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• Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  IIRC this theory was debunked some time ago by a study. If you think about it, any dampening within the skull would lessen the force of the pecking and the bird would have to hammer away harder.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not trying to contradict the study, but force and impulse are different. You can apply the same force over a longer period of time and lower the impulse. This is why a boxer wearing a glove can actually deliver more total energy without breaking their own hand - the energy transfer is more complete because the greater surface area and longer impulse.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Impulse is the integral of force over time, but I get what you’re after.

      When pecking at a tree, the maximum force exerted is what pushes the wood beyond its breaking point. That maximum force can be increased by increasing the impact energy as a whole (wasteful and costly) or shortening the impulse. A woodpecker isn’t trying to do soft blows to shake some branches, it’s trying to shatter a small portion of the trunk, much like someone looking to shatter their opponents nose would choose bare fists over boxing gloves.

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• highduc@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reminds me of a joke I’m going to attempt to translate:

  • Why do woodpeckers have beaks?
  • So they don’t smash their heads against the tree.

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  • iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That made me chuckle, thanks for posting it. Kinda reminds me of a joke-phrase in American English that goes “If a frog had wings it wouldn’t bump its ass when it hopped.”

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike

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• Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s got to feel weird as fuck

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  • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Woodpeckers would probably think it feels weird for us to have a young that just goes down your throat

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    • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Perspective

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• EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ayyyy boo, what that tongue do?

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean… tongue bones?

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nice hair, dude!

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  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And we’re all jealous of woody the woodpecker on this glorious summer day.

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All woodpeckers are just really good at functioning with chronic brain damage.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He’s an instigator!

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• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh I thought they’d experience more than 1000 grams of force whilst pecking 😜

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• Thordros@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ladies. pingu-horny

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