No, I bet it was a case of predator driven by starvation. Flying off is what a raptor does with food.
On Mar 9, 2015, at 7:36 PM, Mary Alexnderson wrote:
> After pulling it apart for a while and moving it small amounts, with a face FULL of down, the victor flew off with the dead. As far as i could tell it never managed to get more than a few feet off the ground. So would these have been territorial enemies?
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