How Do Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injury?

“For years, scientists have examined the anatomy of woodpeckers’ skulls to find out how they pull off their powerful pecking without causing themselves harm. The birds have little ‘sub-dural space’ between their brains and their skulls, so the brain does not have room to bump around as it does in humans. Also, their brains are longer top-to-bottom than front-to-back, meaning the force against the skull is spread over a larger brain area.”
 — Birds are stupid. Who cares if they injure their brains? They’d probably be better off going through life in a terminal state of concussion, anyway. The less aware that they’re eating grubs all day, the happier they must be.

Also, R.I.P. Kevin Dubrow.

I love that song.