There’s no denying that everything looks cooler in slow motion, but birds of prey on the hunt are particularly mesmerizing through the lens of a high-speed camera. This Goshawk is being lured into attacking a water balloon baited with a piece of meat, and its mid-air maneuvers make even our most advanced fighter planes look primitive.
And while no one has ever questioned the lethality of a hawk’s claws (or the fragility of a balloon) watching it tear into this water balloon is just terrifying. If there’s one lesson to walk away with here, it’s to never walk around in the wilderness with a chunk of raw meat on your head.
