Golden eagle which attacked toddler in Norway ‘likely had behavioural disorder’

Photo taken on September 5 of the young golden eagle that attacked a toddler in Norway. Picture: Francis Ari Sture/NTB Scanpix via AP

A young golden eagle attacked a toddler in Norway, clawing her so badly that she needed stitches, in what an ornithologist says is likely to have been the bird’s fourth such attack on humans in the past week.

The bird’s unusual aggression occurred over five days across a vast mountainous area of southern Norway.