In a remote area of French Guiana, a 29-year-old woman was attacked by a harpy, considered the world’s largest eagle, in October 2023. In an area with extensive tracts of preserved forest, such ...

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After roughly 100 years without major eagle predators, researchers introduced two radio-collared harpy eagles to an island containing approximately 65 howler monkey troops, averaging 19 monkeys each.