Incredible photo shows a weasel riding a woodpecker

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/strange-weird/article/Incredible-photo-shows-a-weasel-riding-a-6112140.php

Run for your lives: The mighty weaselpecker has arrived

Amateur photographer Martin Le-May captured this incredible photo of a weasel riding on the back of a green woodpecker in London.

This is no case of a cute interspecies friendship. That weasel is trying to kill the bird. Le-May told the BBC he heard a “distressed squawking noise” and spotted the midair battle. The woodpecker escaped after a hard landing, and the weasel ran off.

Experts said they believe the photo is real. “Weasels are fearless,” wildlife expert Lucy Cooke told the news channel. She said the vicious mammals often attack rabbits much bigger than themselves, and it’s not shocking a weasel would go after a bird if given the chance.

[scarletwoman]

1. Wait. What? Either that's an unusually small weasel or an incredibly large woodpecker.

I'm not familiar with green woodpeckers, and I'm certainly glad he got away. But, geeze! The size differential is very strange!

[roguevalley]

17. its a baby weasel trying to kill the woodpecker

he fell to the ground, the weasel fell off and the bird fled. He was trying to kill the woodpecker.

[progressoid]

19. According to this person, the Least Weasel may only the same as a Mars bar.

[Denzil_DC]

2. Inevitable.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. LOL!

[MissB]

10. OMFG!

[Rex]

11. LMAO!

[NuclearDem]

22. !!!

[Electric Monk]

3. Hilarious #WeaselPecker Memes Take Over The Internet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/best-weaselpecker-meme-photo_n_6793500.html

[blue neen]

4. OMG!

I truly am laughing my ass off! Hilarious!

[longship]

5. Damn! Perfect! R&K nt

[sunnystarr]

6. they all look so real ...

I have to wonder if the weasel is real ...

[NuclearDem]

23. YOUUUUU SHALL NOTTTTT PECK

[Phentex]

25. I laughed out loud!

those are great! Love the space shuttle!

[DreamGypsy]

7. Oh. I thought this would be a photo...

... of Netanyahu and Boehner entering the Capitol building.

Big disappointment.

[blue neen]

8. Oh snap!

DUzy!

[dolphinsandtuna]

12. I don't think an animal being attacked is funny.

[Rex]

15. How do you feel about fishing?

[dolphinsandtuna]

21. same way

You can offer your arm or leg for food in place of the fish's life, of course, since you think that is okay.

I wonder if someone's pet dog was being attacked, if people would post "hilarious" modified photos.

[Maynar]

16. Well it is nature in the raw, as it were.

Like it or not, it is the way of things.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Oh FFS.

[Rex]

13. That's inconceivable!

[Maynar]

14. I wet mah leg at this here thread!

[betsuni]

20. What is the air speed velocity of a laden woodpecker?

[yuiyoshida]

24. Totally Tweet-able

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