The rules of the jungle always apply — even in Midtown Manhattan.
A ferocious brown eagle with a taste for blood descended onto an apartment terrace Friday afternoon and scooped up an unsuspecting pigeon to devour for lunch, witnesses said.
“I heard a terrible boom … so I thought something fell down,” said art consultant Nick Guylian, 63, who lives in the 6th-floor apartment where the eagle chose to dine.
He walked out onto his West 58th Street terrace and saw the brown and white eagle sitting on top of the pigeon, which was firmly clutched in the eagle’s talons.
Guylian called down to the building’s concierge Michael Dwyer for help removing the uninvited guests.
“He didn’t want to get off that pigeon. He wanted to eat it. The guts were all out,” Dwyer recounted to The Post.
“The food chain — it’s a natural thing.”
A trio of cops was called to the scene who tried whacking their batons on the glass doors to distract the eagle in an attempt to save the pigeon.
The eagle refused to budge and sat stone-faced with its treat bleeding out beneath its talons. The bird finally decided to fly away from his ruined meal and left the terrace.
When police and Guylian were able to safely enter the terrace, they discovered a second dead pigeon.
Both pigeons could not be saved and were removed from the terrace.