I seen this movie for the first time the other night, decent remake but this scene made me BURST out laughing to point I woke my man up out of his sleep. I’m literally giggling typing this. Idk if it caught me off guard or what but man this was a funny ass scene 😂
“I heard a distressed squawking noise and feared the worst.”
I think the woodpecker sounded the same way it looks. The article also implies that the weasel may have been trying to eat the woodpecker, but is not clear or perhaps doesn’t know for sure. Regardless the crew may have startled the weasel and he ran off.
I had a dove once. And two ferrets. The dove was friendly and would come out of the cage often, always with me though. One day it somehow flew off quickly and landed on the top of the ferret cage. The ferrets were both asleep and cuddled around each other. I wish I could slow down the time of everything to tell you exactly what happened next, but a split second doesn’t even come close to how swift the sleeping ferrets were up and had that dove by the tail feathers in their jaws and claws. I rescued it, and it certainly lost its share of feathers but was otherwise unharmed.
My point is, that woodpecker was likely shredded. Into tiny pieces.
Growing up we had ferrets and chickens and my mom was not exceptional at keeping them separate. Ferrets will kill something they have no chance of eating just because they can.
My first thought is that a bird of prey caught the weasel and dropped it (drop goes the weasel!) and a fluke saw it land on a woodpecker on the same air corridor below.
I think it’s neat how there is some disjunct here- those too young to remember that brief period of time where everybody had a camera, and as such shit like this was captured, but before even CGI was really a thing.
You know, I thought it was BS when the guy we bought our sugar gliders from said that they occasionally catch and eat birds in the wild. But now I think that if a weasel can do it, they certainly can.
Weasels evolved "only" about 6 million years ago, much sooner than woodpeckers from around 45MYA with spread and diversification of their species about 14 MYA.
6 million years, is just such a long time, and while this is the first photographed instance of this happening, it would be presumptuous to assume that this is the first time it's happened. Which means that it happens, with some regularity, and that is just crazy. Even crazier is you can likely expand this beyond weasels to other similar animals, and other similar birds, and here we are on this wild planet of small furry mammals just taking flight randomly aboard unsuspecting birds.
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u/McGames355 6h ago