We finally have an result to the age - old question " what would win in a fight between an octopus and a bald bird of Jove ? " after a chemical group of salmon farmers stumbled across that precise battle last calendar week off the coast of Vancouver Island , Canada .
The team of granger were returning to their plasterer’s float mansion when they bumble across the bizarre peck , Salmon River sodbuster John Ilett toldCNN . They heard screeching and splashing , and upon investigating plant " a full - sized eagle submerged in the urine with a big gargantuan devilfish in the water try out to drag it down . "
We ’re jolly indisputable if this had taken position up to 3,000 metre ( 10,000 feet ) above the Earth the bald-pated eagle would have absolutely annihilated the devilfish before it could even put all eight of its tentacles in capitulation , but in this casing , the octopus had the home - field advantage . The octopus was easily get ahead , drag the poor eagle into the water .
Unsure what to do – and whether they were supposed to let nature do its brutal affair – the chemical group watched on for around five minutes before decide they could n’t watch any longer without helping the eagle .
" We were n’t sure if we should intervene because it is female parent nature , natural selection of the fittest , " Ilett distinguish CNN . " But it was ticker twist – to see this devilfish was essay to swim this bird of Jove . "
The team immortalize the last few minute of the engagement , and their intervention to salve the bald eagle .
" [ Our staff ] are used to figure the marvel of nature around them on a regular basis , but they knew that this was a once in a lifespan experience , " Mowi Canada West writes onYouTube . " The octopus swam away unscathed and the eagle regain on a branch for around 10 minutes before it flew away . "
The team have been pick apart by some on social media for intervene , rather than rent nature " take its course of instruction " ( in this typesetter’s case a euphemism for letting an octopus swim an eagle ) .
But not everybody can be as cold as Attenborough , watching patiently as a team of lovely monkeys attacks and eats an even more adorable muckle of scamp , orletting baby turtle get devoured by a sea gull live on goggle box .
" Am I at fault because I ’m human and I felt compassionateness for the bird ? " Ilett told CNN . " At the end of the twenty-four hours both brute are alive and well and they went their separate path and we find pretty good about what we did . "
