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a bald eagle shaking off water at the Memphis Zoo, Tennessee
April 5, 2015

Shake It Off

“The Memphis Zoo houses bald eagles that have been injured too badly to be returned to the wild,” writes Your Shot member Michael Pachis. “Usually the eagles are perched in their tree watching the visitors. However, this time I noticed one ... hopping on the ground toward a water pool in the aviary. He surprised me by dunking his entire head in the water” before coming up shaking.

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Photograph by Michael Pachis, National Geographic Your Shot

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