Extremely Important Update: in April 2023 the World Bird Sanctuary had an orphaned eagle chick in need of care, so they decided to see if Murphy could live up to his parental ambitions.
He successfully raised the chick, which is now thriving with the other juvenile eaglets!
Congrats Murphy, you made it happen through sheer determination.
(Pictures are from the Facebook page of the World Bird Sanctuary; I can’t link them directly because I don’t have a FB account and the site is a nightmare to interact with if you’re not logged in, constantly resetting and kicking you to registration pages.)
we need to go back to the era of 20 million different forum websites for each hyper-niche community, animated post signatures and everything. that was more fun i think
[ID: photos of an adult male lion and a cub in the snow. in the first photo, the adult lion has snow on his mane, and the cub raises a paw to play with it. in the next two photos, the adult lion shakes his head, to shake off the snow. in the last photo they look at each other, and the snow is now on the cub’s head. end ID]