Weasels are weasels. Have you ever heard anyone referred to as a weasel?

Have you ever heard a variation of the scorpion that hitched a ride across the river on a skeptical
snakes back? Well...

This is an actual photo of a baby weasel taking flight on the back

of a woodpecker.

People saw it & thought, "oh, how cute!"

In reality the weasel was doing what weasels do. It was trying to kill the bird

and the bird took off.

"As much as we’d all like to believe this is a wondrous tale of friendship wherein two mates go on an epic adventure featuring a baby weasel and his magnificent flying steed, sadly it’s NOT. It’s a photo of a weasel trying to kill a woodpecker."

PS...according to the husband & wife who were taking a walk & took the photo,

both the woodpecker & the weasel survived.

Wildlife expert Lucy Cooke explained to BBC News that while they usually attack rabbits, weasels are "fearless" predators and it isn't totally shocking that one would go after a woodpecker, a ground-feeder. 

"A female weasel weighs less than a Mars Bar but is as ferocious as a lion, so this is why the woodpecker would have been able to take off with it on its back," Cooke said.

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