The Human Being and the Animal World by Charles Kovacs

Author:Charles Kovacs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Floris Books
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

When Kiah and his sister were five months old, they were already as large as their parents. Kiah had a wing-spread of two metres (seven feet) from tip to tip, his feathers were a dark brown with a purple shine or glow, with touches of white on wings and underside. The head and neck were just beginning to get the golden colour from which the golden eagle gets his name. By now, at the age of five months, Kiah could fly as well as his parents, he could hunt, he could fight. As we saw, eagle parents don’t spoil their children, and Kiah’s parents decided that the time had come when Kiah and his sister must fend for themselves.

And so one day the whole family, father and mother, Kiah and his sister, were flying home to their nest on the cliff. They were not diving this time but flying leisurely, circling above the nest before coming down. The parents flew down first, but when Kiah and his sister followed them, both old eagles suddenly turned against them, struck at them with their beaks, beat at them with their wings, and would not let them land or come into the nest. At first, Kiah and his sister did not understand. This was their nest and home, these were the parents who had fed them, protected them, helped them to learn to fly, why did their parents now drive them off? Sadly the two young eagles flew away and spent the night in treetops.

The next morning Kiah saw his father fly out on the daily hunt and he flew up to join him. But as soon as the father eagle saw him, he dived down on him and Kiah only saved himself from being ripped by his father’s claws by quickly swerving. But the father came screaming at him again and Kiah was so scared that he fled. And the father eagle came after him and drove him on and on until Kiah was miles and miles from the place that had been his home. At long last the father eagle flew back and Kiah came down on a tree and realized that his childhood was over. From now on, he had to be on his own, he had to hunt for himself.

But this was not quite so easy as Kiah thought. You see, every grown-up eagle has a certain territory, that means a wide circle of land where he hunts. And he will not allow any other eagle to hunt in his territory for there is not enough food for more than one family in one territory. And so several times when Kiah flew up to look for a hare or squirrel to hunt, other, older eagles came screaming at him and drove him away. But at long last he found a cliff that offered protection from the winds and this cliff became Kiah’s centre from which he hunted. For more than two years Kiah made his flights from the cliff, and returned to it after a hunt, roosting in the branches of an old pine tree.

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