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White Falcon, White Wolf
Video: Mother Gyrfalcon on the Hunt

The father gyrfalcon hasn’t brought home enough food, and the mother is getting worried. At this time last year, the pair’s chicks died of starvation. Taking matters into her own talons, the mother falcon decides to leave the cliffs and go on the hunt.

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M. Slade -- October 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am

Falcons are cool and the gryfalcon is the coolest. How come no one has made a superhero out of one?

Neil Sonnier -- October 26th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Are you kidding me? You are claiming a deadbeat father is to blame for the downfall of the family? What a load of garbage. Beautiful film but ridiculous story line. These aren’t human, they are birds driven by instinct, stop the propaganda .

David Couto -- October 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

I simply loved this documentry! They did such an amazing job capturing all the naimals! Ten thumbs up!

IE Ries -- October 27th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

“These aren’t human, they are birds driven by instinct, stop the propaganda.”

When a non-human displays a behaviour, it’s “instinct.” When a human does the exact same thing, it’s “sentience, free-will, human intelligence”…blah blah blah.

Why do you find it so difficult to see that the parallels exist? An inexperienced and ill-prepared father will adversely affect outcomes for his offspring, be it a Homo sapien or Falco rusticolus.

Kent Simm -- November 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 am

“These aren’t human, they are birds driven by instinct, stop the propaganda.”

We humans think to highly of our selves. Has 1 human learned to communicate with another species in THEIR language? NO the animal learns to interpret some form(sign,verbal,hand signals) of ours. Who is the smarter?

Aiman -- November 4th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

indeed we can control our instincts better than animals. but i don’t think the storyline is ridiculous in any way, animals don’t have favourable circumstances as humans do. and the father isnt deadbeat, he’s just unlucky in finding food.

wes -- February 3rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm

this helps with my report

Co -- April 14th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

i’v been waiting for
white falcon white wolf to come out.

zelda -- May 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm

The gyr falcon is the coolest bird not to menchion fastest in the WORLD!

turky ibraheem -- July 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm

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Co -- August 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

i agree with aiman

Wolf Tracker -- August 24th, 2009 at 12:23 am

“We humans think to highly of our selves”

By the way it’s “too” and “ourselves”. Careful, people may question your ability to make an intelligent rebuttal.

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