[NatureNS] BBC Article - Weasel photographed riding on a woodpecker's back

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There are multiple shots of it. Some articles referred to it as "baby"
weasel. Here is a video of him explaining the circumstances.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31722410


-----Original Message-----
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of Walt Norris
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 10:28 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: RE: [NatureNS] BBC Article - Weasel photographed riding on a
woodpecker's back

As a photographer I would say this is a hoax  . 

Cheers,
Walt

-----Original Message-----
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of Stephen Shaw
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 9:52 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: RE: [NatureNS] BBC Article - Weasel photographed riding on a
woodpecker's back

Too good to be true?  As with the recent tufty eared squirrel, I'd suspect
some sort of photo-fraud.  
The British green woodpecker is quite a large bird, about 12.5 inches long
according to Peterson et al, and while a least weasel should be about 7-8"
long, this one looks more like 6".
Has the weasel been photoshopped in?  It doesn't look to be gripping the
neck of the bird and indenting the feathers there with any intensity, as you
might suspect it would be doing in the circumstances. 
Steve
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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] on
behalf of Burkhard Plache [burkhardplache@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6:04 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: [NatureNS] BBC Article - Weasel photographed riding on a
woodpecker's back

In case you are interested to see
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31711446

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