Tentacles vs. talons: Octopus battles bald eagle in video shot off B.C. coast

John Ilett and his colleagues were operative during a fish plantation off a seashore of northern Vancouver Island this week when they witnessed a knock-down drag-out quarrel between an octopus and bald eagle and held a conflict on video.

The crew was in their vessel finishing adult work late Monday afternoon near Quatsino, B.C., when Ilett pronounced they “heard a lot of screeching, a lot of striking sounds” and saw a bald eagle drowning in a genocide hold of a vast octopus.

“They were grappling and struggling in a water,” pronounced Ilett on CBC’s On The Island. “The thing lilliputian a eagle and totally wrapped it up.”

The organisation didn’t know if they should intervene, though eventually motionless to step in and save a bird.

While a colleague’s camera rolled, Ilett took a dart stick and “slowly peeled a octopus off” a prey:

“That gave a eagle only adequate time to mangle giveaway and float to shore,” pronounced Ilett, adding a bird spent about 10 mins entertainment itself on a shoreline before drifting off.

“At a finish of a day, both animals are alive and went their apart ways,” pronounced Ilett, adding a octopus dived out of perspective after a eagle was freed.

Ilett did not see how a bird became trapped in a tentacles, though guesses a raptor attempted to bravery a octopus from a sea before realizing how large it was and apropos chase itself. 

“I’ve been out here for many years and I’ve seen a lot of stuff, though this ranks adult there with one of a coolest for sure,” pronounced Ilett.

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