Harpy+Eagle

__//**HARPY EAGLE (Harpia harpyja)**//__

Harpy eagles live around the tropic low lands in forests. It is a vertebrate and bird. They like to live in northern Argentina, southern Brazil, and southeastern Mexico. this eagle weighs 10 - 20 pounds. The eagle has a body length of 35 - 41 inches. This amazing bird eats prey that live in trees like sloths. monkeys, and possums. This animal has a lot of special techniques to catch and prey and run away from predators. One technique is to grab its prey and grasp it and throw it on the ground to knock it out then eat it. A second technique to run away from predators is to hide and try to blend in to the environment. This eagle lays 1 - 2 eggs. when one egg hatches the eagle waits a few more days and the other one doe not hatch the eagles leaves it. The baby born eagle stays with his/her mother for a year. This eagle does not help humans, and humans do not help the eagles. This Harpy Eagle evolved from an accipitridae. Over the years these amazing creatures have been coming endangered and almost gone!

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