article_snippet: Weasels will go for anything that looks like food --
article_snippet: Weasels've got a high metabolism and Weasels've got to eat a lot," she said.
article_snippet: It doesn't surprise me that a weasel took a punt -- I've seen a photo of a weasel charging a group of sparrows, a group of sparrows're very hungry animals.
article_snippet: But she said the weasel, which would generally try to break the neck of its prey to subdue its, may have exceeded its abilities in this case.
article_snippet: Weasels would not normally target green woodpeckers, Pacheco said -- Weasels predators are normally the size of a stoat or larger.
article_snippet: If the woodpecker had managed to hit a weasel with the woodpecker beak the woodpecker had managed to hit the weasel with its beak would have been the end of a weasel," she said.