Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Brain Damage? Research Presents an Intriguing New Hypothesis - ScienceAlert

Forced to spend their days slamming their tiny skulls into the sides of trees in search of buried morsels, woodpeckers should have evolved a trick or two to avoid brain damage. So you'd think.

Forced to spend their days slamming their tiny skulls into the sides of trees in search of buried morsels, woodpeckers should have evolved a trick or two to avoid brain damage. So you'd think. A new… [+3776 chars]

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