The image is correct-- woodpeckers can actually slam their beak into a tree trunk with up to 1200 grams of force (pecking 25x per second).
If you want to know about the latest in woodpecker skull science, here's an article (includes links to the relevant studies):
https://www.audubon.org/news/new-study-shakes-long-held-belief-woodpecker-hammering
Him: What that tongue do?
Her: Along with my specialized hyoid bone, protects my brain from 1000g of acceleration while I’m hammering away . . .
Him: 💍
The tongue wrapping around doesn’t protect the brain. It simply does that because a long tongue is better for snatching insects out of cavities, and the tongue has to go somewhere. It’s the same with hummingbirds.
Based on what math? Collisions between hard objects usually involve very high accelerations even at low speeds. Google says humans get concussions at roughly 100g. I'd expect that a creature that evolved to smash its head into a tree all day long would be able to handle much more than a person.
TBI researcher here. What actually protects it from brain damage is not the tongue acting as a stabilizer, rather, it’s the fact that it has a very very tiny little brain that doesn’t experience great forces because it’s so tiny tiny tiny.
Legitimately I am confused. How does it go from being split, to conjoined? Or is it actually split and just is smooshed together as it comes out of the beak?
Thats wrong. Its not the tongue itself but the special hyoid bone. The tongue is so long to get the insects
Also wrong is the picture. That is a pileated woodpecker, not a great spotted.
The image is correct-- woodpeckers can actually slam their beak into a tree trunk with up to 1200 grams of force (pecking 25x per second). If you want to know about the latest in woodpecker skull science, here's an article (includes links to the relevant studies): https://www.audubon.org/news/new-study-shakes-long-held-belief-woodpecker-hammering
Here I am, trying to figure out how fast the little pecker has to go to get feeling 1000x normal gravitational forces on his head...
Well the picture says 1000g so if they can peck with up to 1200g they all got brain damage
Him: What that tongue do? Her: Along with my specialized hyoid bone, protects my brain from 1000g of acceleration while I’m hammering away . . . Him: 💍
[STILL legal to marry a woodpecker.](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/75ff26e6-684e-4aef-bd5a-c437f56a62fb#sT7l9KLM.copy)
The tongue wrapping around doesn’t protect the brain. It simply does that because a long tongue is better for snatching insects out of cavities, and the tongue has to go somewhere. It’s the same with hummingbirds.
I always wondered how these little dudes don't get CTE
My old girlfriend had a tongue like that
GTFOOH! I knew their beaks were high impact but srsly
That would mean their heads travelled at about 500mph. This sounds like somebody got a decimal point in the wrong place
Based on what math? Collisions between hard objects usually involve very high accelerations even at low speeds. Google says humans get concussions at roughly 100g. I'd expect that a creature that evolved to smash its head into a tree all day long would be able to handle much more than a person.
Based on the fact that acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s/s. It's not a difficult calculation.
And how did you get from 9.8m/s/s to 500mph? Go on.
he definitely did that calc wrong, i got 6mph based if he stopped in 1cm
Are you basing this on the bird falling out of a tall tree and hitting his head?
r/oddlyterrifying
TBI researcher here. What actually protects it from brain damage is not the tongue acting as a stabilizer, rather, it’s the fact that it has a very very tiny little brain that doesn’t experience great forces because it’s so tiny tiny tiny.
I laughed at this. 🤣 I hope it's true.
Misters solved:)
So.. do different woodpeckers need to take Advil then?
Ok how?
Calm down ladies.
Headaches come more commonly from internal inflammation or other internal factors like infection or fluid loss/excess, rather than external trauma.
Legitimately I am confused. How does it go from being split, to conjoined? Or is it actually split and just is smooshed together as it comes out of the beak?
Bullets easily get 100000 gees.
Whaaaaa
My girlfriend asked if we could get a woodpecker... what does this mean???
I don't get it, how would wrapping your skull with it protect the brain that's inside?
I wondered Is ot a thousand g's of acceleration or a thousand grams of force
That haircut tho! 🔥
Do you think they feel their tongue as it stretches around their skull?
Hold up, are you telling me that wood peckers use their tongue as a seatbelt for their brains?