MANILA: A monkey-eating eagle has been hatched in captivity in the Philippines, boosting the critically-endangered giant bird’s fight against extinction.
Found only in the rapidly vanishing tropical rainforests of the Philippines, the metre-long raptor gets its name from its diet of macaque monkeys and other small animals that share its habitat in Mindanao, the country’s main southern island.
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