Why a woodpecker's beak don't get stuck in a trees like a nail

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/11/why-a-woodpeckers-beak-dont-get-stuck-in-a-trees-like-a-nail.html

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Thanks! I’ve often wondered also how their brains don’t get scrambled.

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They have shock absorbers and a very long tongue wrapped around their brain to stop it being shaken. And energy is diverted into the lower beak through bone structure.

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That is SO much weirder than I expected. Wonder what it’s like to be able to taste the back of your skull…

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That’s another thread:

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Kind of brain-ey.

Birds have very few tastebuds, though I am not sure how many woodpeckers have.

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“don’t get stuck”??

“doesn’t get stuck” is correct grammar

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This was me when a wood pecker was tapping a hole into my house.

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You missed “in a trees.”

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And so I did! LOL

It was an informative article.

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also as if a nail.

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Thanks for correcting the headline!

Be safe, folks.

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one trick I like to use is not hammering the nail all the way in, then it comes out easily. That’s harder to do with woodpeckers because hammering them harder gets them to stay still.

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I’m thinking that this is why humans scratch the back of their heads when searching for an answer. It’s well known that the back off the brain is considered “Answerville” by neurologists… if only we could taste it.

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