Important Update:
You can now play a weasel woodpecker mobile game [1]. It's currently available for Android with an iOS version coming soon. The premise? You're the weasel and have to jump onto a woodpecker and stay on its back. Get more points as you swoop around, and complete a level whenever you successfully make it to dry land. Welp, there goes the rest of our day.
Source: Weasel Woodpecker [2]
Original Story:
If you've been online lately and haven't seen British photographer Martin Le-May's photo of a weasel hitching a ride atop a woodpecker, then you're missing out on something spectacular. People around the web lost it over the unlikely friendship between the two animal buddies — that is, until the photographer told BuzzFeed [3] that the weasel was actually attacking the woodpecker. While both the rodent and bird walked (or flew) away unscathed, the Internet didn't get so lucky . . . in fact, Twitter was so enchanted by the weasel-pecker duo that it created memes you can never unsee. Check out some of our favorites ahead.
Fallt nicht auf die Fälschung rein die hier gerade kursiert! Hier das original! #WeaselPecker [4] pic.twitter.com/mOQnYTSV37 [5]
— 's Teechen (@Tee_Lichtenrade) March 3, 2015 [6]
Hop aboard! #WeaselPecker [7] @willtapply [8] pic.twitter.com/BB1AQVo0p6 [9]
— Bomb the Twist (@bomb_the_twist) March 3, 2015 [10]
John Travolta is all over the weasel and the woodpecker pic.twitter.com/HMxoDInWbh [11]
— Elliot Wagland (@elliotwagland) March 3, 2015 [12]
Once it was in my head I had to get it out! Evel Knweasel! #WeaselPecker [13] pic.twitter.com/mz2n8fzAYb [14]
— Andrew Gardner (@Andrewg32) March 3, 2015 [15]
Yes. So much yes. via @sklueche [16] pic.twitter.com/cbr2hmtT89 [17]
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) March 3, 2015 [18]
#WeaselPecker [19] Disney saw this coming YEARS ago... pic.twitter.com/Uma84t2XTi [20]
— Brendan (@Brendan_Surrey) March 3, 2015 [21]
To infinity and beyond....
#WeaselPecker [22] pic.twitter.com/0wyIFKEKGq [23]
— Elliot Wagland (@elliotwagland) March 3, 2015 [24]
@jimwaterson [25] yeah ok. funny, now it looks blue and black pic.twitter.com/jBkEVGXtKR [26]
— Richard Nias (@richardNias) March 3, 2015 [27]
I came in like a #WeaselPecker [28] pic.twitter.com/9pkVciT9t4 [29]
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 3, 2015 [30]