A Very “Proud” Fellow
Saturday, September 30, 2006
A couple of days ago I was working on some mathematical formulae related to the file-wave conversion, the thing that I was burbling about in the previous post. It was 2 o’clock after midnight and everything was totally quiet. I could hear my younger brother slam the house door and move up the stairs to our room. I was digging into the Fourier Series coefficients formula when he entered the room holding this …
Ghaith: esh hada bil zab6?
Loai: Saqer!
Ghaith (sarcastically): billllaaah 3alek?
Apparently, my brother “borrowed” it from one of his friends. It is a very young eagle who’s being kept by his friend as a pet! :S
I was a bit surprised to hear that there are people in Amman keeping eagles as “pets”! I know that eagles can be raised in farms or in the deserts as luxury birds, or as hunting assistants, but I least expected to see one raised in an apartment :D
My brother said that as long as it’s being fed good amounts of meat, which is the only thing it eats, it won’t cause any problems; it won’t fly away and it won’t think of hunting down the street cats :P
The little eagle sounded very quiet, a bit arrogant maybe, more like it thinks nothing in the world can harm it! It didn't pay any attention to our gestures and acted very calm. It is a very fearful and proud bird indeed :)
We tried to push it to fly around so we can see how it looks like with its wings spread wide open, but it wasn’t really into it; it flew one meter and landed on one of my guitars.
My brother told me it may not be in the mood because it just had a fight with a cat right outside the house. My brother and his friend put one of the neighborhood cats in front of the eagle to see how it would react. The eagle, being apparently well-fed, didn’t bother at all. The cat, however, had a different opinion: it thought the little eagle was a pigeon and so it attacked it!
My brother told me they had to pull the eagle away instantly because it was being hurt by the cat and it didn’t fight back, nor did it try to escape. He said it looked like it's being “annoyed” more than it looked scared. I think it is fascinating, though a bit dumb, that these birds do not know what fear is. Even the fatal dangers won’t scare the little ones of them.
I admired the bird a lot. My brother soon took it back to his friend who’s been waiting outside. I didn’t have a lot of time to experiment with it like I usually do to animals I get my hands on ;)
The next day, I showed my father the eagle’s pictures and he really liked them. My father turned to know a lot about eagles as he used to capture the young ones in the old days. He said that in 5~6 months, this little fellow will grow to become a dreadful hunter, and will become far too big to be kept in an apartment!
His owners must be thinking of this, it must be hard to let go of a proud bird like this. No wonder why eagles are symbols for power, pride and freedom :)
10 Response(s) to "A Very “Proud” Fellow"
Lubna said:
ah another post i love! but what's with the shirt that seems to be used to cover the guitar :P
it's not that same shirt at the O-level's ceremony, and the after 4 years reunion ha?
Abed. Hamdan said:
elle ma3a 2ersh w ma7yro, yeshtri 7amam wey6ayro ;D
naturalblu said:
hada eagle wela bomeh? i hate el bomaat :S
Ghaith said:
Lubna
lol, noo! Soret 7akeelek 100 marra keef sheklo hadak el shirt oo betdallek tense :D
Anyway, I got sick of that shirt so I set it on fire months ago. This one is brand new; I’ve been wearing it for three years now :P
Ba3deen am not covering the guitar with that shirt, am just using the guitar to hold the shirt up :F
Abed
6ayyeb elle ma3o oo mo m7ayyar? Welle ma ma3o bas m7ayyar? hadool esh yeshtaro?
naturalblu
Ente sheklek ma 3omrek ro7te 3ala 7adeqet el 6oyor?!
Hada la saqer wala boomeh! hada fa55ash! :P
naturalblu said:
fa55ash? wala mara farjoona ya :S lool
o jad 3omri ma shofet haik eshe :S
Lubna said:
lol
Waseem said:
hey man, btw if u think this bird is great check out the snake basel bought!! "Bull Python" .
Tala said:
he is so pretty! his eyes are very sharp. and you can see how fearless he is. i would never ever think of having one. who would want to own it. its made to be free.
Ghaith said:
Yeah Tala, it is definitely born to be free but you know what; I don’t think it minds being raised by people. Eagles are not like other birds; the presence of human beings does not scare them because they simply don’t feel fear, not to mention how much humans adore them, and the fact that no sane human can harm an eagle.
This eagle is free like all others. It is not “captured” by any means; it is only being taken care of. I am sure both the bird and its owners are somehow aware of this :)
Roger said:
since i dont like "big birds" or any birds, so, nice balat u got :-P
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