When I was there they let me hold this eagle. It was a young bird they had trained to take fox and planned to start on wolves soon. The wolves there were not as big as our timber wolves. The one I shot was the size of a large coyote. You may be able to tell from the photo that I had been told not to have eye contact.

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This is Kyrgyzstan near the Chinese border at an old hot spring resort the Ruskies developed. No road, no one lives within miles and those people are nomadic herdsman.