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Fremen with hunter Eagle - Art by Mark Molnar
- "When you offer a candidate as Friend of your Sietch, do you not slay a hawk and an eagle as the offering? And is this not the response: 'God send each man at his end, such hawks, such eagles, and such friends'?[1]"
- ―Leto Atreides II to Namri
The Eagle was a predator[2] or scavenger[3] bird of Arrakis.[4] They were noted for their eyesight.[5] At some point, Fremen kept tame Eagles as pets.[6]
Appearances[]
- Dune
- Dune Messiah (mentioned only)
- Children of Dune (mentioned only)
References[]
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 41
- ↑ Dune - Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune: They turned then to the necessary animal life -- burrowing creatures to open the soil and aerate it: kit fox, kangaroo mouse, desert hare, sand terrapin . . . and the predators to keep them in check: desert hawk, dwarf owl, eagle and desert owl; and insects to fill the niches these couldn't reach: scorpion, centipede, trapdoor spider, the biting wasp and the wormfly . . . and the desert bat to keep watch on these.
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 35: The problem lay within the lack of animal life, but it was a particular thing which alerted him. He perceived it then: there were no scavenger birds -- no eagles, no vultures, no hawks.
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 15: "That's likely an eagle," Kynes said. "Many creatures have adapted to this place."
- ↑ Dune Messiah - Chapter 5: It was the eagle stare of the wild, and his beard still carried the catchtube indentation of life in a stillsuit.
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 64: Mark me well: I have the cruelty of the husbandman, and this human universe is my farm. Fremen once kept tame eagles as pets, but I'll keep a tame Farad'n." Farad'n's face darkened. "Beware my claws, cousin.