Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Why Don't Woodpecker Get Headache??

Woodpecker have fluid surrounding their brains. They also have very large skulls and comparatively small brains, meaning their brain tissue doesn't have much momentum (momentum=mass multiply velocity) on impact - unlike, say, a human boxer. They also have shock absorbers in the beak and skull.
Dinopium benghalense(woodpecker)

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