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Allen Hall: All right. Really urgent news story here. A supposedly injured bald eagle. Now, remember that the bald eagle is America's bird. Is it America's bird or national animal? National mammal? And it's also like the national symbol too. It's a national symbol. There we go. All right. So a supposedly injured bald eagle, which is America's national symbol.
Was rescued from a national park in Missouri and found it was acting like it was too injured to fly, but they took poor Eagle in and did an x ray on it and realized. That it was just full of raccoon. What? It was full? It had too much food? Yeah, it was found healthy, but engorged with raccoon. In other words, too fat to fly.
Philip Totaro: Is there tryptophan in raccoons?
Allen Hall: Oh, there may be.
Joel Saxum: I'll tell you a fun fact about the eagle as the United States national symbol. Ben Franklin actually wanted it to be the turkey. And his reason. His reasoning was, eagles are actually scavengers and they eat dead things and turkeys don't.
Allen Hall: Both of those birds are huge.
If you've ever been anywhere near a bald eagle, they are massive creatures. I, the thing that bothers me about this is that eagle was living large, relaxing, chilling, and then somebody grabbed him! Somebody scooped him up and with the x ray in him, the next thing he knows, it's like he's waking up in a hospital and all he wanted to do was watch the Cowboys game,