An eagle snatches a toddler in Montreal and drpos it as shocked adults race to help the child.  Stunning video from Canada purportedly shows a Golden Eagle snatching a toddler sitting in a park, but questions over the clip's authenticity grew as quickly as its online views. Now, it appears the amazing scene at Montreal's Mont-Royal Park was indeed fake.  A design school in Montreal called Centre NAD (also known as the National Animation and Design Centre) posted on its website Wednesday that both eagle and baby "were created in 3D animation and integrated in to the film afterwards."  The video, uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, was "made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital Design," the posting said.  The school also assured nervous parents their children are not at risk of being plucked up by a massive eagle.  In the video, a soaring eagle swoops down on a child while a caretaker's back is turned. The bird picks up the child by its winter coat, flying several feet before dropping its prey.  The video, complete with a panicked cameraman and the cries of a toddler, logged about 1.4 million views in less than 24 hours.  But with the amazement came scrutiny over the video's shadowing, editing and the authenticity of the uploader.  “When the bird swoops down, its shadow pops in one frame after it does. And for one frame, and one frame only, around three seconds in, its right wing becomes transparent,” writes NewStatesman blogger blogger Alex Hern. The name of his post is “Literally unbelievable video.”  Other online skeptics pointed out that Centre NAD has a "hoax the Internet" exam every year.  It has been a busy week in Canada for weird animal antics. The eagle video comes days after photographs surfaced of a monkey wearing a sheepskin coat wandering around the parking lot of a Toronto IKEA.  Golden eagles have a roughly six-foot wingspan and can fly at speeds of more than 150 miles per hour. Though they usually hunt small animals, they can fly with prey heavier than their own weight, or around 15 pounds, according to National Geographic Society.
The YouTube clip of the eagle snatching a toddler in Montreal has gone viral, logging more than a million views.