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Those aren't wounds, those are stretch marks!
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Of course I'm fatphobic some of those mfs are SCARY
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TLDR VERSION: It's hard to have self-control, so give up and don't even try. Instead you can retreat to your internet hugbox and never have to think about your slowly hardening arteries and your overworked heart.
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She might not be fat, but she is definitely unworthy of having sex with.
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>@JambledUpWords has avatar of AmberLynn
>news article about internet meme making you “fatphobic”
>not sure why I’m laughing and wondering I should be surprised
>news article about internet meme making you “fatphobic”
>not sure why I’m laughing and wondering I should be surprised
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I love pale chicks, and I love goth chicks, but... that looks like a tranny.
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World ends, hamplanets most affected etc etc.
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>fatty reads words online
>"HELP!" the fatty says, "I am wounded I cannot get up"
>"No", says society, "you cannot get up because you're fucking fat"
>"HELP!" the fatty says, "I am wounded I cannot get up"
>"No", says society, "you cannot get up because you're fucking fat"
wtfNeedSignUp
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I have a feeling the writer's problems are more related to her father than of her weight.
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These fatties need to eat that chip on their shoulder.
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You're fucking with us, right?
Oh shit I thought I misread it as Linda Bacon, turns out they used to be Linda before transitioning to male.
It’s hard to be yourself and feel belonging in a culture that is hostile to your existence.
Think of someone you love.
I’m willing to bet that when you think about the people you cherish, it’s probably your dearest wish that they have access to every tool and opportunity possible to be themselves, be loved, and flourish in a welcoming world.
My parents wanted this for me. They wanted me to be loved and cherished. They wanted me to fit in and flourish.
That’s why they chose to name me Linda. Linda means beautiful, the “a” signifying female — facts I learned at my Bat Mitzvah, a Jewish ritual that marks the day a girl becomes a woman, at age thirteen. I’ll never forget my father’s speech. He was so proud, he told us, as my mother beamed at his side, of how I was living up to the name they had chosen for me.
Beautiful.
It was a magnificent, tender hope for my life. My success-oriented parents intuited, correctly, that feminine beauty is currency, a success lever in our society, and perhaps even a precondition for success — one that arguably overshadows character development and earned achievements. They believed (and everything in our world and their experience confirmed) that the main tool a girl needs is beauty. My parents’ hearts told them that femininity and feminine beauty would be the keys that unlocked hearts and doors for me. Like all parents with hearts full of love, they wanted that for me.
They wanted everything for me.
Naming me Linda was an aspiration, an invocation and a plan. Not that my parents had any ties to its origins, which are Spanish and Portuguese. Their disdain for Brown people, in fact, made this more an act of cultural appropriation than admiration. Yet, for them, the definition was powerful: I would be beautiful. I would be welcome in the world. I would belong.
There was, however, a flaw in that formula:
I was not a girl.
And femininity? Not my thing.
From the Conclusion:
We’re in a kayak, paddling between banks of mangrove trees. Our guide is telling me about how he studied in Canada before coming home so he could preserve, share and teach his Mayan culture to visitors from within Mexico as well as tourists, like me, from other countries. Throughout the day we slow down or speed up to rejoin my partner and son, together in another kayak. There’s no one else in sight this entire day, as we slowly paddle through the canal, listening to stories about Mayan traders from a thousand years past, their boats loaded with salt, honey, cacao and dreams of wealth.
The four of us stop for lunch, snacks, and to explore areas he’s keen to show us or swim in an open lagoon. Our guide points out tree leaves and plants, describing their healing and culinary properties. He identifies the leaf his grandmother makes into a compress to reduce the sting from bug bites. He breaks off pieces for us to taste, enthusiastically sharing family recipes featuring individual plants.
Back in our little kayak together, talking about our lives, he asks about who Anne and Isaac and I are to one another. He hasn’t understood that we’re a family. I can feel him trying to figure us out — especially me. He asks questions and I don’t mind. We’re engaging with each other in an open-hearted, curious way.
His questions continue, and we get to talking about my name. My body, my gender, and my family might be confusing and warrant sincere questions; but my name, he understands. In Spanish, which he speaks fluently, “Linda” means beautiful. The ‘a’ at the end marks it as feminine — exactly why my parents chose it for me. Exactly why I struggle with it. When I look in the mirror I don’t read myself as ‘woman’. My friends and the people close to me tell me the same: that when they see me, I read as genderqueer, not a woman. One told me it was only the name on my books that indicated ‘woman’ to her, and not my physical presentation. All of which explains why my new friend might be curious about me, about my family, about my name. That ‘a’ on the end doesn’t seem to line up with the person in the boat with him; the connotation of feminine beauty just doesn’t resonate. And then, he has an a-ha moment. “You’re Lindo!” he exclaims, masculinizing the noun in Spanish. And he’s right.
When he explains that meaning takes on nuance with the masculinized ending, reflecting more of a beautiful essence rather than physical beauty, it seems even more right. I like the way it messes with constructions of beauty and gender.
Lindo. Yes, I am Lindo. There’s continuity there, a specificity I recognize. I can still be the beautiful human my parents dreamed of; I can still be my history, me. Just not the feminized version, because I was never a girl. I was never Linda, not really. But Lindo? Lindo, I recognize. This new name — that’s not new at all, just slightly, rightly different — feels like home to me.
Think of someone you love.
I’m willing to bet that when you think about the people you cherish, it’s probably your dearest wish that they have access to every tool and opportunity possible to be themselves, be loved, and flourish in a welcoming world.
My parents wanted this for me. They wanted me to be loved and cherished. They wanted me to fit in and flourish.
That’s why they chose to name me Linda. Linda means beautiful, the “a” signifying female — facts I learned at my Bat Mitzvah, a Jewish ritual that marks the day a girl becomes a woman, at age thirteen. I’ll never forget my father’s speech. He was so proud, he told us, as my mother beamed at his side, of how I was living up to the name they had chosen for me.
Beautiful.
It was a magnificent, tender hope for my life. My success-oriented parents intuited, correctly, that feminine beauty is currency, a success lever in our society, and perhaps even a precondition for success — one that arguably overshadows character development and earned achievements. They believed (and everything in our world and their experience confirmed) that the main tool a girl needs is beauty. My parents’ hearts told them that femininity and feminine beauty would be the keys that unlocked hearts and doors for me. Like all parents with hearts full of love, they wanted that for me.
They wanted everything for me.
Naming me Linda was an aspiration, an invocation and a plan. Not that my parents had any ties to its origins, which are Spanish and Portuguese. Their disdain for Brown people, in fact, made this more an act of cultural appropriation than admiration. Yet, for them, the definition was powerful: I would be beautiful. I would be welcome in the world. I would belong.
There was, however, a flaw in that formula:
I was not a girl.
And femininity? Not my thing.
From the Conclusion:
We’re in a kayak, paddling between banks of mangrove trees. Our guide is telling me about how he studied in Canada before coming home so he could preserve, share and teach his Mayan culture to visitors from within Mexico as well as tourists, like me, from other countries. Throughout the day we slow down or speed up to rejoin my partner and son, together in another kayak. There’s no one else in sight this entire day, as we slowly paddle through the canal, listening to stories about Mayan traders from a thousand years past, their boats loaded with salt, honey, cacao and dreams of wealth.
The four of us stop for lunch, snacks, and to explore areas he’s keen to show us or swim in an open lagoon. Our guide points out tree leaves and plants, describing their healing and culinary properties. He identifies the leaf his grandmother makes into a compress to reduce the sting from bug bites. He breaks off pieces for us to taste, enthusiastically sharing family recipes featuring individual plants.
Back in our little kayak together, talking about our lives, he asks about who Anne and Isaac and I are to one another. He hasn’t understood that we’re a family. I can feel him trying to figure us out — especially me. He asks questions and I don’t mind. We’re engaging with each other in an open-hearted, curious way.
His questions continue, and we get to talking about my name. My body, my gender, and my family might be confusing and warrant sincere questions; but my name, he understands. In Spanish, which he speaks fluently, “Linda” means beautiful. The ‘a’ at the end marks it as feminine — exactly why my parents chose it for me. Exactly why I struggle with it. When I look in the mirror I don’t read myself as ‘woman’. My friends and the people close to me tell me the same: that when they see me, I read as genderqueer, not a woman. One told me it was only the name on my books that indicated ‘woman’ to her, and not my physical presentation. All of which explains why my new friend might be curious about me, about my family, about my name. That ‘a’ on the end doesn’t seem to line up with the person in the boat with him; the connotation of feminine beauty just doesn’t resonate. And then, he has an a-ha moment. “You’re Lindo!” he exclaims, masculinizing the noun in Spanish. And he’s right.
When he explains that meaning takes on nuance with the masculinized ending, reflecting more of a beautiful essence rather than physical beauty, it seems even more right. I like the way it messes with constructions of beauty and gender.
Lindo. Yes, I am Lindo. There’s continuity there, a specificity I recognize. I can still be the beautiful human my parents dreamed of; I can still be my history, me. Just not the feminized version, because I was never a girl. I was never Linda, not really. But Lindo? Lindo, I recognize. This new name — that’s not new at all, just slightly, rightly different — feels like home to me.
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Yes, because you were nineteen, and being nineteen is utter misery for most people.
Being nineteen also entails, in most cases, being profoundly stupid and narcissistic. You're as good an illustration of this as any.
Are you really? Because I'm pretty sure that if you really were happier with your body, you wouldn't still be writing articles about how delicate fatties' feelings are, and how we need to protect them.
That you're healthier, I don't doubt (assuming you're no longer living on a diet of vodka and cigarettes). And maybe you are happier, in general; after all, these days you get paid to write self-pitying admonitions to people you clearly resent (while nobody wanted to hear your bullshit when you were nineteen). But all I get from this article is how bitter you really are, and how high the likelihood is that you'll die alone and be eaten by your cats before other humans notice.
You admire celebrities, and take the shit they say seriously. There's part of your problem, girlie.
Yeah, I can't even with this one. She's written similar trash before, and always comes off as completely insufferable ('cause she fucking is).
Amber the Hedgehog
kiwifarms.net
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It's fine to accept that you never be a picture perfect model especially when you are getting older, and it's fine to have diet and exercise routine that make compromises what's the best for health and weight with what makes you happy. But just like a class of wine is fine or even good for you, being an alcoholic isn't. Don't kill yourself or others with kindness. Just because you can go about weight management in unhealthy manner doesn't mean that you should op out from it. There are unhealthy weights both too thin and too fat, and those issues don't go away with just body acceptance.
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Blacks are always complaining about wanting representation, and then when they get it they piss and moan.
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Speaking of banter over how much reparations are enough, how does one write "shut it down!" in Hangul?
S. Korea ‘comfort women’ group under fire in donation scandal
Lee Na-young, head of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, speaks at a rally held near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on May 13. (Takuya Suzuki)
SEOUL--A South Korean citizens group that has criticized Japan for decades over the “comfort women” issue now finds itself accused of misappropriating donations that were intended for the wartime victims.
The Seoul-based Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan has denied any wrongdoing, but the scandal shows no signs of relenting.
News media in South Korea have generally shown a reluctance to criticize organizations that support former “comfort women,” a euphemism for women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese troops before and during World War II.
But one of these women, Lee Yong-su, 91, opened a can of worms on May 7 by publicly saying that money donated to the council has “not been spent” for the survivors as promised.
“I have been taken advantage of by (the group),” Lee said at a news conference.
She also urged the organization to cancel its weekly protest rally, which has been held every Wednesday near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul since 1992, because it “does young people harm.”
South Korean newspapers and TV broadcasts are now flooded with reports about suspicious money transactions involving Yoon Mee-hyang, the former head of the organization.
Yoon ran as ruling party-affiliated candidate in the April general election and won a seat in the National Assembly.
Lee, one of the plaintiffs who have sued the Japanese government for compensation over their suffering during Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, was reportedly against Yoon’s foray into politics.
The Korean council has opposed the Asian Women’s Fund that the Japanese government established in 1995 to send redress money to former comfort women.
The group also criticized the 2015 Japan-South Korea bilateral agreement on settling the comfort women issue on grounds that it does not acknowledge the Japanese government’s legal responsibility.
But the conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo, in its May 9 editorial, criticized the advocacy group for “shifting its focus from ‘solving problems’ to ‘keeping problems’ at a certain point and pursuing narrow interests.”
“The organization has hitch-hiked on anti-Japan incendiarism driven by political purposes. Therefore, it has been criticized for making it even harder to solve the problems,” the editorial said.
News media have reported the organization’s financial statements from 2018 included spending of 33.39 million won (2.91 million yen, or $27,200 at current exchange rates) in donation money at a beer hall.
Other reports said the group’s financial records have raised suspicions that donations and resources were misused to cover the costs of having Yoon’s daughter study in the United States.
In addition, doubts have been cast over the criteria used to select candidates for the organization’s scholarship programs.
The group has defended its actions, saying, for example, that the beer hall-related spending “included expenses other than drinking and eating.”
It also insisted that its records were compiled in line with standards set by the National Tax Service.
The organization said that compensation money from a wrongful conviction case involving Yoon’s husband and other funds covered the costs of the U.S. studies of Yoon’s daughter.
The group held its 1,439th weekly rally on May 13 near the Japanese Embassy.
“The organization did not commit personal embezzlement nor illegal siphoning of money. Never,” Lee Na-young, current head of the organization, said at the rally.
At the same time, Lee said the organization “made some little mistakes” in its accounting-related documents.
“Although we have been audited by lawyers and public accountants every year, we will examine the ways the donation money is used and make sure there is no illegal embezzlement,” she said.
Lee also railed against the news media, saying that reports on the organization’s scandal were made “with malicious intent to end the comfort women issue.”
“It is a repression of the women’s movement,” Lee said.
The rally drew many supporters, including ruling party-affiliated female lawmakers.
But there was also dissent, with some participants shouting angrily, “Stop the Wednesday demonstration.”
S. Korea ‘comfort women’ group under fire in donation scandal
Lee Na-young, head of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, speaks at a rally held near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on May 13. (Takuya Suzuki)
SEOUL--A South Korean citizens group that has criticized Japan for decades over the “comfort women” issue now finds itself accused of misappropriating donations that were intended for the wartime victims.
The Seoul-based Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan has denied any wrongdoing, but the scandal shows no signs of relenting.
News media in South Korea have generally shown a reluctance to criticize organizations that support former “comfort women,” a euphemism for women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese troops before and during World War II.
But one of these women, Lee Yong-su, 91, opened a can of worms on May 7 by publicly saying that money donated to the council has “not been spent” for the survivors as promised.
“I have been taken advantage of by (the group),” Lee said at a news conference.
She also urged the organization to cancel its weekly protest rally, which has been held every Wednesday near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul since 1992, because it “does young people harm.”
South Korean newspapers and TV broadcasts are now flooded with reports about suspicious money transactions involving Yoon Mee-hyang, the former head of the organization.
Yoon ran as ruling party-affiliated candidate in the April general election and won a seat in the National Assembly.
Lee, one of the plaintiffs who have sued the Japanese government for compensation over their suffering during Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, was reportedly against Yoon’s foray into politics.
The Korean council has opposed the Asian Women’s Fund that the Japanese government established in 1995 to send redress money to former comfort women.
The group also criticized the 2015 Japan-South Korea bilateral agreement on settling the comfort women issue on grounds that it does not acknowledge the Japanese government’s legal responsibility.
But the conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo, in its May 9 editorial, criticized the advocacy group for “shifting its focus from ‘solving problems’ to ‘keeping problems’ at a certain point and pursuing narrow interests.”
“The organization has hitch-hiked on anti-Japan incendiarism driven by political purposes. Therefore, it has been criticized for making it even harder to solve the problems,” the editorial said.
News media have reported the organization’s financial statements from 2018 included spending of 33.39 million won (2.91 million yen, or $27,200 at current exchange rates) in donation money at a beer hall.
Other reports said the group’s financial records have raised suspicions that donations and resources were misused to cover the costs of having Yoon’s daughter study in the United States.
In addition, doubts have been cast over the criteria used to select candidates for the organization’s scholarship programs.
The group has defended its actions, saying, for example, that the beer hall-related spending “included expenses other than drinking and eating.”
It also insisted that its records were compiled in line with standards set by the National Tax Service.
The organization said that compensation money from a wrongful conviction case involving Yoon’s husband and other funds covered the costs of the U.S. studies of Yoon’s daughter.
The group held its 1,439th weekly rally on May 13 near the Japanese Embassy.
“The organization did not commit personal embezzlement nor illegal siphoning of money. Never,” Lee Na-young, current head of the organization, said at the rally.
At the same time, Lee said the organization “made some little mistakes” in its accounting-related documents.
“Although we have been audited by lawyers and public accountants every year, we will examine the ways the donation money is used and make sure there is no illegal embezzlement,” she said.
Lee also railed against the news media, saying that reports on the organization’s scandal were made “with malicious intent to end the comfort women issue.”
“It is a repression of the women’s movement,” Lee said.
The rally drew many supporters, including ruling party-affiliated female lawmakers.
But there was also dissent, with some participants shouting angrily, “Stop the Wednesday demonstration.”
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Speaking of banter over how much reparations are enough, how does one write "shut it down!" in Hangul?
S. Korea ‘comfort women’ group under fire in donation scandal
Lee Na-young, head of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, speaks at a rally held near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on May 13. (Takuya Suzuki)
SEOUL--A South Korean citizens group that has criticized Japan for decades over the “comfort women” issue now finds itself accused of misappropriating donations that were intended for the wartime victims.
The Seoul-based Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan has denied any wrongdoing, but the scandal shows no signs of relenting.
News media in South Korea have generally shown a reluctance to criticize organizations that support former “comfort women,” a euphemism for women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese troops before and during World War II.
But one of these women, Lee Yong-su, 91, opened a can of worms on May 7 by publicly saying that money donated to the council has “not been spent” for the survivors as promised.
“I have been taken advantage of by (the group),” Lee said at a news conference.
She also urged the organization to cancel its weekly protest rally, which has been held every Wednesday near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul since 1992, because it “does young people harm.”
South Korean newspapers and TV broadcasts are now flooded with reports about suspicious money transactions involving Yoon Mee-hyang, the former head of the organization.
Yoon ran as ruling party-affiliated candidate in the April general election and won a seat in the National Assembly.
Lee, one of the plaintiffs who have sued the Japanese government for compensation over their suffering during Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, was reportedly against Yoon’s foray into politics.
The Korean council has opposed the Asian Women’s Fund that the Japanese government established in 1995 to send redress money to former comfort women.
The group also criticized the 2015 Japan-South Korea bilateral agreement on settling the comfort women issue on grounds that it does not acknowledge the Japanese government’s legal responsibility.
But the conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo, in its May 9 editorial, criticized the advocacy group for “shifting its focus from ‘solving problems’ to ‘keeping problems’ at a certain point and pursuing narrow interests.”
“The organization has hitch-hiked on anti-Japan incendiarism driven by political purposes. Therefore, it has been criticized for making it even harder to solve the problems,” the editorial said.
News media have reported the organization’s financial statements from 2018 included spending of 33.39 million won (2.91 million yen, or $27,200 at current exchange rates) in donation money at a beer hall.
Other reports said the group’s financial records have raised suspicions that donations and resources were misused to cover the costs of having Yoon’s daughter study in the United States.
In addition, doubts have been cast over the criteria used to select candidates for the organization’s scholarship programs.
The group has defended its actions, saying, for example, that the beer hall-related spending “included expenses other than drinking and eating.”
It also insisted that its records were compiled in line with standards set by the National Tax Service.
The organization said that compensation money from a wrongful conviction case involving Yoon’s husband and other funds covered the costs of the U.S. studies of Yoon’s daughter.
The group held its 1,439th weekly rally on May 13 near the Japanese Embassy.
“The organization did not commit personal embezzlement nor illegal siphoning of money. Never,” Lee Na-young, current head of the organization, said at the rally.
At the same time, Lee said the organization “made some little mistakes” in its accounting-related documents.
“Although we have been audited by lawyers and public accountants every year, we will examine the ways the donation money is used and make sure there is no illegal embezzlement,” she said.
Lee also railed against the news media, saying that reports on the organization’s scandal were made “with malicious intent to end the comfort women issue.”
“It is a repression of the women’s movement,” Lee said.
The rally drew many supporters, including ruling party-affiliated female lawmakers.
But there was also dissent, with some participants shouting angrily, “Stop the Wednesday demonstration.”
하지마 should suffice
Mister Qwerty
kiwifarms.net
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Plucky water bird stabs eagle in heart with beak
The loon, which is on Canada's dollar coin, and the eagle, America's national bird, fought to the death.
www.bbc.com
Canada v US: Loon stabs eagle through heart
As with global affairs, nature has its pecking order.
And in a contest between the bald eagle, America's national bird, and a common loon, which is featured on Canada's dollar coin, few would bet on the latter to come out the victor.
But sometimes the underdog comes out on top, as was revealed when an eagle was found dead in the water near a dead loon chick in a Maine lake.
A necropsy revealed he was killed by a stab to the heart from a loon's beak.
Baby loons are common prey for eagles, which are fearsome hunters.
Bald eagles are protected in the US, and typically their remains are sent to the directly to the National Eagle Repository in Colorado.
It is a crime in the US to kill an eagle, possess one or disturb its remains, except for special exemptions, such as in the use of Native American ceremonies.
But after seeing a dead baby loon chick so near the carcass, scientists began to wonder if the eagle could have been killed by an enraged mother loon in an avian equivalent of David and Goliath.
So they sent the eagle not to the eagle repository, but to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin where it could be examined by a loon specialist.
There, a pathologist found that the eagle died by a quick stab to the heart from what appeared to be a loon beak, and the chick had eagle talon marks, indicating it had been captured by an eagle.
A nearby neighbour also told wildlife investigators she heard a "hullabaloo" the night before.
Wildlife biologist Danielle D'Auria, who works for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, shared the news on the department's blog, noting it is the first confirmed case of a loon slaying an eagle.
"Who would think a loon would stand a chance against such a powerful predator?" she wrote.
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Canada > USA confirmedPlucky water bird stabs eagle in heart with beak
The loon, which is on Canada's dollar coin, and the eagle, America's national bird, fought to the death.
Canada v US: Loon stabs eagle through heart
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As with global affairs, nature has its pecking order.
And in a contest between the bald eagle, America's national bird, and a common loon, which is featured on Canada's dollar coin, few would bet on the latter to come out the victor.
But sometimes the underdog comes out on top, as was revealed when an eagle was found dead in the water near a dead loon chick in a Maine lake.
A necropsy revealed he was killed by a stab to the heart from a loon's beak.
Baby loons are common prey for eagles, which are fearsome hunters.
Bald eagles are protected in the US, and typically their remains are sent to the directly to the National Eagle Repository in Colorado.
It is a crime in the US to kill an eagle, possess one or disturb its remains, except for special exemptions, such as in the use of Native American ceremonies.
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But after seeing a dead baby loon chick so near the carcass, scientists began to wonder if the eagle could have been killed by an enraged mother loon in an avian equivalent of David and Goliath.
So they sent the eagle not to the eagle repository, but to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin where it could be examined by a loon specialist.
Image copyrightNAT WOODRUFF / DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIESImage captionMaine game warden Neal Wykes inspects the dead bald eagle
There, a pathologist found that the eagle died by a quick stab to the heart from what appeared to be a loon beak, and the chick had eagle talon marks, indicating it had been captured by an eagle.
A nearby neighbour also told wildlife investigators she heard a "hullabaloo" the night before.
Wildlife biologist Danielle D'Auria, who works for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, shared the news on the department's blog, noting it is the first confirmed case of a loon slaying an eagle.
"Who would think a loon would stand a chance against such a powerful predator?" she wrote.