Dr. Martin explained that the eagle had recently become a mother and was struggling to care for her newly hatched chicks. Eagles, like many other animals, sometimes face difficulties in nurturing their young. The mother eagle may have seen the baby fox not as food, but as a potential comfort for her offspring.
“What we’re witnessing here is incredibly rare,” Dr. Martin explained. “The eagle appears to have bonded with the fox. Its calm demeanor and young age may have triggered a maternal instinct in the eagle, leading her to adopt it into the nest.”
The eagle had, in a sense, accepted the fox as part of her family, allowing it to share space with her own young. The fox, once used to curling up on a couch, now found itself among hatchlings in a tree—yet it looked perfectly content. The neighbors watched in stunned silence as the fox groomed one of the chicks affectionately.