"Invincible" Woodpeckers “无敌”啄木鸟

Try crushing your nose onto the wall a few times (strongly not recommended!).

Okay. There’s high probability that your nose would go flat or the bridge of your nose would be crushed.

So you really do not want to do that, seriously. But God is really (and I mean REALLY) good to woodpeckers. Wanna know why?

When a woodpecker slams its nose onto a tree trunk repeatedly at 7 meters per second, you would the woodpecker to drop dead due to blunt force trauma. Especially when that kind of slamming is over 1000 times the force of gravity. But no … the woodpecker is still okay! Amazing, isn’t it?

Now why on earth makes woodpecker’s beak so “invincible”? Well, for one thing, woodpeckers have small brains. Now that doesn’t mean that they are stupid. No, it doesn’t mean that. Because their brains are relatively small inside their skull, this prevents them from moving too much inside the skull. So their brains are sort of “intact” and safe.

If you’ve ever seen a human brain (from a chart or some science reference), you would see that our brains have those folds and they look like tangled strings of noodles. In other words, we have “unsmooth” brains. But woodpeckers’ brains have smooth surfaces. With a high surface area, the impact force exerted on the area can reduced, thus, preventing injuries.

And it helps to have cerebrospinal fluid in your brain. Woodpeckers have just that! This special fluid helps reduce shock waves to the brain!

If your trees need pecking, you’ll know WHO to look for.


你可以尝试用鼻子撞击墙壁（但最好还是不要这么做哦！）。

你的鼻子将很有可能会被撞扁或碎裂。

因此，你还是不要这样做比较好。但是，啄木鸟却是受上帝眷顾的。你想知道为什么吗？

啄木鸟每秒７公尺重复用鼻子撞上树干，如果你是啄木鸟，这种猛烈的创伤将会使人致死。尤其这种撞击方式还超过了1000倍的重力。可是，啄木鸟却仍然完好无恙！非常惊人呢，是不是？

为什么啄木鸟的喙如此“无敌”？那是因为啄木鸟拥有一个小脑袋，但这并不表示它们是愚笨的。因为它们的大脑比头骨小，海绵状的厚头骨能保护大脑不受撞击。因此，它们的大脑是“完整无损”和安全的。

如果你曾在图表或一些科学参考书看过人脑，你会发现我们的大脑是有皱褶的，而且看起来像是缠绕的面条。这也就是说，我们具有“不平滑”的大脑。但是啄木鸟的大脑却具有光滑的表面。由于具有高的表面积，所以能减少许多撞击力，可以防止受伤。

我们大脑中的脑脊液，啄木鸟也有！这特殊的透明流体有助于减少大脑受到冲击！

如果你需要啄树，你会知道要找谁帮忙。