{"id":5699,"date":"2011-11-01T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/how-woodpeckers-avoid-head-injury\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:44:15","slug":"how-woodpeckers-avoid-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/how-woodpeckers-avoid-head-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"How woodpeckers avoid head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-15458633'>How woodpeckers avoid head injury<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Pretty interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The team&rsquo;s simulations showed that three factors were at work in sparing the birds injury.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the hyoid bone&rsquo;s looping structure around the whole skull was found to act as a &ldquo;safety belt&rdquo;, especially after the initial impact.<\/p>\n<p>The team also found that the upper and lower halves of the birds&rsquo; beaks were uneven, and as force was transmitted from the tip of the beak into the bone, this asymmetry lowered the load that made it as far as the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, plate-like bones with a &ldquo;spongy&rdquo; structure at different points in the skull helped distribute the incoming force, thereby protecting the brain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How woodpeckers avoid head injury Pretty interesting: The team&rsquo;s simulations showed that three factors were at work in sparing the birds injury. Firstly, the hyoid bone&rsquo;s looping structure around the whole skull was found to act as a &ldquo;safety belt&rdquo;, especially after the initial impact. The team also found that the upper and lower halves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/how-woodpeckers-avoid-head-injury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How woodpeckers avoid head injury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}