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The Great Spotted Woodpecker
This week, Nick looks at a story about woodpeckers that we didn't know before. It's potentially up to 20 times a second it can bang its beak against the tree - which is really amazing. But how are they not giving themselves a massive headache or even a concussion when they are smashing their heads against the tree so rapidly? And i say, what's commonly been assumed that they have kind of a built in shock absorber, right? So Woodpeckers have this spongy bone in the front of their heads, and researchers cond have thought that was like an air bag,. That was protecting their skulls as they were rat a tat tatting against
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