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Bald Eagle’s Aerial Attack on Unsuspecting Swan

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Bald Eagle’s Aerial Attack on Unsuspecting Swan

This serene, unsuspecting trumpeter swan was captured flying over Lakelse Lake in British Columbia, when suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, a bald eagle launched a fierce and audacious attack on it in mid-flight. The bird of prey landed on its victim, seizing hold of it while trying to pierce its vital areas with its dagger-like hind claws. What follows is an incredible sequence of photos of avian aerial combat at its most tense and gripping.

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Calcio Fiorentino: The Manliest Game On Earth

Friday, April 10, 2009

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Calcio Fiorentino: The Manliest Game On Earth

Calcio Fiorentino is definitely the sort of game you would have been tempted to forget your gym shorts for while you were in high school. This is a man’s game, make no mistake, played by the manliest of men in Italy. Like a primitive forefather of football and rugby, combined with no-holds-barred martial arts, Calcio Fiorentino was a bruiser from the day it was born in the 16th Century. Astonishingly it continues to be played to this day. One word sums it up: brutal.

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Human Ketchup: The World’s Largest Tomato Fight

Saturday, March 29, 2008

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‘Here in Buñol we have never liked bulls. A bull’s horns can hurt you, but a tomato never does you any harm,”- anonymous Image by Aaron Corey Every summer the Spanish town of Buñol witnesses lumpy red carnage in the format of a massive drunken food fight, where approximately [...]

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Gorillas Fight Human Invaders Using Weapons

Sunday, November 25, 2007

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Wild gorillas were recently spotted using weapons for the first time. This new discovery may help explain how early man learned to use natural objects as hunting and fighting

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