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ge96 ◴[] No.42730617[source]
Hummingbirds and woodpeckers... why
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fiforpg ◴[] No.42733671[source]
Yeah, the best part is that a woodpecker's tongue wraps all the way around the back of his head and attaches in the right nostril. The head effectively serves as a spool for the tongue. Awesome technology.
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zonkerdonker ◴[] No.42734222[source]
Not only that, but it the way it wraps around their skull acts like a shock dampener for their brain when they peck. Their skulls experience something like 1200g during a peck, humans get a serious concussion around 60g. Evolution is wild
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1. veunes ◴[] No.42734934[source]
It seems straight out of science fiction