Woodpecker pecking: how woodpeckers avoid brain injury
Woodpeckers are capable of repeated pecking on a tree at remarkably high decelerations (on the order of 10 000 m s−2 or 1000 g). In this paper, I re-examine previous studies of pecking and scaling effects in brain injury. I find that there are three keys to woodpeckers' ability to withstand hig...
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Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing),
2012-04-20T20:54:37Z.
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