Current Events > Eagle snatches hawk from nest and raises it as it's own.

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But to her welcome surprise, neither the mother nor the eaglet attacked the little hawk.
"She just kind of dropped it, you know, and it came alive. And [the] eaglet was just like, 'What the fuck, Mom? What is this? Why is it moving?'"
At first, she says, the two baby birds kept to themselves on opposite sides of the nest, and the mother didn't pay much attention to the hawk.
But by nightfall, she says they'd become a real family, with the mother eagle feeding and fussing over both baby birds equally.
Growls operates a number of webcams on the island to monitor eagle nests. The group is keeping the exact location of the rare inter-species family a secret, so they don't get overwhelmed by birdwatchers.
McCartney says the eaglet's parents had lost one of their two chicks a few weeks ago, and she suspects the new hawk has taken its place.
"In my mind of growing up on Disney, I'm seeing this eaglet think like, 'Was this another little sibling?'" she said.

Why would she keep it alive this long if she still wants to eat it?