Video posted by the sanctuary showed the bird’s undying sense of devotion toward the rock – which he apparently mistook for an unhatched offspring and surrounded with a ‘simple’ nest, staffers said.
Murphy, an elderly bald eagle who went viral for mistakenly incubating a rock instead of an egg for weeks, was gifted an eaglet last week by staffers at Missouri’s World Bird Sanctuary
Video posted by the sanctuary showed the bird’s undying sense of devotion toward the rock – which he apparently mistook for an unhatched offspring and surrounded with a ‘simple’ nest
‘Murphy and his new charge are bonding beautifully,’ the sanctuary wrote in an update to social media posted Sunday after gifting Murphy the eaglet in the week.
The stone Murphy mistook for an egg in March – leading keepers to tap him as a foster dad after being inspired by his fatherly sense of duty
The hatchling, which has yet to be named due to a longheld birdkeeping superstition, almost died in a storm last month, but is now doing well with his new dad, staffers said
‘This is the kind of bonding we’re looking for.’