What the Internet wants to be seeing here is an adorable picture of a baby weasel taking a joyride on a friendly woodpecker. (Go ahead and stop reading there if you would like the magic of this moment preserved forever.)
As Buzzfeed notes, in actuality, what’s really going on in the viral image is a primitive fight-to-the-death caught on camera. According to the photographer, the woodpecker is being attacked by the weasel, because nature is a cold, dangerous place where friendship is a myth. Thankfully, both the woodpecker and the baby weasel survived this encounter, to battle again another day …
