As time went on, he became more and more protective of his offspring, screeching and charging at anyone who tried to come near.
Only one thing stood in the way: His careful brooding and nurturing was being spent on a lifeless rock.
Keepers at the sanctuary assumed that Murphy’s fatherhood fantasy would pass with the season and he would move on from his rock.
They removed the “rock baby” and put the eaglet, protected by a cage, into the enclosure with Murphy.
“And he was taking such good care of his rock that we decided that he would be our best bet.”.
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“He was sitting on a rock and everybody told him, ‘It’s a rock, it’s not going to hatch,’” Griffard tells the Post. »