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A Tawny Eagle?

posted 8 years ago by magolding
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In "Love is For the Birds" Zuri and Tiffany found an egg that Tiffany identified as from a "tawny eagle". Wild tawny eagles are found in arid regions of Africa and Asia, very different from the climate on the Maine seacoast.

The only eagles found in North America are the bald eagle and the golden eagle.

So maybe Tiffany (Gasp! Shudder!) actually made a mistake. Or maybe she correctly identified a very out of place tawny eagle an ocean away from where it was supposed to be.

Or maybe this is yet another example of the Disney channel Live Action Universe being an alternate universe with a different biology than ours. Like the old time Tundrabanians in Liv and Maddie being able to collect enough blue whale bladders to outfit two teams, or alligators eating only live prey as the all knowing Olive said in A.N.T. Farm, or brown bears (Ursus arctos) being found near Miami, Florida according to the almost equally erudite Ally in Austin and Ally.

Possibly the out of universe reason is that the only tame and trained eagle available to be in the same shot as the actors without attacking them was a tawny eagle and it as correctly described as one in the dialog, even though they are not native to North America.

[–] greenflowerk 8 years ago

The show is to ENTERTAIN not EDUCATE. Therefore, they are not required to do full research.

I for one don't have a problem with it.

[–] magolding 8 years ago

Yes, but now you have also been educated.

My point is that it proves once again that the DCLAU is an alternate universe to ours. You might not care about that but some people here might be interested.

Anyway, sometimes various fictions give false information, sometimes about things the viewers might someday need to know for their safety. For example, how to act when encountering a wild bear in the Austin & Ally episode previously mentioned.

[–] CuriousUserX90 8 years ago

I know the ANT Farm episode you're talking about, but what's the Austin & Ally and Liv & Maddie episode that you're referring to.

[–] MAGolding (1098) 6 years ago

There was an Austin and Ally episode "Boy Songs and Badges" (June 8, 2013) where Austin & co went camping with some scouts to get out of Austin singing his new song live on TV since he hadn't written it. But the TV crew followed them to the camp ground for Austin to sing it there and he was "saved by the bear" which appeared in the camp.

Ally said that you should yell loudly at a black bear and play dead with a brown bear - or vice versa - it doesn't matter since neither is recommended for either type of bear, and only black bears are found within a thousand miles of Miami. Naturally many people panicked and ran away screaming which you shouldn't do with large animals and for some reason the bear didn't chase and maul any of them.

In the Liv and Maddie episode "Flugelball-a-Rooney" (May 3,2015) Maddie's boyfriend Diggie returned from being a foreign exchange student in the fictional country of Tundrabania in the Arctic and introduced the Tundrabanian sport of Flugelball. He said that the old time Flugelball players wore blue whale bladders. So how could the "old time Tundrabanians" get enough blue whale bladders to equip two teams? I doubt if blue whale bladders could be preserved for a long time by the old time Tundrabanians.

Suppose that brontosaurs were still around and Diggie said the Tundtabanians used Brontosaur bladders for Fluegalball. How could the "old time Tunderbanians" with their primitive technology kill enough brontosaurs to outfit their teams with brontosaur bladders? Small blue whales are as long as brontosaurs and much heavier and they live in the alien environment of the ocean. How could the "old time Tundrabanians" collect enough blue whale bladders for a game?

[–] MAGolding (1098) 6 years ago

For those who haven't seen the A.N.T. Farm episode, in "animal husbANTry", the 3rd episode of the 3rd season, on June 28, 2013, Chyna agrees to watch the animals of her fellow A.N.T. while he is away. Chyna becomes attached to the chicken, and Olive gets jealous of all the time Chyna spends with the bird. Chyna gets upset when she learns she is supposed to feed the chicken to the alligator, and suggests that they buy a dead chicken from the supermarket to feed the alligator.

The all knowing Olive who never forgets a fact says that alligators only eat live prey, so the alligator wouldn't eat a dead chicken. Either jealous Olive is lying, or this is actually true in the alternate universe of the DCLAU.

In real life, in our alternate universe, alligators do eat dead meat and Purina makes Purina Alligator Chow to sell to alligator farms and owners of pet alligators. Other species of crocodiles also eat dead meat.

The St. Augustine Alligator Farm had a giant crocodile named Gomek who was so tame and non aggressive - for a croc - that his keepers actually got into his compound and close to him. They used to feed him dead chickens from a few feet away, which would have been suicidal if crocodiles only ate live prey.

http://www.interestingamerica.com/2011-02-25_St_Augustine_Alligator_Farm_by_R_Grigonis.html

https://ourplnt.com/worlds-5-largest-crocodiles-ever-recorded/gomek-crocodile-marcus-miller/

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME WITH ANY CROCODILE OR ALLIGATOR THAT IS NOT MUCH SMALLER THAN YOU! IN MANY JURISDICTIONS DOING IT YOURSELF MIGHT COUNT AS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, WHILE GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SO MIGHT COUNT AS ATTEMPTED MURDER, EVEN IF NOTHING BAD HAPPENS.

People survived getting so close to Gomek for two reasons:

1) Because for some reason Gomek was very tame - for a crocodile.

and:

2) Gomek and other crocodiles and alligators are willing to eat dead meat instead of live prey.