It's Eagle: 1, Drone: 0 in Aerial Takedown Video

Some days it can't be easy to be a non-lethal drone -- nothing trusts you, chimps will swat you down, homeowners might shoot you out of the sky, and because you're not military you don't have much in the way of defenses.

Now an eagle has gotten into the drone-busting business, as you can see in this footage, which was shot by Melbourne Aerial Videos and placed on its Youtube channel.

The video shows a wedge-tailed eagle coming in fast above the Aussie landscape and then, seconds later, we see the hapless drone lying in a whirring heap on the ground.

"Eagle was fine -- she was massive, and used talons to 'punch' the drone out of the sky," Melbourne Aerial Videos wrote on its Youtube channel. The drone, however, had to go in for some surgery, according to ABC News.

As the old saying goes -- if you mess with the eagle, you get the talons. OK, that's not quite the saying, but this drone sure saw it that way.

From Discovery News