Woodpeckers minimize cranial absorption of shocks

2022/07/01 by Sam Van Wassenbergh, Erica J. Ortlieb, Maja Mielke +3 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Environmental Science · Mathematics · Medicine · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Morphological variations and asymmetry #Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.052

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Discussions

• A few different species!! I was sharing a paper I read about how they dont give themselves concussions doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]