren Naish, that aside from the giant anteater, anteaters are arboreal. 🤯

Female eagle clocks up huge cell phone roaming charges after flying to Iran. Top-up needed after scientists tracking feathered predators receive huge mobile SMS bills from ‘hundreds of messages’ siberiantimes.com/science/others…

#FossilFriday and a reminder of just how big Pleistocene lions were. Top to bottom: American lion (Panthera atrox), Cave lion (Panthera spelaea), modern lion (Panthera leo).

“No I’m not jetlagged” says I, as I crack an egg for breakfast and let it’s contents fall in the trash while I put the shell in my bowl. 🤦‍♀️

Bactrian camel bottom half - check out those feet! Learning how to train camels at the Southwest camel clinic

Photo of the Day! Lauren McGough Lauren McGough hunts with her golden eagle in Mongolia. #GoPro #Adventure

Thank you all for following! Next is to mount the GoPro on the eagle's back for real eagle's eye view of the chase!

Gorgeous piece by Stephen Bodio on how hunting, and our animal companions in the hunt, make us human. humansandnature.org/hunting---step…

We thing that Lauren McGough is pretty rad - and agree that Eagles make life grand!