How do woodpeckers avoid brain injury?

Friday, January 31, 2020 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would cause headaches, jaw aches and serious neck and brain injuries. Yet woodpeckers can do this 20 times per second and suffer no ill effects.

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