Focus on Arts and Ecology

In a bird sanctuary in Missouri lives a bald eagle named Murphy who recently had a windfall: The rock he’d been incubating for some time, which was unlikely to hatch, was replaced by a rescue eaglet who’d been orphaned.

Murphy’s been living at the sanctuary since the 1990s and has never fathered any chicks, but when the eaglet was placed in his enclosure and began to peep needily, he rose to the occasion.

Now the proud adoptive father’s tearing up fish for the baby (and going viral — for good reason — on social media).

(Sources: Center for Biological Diversity)