How Does a Woodpecker’s Brain Survive the Hammering? #animals #science #myths



Woodpecker skull myth: it’s not a shock absorber. Slow-motion video of pecking woodpeckers shows the head stops as hard as the beak, with brain jolts up to about 400 g. Humans get concussions at about 135 g, but a woodpecker’s tiny brain can take far more, by the scientists’ models.

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