" UPDATE: A blog post on the
Montreal animation school Centre NAD website claims that the video was a hoax created by their students. The post states:
The “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital Design.
According to the post, "Both the eagle and the kid were created in 3D animation and integrated in to the film afterwards."