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Hello, Here Is A Very Chaotic Video Of A Shark Being Straight-Up Abducted By A Bird

Truly the most metal video of the year.

by Joseph Earp  4 July 2020
Shark gets abducted by eagle

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2020 has been hard for everyone. And I mean everyone. As it turns out, not even God’s most innocent of creatures, the shark, is safe.

See, over the weekend, a video began circulating on the internet of a shark being abducted and lifted straight into the goddamn sky by what was then being called an eagle.

There’s really no use stalling after you’ve given a description of a video like that, so just watch the thing, and then we’ll discuss below.

So, uh, yeah: flying shark. It appears as though the poor thing was plucked out of the air and carried away to be consumed. Several varieties of birds of prey hunt this way, gliding over the surface of water and plucking out the silvery fish that they see underneath.

It’s also not uncommon for them to carry the creatures that they’ve caught over a massive distance, bringing their food home so as to provide for their little birdy friends and family.

The rare part, of course, is the fact that it’s a fucken’ shark, nature’s greatest killing machine, being held aloft. And seriously, can you imagine being that shark? Gasping for breath? Held aloft that high above the beach, your whole sharky life flashing before your black eyes?

There’s no more context that I can give you, other than that image, except that apparently the bird doing the kidnapping is an osprey. So there you go.

Needless to say, since it started circulating, Twitter users began dunking on the video, providing their own commentary to the chaos.

Truly, my heart goes out for the poor shark. None of us deserve such a bizarre and chaotic fate.