this footnote brought to you by the excellent *Natural History of Weasels and Stoats* (OUP 2007), which begins "There is something enormously satisfactory about a weasel. It has the perfection, grace, and efficiency of a well-designed tool in the hands of an expert..." and has a section complaining about the unreasonable biases of children's woodland stories.
@generalising
What if mouse, but snake?
Gorgeous photo! Thanks for sharing.
a weasel (~200g) was once observed recorded trying to mug a snowy owl (~2kg) for a mouse.
(do snowy owls normally eat weasels? why, yes, they do. did this stop it? no)